Why didn't the United States government stand up for their own people who were there carrying out the will of their government? The Italians did their job, but American top officials and politicians overseeing these operations let the men at the front down and also did a disservice to America. They should stand up like real men and support the men who carried out their operations, even if it means that they are themselves tried in court. The Hague is just chomping at the bit to get to try a big fish, like a president, secretary of defence, Attorney general, director of the CIA, general etc. You see, until recently, they have been only catching the small fish and letting the big fish go.

The US government is full of cowards. They are Politicians who only care about themselves and so they will let those who follow orders go to prison without lifting a finger to help them.

The importance of catching the small fish is to scare the other small fish so that human rights violations do not occur anymore. Go Italia, strike 'em hard! no sympathy for criminals.

It is one thing to hold a kangaroo court and convict these guys, but quite another to ever impose a sentence on them. The last time I checked, Italy doesn't have the power to dictate anything upon the United States. Italy is attacking Uncle Sam when they start messing with America's intelligence community. Italy needs to think long and hard and decide which side they are on. They cannot be with America if they are against America's brave men.

December 26, 2009, 00:39, Italy wrote > It is one thing to hold a kangaroo court and convict these guys, but quite another to ever impose a sentence on them. The last time I checked, Italy doesn't have the power to dictate anything upon the United States. Italy is attacking Uncle Sam when they start messing with America's intelligence community. Italy needs to think long and hard and decide which side they are on. They cannot be with America if they are against America's brave men. Can you believe the arrogance and perversity of the author of the above quote? It is obvious that the person spoke completely out of turn, not taking into account that the American felons committed a very serious crime in an Italian city, in the country of Italy, ever heard of it? That's where the Italians call the shots not America, not the American government and not a bunch of American CIA killers and kidnappers.

It is one thing to hold a kangaroo court and convict 23 CIA workers but then these people kidnapped a guy minding his own business on Italian territory and sent him to Egypt to be tortured. They did not know and they (and their backers) did not care that this guy, Muslim cleric though he was, might have been innocent of everything he was supposed to have done. No country should allow foreigners to come in and kidnap people on its soil and take them away for torture. Italy is right to convict these people. But the United States government should have prosecuted them in the first place for using unethical means and methods to find terror suspects.