Italy appeals court ups US sentences in CIA trial

[cory777]

Source: Associated Press

ROME – An Italian appeals court on Wednesday increased the sentences against 23 Americans convicted in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program.

In upholding the convictions, the court added one year to the eight-year term handed down to former Milan CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady and two years onto the five-year terms given to 22 other Americans convicted along with him, defense lawyers said.

They were never in Italian custody and were tried and convicted in absentia. But they risk arrest if they travel to Europe as long as the convictions stand.

The Americans and two Italians were convicted last year of involvement in the kidnapping of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, from a Milan street on Feb. 17, 2003 — the first convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA's practice of abducting terror suspects and transferring them to third countries where torture was permitted.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101215/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_cia_kidnapping

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Angry Dragon]

2. Now we need others to be tried

such as little bushie and his buddies

[bluesmail]

3. It takes another country to get the CIA psyopters in prison for a good

amount of time. You Go Italy.

[midnight]

4. Wow....

[Downwinder]

5. Is there an Interpol Red Alert out for them?

[Nihil]

6. Don't be silly: that's only for important stuff ...

... like having a one-night stand with a groupie ...

Kidnapping? Pah!

War crimes charges? Pah!

Skipping bail on multiple manslaughter charges? Pah!