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 Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:59 am Post subject: CIA agents' sentences increased |
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Italian court increases sentences for 23 CIA agents
by Ella Ide Ella Ide � Wed Dec 15, 11:03 pm ET
ROME (AFP) � An Italian court upped the sentences for 23 CIA agents convicted in absentia of abducting an Egyptian imam in one of the biggest cases against the US "extraordinary rendition" programme.
The 23 CIA agents, originally sentenced in November 2009 to five to eight years in prison, had their sentences increased to seven to nine years on appeal in what one of the defence lawyers described as a "shocking blow" for the US.
They were also ordered to pay 1.5 million euros (two million dollars) in damages to the imam and his wife for the 2003 abduction.
Washington has refused to extradite the agents, who all remain at liberty but now risk arrest if they travel to Europe.
Osama Mustafa Hassan, a radical Islamist opposition figure better known as Abu Omar, was snatched from a street in Milan in 2003 in an operation coordinated by the CIA and the Italian military intelligence agency SISMI.
Abu Omar, who enjoyed political asylum in Italy, was then allegedly taken to the Aviano US air base in northeastern Italy, then flown to a US base in Germany, and on to Cairo, where he says he was tortured.
Among the defendants sentenced on Wednesday was Bob Seldon Lady, former head of the CIA station in Milan, whose sentence was increased to nine years from eight. The other 22 agents had their sentences upped from five to seven years.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:13 am Post subject: Re: CIA agents' sentences increased |
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| The court also acquitted the then head of Italian military intelligence, Nicolo Pollari, and his assistant Marco Mancini, because producing evidence against them would have violated state secrecy rules. |
This is a MAJOR blow to the Americans!
(everyone ignore the fact that no punishment will actually be given to anyone, the Italian officials who approved the operation wont have their conduct revealed, and nothing will be done to discourage it from happening again)
But it's a HUGE strike against American imperialism! Viva la resistance! |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: CIA agents' sentences increased |
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| The court also acquitted the then head of Italian military intelligence, Nicolo Pollari, and his assistant Marco Mancini, because producing evidence against them would have violated state secrecy rules. |
This is a MAJOR blow to the Americans!
(everyone ignore the fact that no punishment will actually be given to anyone, the Italian officials who approved the operation wont have their conduct revealed, and nothing will be done to discourage it from happening again)
But it's a HUGE strike against American imperialism! Viva la resistance! |
Also note that it was an Italian court (aka "kangaroo court"). |
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Them darn Italians! Who do they think they are? USA! USA! |
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