KidRocks
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Good Lord!
Kidnapping a Muslim cleric in Milan via a US covert operation? By our CIA Agents? In broad daylight? Who the hell does George W. Bush think he is anyway?
No wonder the Muslim world is uniting in their contempt for America.
No wonder most of Europe is as equally disenchanted with President Bush & Co.
No wonder most of the civilized world is not far behind them.
Go Italy! Get those basturds!
MILAN (Reuters) - Milan prosecutors expect to launch procedures within a month that could put 22 CIA agents accused of kidnapping a Muslim cleric in Milan on trial in absentia, a senior judicial source said.
The source, who asked not to be named, said prosecutors were growing tired of perceived foot-dragging by Washington and Rome over requests that would advance their investigation -- one of several European probes into suspected U.S. covert operations.
The United States has still not responded to a request in January by Italy for judicial assistance in the case, which could potentially allow Italian prosecutors to travel there to question suspects and gather evidence.
Neither has Italy's government responded to a request in November from prosecutors to seek the extradition of the agents from the United States.
If no helpful action has been taken by early March -- as appears increasingly likely -- then prosecutors will close their investigation, the well-placed source said.
"The next step will be to go to trial," he said.
The European Parliament and the Council of Europe are watching the Italian case carefully as they move ahead with their own investigations into suspected U.S. anti-terrorism operations, including running secret prisons in eastern Europe.
German and Swiss prosecutors are also looking into other accusations of U.S. covert transport of detainees, a process known as "rendition."
An Italian trial of the 22 agents could potentially open a wealth of evidence in the case to the public, showing how terrorism suspect Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr was grabbed off a Milan street in 2003 in broad daylight...
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1597805
Kidnapping a Muslim cleric in Milan via a US covert operation? By our CIA Agents? In broad daylight? Who the hell does George W. Bush think he is anyway?
No wonder the Muslim world is uniting in their contempt for America.
No wonder most of Europe is as equally disenchanted with President Bush & Co.
No wonder most of the civilized world is not far behind them.
Go Italy! Get those basturds!
MILAN (Reuters) - Milan prosecutors expect to launch procedures within a month that could put 22 CIA agents accused of kidnapping a Muslim cleric in Milan on trial in absentia, a senior judicial source said.
The source, who asked not to be named, said prosecutors were growing tired of perceived foot-dragging by Washington and Rome over requests that would advance their investigation -- one of several European probes into suspected U.S. covert operations.
The United States has still not responded to a request in January by Italy for judicial assistance in the case, which could potentially allow Italian prosecutors to travel there to question suspects and gather evidence.
Neither has Italy's government responded to a request in November from prosecutors to seek the extradition of the agents from the United States.
If no helpful action has been taken by early March -- as appears increasingly likely -- then prosecutors will close their investigation, the well-placed source said.
"The next step will be to go to trial," he said.
The European Parliament and the Council of Europe are watching the Italian case carefully as they move ahead with their own investigations into suspected U.S. anti-terrorism operations, including running secret prisons in eastern Europe.
German and Swiss prosecutors are also looking into other accusations of U.S. covert transport of detainees, a process known as "rendition."
An Italian trial of the 22 agents could potentially open a wealth of evidence in the case to the public, showing how terrorism suspect Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr was grabbed off a Milan street in 2003 in broad daylight...
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1597805
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