Ital Judge orders CIA team arrested over kidnap of terrorist
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In a case that seems to make art imitate life (anyone that watched this past season of 24 knows of the reference, though please don't post spoilers in responses that would potentially piss off someone that hasn't watched this last season yet), an Italian judge has ordered the arrest of a CIA team over their apparent kidnapping of a terror suspect.
The article below is clipped from The Washington Post, originally from Reuters. Headline is linked.
Italian judge orders CIA team arrested over kidnap
By Emilio Parodi and Phil Stewart
Reuters
Friday, June 24, 2005; 3:35 PM
MILAN/ROME (Reuters) - An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of 13 people linked to the CIA for "kidnapping" an Egyptian terrorism suspect in Milan and flying him to Egypt where he said he was tortured, judicial sources said on Friday.
"In the judge's order, it (the abduction) is clearly attributed to the CIA," a source said.
Confirming the arrest warrant without mentioning the U.S. intelligence agency, the prosecutors office said the 13 suspects were believed to be behind the abduction of imam Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, who was grabbed off a Milan street on Feb. 17, 2003 and stuffed into a white van.
Nasr was then taken to a U.S. air base in Aviano, Italy and flown to Egypt, stopping over on the way in Ramstein, Germany, to change planes, the prosecutors' statement said.
The judicial source cited the warrant, which has still not been made public, as saying a CIA agent known to Italian authorities coordinated the operation.
The source added there was no indication Italy had authorized the "illegal kidnapping."
A CIA spokesperson in Washington said: "We're not even not commenting. We're saying: if we have anything to say, we'll get back to you." The U.S. embassy in Rome declined comment.
The prosecutors office said it would request "judicial assistance" from U.S. and Egyptian authorities.
Another judicial source said: "We know some of the identities of these (suspects) with certainty, but with others we are not sure of their true identity."
Foreign intelligence officials believe Nasr had fought in Afghanistan and Bosnia before arriving in Italy in 1997 and obtaining political refugee status. When he disappeared, he was under investigation in Italy for suspected ties to terrorism, including recruiting militants for Iraq.
Italy laid charges against Nasr on Friday, formally ordering his arrest for terrorism, which paves the way for his possible extradition to Milan. But his current whereabouts are unknown.
... more at linked article, including this additional segment below
Last month another judge, Guido Salvini, said in a court document that "people belonging to foreign intelligence networks" had kidnapped Nasr and flown him out of Italy.
He added that the alleged kidnapping "undoubtedly constitutes a grave violation of Italian national sovereignty."
I'm left to wonder just how these judges would feel if perhaps they or their family members were killed by the terrorists they are so worried about protecting from possible harm?
I wonder how the idiots in Spain that gave into the terrorist demands felt upon realizing that giving the terrorists even an inch meant that they'd take a mile?
So the judges in Italy are worried about their sovereignty. Great, how about they worry a bit more about keeping these punk terrorists from killing more innocent people, rather than being the pansies they seem to be.
Personally, I'm glad to know that apparently our CIA will do whatever it takes, wherever is necessary, to help protect our citizens. These judges can just shut up and be glad that they weren't kidnapped by either the terrorists or us. Perhaps that would be the answer though, we could just kidnap a few judges and give them to the terrorists for them to trade for something else. Surely the terrorists would value the lives of these people, right? Ha! As if!
The article below is clipped from The Washington Post, originally from Reuters. Headline is linked.
Italian judge orders CIA team arrested over kidnap
By Emilio Parodi and Phil Stewart
Reuters
Friday, June 24, 2005; 3:35 PM
MILAN/ROME (Reuters) - An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of 13 people linked to the CIA for "kidnapping" an Egyptian terrorism suspect in Milan and flying him to Egypt where he said he was tortured, judicial sources said on Friday.
"In the judge's order, it (the abduction) is clearly attributed to the CIA," a source said.
Confirming the arrest warrant without mentioning the U.S. intelligence agency, the prosecutors office said the 13 suspects were believed to be behind the abduction of imam Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, who was grabbed off a Milan street on Feb. 17, 2003 and stuffed into a white van.
Nasr was then taken to a U.S. air base in Aviano, Italy and flown to Egypt, stopping over on the way in Ramstein, Germany, to change planes, the prosecutors' statement said.
The judicial source cited the warrant, which has still not been made public, as saying a CIA agent known to Italian authorities coordinated the operation.
The source added there was no indication Italy had authorized the "illegal kidnapping."
A CIA spokesperson in Washington said: "We're not even not commenting. We're saying: if we have anything to say, we'll get back to you." The U.S. embassy in Rome declined comment.
The prosecutors office said it would request "judicial assistance" from U.S. and Egyptian authorities.
Another judicial source said: "We know some of the identities of these (suspects) with certainty, but with others we are not sure of their true identity."
Foreign intelligence officials believe Nasr had fought in Afghanistan and Bosnia before arriving in Italy in 1997 and obtaining political refugee status. When he disappeared, he was under investigation in Italy for suspected ties to terrorism, including recruiting militants for Iraq.
Italy laid charges against Nasr on Friday, formally ordering his arrest for terrorism, which paves the way for his possible extradition to Milan. But his current whereabouts are unknown.
... more at linked article, including this additional segment below
Last month another judge, Guido Salvini, said in a court document that "people belonging to foreign intelligence networks" had kidnapped Nasr and flown him out of Italy.
He added that the alleged kidnapping "undoubtedly constitutes a grave violation of Italian national sovereignty."
I'm left to wonder just how these judges would feel if perhaps they or their family members were killed by the terrorists they are so worried about protecting from possible harm?
I wonder how the idiots in Spain that gave into the terrorist demands felt upon realizing that giving the terrorists even an inch meant that they'd take a mile?
So the judges in Italy are worried about their sovereignty. Great, how about they worry a bit more about keeping these punk terrorists from killing more innocent people, rather than being the pansies they seem to be.
Personally, I'm glad to know that apparently our CIA will do whatever it takes, wherever is necessary, to help protect our citizens. These judges can just shut up and be glad that they weren't kidnapped by either the terrorists or us. Perhaps that would be the answer though, we could just kidnap a few judges and give them to the terrorists for them to trade for something else. Surely the terrorists would value the lives of these people, right? Ha! As if!