Rice says US rectifies mistakes in terror war
BERLIN, Dec 6 (Reuters) US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today that Washington would work to rectify any mistakes it made in its war on terror, but declined to comment on the alleged CIA abduction of a German man.
"When and if mistakes are made, we work very hard and as quickly as possible to rectify them,"" Rice told a news conference in Berlin.
She noted the case of German Khaled el-Masri, allegedly abducted by the CIA to Afghanistan, was subject to litigation in the United States and declined to comment on it.
Masri says he was seized in Macedonia at the end of 2003 and taken by the CIA to Afghanistan, where he was held in jail for five months until the Americans realised they had got the wrong man.
He plans to file a lawsuit in the United States today over the case, which has caused a furore in Germany.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the same news conference she would ask her Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier to report on the Masri case to the parliamentary committee responsible for supervising the security services.
Rice reiterated her defence of US methods in the war on terror against 21st century militants.
"If you don"t get to them before they commit their crimes, they will commit mass murder," she said.
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