COPS: Italy

Bad Boys, Bad Boys, What you Gonna do? The Beeb:

An Italian court has issued Europe-wide arrest warrants for 22 suspected CIA agents accused of helping to kidnap a Muslim cleric in Milan in 2003.

The suspects are accused of abducting Osama Mustafa Hassan, also known as Abu Omar, without Italian permission, and flying him to Egypt for interrogation.

The new warrants allow for the suspects' detention anywhere in the 25-nation EU, a prosecutor said.

Warrants for Domestic Surveillance? We don't need no stinkin' warrants.

Notifying an allied goverment before kidnapping and rendering a refugee in their country? Feh!

Mr Hassan, 42, is believed to have been abducted on 17 February 2003, and flown out of the country from a US base in Aviano, north of Venice.

He reportedly called his family last year, telling them he had been tortured with electric shocks during his detention.

The CIA has refused to comment on the case and the Italian government has said it had no prior knowledge of any kidnap plot.

Mr Hassan is believed to have arrived in Italy in 1997, where he was granted refugee status.

A little "coercive interrogation technique", what's the big deal?

Of course Bush's "Puttana" Silvio Berlusconi has no problem with it:

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is a close US ally and has said he can see no basis for the case.

They're all fucking criminals.

I would love to see footage of the Carabinieri as they bust into the villa overlooking Lake Como where (I think) one of the CIA agents lived. Watch them chase him around the manicured grounds in his silk boxers until they wrestle him to the ground and beat him into compliance.

But unfortunately all the agents have split the country and "extradition is unlikely". Yep. You can bet your "culo" on that one.