Imagine for a moment that an innocent U.S. American citizen...
...would be arrested without any court order in a country where he plans to spend his holidays.
...would be transferred to a German military base in Afghanistan, without any information for his relatives.
...would be beaten and tortured for 5 months on that base.
...then would be recognized as wrongly identified.
...would then be dropped off in the middle of nowhere on the Balkans (you can also imagine a random carribean country) at night.
Imagine further that the German ambassador would then visit the U.S. home secretary, confessing the mistake, but ask the U.S. government to keep it secret, while the poor innocent civilian is sueing, but can't get offical recognition of his story.
How would you want your government to react?
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