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ITALY: CIA: US allowed Italian kidnap prosecution to shield higher-ups, ex-CIA officer says

01 September 2013

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"A former CIA officer has broken the U.S. silence around the 2003 abduction of a radical Islamist cleric in Italy, charging that the agency inflated the threat the preacher posed and that the United States then allowed Italy to prosecute her and other Americans to shield President George W. Bush and other U.S. officials from responsibility for approving the operation."

See the full story: US allowed Italian kidnap prosecution to shield higher-ups, ex-CIA officer says (McClatchy, link)

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