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alp227

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Fri Apr 5, 2013, 07:29 PM Apr 2013

Italy Abu Omar rendition: Col Romano pardoned in CIA case

Source: BBC

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has pardoned a US Air Force colonel convicted in absentia over the rendition of an Egyptian imam in 2003.

Joseph Romano was one of 23 Americans tried and sentenced by Italian courts over the CIA-led operation to abduct a cleric known as Abu Omar.

The Egyptian said he was flown to his home country and tortured there.

Mr Napolitano's office cited what it said were changes to US security policy undertaken by President Barack Obama.

It said Mr Obama had "immediately after his election, put an end to an approach to the challenges to national security... considered by Italy and the European Union not compatible with fundamental principles of rule of law".

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22048932

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Italy Abu Omar rendition: Col Romano pardoned in CIA case (Original Post) alp227 Apr 2013 OP
More of the don't look back crap :( n/t pam4water Apr 2013 #1
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