Posted on 12/23/2005 9:47:17 AM PST by reg45
MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan court has issued a European arrest warrant for 22 CIA agents suspected of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric from Italy's financial capital in 2003, Prosecutor Armando Spataro said on Friday.
Milan magistrates suspect a CIA team grabbed Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr off a Milan street and flew him for interrogation to Egypt, where he said he was tortured.
Prosecutors asked the Italian Justice Ministry last month to seek the extradition of the suspects from the United States, but Justice Minister Roberto Castelli has not yet decided whether to act on the request.
A European Union warrant is automatically valid across the 25-nation bloc and does not require approval of any government.
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So the CIA went to Italy and took a bad guy back to his own country of origin and they objected?
Then they worry that a possible terrorist is being tortured in his own country (though there is no proof).
See, this is where there needs to be an international McCain bill of rights for all terrorists so they can kill without the threat of torture! EGADS!!!!!
The Italians don't have the guts to cross the street at night let alone start a fight with someone who will fight back.
I think perhaps you are painting with a rather broad brush,
and I'M SURE YOU MEAN THE FRENCH!
Then again perhaps the name Fabrizio Quattrochi means
nothing to you.
LOL -in my opinion, there was no leak and they are on a fishing expedition. The 22 names were probably all the US citizens working there that fit a certain profile...
"Maybe they could direct their ire at some bad guys."
Ha, that would mean they had to go after their own kind.
And **NOT** messing with them has been such a foreign policy success?
Saving Europe from the Islamofascists may also be in our interest, but it would be nice if they saw it the same way.
Italy has been a great friend of the United States, but this EU/PC business is going to fray the knots that bind.
Spying just isn't the respected profession it once was during the cold war.
This is not about spying, it is about kidnapping a citizen from a sovereign foreign country without the governments knowledge and ectracting him to a country where torture is normal.
A lot of international laws had been broken.
A lot of international laws had been broken.
International law is MADE to be broken.
International law is MADE to be broken.
Goebbels said something similar
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