Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The criminal conviction of 22 CIA agents (and 2 Italian intelligence officers) by an Italian court yesterday — for the 2003 kidnapping of an Islamic cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, off the street in Italy and his “rendition” to Egypt to be tortured — highlights several vital points: First, illustrating how these matters are typically distorted [...]
AIDP Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
A judge in Milan, Italy handed down a ruling on November 4 sentencing those involved in the abduction of a Muslim cleric in 2003. Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr was snatched off the street in Milan, bundled into a van and then flown to Egypt where he was vigorously interrogated about terrorist connections. This [...]
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Photos of CIA agents who were convicted in Italy last week ... An Italian judge on November 4, 2009, convicted 23 CIA agents and two Italian agents over their role in the 2003 kidnapping of a Muslim cleric. Milan judge Oscar Magi sentenced former Milan CIA station chief Bob Seldon Lady (on left in PHOTO with Luciano Pironi) to 8 years and 22 other agents (PHOTOS) to 5 years in prison for their role...
The Liberal Doomsayer (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
(Part One is over here. ) The New York Times informs us here that the infamous Second Circuit Court of Appeals under Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs (pictured) has done it again… Two courts, one in Italy and one in the United States, ruled recently on the Bush administration’s practice of extraordinary rendition, which is the kidnapping of people and sending them to other countries for interrogation...
democrats.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
By David Swanson The United States of America owes much of the hope it has right now of remaining what John Adams called "a nation of laws, not men" to Italian law enforcement. Were it not for the fact that Italian prosecutors, unlike their American counterparts, answer to the law rather than a president, the enforcement of laws against a massive crime spree by U.S. officials (and their...
Humint Events Online (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive , says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only relied on confessions...
The Court (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Italian Judge Convicts CIA Officers in Rendition Trial Judge Oscar Magi of Court of Milan on Wednesday convicted 22 former CIA agents and a U.S. Air Force colonel on kidnapping charges for the 2003 “extraordinary rendition” of terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. Jurist reports that the nearly three-year trial is the first in the world [...]
Nasir Khan blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Morning Star Online , Thursday 05 November 2009 by Paul Haste Prosecutor Armando Spataro speaking in court in Milan An Italian court’s conviction of 23 CIA agents for extraordinary rendition has been hailed by human rights campaigners as a “historic repudiation” of the US intelligence agency’s crimes. The agents, including one alleged to have been a CIA station chief in Milan,...
Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Oh, dear ... just following orders isn't a defense anymore : Italian court finds CIA agents guilty of kidnapping terrorism suspect Twenty-three Americans were tonight convicted of kidnapping by an Italian court at the end of the first trial anywhere in the world involving the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" programme for abducting terrorist suspects. The former head of the CIA in Milan Robert...
Glenn Greenwald (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
(updated below - Update II) The criminal conviction of 22 CIA agents (and 2 Italian intelligence officers) by an Italian court yesterday -- for the 2003 kidnapping of an Islamic cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, off the street in Italy and his "rendition" to Egypt to be tortured -- highlights several vital points: First , illustrating how these matters are typically distorted by the U.S....
Deep Politics Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Italian Officials Complicit in 2003 'Rendition' of Cleric by Jason Ditz, November 04, 2009 Completing one of Europe's most high profile terror related trials, an Italian judge today convicted 23 Americans, 22 of them confirmed by the prosecutor as CIA agents, to sentences of between five and eight years in prison related to the 2003 kidnapping of a cleric from the streets of Milan. Fugitive Renditioner...
ITALY Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
An Italian court yesterday found twenty-three US secret agents guilty of the kidnapping of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr or Abu Omar , an Egyptian imam who was abducted from a Milan street on February 17th 2003. Omar was resident in Italy at the time because he had been granted political asylum in the country.
The Empire Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Italian court yesterday found 23 American CIA agents guilty of kidnapping at the end of the first trial anywhere in the world involving the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” programme for abducting terrorist suspects, the Guardian reports. The former head of the CIA in Milan Robert Lady was given an eight-year jail sentence for his part in the seizure of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr,...
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
You never quite know where Italy is going next. The down side to these convictions is that it's falling on some but not all of those involved in the disgraceful "extraordinary rendition" policy. What about those who gave the orders at the top? Why should the Bush administration get a free pass on this? The Guardian : Twenty-three Americans were tonight convicted of kidnapping by an Italian...
Les Enragés.org (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Court Sentences 22 CIA Agents, 1 USAF Colonel From The BBC : An 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, from Milan and sending him to Egypt, where he was allegedly tortured. The trial, which began in June 2007, is...
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