In 2003, a German businessman was kidnapped near Macedonia (or 'detained without charge and flown to another country for questioning' if you prefer) and taken to a US run prison in Afghanistan, where he was held for four months. It was a case of 'mistaken identity' that caused heated relations between Germany and the European Union on one side, and the US on the other. Condoleezza Rice apologized to Angela Merkel in private in an attempt to defuse the situation, but when Khaled al-Masri sued the United States for his wrongful detention, US courts chose not to hear his case. Why, you may ask? The US government argued that hearing the case would involve disclosure of "state secrets" so the court declined to hear the dispute.