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Testimony Helps Detail CIA's Post-9/11 Reach


Europeans told of plans for abductions.
By Craig Whitlock
The Washington Post
Saturday 16 December 2006

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121606D.shtml
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121502044.html

Milan - A few days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the CIA station chief in Rome paid a visit to the head of Italy's military intelligence agency, Adm. Gianfranco Battelli, to float a proposal: Would the Italian secret services help the CIA kidnap terrorism suspects and fly them out of the country?

The CIA man did not identify which targets he had in mind but was "expressly referring to the possibility of picking up a suspected terrorist in Italy, bringing him to an airport and sending him from there to a foreign country," Battelli, now retired, recalled in a deposition.

This initial secret contact and others that followed, disclosed in newly released documents, show the speed and breadth with which the CIA applied in post-9/11 Europe a tactic it had long reserved for the Third World - "extraordinary rendition," the extrajudicial abduction of Islamic radicals overseas for interrogation in friendly countries.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121502044.html

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