Italy to seek extradition of CIA agents

[Rose Siding]

ROME --Italy is preparing to request the extradition of 13 purported CIA officers accused of kidnapping a terrorism suspect and secretly transporting him to Egypt, a court official said Tuesday.

Prosecutors also have asked the help of Interpol in tracking down the suspects, all identified as U.S. citizens, said the official who asked that his name not be used because the investigation was still under way.

The 13 were accused of seizing Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar, on a Milan street on Feb. 17, 2003, and sending him to Egypt, where he reportedly was tortured, according to Milan prosecutor Manlio Claudio Minale.

The U.S. Embassy in Rome and the CIA in Washington have declined to comment.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/06/28/italy_to_seek_extradition_of_cia_agents/

[saigon68]

1. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN

[pie]

2. True enough. But it seems strange nontheless.

This is the first time I have seen another country
request the extradition of CIA. That the request has been
made in the public eye is very interesting.

[maddezmom]

4. agree, it'll never happen

But it's another nail in the * administration's credibility.

[atreides1]

7. You're Right

But that's 13 CIA agents who were just made useless assets, desk jobs for them now.

We all know that this administration won't give up the spooks, but if you think about it the Italians have just made 13 operatives totally useless, at least within the borders of the EU.

[merh]

3. Never happen.

But just that they want to extradite CIA agents is another black mark against the USofA - we are the warring nation, we are a rogue nation that is out of control. Gone is the respect, in its place is contempt and fear. :cry:

I hate the evil pukes that have done this to my nation. :mad:

[geek tragedy]

5. ICC, anyone? Of course, their defense will be that they were "just

following orders."

I beat aWol doesn't the names of the people giving those orders to be made public.

[Oversea Visitor]

6. Its a test case

Others coutries will follow suit. Its simple they become wanted criminals then. They can be detained anywhere in the world and send to Italy for trail or punishment.

It plain english you can dig you own hole and hide in there for the rest of your life.Line has to drawn sooner or later.

[bemildred]

8. Sgrena/Calipari blowback? nt

[Laughing Mirror]

10. Inevitable, wasn't it?

When you drag into war a country overwhelmingly opposed to your war and then kill one of their intelligence agents, and try to kill and silence one of their kidnapped journalists, and then refuse to accept responsibilty and try to cover it up, you can expect that country is not going to be happy one damn bit with you.

This Italian blowback is one more in a now growing list of countries who are just saying no to the ruthless bullying and mistreatment of a predatory empire, which, alas, is losing its grip more and more everyday.

[Eugene]

9. They may not be all THAT upset about it

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/06/28/terrorism_suspect_faced_likely_arrest_in_italy_judge_says/

Terrorism suspect faced likely arrest in Italy, judge says

But alleged abduction by CIA intervened

By and Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | June 28, 2005

MILAN -- Italian authorities probably would have arrested and tried a
terrorism suspect, Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, had he not been
abducted from Italian soil by 13 alleged CIA agents, an Italian judge
said in an arrest warrant released yesterday.

~snip~

"It is very probable that if he had not been abducted, Nasr would have
been brought to legitimate justice," Judge Guido Salvini wrote in the
warrant for Nasr's arrest.

~snip~

BUT...

Although Italian authorities have expressed outrage at the
unauthorized capture of Nasr, they also devote a large portion of the
106-page warrant to evidence of his involvement in international
terrorism.

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