Judge orders arrest of CIA agents who abducted imam, sent him to Egypt

[BurtWorm]

And he said NOTHING about their being Nazis, okay? Let's get that straight.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050624/ap_on_re_eu/italy_cia&printer=1;_ylt=AlN972Jy2vSuReyeFa7h.qdbbBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-


Italy Judge Orders Arrest of 13 CIA Agents

By AIDAN LEWIS, Associated Press Writer

An Italian judge ordered the arrests of 13 people in the purported CIA abduction of an imam, who then was sent to Egypt, the Milan prosecutor's office said Friday. An Italian official said earlier the 13 were CIA officers involved in U.S. anti-terrorism efforts.

The 13 are suspected of seizing Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar, on the streets of Milan on Feb. 17, 2003, and sending him to Egypt, where he reportedly was tortured, Milan prosecutor Manlio Claudio Minale said in a statement.

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The statement said Omar was abused by interrogators in Egypt, according to phone calls made by Omar from Egypt to his wife and another unnamed Egyptian citizen in April-May, 2004. Italian papers have reported that Omar, 42, said in the calls he was tortured with electric shocks.


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According to the testimony, Omar was hung upside down and subjected to extreme temperatures and loud noise that damaged his hearing, Corriere reported.
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[indepat]

1. This is the kind of stuff that seems to get the jollies of so many up

[bloom]

2. I guess it's going to take the legal systems of other countries

to change anything.