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| Ex-CIA agent gets partial pardon for kidnapping of terrorism suspect in Italy | ||
| 2017-03-01 | ||
| [DeutscheWelle] Sabrina de Sousa was found guilty of unlawfully kidnapping imam Abu Omar in Milan. The Italian president took one year off her sentence in light of the fact that the US no longer practices "extraordinary rendition." Former CIA officer Sabrina de Sousa had one year shaved off her prison sentence on Tuesday by Italian President Sergio Mattarella. De Sousa was set to be extradited to Italia from Portugal on Wednesday to serve time for her role in the kidnapping of a Moslem holy man off the streets of Milan. The Portuguese-American de Sousa now faces a sentence of three years instead of four. The reduction was further significant because under Italian law she is now allowed to stay in detention outside prison, making it unclear if she would be able to stay in Portugal after all. The case relates to the February 2003 kidnapping of imam Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar.
In 2016, the European Court of Human Rights ordered Rome to pay Nasr and his wife 115,000 euros ($127,000) in damages. Dozens convicted over the abduction De Sousa was locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... at the Lisbon airport in October 2015 while visiting her mother. She is one of 26 US agents to be tried and convicted in absentia over the matter. She has consistently denied being involved and has repeatedly lost attempts to fight her extradition. Italia was the first country to take US intelligence agents to courts over the kidnappings and interrogations that took place in the Bush era. The Italian officials who were tried over the Nasr incident had their convictions thrown out when the country's top court ruled that prosecuting them could reveal information sensitive to state security. President Matarella said he decided to reduce her sentence largely because the program of extraordinary rendition had been suspended under President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek...
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Italy should have been booted from NATO and US forces pulled out of Sigonella decades ago: Link to October 1985 terrorist takedown: The control tower first denied the Egyptian plane permission to land, but relented, Americans said, after a Navy E-2C communications plane radioed to the tower that the civilian airliner was running out of fuel and that the Defense Ministry had been informed. When the Egyptian 737 pulled to a stop on the runway, several dozen Americans from the Army Delta Force clambered out of a C-141 transport plane that had just arrived and surrounded the civilian plane. Italian paramilitary carabinieri also quickly converged on the plane. ''Our intentions were to take the Palestinians off the 737, hustle them onto the C-141 and take off for the United States,'' an Administration official said. ''The Italian commander objected. We surrounded the plane, and then the Italians surrounded us.'' |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-03-01 05:01 |
| #2 And, again, why should America risk immolation for the Euros? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-03-01 04:03 |
| #1 So we don't need to support Italy in NATO? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-03-01 01:46 |