January 15, 2014 The written judgment that sentenced Abu Omar to six years in prison for international terrorism explained that the sentence was greatly reduced due to unlawful seizure by the CIA and Omar’s subsequent unlawful detention. For at least two years, between 2001 and 2003, in the mosques of Milan’s Viale Jenner and Via Quaranta Omar,…
October 17, 2013: A California man charged with attempting to join al-Qaida and lying on a U.S. passport application to aid international terrorism was planning to travel to Pakistan before he was arrested, a court document showed on Thursday. A federal court order to detain Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen, 24, of Garden Grove states that arresting…
Italy’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that Italian prosecutors had violated state secrecy in their case against American and Italian intelligence operatives. The decision by the Italian Constitutional Court was a significant blow to a case in which the CIA, the American Air Force colonel, and several Italian intelligence officials are charged with the seizure…
On Wednesday, a court in Milan resumed the CIA-gate trial of 26 citizens accused in the February 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian imam in the city. Judge Oscar Magi suspended the trial last June to allow the Constitutional Court to deliberate over whether or not Milan investigators violated state secrecy laws by wiretapping military intelligence…
