Italian Court Sentences 23 CIA Agents Over Rendition Flight
By Richard Owen in Rome
The Americans were all tried in absentia, but the verdicts were nevertheless hailed by human rights campaigners as an important victory that could open the way to further prosecutions. Two lower-ranking agents of the Italian military agency SISMI were sentenced to three years each.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23895.htm
Italian court sentences 23 CIA agents over kidnap flight
An Italian court sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison today for their role in the abduction of an Egyptian terrorist suspect in the first trial over "extraordinary renditions".
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6903439.ece
EXCLUSIVE: Convicted CIA Spy Says "We Broke the Law"
By MATTHEW COLE, AVNI PATEL, and BRIAN ROSS
Sabrina deSousa Says U.S. "Betrayed" Her and Others Found Guilty in Kidnapping of Muslim Cleric in Italy.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23902.htm
A Court Decision that Reflects What Type of Country the U.S. is
By Glenn Greenwald
Even when government officials purposely subject an innocent person to brutal torture, they enjoy full immunity.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23896.htm
Who Are The Six Uighurs Released From Guantánamo To Palau?
By Andy Worthington
I have written at length about the plight of Guantánamo's Uighurs, innocent men caught up in the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, who were mostly seized and sold to U.S. forces by Pakistani villagers after fleeing a settlement in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains where they had been living a Spartan live for several months, free from Chinese oppression.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23894.htm
Former UK Ambassador: CIA Sent People to be 'Raped with Broken Bottles'
By Daniel Tencer
The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23906.htm
From Information Clearing House
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Center for Constitutional Rights: Rendition Victims Can Get Justice in Italy and Canada But Not in US
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/04-11
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Italy, the CIA and Rendition
Michael Moran, GlobalPost: "The label 'War on Terror' may be out of style as a description of American counterterrorism strategy, but Wednesday in Rome an Italian court served notice that some of its more controversial practices - including the abduction of alleged terrorists known as 'extraordinary rendition' - would not be forgotten as quickly as some Americans might prefer."
https://www.truthout.org/1105093
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Global+War+on+Terror
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=counterterror
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terror+suspect
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Uzbekistan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Uighur
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Worthington
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Tencer
The Americans were all tried in absentia, but the verdicts were nevertheless hailed by human rights campaigners as an important victory that could open the way to further prosecutions. Two lower-ranking agents of the Italian military agency SISMI were sentenced to three years each.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23895.htm
Italian court sentences 23 CIA agents over kidnap flight
An Italian court sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison today for their role in the abduction of an Egyptian terrorist suspect in the first trial over "extraordinary renditions".
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6903439.ece
EXCLUSIVE: Convicted CIA Spy Says "We Broke the Law"
By MATTHEW COLE, AVNI PATEL, and BRIAN ROSS
Sabrina deSousa Says U.S. "Betrayed" Her and Others Found Guilty in Kidnapping of Muslim Cleric in Italy.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23902.htm
A Court Decision that Reflects What Type of Country the U.S. is
By Glenn Greenwald
Even when government officials purposely subject an innocent person to brutal torture, they enjoy full immunity.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23896.htm
Who Are The Six Uighurs Released From Guantánamo To Palau?
By Andy Worthington
I have written at length about the plight of Guantánamo's Uighurs, innocent men caught up in the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, who were mostly seized and sold to U.S. forces by Pakistani villagers after fleeing a settlement in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains where they had been living a Spartan live for several months, free from Chinese oppression.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23894.htm
Former UK Ambassador: CIA Sent People to be 'Raped with Broken Bottles'
By Daniel Tencer
The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23906.htm
From Information Clearing House
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Center for Constitutional Rights: Rendition Victims Can Get Justice in Italy and Canada But Not in US
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/04-11
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Italy, the CIA and Rendition
Michael Moran, GlobalPost: "The label 'War on Terror' may be out of style as a description of American counterterrorism strategy, but Wednesday in Rome an Italian court served notice that some of its more controversial practices - including the abduction of alleged terrorists known as 'extraordinary rendition' - would not be forgotten as quickly as some Americans might prefer."
https://www.truthout.org/1105093
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Global+War+on+Terror
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=counterterror
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terror+suspect
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Uzbekistan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Uighur
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Worthington
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Tencer
rudkla - 5. Nov, 04:17
