Governments around the world are investigating the actions of the US Government’s Central Intelligence Agency, who’ve been accused of covertly removing their residents from sovereign soil and forcibly repatriating them to their home nations where laws on interrogation are less strict and where the local law-enforcement will participate. This stems from an Italian case where a man was repatriated from Milan two years ago to his home country of Egypt via a US airbase.
Earlier last week, an Italian judge issued arrest warrants for 13 people said to be CIA operatives involved in Omar’s abduction. Another six people – all Americans – are also under investigation. It is the first time a foreign government has filed criminal charges against US citizens involved in counter-terrorism work abroad.
Other nations have also begun to oppose Washington’s forcible removal of terror suspects. Canada is holding hearings into the deportation of a Canadian to Syria for questioning about alleged ties to al-Qaeda. German prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into the suspected kidnapping of a German man who was flown to Afghanistan. In Stockholm, a parliamentary investigator has already concluded that CIA agents violated Swedish law by subjecting two Egyptian nationals to ‘degrading and inhuman treatment’ during a rendition in 2001.
Guardian/Observer: Italians hunt covert CIA snatch squad
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