Undercover US Operations: Italy convicts CIA chief
(No Ratings Yet)
Loading ...
In at least two Pakistani cities, undercover US intelligence operatives have been arrested by Pakistani police. These American operatives are running an undercover operation in Pakistan that uses the cover of the US Embassy. On at least three occasions, these operatives, who presented themselves as US ‘diplomats’, were roaming Pakistani streets in cars with fake number plates and wearing Afghan dresses and sporting Taliban-style beards. Most importantly, these operatives were carrying sophisticated weapons that were not licensed to the US Embassy. Four such US ‘diplomats’ were arrested a few hours before the arrival of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Pakistan.
When asked about the incident, she said she had no idea who those people were and what exactly they were doing. She was not lying. This is a standard procedure for US diplomats when US intelligence operatives get busted. Pakistani civilian and military officials have enough evidence of the illegal activities of CIA in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the American spy agency is using the help of Karzai’s and India’s spy outfits. Can Pakistan learn to stand for itself?
Breaking: CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap –22 Americans convicted were sentenced to five years in prison, in absentia 04 Nov 2009 An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans – all but one of them CIA agents – and two Italian secret agents of the 2003 kidnap of a Muslim cleric.
The agents were accused of abducting Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar, from Milan and sending him to Egypt, where he was allegedly tortured. The trial, which began in June 2007, is the first involving the CIA’s so-called “extraordinary rendition” programme. Three Americans and five Italians were acquitted by the court in Milan. The Americans were all tried in their absence after the US refused to extradite them.
Rendition trial ends with Milan CIA chief given eight years –First prosecution for US abduction of suspects to torture states –Italian court convicts Robert Lady and 23 others in absentia 04 Nov 2009 The former head of the CIA in Milan has been given an eight-year jail sentence for kidnapping at the end of the first trial anywhere in the world involving the agency’s “extraordinary rendition” programme. Robert Lady was tried in his absence and convicted of helping to organise the seizure of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar, from a Milan street in February 2003. His superior, Jeff Castelli, the head of the CIA in Italy at the time, was acquitted on the grounds that he was covered by diplomatic immunity. Most of the other 23 alleged CIA operatives on trial were given five-year jail sentences in their absence. Extraordinary rendition involved the abduction of suspects and their forcible transfer for interrogation to third countries, often states in which torture was routinely employed.
Source: http://pakistankakhudahafiz.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/undercover-us-operations/
Loading ...