Buffalo police, the law enforcement agency that interrogated Ortiz and made the case against him, also believes he was wrongfully convicted, according to sources close to the investigation.
He says he was taken into custody by Turkish security forces andinterrogated by the Iranian secret service who threatened to bring him back to the country.
Like the case of Khalid al-Masri, a German national who says the CIA kidnapped him while he was vacationing in Macedonia and flew him to Afghanistan, where he says he was detained for five months, interrogated by Americans and a German, and then released.