BERLIN — German prosecutors said yesterday that they have issued arrest warrants for 13 suspected CIA agents who allegedly abducted a German citizen in an apparent anti-terrorist operation gone wrong.

It was Washington’s second European ally to seek the arrest of purported CIA agents for spiriting away a terrorism suspect. Italian prosecutors want to question 25 agents and one other American in the alleged kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric suspected of terrorism.

Munich prosecutor Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld told the Associated Press that warrants in the latest case were issued in the last few days. He said the unidentified agents were sought on suspicion of wrongfully imprisoning Khaled al-Masri and causing him serious bodily harm.

Mr. Masri, who is a German citizen of Lebanese descent, says he was detained in December 2003 at the Serbian-Macedonian border and then flown by the CIA to a jail in Afghanistan, where he was abused. He says he was let go in Albania five months later and told he had been seized in a case of mistaken identity.

Rights activists have seized on Mr. Masri’s story and other cases to demand that America stop “extraordinary rendition” — moving terrorism suspects to third countries where they could face torture. Some European governments have been accused of winking at the practice.

Secretary of State Rice and other American officials have declined to address Mr. Masri’s case. However, Chancellor Merkel of Germany has said the Bush administration acknowledged making a mistake with Mr. Masri.

Germany’s government refused to comment on the arrest warrants, as did the CIA. The State Department’s deputy spokesman, Tom Casey, said only that America would review the allegations.

NDR television released a list of 11 men and two women reportedly named in the warrants. It said three had been contacted by its reporters and had refused comment.

The prosecutor’s office refused to confirm the list, while saying the suspects’ real names weren’t known.

“The personal details contained in the arrest warrants are, according to our current knowledge, aliases of CIA agents,” Mr. Schmidt-Sommerfeld said in a statement. “Further investigation will, among other things, concentrate on trying to determine the clear identities of the suspects.”

Mr. Masri’s attorney, Manfred Gnjidic, said the issuing of the arrest warrants was “a very important step in the rehabilitation” of his client. “It shows us that we were right in putting our trust in the German authorities and the German prosecutors,” he told reporters.

Prosecutors were led to the suspects after receiving a list in December 2005 of possible people involved in Mr. Masri’s detention compiled by a Spanish journalist from sources within Spain’s Civil Guard, a paramilitary police unit, Mr. Schmidt-Sommerfeld said.

He said Spanish authorities then provided help and prosecutors were able to pursue an investigation against “concrete persons.”