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AnOhioan

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Fri Feb-16-07 07:00 AM
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Judge rules in CIA rendition case

MILAN, Italy (AP) -- An Italian judge on Friday indicted 26 Americans and five Italians in the first criminal trial case over the CIA's extraordinary rendition program.

The judge set a trial date for June 8. Prosecutors allege that five Italian intelligence officials worked with the Americans -- almost all CIA agents -- to abduct terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr from a Milan street on February 17, 2003.

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All but one of the American suspects have been identified as CIA agents, including the former station chiefs in Rome and Milan. The other is a U.S. Air Force officer stationed at the time at Aviano.

More at http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/16/italy.cia.ap/index.html

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SpiralHawk

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Fri Feb-16-07 07:16 AM
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1. "The torture fish rots from the head down." - George AWOL Bush

"This is the kind of evil amoral outrage that could only
have been ordered by an 'elite' connecticut preppy member of an occult darkside cabal."

- George AWOL Bush

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soothsayer

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Fri Feb-16-07 07:45 AM
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2. Hang 'em high! They know what they did was wrong.

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Toots

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Fri Feb-16-07 09:03 AM
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3. In America kidnapping is a Capital crime

and that is most definitely what this is. Those people were wisked off the streets by CIA (foreigners) and held captive and tortured without being charged of any crime not allowed a day in court. Kidnapping...a Capital Crime....

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Mechatanketra

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Fri Feb-16-07 10:11 AM
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5. I don't think that word means what you think it means, Vezzini.

"Capital crime" means that it carries the death penalty. Kidnapping isn't a capital crime at the federal level in America, although I understand it is at the state level in Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, and South Carolina.

This shouldn't be seen in any way as an attempt to detract from the enormity of this mess. America, as a collective nation, is basically a rabid dog which unfortunately nobody can get close enough to treat.

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Toots

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Fri Feb-16-07 05:31 PM
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7. You could be incorrect

I believe after the Charles Linberg baby was kidnapped and killed there was such a public outcry that kidnapping did indeed become a federal crime that warranted the death penalty. :shrug: I also could be incorrect

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TacticalPeek

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Fri Feb-16-07 10:08 AM
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4. CIA = BR

BR = Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Brigades

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Doondoo

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Fri Feb-16-07 12:09 PM
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6. K&R

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