Amnesty reacts to Italian CIA ruling
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Italian Prosecution Highlights Inaction of US Justice Department
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The verdict expected Wednesday in a landmark case may present a historic legal challenge to the US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) rendition program, Human Rights Watch said today. The trial in Milan of 26 Americans in absentia and seven Italians for the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian imam began in 2007. The ...
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By Robert No matter how much President Obama wants to bury the past, the truth is coming out about America’s use of friendly dictatorships to dump suspected terrorists. In some cases they were held for years at time. In somes evidence later showed they should never have been picked up. These were ghost detainees held becau...
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'We broke the LAW' by KIDNAPPING: CIA OFFICER
By: RaulDeSouza
One of the CIA agents convicted in Italy today of kidnapping a Muslim cleric in 2003 says the mission "broke the law" and that she feels "abandoned and betrayed" by the US government. The case involving ex-officer Sabrina DeSousa and 22 other Americans is the first challenge to the US policy of extraordinary rendition—capturing terror ...
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- News Source: The Guardian | about 1 month agoCriminal justice rendered impotent New moves to criminalise rendition are most welcome when such extrajucidial intervention can distort local prosecutions Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro has announced that 23 CIA agents have been found guilty in...
- News Source: The independent | about 1 month agoOne of the Americans convicted in absentia by an Italian court for her part in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric by CIA operatives has acknowledged they "broke the law" and complained she was given insufficient protection by her superiors in...
- News Source: United Press International | about 1 month agoWashington should distance itself from harsh interrogation techniques or face questions regarding its commitment to human rights, Amnesty International said. An Italian court Wednesday convicted 23 CIA officers and a U.S. Air Force colonel of...
- News Source: War In Context | about 1 month agoThe case was a huge symbolic victory for Italian prosecutors, who drew the first convictions involving the American practice of rendition, in which terrorism suspects are captured in one country and taken for questioning in another, often one more...
- News Source: Truthout | about 1 month agoThe label "War on Terror" may be out of style as a description of American counterterrorism strategy, but Wednesday in Rome an Italian court served notice that some of its more controversial practices - including the abduction of alleged terrorists...
- News Source: Democracy Now | about 1 month agoItalian Prosecutor in Case Against CIA Operatives Hails Convictions for ’03 Kidnapping of Egyptian Cleric In a landmark case, 23 Americans, mostly CIA operatives, have been convicted in Italy for kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of...
- Blog Source: www.truthout.orgAmong those convicted was the CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Lady, who received an 8 year sentence and, like the other Americans, will now be considered a fugitive from justice and subject to arrest on European ...
- Blog Source: www.sott.netIn a landmark ruling, an Italian judge on Wednesday convicted a base chief for the Central Intelligence Agency and 22 other Americans, almost all C.I.A. operatives, of kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003. ...
- Blog Source: www.digitaljournal.comA judge in a court in Milan, Northern Italy has convicted 23 Americans, 22 of them CIA agents, of kidnapping a Muslim cleric in a street in the city in 2003.
- Blog Source: despardes.comCIA Director Leon Panetta said at his confirmation hearing in February that the administration would continue the practice of rendition for prisoners captured in the war on terrorism, but promised to get assurances first that prisoners ...
- Blog Source: theartdeptchronicles.blogspot.comAn Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans - all but one of them CIA agents - and two Italian secret agents for the 2003 kidnap of a Muslim cleric. The agents were accused of abducting Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar, ...
- Blog Source: www.thedailybeast.comItaly Convicts 23 Americans for CIA Kidnap. An Italian judge convicted 23 Americans on kidnapping charges on Wednesday for their roles in the CIA's extraordinary rendition of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, an Egyptian cleric. ..... The chairman of the
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@monicagagnier beacongal: RT @jashsf that comment from the ex CIA guy on CNN really hit home. He was resentful of our society's ignorance of the war.
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