Italy asks Interpol to help find CIA suspects

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-cia29.html

ROME -- Italian prosecutors want to extradite 13 CIA officials accused of kidnapping a radical Muslim cleric and transporting him to Egypt where he reportedly was tortured, and they've asked Interpol to help track down the Americans, a court official said Tuesday.

A man identified as the former CIA station chief in Milan is among the 13, according to a report by the judge who issued the arrest warrants. The American was traced by cell phone records to Egypt in the days after the abduction when the cleric was ''likely undergoing the first'' rounds of torture, according to the report obtained by The Associated Press.

The Egyptian preacher was snatched in 2003, purportedly as part of the CIA's ''extraordinary rendition'' program in which terror suspects are transferred to third countries without court approval, subjecting them to possible ill treatment. The order for the arrests, made public last Friday, was a rare public objection to the practice by a close American ally in the war on terrorism.

The leftist opposition said Premier Silvio Berlusconi's government will respond in parliament Thursday to their demands to know whether Italian officials were involved in the cleric's abduction. ''It appears to be the most serious violation of national sovereignty in the history of the republic,'' said opposition deputy Marco Minniti.

[Dudley_DUright]

1. Try Langley, VA

I hear there are a whole bunch of them there.

[northzax]

16. technically, of course

it's im McLean, not Langley...

[DeaconBlues]

2. Does anyone know if anything like this has happened before?

I mean the tracking down of our intelligence people in a friendly nation in order to arrest them. Or is this just another lovely consequence of Bush's foreign policy?

[haktar]

6. Actually yes

Remember the Rainbow Warrior that was blown up in New Zealand by french spooks?
It was a huge blow in Frances international credibility.

http://www.kauricoast.co.nz/Feature.cfm?WPID=70

But somehow i have the impression America will ignore the lessons from the past.

[DeaconBlues]

15. thank you for the reminder

I forgot that the intelligence agencies of our allies (France, Israel, etc.) are also ran by a bunch of asses.

[PsychoDad]

3. I guess that officially makes us...

A rouge nation. A nation that despises the rule of international law.

So what's new? :(

[Lerkfish]

7. a "rouge" nation? is that because we're such a "drag"?

LOL

sorry, couldn't resist...rogue vs. rouge

[waynew706]

4. I think this is great... Shrubbie will realize just how much some

in the world really do hate him. After all these people were probably told to do this by their superiors.

[LightningFlash]

5. Get out the handcuffs for these assholes.....

All of the CIA traitors and their warped fundie logic.....Don't let them get away, get the answers. :thumbsdown: :banghead:

[haktar]

8. Just a few bad apples.

:sarcasm:

[saigon68]

13. Or a couple of Frat Pranks

Move along, nothing to see here.

[colonel odis]

9. does anyone think the u.s. will allow them to be prosecuted?

with all its imperial hubris mixed with an unhealthy dose of paranoia, the u.s. will with laugh it off and ignore it or turn the wingnuts against italy the way they did against france.

does this mean rocky will soon be the freedom stallion?

[MidwestTransplant]

10. Yup, Freedom Dressing and Freedom Leather!

[cprise]

11. The link was temporarily unavailable. Edited? n/t

[bribri16]

12. Why not ask Novak or Miller? They have the inside track on our

undercover agents. I bet Gannon knows who and where they are.

[lateo]

14. Wow...

Could this really be the start of the next world war?