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Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Europe and the CIA: How Close?

I came across this interesting article in the December 1, 2005 online edition of the International Herald Tribune:

" It is not only anger that is rising in Europe over possible secret American prisons on the Continent, kidnappings of terror suspects and transfers of prisoners on CIA airplanes.

There is also looming embarrassment, amid suspicion that Americans, in many cases, have operated with the knowledge or consent of local governments.

"Someone knew," said Daria Pesce, the lawyer for a former CIA station chief in Milan, one of 22 Americans formally charged in the kidnapping of an Islamic militant who was taken from there to Egypt in 2003.

"I don't think that it is possible that an American comes into Italy and kidnaps someone. It seems really unlikely."

In the past few weeks, a confusing and combustible array of allegations has been hardening into fact in the European mind, all pointing to a worry that Europe's people, largely skeptical about America's war on terror, may be more involved in that project than they thought, and in several ways.

The operations are by nature secret, so it has been hard to separate facts from the speculative murk around them. "

Read rest of this article here.

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