Prosecutor: CIA Kidnapping in Italy Too Grave to Cover Up
October 6th, 2009Via: AP:
The kidnapping of a terror suspect is too grave a crime to be covered up just to protect government secrets, a prosecutor declared Wednesday in the trial of 26 Americans and seven Italians charged in the abduction of an Egyptian cleric.
Prosecutor Armando Spataro gave his closing arguments in a trial that is the first in any country to scrutinize the CIA’s extraordinary renditions. Under that program, the U.S. spy agency transferred terrorism suspects to third countries for interrogation.
Human rights advocates say that renditions were the CIA’s way to outsource the torture of prisoners to countries where torture was practiced.
Italian prosecutors say Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, a suspected terrorist also known as Abu Omar, was kidnapped from a Milan street in broad daylight on Feb. 17, 2003. Nasr was then allegedly driven from Milan to the Aviano air base in Italy, flown to the Ramstein air base in southern Germany and then to Egypt, where he was allegedly tortured.
Nasr has been released but remains in Egypt and has not testified at the trial.
The CIA has declined to comment on the case. All the Americans are being tried in absentia and are considered fugitives. The Italian government has denied any involvement, and all defendants have denied the charges.
Some news about Adamo Bove might be exposed too. He was the head of security at Telecom Italia and exposed the CIA (Abu Omar rendition in Italy traced after the fact with mobiles), SISMI ( ~ the Italian CIA) and his own bosses.
He was found under a freeway overpass.