Italy probes possible CIA role in abduction

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0502250206feb25,1,5595781.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true


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Italian newspapers have reported that the prosecutor, Armando Spataro, is investigating the possible role of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the disappearance of Osama Nasr Mostafa Hassan, better known as Abu Omar, a popular figure in Milan's Islamic community who vanished Feb. 17, 2003

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The Tribune reported last month that a Gulfstream executive jet reportedly used to ferry some suspected terrorists to Egypt and other countries was owned by Bayard Foreign Marketing LLC, a Portland, Ore., company that appears to exist only on paper.

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The newspaper La Repubblica reported last week that some targets of the investigation worked for the CIA. The leading Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera of Milan, said Thursday that "at least 15 persons have been under investigation for months."

Another paper, Il Giorno, reported that all 15 were CIA employees. One source told the Tribune that the police are satisfied that they know the identities of those who carried out the abduction, and that Spataro is now trying to determine at what level the action was approved.

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The Egyptian Embassy in Washington did not respond to requests for comment by voice mail and e-mail. The Egyptian foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, recently told a group of Tribune reporters and editors that he had no personal knowledge of any torture of suspected terrorists by his government.
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I wish Armando Spataro and his family good luck and may his bodyguards be well trained.

of course Spataro can do what Chavez did - announce that if he is killed it is smirk who did it. hey, the truth wins when played.

hello Egyptian people. are you up with this torture business?

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1. Can anyone explain to me why Egypt would agree to torturing for our

government?

How many people in the world know that not all U S citizens know about and approve of all this torturing.

Are torturers in the U.S. Christians and do they send Christmas cards that say Peace on Earth and do they go to church with their children and sing songs of peace?