ITALY JUDGE ORDERS ARREST OF 13 CIA AGENTS

[Liberty Belle]

ITALY JUDGE ORDERS ARREST OF 13 CIA AGENTS

ROME (AP) (6/24/05) -- An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of 13 CIA agents for allegedly helping deport an imam to Egypt as part of U.S. anti-terrorism efforts, an Italian official familiar with the investigation said Friday.

The agents are suspected in the seizure of an Egyptian-born imam identified as Abu Omar on the streets of Milan in February 2003, according to the official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

The U.S. Embassy in Rome declined to comment.

Prosecutors believe the agents seized Omar as part of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program, in which terror suspects are transferred to third countries without court approval, according to reports Friday in newspapers Corriere della Sera and Il Giorno…

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050624/D8AU0KV00.html

[Massacure]

1. Busholini cannot be too happy about this.

[Liberty Belle]

4. How long 'til some nation starts arresting those higher up

who approved the torture of prisoners, not to mention an illegal war?

If I were Bush, Cheney or Rumsfeld, I wouldn't be going overseas anytime soon.

[Beetwasher]

8. How Odd,I Can't Reply to The OP. The Buttons Are Missing

I see we're making friends the world over...

[MountainLaurel]

2. Oooh. This could get interesting

:popcorn:

[quaoar]

3. Does this mean

that we have to start boycotting everything Italian?

That will be hard since I'm Italian.

[Liberty Belle]

5. Are you kidding?

We should all go buy Italian products. I find it refreshing to see a country that actually believes in standing up for human rights.

[Mizmoon]

6. I think they're standing up for sovereignty

We're not going to have to sit through Dear Bush's lecture on sovereignty again, are we?

[Massacure]

9. Lecture? You mean fumble around with the definition of sovereignty?

Don't you?

[Occulus]

7. No

It means we have to bomb it :sarcasm:

edited to add: if other nations are now going to start arresting US citizens for what they are doing in their jobs as government employees, the shit is truly about to hit the fan. This is not good at all.

[wakeme2008]

11. No problem

Italian Freedom Ices

Jimmy will be :patriot: and will be changing his business name

[Beetwasher]

10. BIZZARRE!!! THE BUTTONS ON THE OP ARE UP TOP!

Anyone else seeing this?

[Massacure]

12. Still on the bottom for me. :S OP= original poster, right?

[havocmom]

14. It's just you

Are you standing on your ear again? ;)

[maddezmom]

15. yeah, they are in the right hand corner

:shrug:

[havocmom]

13. Maybe they should just have their intel guys nab b*sh next time he's there

and take him to a thrid nation for some questioning.

[jarab]

16. Locking ... or attempting to as a duplicate.

See this original thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1577145

The "bug" is noted.

jarab - DU moderator