foxnews.com - 23 days ago
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 The U.S. expressed "disappointment" over the kidnapping convictions of 23 Americans, Reuters reported. "We are disappointed by the verdicts against the Americans and Italians charged in Milan for their alleged involvement in the case involving Egyptian cleric ...
abcnews.go.com - 23 days ago
rawstory.com - 22 days ago
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rawstory.com —
craigmurray Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to
be raped with broken bottles The CIA relied on...
intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and ...
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Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped ...
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 28 days ago
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Ask Not What Obama Will Do for Freedom
Cold Fury —
... : “Obama, Obama, Are you with the regime or with us?” An Italian Court asked Obama a similar question : An Italian judge on Wednesday convicted 23 Americans in absentia of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program in the war on terrorism. Bob Dole e-mailed, Your Honor. He said you can have those agents back–when Italy gives him back the use of his right arm, which he left at Castel d’Aiano in the Apennines when your Nazi pals shot him in the back, you Mussolini-worshiping ...
Reason Morning Links: UN Pulls Staff From Afghanistan, American Officials Convicted in Italy, Cash for Clunkers Post-Mortem
Hit & Run —
... U.N. pulls half its international staff out of Afghanistan
after attack that left five workers dead.
Italian court convicts 23
Americans in the abduction and rendition of a Muslim cleric.
Speaking of rendition, former U.K. ambassador says CIA sent
suspects to Uzbekistan to be "raped
with broken bottles," among other atrocities.
The GOP:
It's Mike Huckabee's party, now.
Most common cash for clunkers trade was
old pick-up trucks for new ones with only ...
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