Global spiderweb
Village Voice
by Nat Hentoff
06/25/06
Three years ago, a CIA kidnapping ring was in Italy to snatch a radical imam, Hussan Mustafa Nasr, from a street in Milan. Flown on a CIA plane to his native Egypt, Nasr was held in a dungeon where he was given electric shock treatments, hung upside down, and tortured in various positions. Released and then rearrested, Nasr disappeared in the bowels of the Egyptian prison system. While in Milan setting up the kidnapping, the CIA crew made many calls from their top-of-the-line hotel rooms, but these were not, as the spying trade puts it, on 'secure phones.' So, Italian intelligence agents had no difficulty tracking them -- leading to arrest warrants for these CIA spooks for violating the sovereignty of Italy and its laws. ... The exposure of this CIA kidnapping ring is part of the growing revulsion throughout Europe and other parts of the world against such American gangsterism. As Judge Sparato said in Florence: 'We know it's a great mistake to fight terrorism in this way'...
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0626,hentoff,73639,6.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Nat Hentoff
06/25/06
Three years ago, a CIA kidnapping ring was in Italy to snatch a radical imam, Hussan Mustafa Nasr, from a street in Milan. Flown on a CIA plane to his native Egypt, Nasr was held in a dungeon where he was given electric shock treatments, hung upside down, and tortured in various positions. Released and then rearrested, Nasr disappeared in the bowels of the Egyptian prison system. While in Milan setting up the kidnapping, the CIA crew made many calls from their top-of-the-line hotel rooms, but these were not, as the spying trade puts it, on 'secure phones.' So, Italian intelligence agents had no difficulty tracking them -- leading to arrest warrants for these CIA spooks for violating the sovereignty of Italy and its laws. ... The exposure of this CIA kidnapping ring is part of the growing revulsion throughout Europe and other parts of the world against such American gangsterism. As Judge Sparato said in Florence: 'We know it's a great mistake to fight terrorism in this way'...
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0626,hentoff,73639,6.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 29. Jun, 16:02
