Italian Judge Orders Arrest of 13 CIA Operatives for Kidnapping

[Crazy Guggenheim]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/international/europe/24cnd-milan.html?hp&ex=1119672000&en=f2537cb9c32da240&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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MILAN, June 24 - An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of 13 operatives of the Central Intelligence Agency accused of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street two years ago and sending him to a prison in Egypt for questioning, Italian prosecutors and investigators said today.

Judge Chiara Nobili of Milan signed the arrest warrants on Thursday for 13 people the documents identified as C.I.A. operatives suspected of seizing the radical imam Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, as he walked to his mosque here for noon prayers on Feb. 17, 2003.

His family says that he has been tortured by his Egyptian captors.

Investigators said the court documents, which remain under seal, identify the 13 operatives by their real names as well as their cover names. In the warrants, Judge Nobili said that all 13 suspects were linked to the C.I.A. and that several served as diplomats at the United States Consulate in Milan, investigators said.


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[eauclaireliberal]

1. This is going to get really ugly

And more material for mAnn Coulter.

[Gothmog]

2. The World is getting tired of US sanctioned torture

It will be interesting to see if the US turns these agents over to the Italian authorities.

[ollie79]

6. do they do that?

I doubt that would happen? Is there a lot of precedent for that unless some kind of extreme case like murder or rape.

[merh]

3. The world doesn't like us!

But according to the neo-cons "we are safer"! I don't know how, but that is what they say! :cry:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. You know what gets me about this is here is another person who

was released after all that!! They couldn't find any information to keep him. Incredible.

[me b zola]

5. I've been wondering when other nations were going to challenge

the legitimacy of 'the war on terra', this certainly seems like a first step.

[Vinca]

7. Sheesh . . . I'm almost afraid to comment. The fat doughboy will

assume I want the cleric given therapy. Bottom line, our country wasn't known for torture in the past, but it is now.

[Patty Diana]

8. yesterday an Italian court charged 10 nazis with war crimes_massacre

still searching for the link.

[MisterP]

9. Italy should be the next to fall: the anti-war movement is louder

there than in Britain or Eastern Europe, and Silvio Mussolini's party lost big time in its base in the northwest. Will "Gladiator" be banned after this? ('Coz it's set in Italy, not because of the clear similarities between Commodus and Commode)