Terrorism: German held without charges in US military jail in Afghanistan

IRNA reports a German-Afghan citizen has been held in a US military jail in Afghanistan since January with no charges, the weekly Der Spiegel news magazine said in a report to hit the newsstands Sunday.

Gholam Ghaus Z. who is a resident of the west German city of Wuppertal, is being held a prisoner at an air force base near Kabul after he was arrested at a US military supermarket while shopping for an electric razor.

The 41-year-old suspect was accused of being a terrorist after US security forces discovered banknotes and phone cards of several countries in his belongings.

Lengthy interrogations of the accused by American and German intelligence officials over more than three months have yet to substantiate US allegations, according to Der Spiegel.

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