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2005-06-30 Europe

Italians were in on plan to grab Milan imam

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-06-30 09:25|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Does anyone else get that funny feeling that this might have been intentionally bungled by some of those CIA types that Goss is trying to root out - to try to embarrass the US? Just wondering. The thing stinks. Something's not right about this whole fumblimg kluzty mess.

Posted by .com 2005-06-30 09:54|| 2005-06-30 09:54|| Front Page Top

#2 nah, dot com. Look at who printed the above leak - the WaPo. They dont usually print leaks that defend the Admin, let alone on page 1, which i think this was. No, sounds to me more like the issue here is that it was NOT bush under attack, but the CIA, and the CIA (old line) is using WaPo for defense. Where the leak to the magistrate happened I dont know, but Id suspect on the Italian side.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-06-30 10:10|| 2005-06-30 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Lh - "the CIA (old line) is using WaPo for defense" -- well that certainly rings true. You're probably right - I just find myself amazed that any CIA team from any time period would have been this klutzy. Yeah, they pulled off the grab, but the rest is just startling in its amateurism. Sigh. Hurry Goss, hurry.

Posted by .com 2005-06-30 10:38|| 2005-06-30 10:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Before a CIA paramilitary team was deployed to snatch a radical Islamic cleric off the streets of Milan in February 2003, the CIA station chief in Rome briefed and sought approval from his counterpart in Italy, according to three CIA veterans with knowledge of the operation and a fourth who reviewed the matter after it took place.

The previously undisclosed Italian involvement undercuts the accusation, which has fueled public resentment in Italy toward the United States, that the CIA brashly slipped into the country unannounced and uninvited to kidnap an Italian resident off the street.

If the guy was indeed a radical Islamic cleric (having a history of spouting off anti-American and anti-Western b/s), why get all upset about him being spirited away? At least the troublemaker is off your soil.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-30 13:46|| 2005-06-30 13:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Because it ain't polite, BAR. You notify the home team and seek an ok first. If that's denied, you consider how badly you want the guy, and whether he's worth the potential shitstorm. And how likely the home team might be to rat you out.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-06-30 14:59|| 2005-06-30 14:59|| Front Page Top

#6 This Mojo sounds like a lamplighter

Posted by G Smiley 2005-06-30 16:19|| 2005-06-30 16:19|| Front Page Top

#7 The Italian "government" is glad to see this POS gone off their streets. It's some Commie terrorist loving "magistrate" sturing up trouble. The Italian government is only reacting the way it must.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-06-30 16:27|| 2005-06-30 16:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Not notifying the gov't in charge of your special ops plans is a good way to get your special agents dead. Just ask Nicola Calipari.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-06-30 16:32|| 2005-06-30 16:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Forget grabbing them, capture one and force him to wear a suicide bomb belt for fear his family will be killed and buried with pig guts. Have him get close to the target and boom. Start using a few of their own tactics but don't take credit for it. Ah, make sure Hezbollah gets credit.

Forement confusion, distrust, and hatred amung our enemies. Silence those who are preaching Jihad and recruiting for our enemies. And kill a few in the process.

Posted by Black Bart 2005-06-30 18:27|| 2005-06-30 18:27|| Front Page Top

#10 I think that the charges by the magistrate are coming from the Italian resentment to our accidently whacking the Italian agent in the recent hostage rescue. My guess would be that the hope was to demonstrate that the CIA did cowboy type moves as well. Releaseing the fact that the Italian governement had knowledge of the raid undercuts that argument but may end up damaging Berlusconi.

Posted by Super Hose 2005-06-30 20:45|| 2005-06-30 20:45|| Front Page Top

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