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enhanced_deficit
07-18-2013, 08:05 PM
Will be interesting rto see how Obama responds to this:


Ex-CIA man, convicted of kidnapping in Italy, held in Panama: sources

ROME | Thu Jul 18, 2013 2:13pm EDT
(Reuters) - Former CIA Milan station chief Robert Seldon Lady, convicted in Italy (http://www.reuters.com/places/italy) of kidnapping an Egyptian Muslim cleric, has been arrested in Panama, Italian judicial sources told Reuters on Thursday.

Italy's highest court last year upheld a guilty verdict against Seldon Lady for the kidnapping of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, who was snatched from a Milan street in 2003 and flown to Egypt (http://www.reuters.com/places/egypt?lc=int_mb_1001) for interrogation, where he says he was tortured for seven months.

The imam, also known as Abu Omar, was a resident in Italy (http://www.reuters.com/places/italy?lc=int_mb_1001) at the time of the abduction.
Seldon Lady was given a nine-year prison sentence and another 22 Americans seven-year sentences in absentia for the abduction of the imam

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/18/us-italy-abuomar-idUSBRE96H13Z20130718


Is this double standard since plant had droned some US citizens suspects ncluding children without a trial, this guy is accused of torture assisst and going to prison for 9 years?

paulbot24
07-18-2013, 08:10 PM
He gets nine years in a club-med style prison for kidnapping and torturing a man for seven years? Hold on, I need to get my blood pressure pills.....

enhanced_deficit
07-18-2013, 08:26 PM
He gets nine years in a club-med style prison for kidnapping and torturing a man for seven years? Hold on, I need to get my blood pressure pills.....

There is 26 Americans convicted in Italy apparently per the BBC report:

The cleric, known as Abu Omar, was allegedly flown to Egypt and tortured.
Lady was convicted in absentia with 22 other Americans for their role in his "extraordinary rendition".

But the Italian authorities have so far only sought the international arrest of the former Milan station chief, Italian media say.
The CIA said it had no immediate comment on the arrest, while Panamanian officials have so far denied knowledge of the detention.

Lady was reportedly arrested near Panama's border with Costa Rica.
According to Italian media reports (http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/54721/CIA-official-held-in-Panama-over-Italian-snatch-case.html), an international warrant was sought by the justice minister in Italy's previous government in December 2012.

A prosecutor on Lady's case said the Interpol warrant reflected Italy's determination to have him extradited.
The Milan case was the first involving extraordinary rendition, the CIA's practice of transferring suspects to countries where torture is permitted.
The practice has been condemned by human rights groups as a violation of international agreements.
Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, who was considered a terrorism suspect by the US, was abducted on a Milan street in February 2003 and transferred between US military bases in Italy and Germany before being brought to Egypt.
Twenty-two CIA agents, including Lady and an air force pilot, were convicted in 2009 of abducting the cleric. Their sentences were upheld last year by Italy's highest appeals court.
Three more Americans, including CIA Rome station chief Jeffrey Castelli, were convicted by an appeals court in February.

None of the 26 convicted has ever appeared in an Italian court, and only two have had any contact with their lawyers.


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