[Prime Choice]

A couple of major holes in this story:

1. There's unsubstantiated claims of "torture."
2. Has the author of this biased crap ever heard of diplomatic immunity?

[marron]

"Diplomatic immunity". If they start seizing US embassy personnel, they should expect their own embassy personnel to be expelled from the US.

Criminal courts should not get involved in this kind of thing.

[BushisTheMan]

Italy...give it up...this is stupid.

[Moral Hazard]

Hey, Italy, does the name "Mohammed Abbas" mean anything to you? There's a reason the U.S. doesn't trust you to deal with terrorists.

[libstripper]

His wife deleted all the files on his computer, Corriere della Sera reports, but police have managed to rebuild the hard drive[.]

Here's more proof that when you "delete" a file, you actually don't delete it. The Clintonoids are reported to have done a really good job with Vince Foster's computer--the reformatted the hard drive, restarted the machine with the hard drive running, and dropped it on the floor. Nothing could be recovered.

[piasa]

Betnie Medero, who was second secretary at the embassy until a few months ago, is one of 22 CIA agents now wanted by Italian police over the kidnapping, which happened in a street in Milan on 17 February, 2003. Medero arrived in Italy in August 2001 with diplomatic accreditation and oversaw the operation, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reports. On Thursday police entered her house in Rome but found it deserted. She is believed to currently be at the US embassy in Mexico City.

Maybe Valerie Plame Wilson was jealous of Betnie's Rome slot -- someone naming names or just fiction?