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| Italy convicts 23 US agents |
| 2009-11-04 |
| AN Italian judge has convicted 23 US and two Italian secret agents for the CIA's kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003. The CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Lady, was sentenced to eight years in prison and the other Americans to five years, all in their absence, today. The two Italians were given three-year prison terms. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #14 Frank G, the problem with your analogy is that there is no criminal CONVICTION (whether we think it was an actual crime or not is not the issue) in play - and not only that, there won't be, since the mother is insane. Clearly Italy is wrong, but it's a different kind of situation. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-11-04 20:37 |
| #13 really? Like Liam whose American father is trying to pry him out of an Italian orphanage? Liam was kidnapped from Dad's legal custody after a divorce by his crazy Italian Mom, and taken to Italy. She has since been judged nuts, and Liam was removed to an Italian orphanage. The Italian gov't refuses to send the boy home. They wanna talk? We discuss this first, and publicly |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-11-04 20:20 |
| #12 worried that our DOJ might actually co-operate with the extradition Frozen Al has a good point - I believe the US and Italy do have extradition agreements for serious crimes - like kidnapping, which out guys were convicted of - and we are actually BOUND to extradite our agents. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-11-04 20:05 |
| #11 "Baltazar is a piker!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-11-04 18:57 |
| #10 So how did the Italians know THE NAMES of these guys? Would you believe credit card receipts? Great field craft guys. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-11-04 18:44 |
| #9 On the bright side, the next time the Balkans blow up, we'll know to stay home and let the Italians handle it. Save us a fortune. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-11-04 18:42 |
| #8 Even better, a Jihadi in the wife's bed |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-11-04 18:36 |
| #7 Ummm, I'm thinking a horses head is good, but put the Prosecuting Attorney's head in the Judges Bed would be ten times more effective. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-11-04 18:31 |
| #6 Ima thinkin a horse head in the "judge's" bed. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2009-11-04 18:11 |
| #5 I'm more worried that our DOJ might actually co-operate with the extradition, given that BHO needs to keep the anti-American wing of the Democratic party on his side. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2009-11-04 17:43 |
| #4 We could even take our military out of Italy and start using our former bases to store nuclear waste. I mean, why not, it's apparent that Italy has decided to bite it's allies. We should bite back. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2009-11-04 17:38 |
| #3 Would be a pity if the judge and prosecutor woke up dead one morning. Just saying. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2009-11-04 16:37 |
| #2 Credit card receipts, cell phone numbers, etc. Apparently it was a pretty sloppily run op. It's not like the prosecutors got any cooperation from the Italian or US governments. |
| Posted by: Flusonter Squank6320 2009-11-04 15:19 |
| #1 So how did the Italians know THE NAMES of these guys? |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2009-11-04 14:41 |