Title: Italian judge orders arrest of 13 CIA agents
Post by skepticzero on Jun 25th, 2005, 5:52pm
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/06/25/italy_judge_seeks_arrest_of_alleged_cia_agents/
Quote:| ROME -- An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of 13 alleged American CIA operatives on charges of kidnapping a terrorism suspect in Milan and secretly flying him to Egypt without permission from Italian authorities, prosecutors in Milan said yesterday. |
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Quote:| Italian investigators tracked down the identities of the US operatives who seized Nasr by analyzing the signals of 17 cellphones operating in the area at the time of Nasr's disappearance, according to the statement. They later traced the movements of the plane that carried him from the shared US-Italian Aviano Air Base in Italy, to the US Ramstein Air Base in Germany, and then on to Cairo. |
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Quote:| The newspaper also reported that Italian investigators had credit card information and American addresses for the operatives, who reportedly incurred $144,984 in bills at various five-star hotels in Milan during the 2003 rendition operation. According to the report, two pairs of operatives took holidays in Venice ''to celebrate" the completion of the mission. |
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-nws-cia25.html
Quote:| The arrest warrants were announced Friday by the Milan prosecutor's office, which has called the disappearance a kidnapping and a blow to a terrorism investigation in Italy. The office said the imam was thought to belong to an Islamic terrorist group. |
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This rendering practice in general is a prime example of a news story that has barely been covered in the U.S. Rendering was first reported at least two years ago, but since most Americans have still never heard of it, there will be little or no fallout from this inside the U.S. |