Berlin - Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier Thursday strongly denied German involvement in flights arranged by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to transport terrorist suspects across Europe.

Speaking before appearing for the fourth time before a parliamentary commission probing the involvement of the German intelligence service in US detentions of terrorist suspects, Steinmeier described allegations that Germany had known of the flights as "crass nonsense."

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