| 30.04.200612:02 (GMT) | Macedonian Interior Minister Ljubomir Mihajlovski denied any involvement of Macedonia in the alleged transfer of the German citizen Khaled Al-Masri to Afghanistan by US secret agents. "There are no indications that foreign intelligence officers, i.e. CIA, were involved in this case", said Mihajlovski after the meting with the European Parliament's delegation, which arrived in Macedonia to investigate the case, MAKFAX reported. "We had a good discussion, and I hope that it will be made clear that no case in which Macedonian secret services took part exists", added Mihajlovski. While questioned by European Parliament's Committee last March, Khaled Al-Masri, a Kuwait-born German citizen, said he was arrested by US agents at the Macedonian border in December 2003, while being on vacation. According to Al-Masri, he was detained in a Skopje's hotel for a couple of weeks, before they transferred him in Kabul, where they kept him for five months. In May 2004 he was ferried back to Europe to be finally released in Albania. On the other hand, Mihajlovski said that Al-Masri left Macedonia at the Kosovo's border crossing "Blace" after spending three weeks in the Skopje's hotel "Skopski Merak". "It is mere speculation that Al-Masri left Macedonia by plane", Mihajlovski said.
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