BERLIN, June 26 (UPI) -- Files of a German military intelligence service linking German spies to interrogations in a U.S.-run secret prison have vanished.
Over the weekend, it surfaced that classified data collected from 1998 until 2003 by the German military's intelligence service had disappeared; those files, which were irrecoverable after a massive computer crash, also included material on the case of Turkish-German Murat Kurnaz, a former Guantanamo inmate, an investigative TV news show on German ARD television said. Kurnaz has accused German special forces of having abused him in 2002 in a secret prison in Afghanistan.
More details have emerged since the first TV report: According to an article in Tuesday's Berliner Zeitung newspaper, several files about interrogations German officers led in a secret U.S.-run prison in Tuzla, Bosnia, have also disappeared.
The newspaper said the prison in Tuzla was the base for interrogating and abusing terror suspects in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. That year, German military intelligence officers "illegally" took part in an interrogation, the daily said.
Several opposition lawmakers are skeptical. They have said they believe the files either still exist or were deliberately destroyed to cover up potential crimes.
