How The U.S. Tried To Influence The Italian Courts In A Rendition Case

CIA Rendition Case -- US Pressured Italy to Influence Judiciary -- Spiegel Online

The CIA rendition of cleric Abu Omar in 2003 turned into a headache for Washington when a Milan court indicted the agents involved. Secret dispatches now show how the US threatened the Italian government in an attempt to influence the case. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was apparently happy to help.

In 2007, a court in Milan started trying several CIA agents in absentia for their roles in the 2003 kidnapping of Abu Omar, an Egyptian cleric who had been living in the northern Italian city. When the indictments first came down, the US government tried to intervene -- first in Milan and then in Rome -- so as to influence the investigations of the public prosecutor's office.

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My Comment: Oh well .... I guess for these CIA agents a visit to Rome (or Europe) is off on their family vacation travels.

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