Italian judge freezes CIA kidnap trial - Having Italy still under US occupation has its benefits

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MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian judge effectively froze on Monday the trial of U.S. and Italian spies charged with kidnapping a terrorism suspect in Milan in 2003 and then flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.

The trial of seven Italians and 26 Americans -- the latter, all believed to be CIA agents, in absentia -- is the first anywhere over the practice of "extraordinary rendition", whereby terrorism suspects are secretly transferred to third countries.

Judge Oscar Magi said the criminal trial should wait until Italy's highest court ruled whether Milan prosecutors had broken state secrecy rules when pursuing the high-profile case, as Prime Minister Romano Prodi's government contends. His decision was applauded by lawyers representing the spies.

The government has requested the Constitutional Court consider annulling the proceedings altogether.

Prodi's government is our partner in crime, not our underling.

an occupying force like Germany? I know we still have more than 100 installations in Germany to intimidate and terrorize the German people and their government. Or are those terror campaigns run from Camp Bondsteel and Camp Monteith like the ones against the poor people in the Balkans?

if you influence the elections. As the wolf, I could let the sheep have an election to elect me king, but that would not be a democracy.

:shrug: