CIA on trial in Italy
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Twenty-six suspects-- seven Italians and nineteen Americans (all but one identified as CIA)--are on trial in Italy for the February 2003 abduction of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr.  The following story from Crooks and Liars has some details:http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/04/23/cia-employees-on-trial-in-europe-for-kidnapping/

(Note that the story in Crooks and Liars says all 26 suspects are Americans)

Some more details are available from the following story published by the Associated Press:http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/ITALY_CIA_KIDNAPPING?SITE=INLAF&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

What is actually interesting here is how the media works in the US.  Most newspapers and television news programs get their raw copy from the Associated Press.  The Associated Press published a story on April 16th about this case--including some of the evidence the Italian authorities purport to have about the CIA's scheme of moving terror suspects around Europe and eventually dumping them in countries that allow torture--but no media outlet has picked it up.  Usually I'm very critical of the Associated Press, but here is a case where they are obviously doing their job.

Incidentally, I figured out the AP has been running stories on this case because they are being published in the Berlin Morgenpost.


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