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Wikileaks and the El-Masri kidnap case
The importance of the whistleblowing media group was made plain when the Assange trial heard the case of the Lebanese man whose abduction and torture by the CIA it exposed, writes TIM DAWSON
After being exposed by Wikileaks, the US has resisted all attempts to hold it to account for the five months during which the CIA tortured Kahled El-Masri in secret

LAWYERS for the US government wrangled for days to prevent Julian Assange’s extradition proceedings hearing Kahled El-Masri’s evidence.

When eventually his story was laid before the court last week, it was obvious why.

The German shop worker suffered horrific treatment at the hands of the Macedonian police and the CIA.

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