Italian security officers listened, via hidden microphones, as an instructor lectured a group of aspiring terrorists in Milan. Apparently brandishing a mobile phone, he said, "Do you see this? This was created by an enemy of God. You can't imagine how many operations this has made fail and how many arrests it has caused. You can use it to communicate. It's fast. But it causes you huge problems. They created it, and they know how to intercept it. Presumably, the same sort of warning is given to CIA officers as they train for counterterrorism assignments. So it is ironic that their careless, even reckless, use of cellphones led to one of the worst operational fiascoes to beset the agency in years. For snatching a suspected terrorist off the Milan streets and spiriting him away to Egypt, ...
... calls - went through towers around the kidnapping area during a three-hour span. They discovered mat...
Little noticed, the Bush-Cheney administration was found guilty of international crime last week. Twenty-three current and former CIA agents were given prison sentences - in absentia - for kidnapping a Muslim preacher in Italy and smuggling him for torture in Egypt.
On Nov 30, secretary of the state Condoleeza Rice left for a European trip. But the star quality of the crisply articulate, seemingly tireless secretary of state faded during her European mission to manage the rising concern of Europeans, including official human rights monitors, that the CIA has been kidnapping terrorism suspects from city streets there and flying them to be tortured in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and other cooperating countries. Hentoff comments on Rice's failed European mission to ignite faith in US rule of law.
When Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Connecticut Independent, voted with Republicans against proceeding with the Democrats' resolution of no confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales I was surprised and saddened. I respect his independence from party labels , but has he no sense - beyond just the firing of U .S. attorneys - of how deeply Mr. Gonzales has diminished respect here and around the world for our once proud rules of law? At the time of the Senate vote on the resolution, 25 CIA agents were being tried, in absentia, in an Italian court as "fugitives" for kidnapping an Italian citizen to be tortured in Egypt during a "rendition." This CIA crime, violating U.S. and international laws, is among many by the CIA that Mr. Gonzales, as our chief law enforcement officer, has never opposed....
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi urged Egypt on Saturday to stand fast in the face of the kidnapping of one of its diplomats and ignore militants' demand that it abandon any plans to lend security assistance to Iraq. It is time for us to close ranks to fight terrorism. There is no way to budge to terrorists and give them what they want," Allawi said in Damascus, Syria. "The only way to deal with terrorism is to promote justice and to close ranks, and we hope Egypt and the Egyptian government will act accordingly.
Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq claimed responsibility yesterday for the kidnapping Saturday of Egypt's top diplomat in the country, as insurgents mounted new attacks against Arab and Muslim envoys in Baghdad. Iraqi government officials and Arab news outlets in the region reported the incidents as an apparent campaign by insurgents to send a message to any country attempting to boost diplomatic ties with Iraq's new government.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi urged Egypt on Saturday to stand fast in the face of the kidnapping of one of its diplomats and ignore militants' demand that it abandon any plans to lend security assistance to Iraq. It is time for us to close ranks to fight terrorism. There is no way to budge to terrorists and give them what they want," Allawi said in Damascus, Syria. "The only way to deal with terrorism is to promote justice and to close ranks, and we hope Egypt and the Egyptian government will act accordingly.
In his responses, he clearly identifies with Canada and wants to return. He feels "his soul connected to it." With regard to his predicament, he told the CBC, "I never had a choice in my past life, but I will build my future with the right bricks, and that Islam is a peaceful, multicultural and anti-racism religion for all." This statement may be an oblique reference to his al-Qaeda-oriented family and his combat role with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Sam Fanous, of the Canadian Coptic Association, alleged that Coptic girls in Egypt are raped, kidnapped, and forced to marry Muslim men. Earlier this year, MP's Jim Karygiannis and Raymonde Folco visited Egypt to examine discrimination against Copts. They reported that Copts in Egypt are highly educated and are among the most successful bus...
... since the invasion, she charged that "kidnapping and torture as well as lawlessness and corruption ...
arab world unrest Thursday's developments in the Mideast: Syria - - The Syrian army shells a border town, sparking gunbattles that kill at least eight people, and the government condemns U.S. sanctions targeting President Bashar Assad for the brutal crackdown that has killed more than 850 people. Talkalakh, a town of some 70,000 people near the border with Lebanon, is known to be a smuggling area where many residents are armed. Libya -- Moammar Gadhafi's forces rocket rebel fighters in the formidable strongholds they have built up in the strategic mountain heights southwest of Tripoli. The two sides appear to be fighting for control of the two highways to the north and south of the Nafusa mountain range, which slices across the desert south of Tripoli to the western border with Tunisia...
Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi urged Egypt on Saturday to stand fast in the face of the kidnapping of one of its diplomats and ignore militants' demands that it abandon any plans to lend security assistance to Iraq. There is no way to budge to terrorists and give them what they want," he said in Damascus, Syria. "The only way to deal with terrorism is to promote justice and to close ranks, and we hope Egypt and the Egyptian government will act accordingly.
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