Turns out the U.S. is no better than any of them!!
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"He was subjected to electroshocks to many body parts.”
“To his genitals?” the prosecutors asked.
“Yes,” she replied."
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by ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
MILAN — A long-delayed trial of C.I.A. operatives and former top Italian intelligence officials moved forward here on Wednesday, as a judge ruled that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi could be called to testify about the abduction of a radical Muslim cleric here in 2003.
Testimony also began Wednesday. The cleric’s wife, Ghali Nabila, said her husband, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar, was taken from Italy and transferred to a prison in Egypt, where, she said, he was repeatedly tortured. While acknowledging a program of “extraordinary rendition,” or abducting terrorism suspects outside the United States, the Bush administration claims that no one is sent to nations that torture.
“I found him wasted, skinny — so skinny — his hair had turned white, he had a hearing aid,” Ms. Nabila said, recounting her husband’s condition between prison stays in 2004.
Wearing a veil that revealed only her eyes, Ms. Nabila at first said she “didn’t want to talk about” any abuse against her husband in prison. But advised by prosecutors that she had no choice, she told the court in tears: “He was tied up like he was being crucified. He was beat up, especially around his ears. He was subjected to electroshocks to many body parts.”
“To his genitals?” the prosecutors asked.
“Yes,” she replied.
The Bush administration has not commented on whether it was responsible for the disappearance of Mr. Nasr, who was abducted near the Jenner Street mosque here in Milan in February 2003. He was finally released in 2007. Last year, an Italian prosecutor brought charges against 26 Americans — 25 Central Intelligence Agency operatives and one Air Force colonel — in the first case involving the contentious practice of extraordinary rendition.
None of the Americans are now in Italy, and the United States has said it will not extradite them. But the case is still likely to reveal many details about a program shrouded in secrecy....
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