When democracies kidnap.(Devil in the Details)(US kidnmapping of terrorist suspects)

AS THE BUSH administration tells it, America is shining freedom's light into the darkest corners of Middle Eastern autocracies. But if the conduct of public affairs here and there is beginning to converge, that's also because our government has become as indifferent to the rule of law as some of theirs.

Consider the disappearance of controversial Italian-based, Egyptian-born imam Hassan Osama Nasr. In April 2004, the Italian police's missing-persons investigation into Nasr's disappearance--then approaching 15 months--got an unexpected boost when Nasr telephoned his wife in ...

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