NOTED IN PASSING
Deferred, but not defunct.
An Italian judge on Wednesday extended the suspension of the abduction trial of 26 Americans charged in an alleged CIA operation until the country’s highest court rules on a government challenge that could scuttle the case.
The Constitutional Court’s ruling, expected early next year, also will indicate whether the kidnapping trial will be permitted to publicly air details of the U.S. extraordinary rendition program – moving terrorism suspects from country to country without public legal proceedings.
The suspects – all but one identified by prosecutors as CIA agents – are accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan street on Feb. 17, 2003 in an operation coordinated by the CIA and Italian intelligence.
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Judge Oscar Magi said Wednesday that he could not continue with the hearings while the Constitutional Court debates the Italian government’s request to throw out the indictments against the Americans. The Milan trial had been suspended shortly after it opened in June, and Magi has now extended the suspension until March 12. Article
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Via the U.S. Air force, Alaska is now elephant-free.
All well and good if an aim is bony mice…
However, if in the market for a mouse-powered generator…
The first of a fraternity of two dies. May there never, ever be any more.
Also dead is the first in a furry sodality. May she not be the last.
