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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: jttmab who wrote (209995)12/6/2006 1:58:47 PM
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"I don't think there's anything substantively new."

The changes in government in Italy --> left, centrist is new.

The indictments previously supressed are new and substantive.

This statement represents a new posture:

"There will certainly be a response," Justice Minister Clemente Mastella said in Rome.

Not new but a further emphasis on testing US/Italian relations:

"The United States and Italy have an extradition treaty"

This comment from the article supports your 'we don't expect much to come of it' attitude.

"... it was not likely that CIA agents would be turned over for trial abroad. In some instances, only the aliases of the agents are known, a further impediment."

time will tell
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