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M. Spector
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posted 01 March 2007 10:09 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Continued from this thread.
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The United States will reject any request by Italy to extradite CIA agents for the first criminal trial over controversial U.S. "renditions" of terror suspects, a U.S. government lawyer said on Wednesday.

A Milan judge earlier this month ordered 26 Americans, most of them thought to be CIA agents, to stand trial with Italian spies for kidnapping a Muslim cleric and flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.

"We've not got an extradition request from Italy ... If we got an extradition request from Italy, we would not extradite U.S. officials to Italy," State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger told a news briefing.

Bellinger, in Brussels for meetings with European legal advisers, did not comment on details of the case but said the United States would never hand over a suspect to another country without assurances about their treatment....

Among those indicted for the 2003 abduction are Jeff Castelli, former CIA chief in Rome, former CIA Milan station chief Robert Lady and a former head of Italy's SISMI military intelligence agency, Nicolo Pollari.

Prosecutors say a CIA-led team, with SISMI's help, grabbed terrorism suspect Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, off a Milan street in February 2003, bundled him into a van and drove him to a military base in northern Italy.

Prosecutors allege the CIA flew him from there via Germany to Egypt, where he says he was tortured with electric shocks, beatings, rape threats and genital abuse.


Reuters

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josh
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posted 08 June 2007 09:36 AM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Investigators have confirmed the existence of clandestine C.I.A. prisons in Romania and Poland housing leading members of Al Qaeda, contends a new report from the Council of Europe, the European human rights monitoring agency.

. . . .

The report says the jails operated from 2003 to 2005. “Large numbers of people have been abducted from various locations across the world and transferred to countries where they have been persecuted and where it is known that torture is common practice,” it says.

. . . .

Prisoners in the secret jails were subjected to sleep deprivation and water-boarding, or simulated drowning, said Mr. Marty, who also said that the two jails had been divided into two categories.

The main C.I.A. jail was centered in a Soviet-era military compound at Stare Kjekuty, in northeastern Poland, where about a dozen high-level terrorism suspects were jailed, the report concludes. Lower-level prisoners from Afghanistan and Iraq were held in a military base near the Black Sea in Romania, the report contends.


Gotta love this non-denial denial:

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Paul Gimigliano, a C.I.A. spokesman, said Thursday that, “While I’ve yet to see the report, Europe has been the source of grossly inaccurate allegations about the C.I.A. and counterterrorism,” and he added, “People should remember that Europeans have benefited from the agency’s bold, lawful work to disrupt terrorist plots.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/world/europe/08prisons.html


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Fidel
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posted 08 June 2007 10:24 AM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Conspiracy Theory, Dr. Jonas: Jerry, have you ever been in a place where all hope is gone, and the only thing left is patience ?.

[Before getting a needle]
Jerry Fletcher: What's that?
Dr. Jonas: Gravy for the brain.
Jerry Fletcher: No! Not Gravy! Nooooooo!


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Steppenwolf Allende
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posted 08 June 2007 11:04 AM      Profile for Steppenwolf Allende     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Paul Gimigliano, a C.I.A. spokesman, said Thursday that, “While I’ve yet to see the report, Europe has been the source of grossly inaccurate allegations about the C.I.A. and counterterrorism,” and he added, “People should remember that Europeans have benefited from the agency’s bold, lawful work to disrupt terrorist plots.”

Well ain't that just peachy!

CIA Helps Export Nazi War Criminals

CIA funds Red Brigades in Italy

CIA first back, the opposes Milosevic, KLA, Croatia destabilization in Yugoslavia

CIA engineers military coup in Greece

CIA-KGB influence in East and West German affairs

This goof has a very “interesting” take on terms like “counter-terrorism” and “lawful work to disrupt terrorist plots!”

With “counter-terrorists” like this, who needs Osama?!


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Flash Walken
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posted 08 June 2007 08:06 PM      Profile for Flash Walken     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Steppenwolf Allende:

Well ain't that just peachy!

CIA Helps Export Nazi War Criminals

CIA funds Red Brigades in Italy

CIA first back, the opposes Milosevic, KLA, Croatia destabilization in Yugoslavia

CIA engineers military coup in Greece

CIA-KGB influence in East and West German affairs

This goof has a very “interesting” take on terms like “counter-terrorism” and “lawful work to disrupt terrorist plots!”

With “counter-terrorists” like this, who needs Osama?!


If you aren't going to engage in school milk poisonings (counter insurgency), then you should atleast be patriotic and keep your mouth shut.


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Fidel
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posted 08 June 2007 08:10 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Whatever THAT's supposed to mean.
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Flash Walken
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posted 08 June 2007 08:24 PM      Profile for Flash Walken     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Fidel:
Whatever THAT's supposed to mean.

My internet sarcasm isn't polished.


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Fidel
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posted 08 June 2007 08:31 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
All those rolling eyes are making me dizzy
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