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European authorities are proving more determined than the Bush administration in cracking down on torture as a wartime intelligence device. While the U.S. Justice Department has mostly prosecuted enlisted men and women for torturing prisoners, European judges have now indicted several dozen CIA operatives on charges of kidnapping suspected terrorists and flying them to secret prisons for interrogation said often to involve torture.
An Italian judge indicted 26 Americans last Friday, most of them CIA officers, heading toward the first trial of what the Bush administration calls "extraordinary rendition" and critics call outsourcing torture. Last month, German prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 13 suspected CIA agents in connection with the alleged abduction and torture of a Lebanese-born German citizen.See the full content of this document
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U.S. Torture On Trial
A parliamentary committee of the European Union has reported at least 1,245 CIA flights in Europe, some of th...
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