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CIA agents – criminals in Italy
Published: 06 November, 2009, 01:47
Edited: 08 November, 2009, 17:24
An Italian court has found 23 Americans guilty of kidnapping an Egyptian terror suspect six years ago. Webster Tarpley, author, journalist, lecturer, and critic of US policy discussed the court case with RT.
This is the first conviction involving the CIA’s ‘extraordinary rendition’ programme, which saw suspects being tortured in foreign countries.
“This is a great victory for the rule of law and it’s a great day for these Italian prosecutors,” Tarpley said.
“There were 33 people on trial and 26 of them were CIA agents. Three of them, including the station chief in Rome, got off on diplomatic immunity. But 23 have been convicted of kidnapping,” he added.
Mark Zaid, an attorney for a convicted alleged CIA agent is, meanwhile, asserting that his client was not, in any way, affiliated with the agency.
“My client has been based there as a diplomatic representative of the US government since 1998, first in Rome, then in Milan,” Zaid explained.
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The people tried in Italy were serving their country. Americans should stand up for fellow citizens who put themselves in harms way to carry out jobs their government asks them to do. This includes both military and civilian workers. They perform jobs that most people would not be capable of doing and so dangerous that most politicians would be scared to attempt to do. Examples would be, working on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier or serving in a submarine, etc.
Its step in right dirrection-credit to Italy! It was wrong doing from CIA-Criminal Institution of America..USA is criminal state by all means and so many millions innocent people around the world die from their hand...Normal humans simple do not enjoy to torture or to kill other humans-with fake reasons...but hey its America...Their future will be black-sooner or later world will refuse to live with this mass murderous regime......
These brave American citizens did the job their government asked of them. America owes these citizens very much because they personally sacrifice to serve their country. No amount of money can adequately reward the service of America's brave young military and civilian people doing the missions. Give them the credit due. If anyone has a complaint send it to the elected office holders.