http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0721-05.htmby Victor Simpson
very important snipet pretaining to effects and dangers the Plame outting and just what damage the traitor Rove has done:
"Among U.S. intelligence officers you might see a reduced trust in their Italian counterparts," he said. "Cooperation between secret services requires trust, often on a person-to-person basis. If one is afraid that in the future his identity will be revealed, he'll think twice before cooperating with someone."
ROME - In a case testing Italian-U.S. relations, a Milan prosecutor sought arrest warrants Wednesday for six more purported CIA operatives, accusing them of helping plan the kidnapping of an Egyptian radical Muslim cleric.
An Italian court has already issued warrants for 13 purported CIA officials accused of helping carry out Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr's 2003 abduction.
But the court initially turned down a request to issue arrest warrants for the six who prosecutor Armando Spataro says helped plan the abduction.
The court is expected to rule in the next few days on his appeal, Spataro said.
Cell phone tracking shows the six made nearly 100 inspections of the Milan area where the cleric was seized, and that they studied his habits as well as the best routes to the highway used to bring the Egyptian to Aviano, a joint U.S.-Italian air base north of Venice, according to the prosecutor's request, obtained by The Associated Press.
"There were no doubts" the six were part "of a single group of Americans who came to Milan to carry out the operation," the prosecutor said in his appeal.
Nasr, known as Abu Omar, was allegedly snatched on a Milan street on Feb. 17, 2003, flown from Aviano to Ramstein air base in Germany and then to Egypt, where he reportedly was tortured.
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