2007, ISBN: 9781156259061

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph L. Romano is convicted kidnapper and an officer in the United States Air Force and one of 26 American nationals charged by Italian authorities with the 2003 kidnapping of Italian resident cleric Hassan Nasr as part of an alleged covert CIA operation, and Romano was subsequently Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph L. Romano is convicted kidnapper and an officer in the United States Air Force and one of 26 American nationals charged by Italian authorities with the 2003 kidnapping of Italian resident cleric Hassan Nasr as part of an alleged covert CIA operation, and Romano was subsequently convicted in absentia. In his own words, Romano comes from a family with a legacy of military service, to include his father who served as a corporal in the Korean War. At the time of the Hassn Nasr kidnapping, Romano was commander of the 31st Security Forces Squadron stationed Aviano Air Base near Venice. On June 27, 2005, he was made subject of a Europe-wide arrest warrant, centering on contentions of Italian authorities that he was in charge of security operations during the kidnapping of Nasr in February, 2003. The subsequent formal transmission of the arrest warrants to the Eurojust judicial coordination office meant that they became immediately effective throughout all E.U. member countries, and that Romano and all 22 other U.S. nationals named in the warrant were subject to immediate arrest within their respective jurisdictions. Among the evidentiary points cited in the warrant, issued by the Tribunale di Milano, were the fact that one of the four subscribed numbers traced by authorities as having transmitted from the scene of the kidnapping to Aviano was "assigned to, owned and used by" Col. Romano. A formal indictment was issued by Judge Caterina Interlandi on February 16, 2007. Romano the only military officer among the 26 U.S. nationals indicted has refused to comment on the allegations. I have nothing to say, he has said, referring questions about the alleged incident that Im supposedly involved in to Air Force senior leadership a. More: Books, , Fugitives-Wanted-on-Kidnapping-Charges~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<