So now we've got renditions in the crosshairs -- a radical Egyptian cleric known as Abu Omar was walking to a Milan mosque for noon prayers in February 2003 when he was grabbed on the sidewalk by two men, sprayed in the face with chemicals and stuffed into a van and never seen again. The CIA is suspected of snatching Omar from the streets of Milan and shipping him off to Egypt for torture after authorities checked flight records at US bases in Italy. European investigations are producing new revelations about the suspected U.S. involvement in the disappearances of four men, not including the Egyptian, each of whom claims they were physically abused and later tortured. Whoa boy...
The Europeans weren't wild about Abu Ghraib or Gitmo or tales of trigger-happy US forces in Iraq, but it was more a matter of disdain or disgust. But when it comes to their own citizens being shot or kidnapped, the attention ain't gonna be pretty and things are gonna go really, really, really awry.
