You may be unaware of today's conviction of American CIA operatives for kidnapping an Arab cleric terrorist in Milano, Italy but World Focus International News on PBS conducted an interview with a human rights guy (Gabor Rona) tonight that was very slanted because he said that the CIA agents deserved to be charged and imprisoned because they violated the rights of the terrorist by kidnapping him and transporting him to another country for interrogation. Below is a copy of my response to the interview that I posted on the World Focus web page.
The interview with Gabor Rona, international legal director of Human Rights was very disappointing because it presented only the far left view of the situation in Italy where 23 American CIA operatives today where sentenced to prison terms for the capture and rendition of a terror suspect. The other side of the story is this: The CIA operatives did their job well and they did so with the cooperation and the assistance of the Italian Intelligence Agency which is not allowed to share the details of this cooperative effort with Italian judiciary for reasons of their own national security. The judicial ruling & convictions today endanger the future of United States Intelligence cooperative efforts with Italy and this will generate greater risk to Italians from terrorism. This is the larger issue that your report this evening failed to touch upon and it is far more significant than the alleged kidnapping of a terrorist.
We all need to keep in mind that we are engaged in a global WAR against fundamentalist Islam terrorists. This is NOT an international "criminal action", it is WAR. The enemy is all around us and they are not in uniform but they ARE the enemy of freedom and must be stopped at all cost. Handcuffing our intelligence officers is NOT the way to win this war.
Michael James Jaquish- A Vigilant American