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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Vice-President Frattini reminds me – and this is not intended as an insult – of those famous monkeys which see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. He has spoken, however, although he did not even have the courage to say that what is really at issue are not hidden jails in general, but genuine torture chambers made available to the CIA and the United States by some European countries.
Commissioner Frattini, you are denying the obvious. You are denying something that even reliable US sources have admitted. We want you to conduct an investigation, but if there is no desire to find the evidence, the evidence will never be found.
Commissioner, you are perhaps unaware that in Milan, on 17 February 2003, Abu Omar, the former Imam of the mosque in via Jenner, was kidnapped, and that the magistrates in Milan, having found incontrovertible proof that the CIA was directly responsible, have requested the extradition of 22 US intelligence agents.
What stand did the Commission take when faced with this evidence? What did it actually do, in the light of this breach of sovereign rights, to force the US authorities to comply with the conventions on human rights and torture? The Commission did nothing.
In the light of this experience, I am not optimistic about the results of any future action that the European Commission is likely to take."@en1
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