“Germany issued arrest warrants for 13 CIA agents on January 31, 2007, for the mistaken kidnapping of a German citizen, Khaled El-Masri, in Macedonia. El-Masri was captured at the Macedonian border by Macedonian police and detained there for three weeks, and was reportedly interrogated by CIA agents. He was then passed off to CIA agents at the Macedonian airport and flown to Kabul, Afghanistan, where he was secretly detained for nearly five months and eventually released. The U.S. then informed Germany that it had mistakenly arrested El-Masri. Germany instituted a parliamentary investigation and took initial steps toward the criminal prosecution of the CIA agents. However, in September 2007, the German Ministry of Justice decided not to forward to the U.S. extradition requests based on the January arrest warrants, because of the negative response by the U.S. [Bush] Administration and the potential political fallout.”
– M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Pages 159-160