Ex-CIA chief wanted in Italy arrested

[waltky]

CIA's rendition chief wanted in Italy arrested in Panama...

Italy Says Ex-CIA Chief in Milan Arrested in Panama
July 18, 2013 > Italy says a former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Milan, convicted in absentia for the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, has been detained in Panama.

The Italian Justice Ministry offered few details on the reported arrest of Robert Seldon Lady, who faces a nine-year prison term in Italy. But Italian news agencies quote police in Panama as saying Lady was taken into custody near the Panama-Costa Rica border. Italy has two months to request his extradition. The U.S. government had not responded to the reports by late Thursday, and Panama Security Minister Jose Raul Molino told the Associated Press in Panama City that he was not aware of the detention.

Lady and 22 other CIA agents were convicted in absentia in 2009 for the kidnapping of radical cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, better known as Abu Omar, from a Milan street. The cleric was later transferred to Egypt, where he was interrogated and allegedly tortured for information on his alleged links to terrorist organizations. Abu Omar, suspected of recruiting militants to fight in Iraq, was released from Egyptian detention in 2007 without having been charged.

The trials of Lady, now retired from the CIA, and two other U.S. agents were the first convictions of U.S. intelligence operatives involved in a procedure known as "extraordinary rendition." Under the procedure, U.S. agents secretly detained terrorism suspects abroad and transferred them to third countries for intensive interrogation. Three other Americans indicted in the case were granted diplomatic immunity and acquitted in 2009. But earlier this year, a Milan court vacated the acquittals, convicted them in absentia and then sentenced two of them to six-year prison terms and the third to a seven-year term.

An Italian court found Italy's secret services also were complicit in the rendition, and a former Italian intelligence chief was sentenced to 10 years in prison earlier this year. A former deputy received a nine-year sentence, and three other officials got six years each. Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper says the Italian government authorized an international arrest warrant for Lady in December. But it says warrants were not issued for other CIA operatives convicted in the case because their prison sentences did not meet the minimum for an extradition request.

Italy Says Ex-CIA Chief in Milan Arrested in Panama

 

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Panama Releases Former CIA Operative To US...

Panama releases former CIA operative wanted by Italy
19 July`13 > A former CIA operative detained in Panama this week at the request of Italian authorities over his conviction in the 2003 kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in Milan was released Friday and had boarded a flight to the United States, U.S. officials said.

Robert Seldon Lady’s release from Panama appeared to avert the possibility that he would be extradited to Italy, where he faces a sentence of up to nine years in prison for his role in the CIA capture of a terrorism suspect who was secretly snatched off a street in Milan and transported to Egypt. Lady, who left Panama on Friday morning, was “either en route or back in the United States,” Marie Harf, State Department deputy spokeswoman, told reporters at a midday briefing. It was not immediately clear what steps the United States had taken to secure Lady’s release.

The outcome brought a sudden close to brief diplomatic drama that began Wednesday when Lady was detained by border officials as he entered Panama. Lady and 22 other U.S. government employees — most of whom worked for the CIA — were convicted in absentia in the case. Poor tradecraft allowed Italian investigators to track the movements of the American operatives in minute detail. The case also highlighted the practice known as extraordinary rendition, in which terrorism suspects secretly captured in the years following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were delivered to governments suspected of engaging in torture.

Mario E. Jaramillo, the Panamanian ambassador in Washington, had confirmed Friday that Lady “has been arrested in Panama.” He added in an e-mail, “Procedures for this kind of international detentions are being followed by Panama at this moment.” Jaramillo could not be reached immediately for comment on the report of Lady’s release and return to the United States. Lady was the CIA base chief in Milan when Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar, was bundled into a van as he walked to a mosque. Nasr was secretly flown out of Italy and delivered to Egypt, according to Italian court records.

Although U.S. intelligence officials have said that the Italian intelligence service sanctioned the operation, Italian prosecutors pursued U.S. officials on kidnapping and other charges. Lady has been living in Latin American, according to former colleagues at the CIA. All of the Americans convicted in the case had left Italy before trial.

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[Indofred]

No one cares.
I know this because I started a thread on the subject.

The nation of laws where the jury has spoken, twists arms to let their home grown criminals escape justice for their crimes.

Fuck the American government.

 

[waltky]

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[Indofred]

Granny says you is nasty...

... she says you is pro'bly one o' dem Mooslamic terrorists...

... or one o' dem Bible-hatin' limp-wristed lefty lib'ral yankee media types...

... she says ya prob'ly need to find yerself one o' dem gay boards to post on...

... an' ya need to ask Jesus to fergive ya so's ya don't go to dat fiery hot place...

... shoo - go away!

Giz a kiss and I'll tell you about communism, ducky.
Got to go, market place to bomb.

That or, if you notice, no one wants to post on a thread that exposes America for what it really is - an international corrupt cop, out for the cash and power.