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WASHINGTON — A man alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday that U.S. officials were responsible for falsely imprisoning him for several months in Africa on suspicion of having ties to al-Qaeda.
Amir Meshal of Tinto Falls, N.J., says that in 2006, he fled Mogadishu, Somalia, where he had gone to study Islam, and was accused by U.S. officials who interrogated him in neighboring Kenya of receiving training from al-Qaeda.
Meshal’s suit says that U.S. officials consented to sending him back to Somalia and eventually to Ethiopia, where he was imprisoned in secret for several months.
