Template:Short description Template:For Khalid al-Masri (Template:Langx; other transcriptions: Template:Transliteration, Template:Transliteration, Khaled, El-Masri {{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is the name of a person alleged to have approached two 9/11 hijackers on a train in Germany and suggested that they contact an alleged al Qaeda operative in Duisburg.
The 9/11 Commission Report stated:
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However, in response to Slahi's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, a U.S. District Court found only that Slahi "provided lodging for three men for one night at his home in Germany [in November 1999], that one of them was Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and that there was discussion of jihad and Afghanistan".<ref> Template:Cite court mirror.</ref>
An unrelated German citizen, Khalid El-Masri, spent almost five months in the covert CIA prison in Afghanistan called the Salt Pit in the early months of 2004, where he was interrogated and tortured.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Alfreda Frances Bikowsky ordered El-Masri to be extraordinarily rendered, even though she only had a hunch El-Masri was the same person as al-Masri.<ref name=darkside>Template:Cite book</ref>