Italians hunting down the CIA

The delicious irony of this story is too good to pass up.

Italian Judge Names 13 in Abduction Tied to CIA

ROME (AP) -- An Italian judge ordered the arrests of 13 people in the purported CIA abduction of an imam, who then was sent to Egypt, the Milan prosecutor's office said Friday. An Italian official said earlier the 13 were CIA officers involved in U.S. anti-terrorism efforts.

The 13 are suspected of seizing Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar, on the streets of Milan on Feb. 17, 2003, and sending him to Egypt, where he reportedly was tortured, Milan prosecutor Manlio Claudio Minale said in a statement

An Italian newspaper said all 13 were American agents.

The U.S. Embassy in Rome and the CIA in Washington declined to comment.

This is the next result of our "extraordinary renditions" where we whisk funny looking Muslim people away to other countries who aren't so squeamish about hooking up electrodes to your private bits in an effort to get you to talk. Now, apparently, the pink chicken comes home to roost in the form of arrest warrants being issued for some of our CIA operatives.

What will Bush do if the Italians actually succeed in arresting any of these agents and putting them on trial? Will we be "liberating" the Italians in Rome from their tyrannical oppressors next?