Showing posts with label Extraordinary Rendition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extraordinary Rendition. Show all posts

Friday, February 16, 2007

Just 26?

Can't he take Bush and Cheney and the whole PNAC crowd while he's at it?


An Italian judge has ordered 26 Americans - most of them CIA agents - to stand trial over the kidnap of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003.

Osama Mustafa Hassan was allegedly seized by the CIA and flown to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. Five Italians were also indicted by the judge.

Most of the indicted US citizens are believed to have returned home from Italy.

The case would be the first criminal trial over the secret US practice known as 'extraordinary rendition'.

Washington acknowledges secret transfers of terrorism suspects to third countries but denies using or sanctioning torture, and is not expected to hand over its agents for trial.

The case is the subject of a lot of interest across Europe.

The European Parliament approved a report on Wednesday saying governments of 14 member states, including Ireland, helped conceal secret US transfers of terrorism suspects.

A court in Munich in Germany issued arrest warrants last month for 13 suspected CIA agents accused of kidnapping a German of Lebanese descent and flying him to a jail in Afghanistan, where he too says he was tortured.

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Germany issues 13 arrest warrants for CIA agents

For kidnapping one of their citizens:

German prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for 13 suspected CIA operatives in connection with the alleged abduction of German citizen Khaled al-Masri.

Munich-based Bavarian senior state public prosecutor Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld said in a statement Wednesday that the warrants had been issued in the last few days. He said the agents are being sought on suspicion of abducting and wrongfully imprisoning al-Masri as well as causing him grievous bodily harm. Al-Masri was allegedly abducted in a case of the controversial CIA practice known as "extraordinary rendition," which involves kidnapping terrorist suspects and flying them to third countries to be interrogated.

The prosecutor's office refused to reveal the names of the people sought. However Schmidt-Sommerfeld said in a statement that "the personal details contained in the arrest warrants are, according to our current knowledge, aliases of CIA agents." He added that, "further investigation will, among other things, concentrate on trying to determine the clear identities of the suspects." Prosecutors did not state the nationalities of the suspects. However, according to German media reports, most of the suspects are resident in the US.

Now can we get them to issue warrants for the Bush administration for terrorism?