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CIA agents convicted in Italian rendition trial

Milan : Italy | 20 days ago  
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  • Judge Oscar Magi reads the sentence during the trial of Abu Omar in Milan.
    Judge Oscar Magi reads the sentence during the trial of Abu Omar in ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Prosecutor Armando Spataro speaks during the trial of Abu Omar in Milan.
    Prosecutor Armando Spataro speaks during the trial of Abu Omar in ...
    Source: Reuters
  • The trial is the highest profile case involving the CIA's covert "extraordinary rendition" programme
    The trial is the highest profile case involving the CIA's covert "...
    Source: AFP
Judge Oscar Magi reads the sentence during the trial of Abu Omar in ...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's chief political opponent says the current government will not be able to live up to its promise to stamp out corruption because it cannot be trusted to follow the rule of law. An Italian court has convicted 23 Americans of kidnapping in the...
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  • News Source: Truthdig | 17 days ago
    Twenty-three CIA agents are going to have to think twice about leaving the country now that an Italian court has convicted them in absentia for snatching an Imam in Milan and sending him to Egypt, where the cleric says he was tortured. Human Rights...
  • News Source: Russia Today | 17 days ago
    Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen discusses the news with RT. The man who was abducted was taken to Egypt, where he was allegedly tortured. Now, 23 Americans have been found guilty and given sentences of five to eight years to serve in prison.
  • News Source: The Scotsman | 17 days ago
    CIA agents have been found guilty of kidnapping a Muslim cleric from an Italian street – and ordered to pay him 1 million in damages. After a landmark "extraordinary rendition" trial, the head of the CIA's Milan station, Robert Seldon Lady,...
  • News Source: The independent | 17 days ago
    In a stiff rebuke from across the Atlantic to the policies of former US president George Bush, a judge in Milan yesterday sentenced 23 American citizens to up to eight years in prison for their part in the secret abduction of a Muslim cleric in 2003...
  • News Source: Los Angeles Times | 17 days ago
    A judge in Milan convicted 23 Americans today of the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003, culminating a landmark trial that gave a look into the secret world of CIA renditions of terror suspects. Judge Oscar Magi acquitted three Americans,...
  • News Source: The Examiner | 17 days ago
    The case has been politically charged from the beginning, with attempts to mislead investigators looking into the cleric's disappearance and derail the judicial proceedings once the trial was under way. But the Italian-American relationship,...
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  • Blog Source: www.infidelsparadise.com
    Former Milan CIA station chief, Robert Seldon Lady, received eight years in prison. The other 22 convicted American defendants each received a five-year sentence. The Americans, all but one identified by prosecutors as CIA agents, ...
  • Blog Source: www.defence.pk
    Nasr was freed by Egyptian authorities after his case received publicity in Italy, but he has been unable to attend the trial in Milan or leave Egypt. He has filed a civil suit seeking $14 million in damages. ...
  • Blog Source: laceylibertarian.us
    Human rights advocates charge that renditions were the CIA's way to outsource the torture of prisoners to countries where it is permitted. The Milan proceedings have been a sore spot in relations between the United States and Italy. ...
  • Blog Source: thedailysquirrel.com
    Judges in Italy are expected to hand down a verdict Wednesday in the first-ever trial examining the practice known as extraordinary rendition. Twenty-six Americans, mostly CIA agents, are being tried in absentia, charged with kidnapping ...
  • Blog Source: www.ktnv.com
    The trial is the first by any government to scrutinize the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, which human rights advocates charge was the CIA's way to outsource the torture of prisoners to countries where it is practiced. The Milan proceedings
  • Blog Source: www.motherjones.com
    In 2003, CIA agents snatched an Egyptian cleric in Milan, Italy, and flew him to Cairo, where he was, predictably, interrogated and tortured by Egyptian security forces. The case of Abu Omar would have been like many of the ...
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