Right-wingers have watched too many hours of Fox's 24, have internalized torture-porn, and for some reason think information gleaned via torture will be worth the cost to America's international prestige. Sickening. The agents involved, and their bosses who greenlighted this travesty, should face life in prison, in Egypt and/or Syria, or worse.
CIA agents face kidnap trial in Italy over alleged rendition flight Italian judge orders 26 Americans to stand trial on charges of flying a man to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.The Milan judge set a trial date for June 8. Prosecutors allege that five Italian intelligence officials worked with the Americans to abduct Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr from a Milan street in February 2003.
The Americans will almost certainly be tried in absentia.
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The US intelligence agency may also have operated secret jails for terrorism suspects at US military bases around Europe, according to the report. Several member states were criticised for a “lack of cooperation” and the committee accused Britain, Austria, Italy, Poland and Portugal of showing an obstructive attitude.
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The Bush administration acknowledges the secret transfer of suspects to foreign countries, but denies torturing them or handing them to countries that did.A Munich court last month issued arrest warrants for 13 suspected CIA agents accused of kidnapping Khaled el-Masri, a German national of Lebanese descent.
Mr Masri, who spent five months in an Afghan jail where he said he was tortured, wants to sue the CIA.
Last year, the German parliament set up a special committee to investigate the alleged “renditions” of Mr Masri and of Murat Kurnaz, a German-born Turk. Mr Kurnaz spent nearly five years in Guantánamo Bay where he said he was tortured and abused.
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