{"id":190657,"date":"2009-11-05T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/05\/italian-conviction-of-cia-kidnappers-means-nothing\/"},"modified":"2009-11-05T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T22:12:00","slug":"italian-conviction-of-cia-kidnappers-means-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/05\/italian-conviction-of-cia-kidnappers-means-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Conviction of CIA Kidnappers Means Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that Judge Oscar Magi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE5A33QB20091104\">convicted 23 Americans in absentia for kidnapping Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr<\/a> really has very little meaning, even with sentences of up to 8 year in prison.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds significant, until you realize that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2009\/11\/italys-rendition-trial\">senior Italian officials who were in on this were acquitted by reason of state security<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Charges were also dropped against five Italians, including the former head of the Sismi military intelligence service, Nicolo Pollari, because evidence against them violated state secrecy rules.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the senior people in the Italian state security apparatus, the ones who could say no, get off Scott free.<\/p>\n<p>Some lower level operatives, however, got hung out to dry for following orders:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>However, the judge sentenced two more junior Sismi agents to three years in prison as accomplices, indicating Italian authorities were aware of the abduction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How is &#8220;Lynndie England&#8221; spelled in Italian?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that Judge Oscar Magi convicted 23 Americans in absentia for kidnapping Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr really has very little meaning, even with sentences of up to 8 year in prison. It sounds significant, until you realize that the senior Italian officials who were in on this were acquitted by reason of state security: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1032,984,972,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-europe","category-justice","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}