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Mossad kidnapped Vanunu from Italy. With or without local help, you can be kidnapped anywhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu http://en.wikipedi

by werid 13y ago

Mossad kidnapped Vanunu from Italy. With or without local help, you can be kidnapped anywhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu

tzury 13y ago
1986 is not 2013. The fact this is not going off the top news makes it much harder - in all aspects (the tactic operation is just one aspect to such act).
- grey-area 13y ago
  Osama Nasr was abducted by the US from Milan, Italy in 2003 without permission or cooperation from the Italian government and tortured in Egypt. Illegal abduction can happen anywhere. I agree publicity would make it harder, but the US has shown willingness to act extra-legally and ignore the fallout even from allies (Pakistan, Italy etc), so Snowden is probably not safe anywhere, just a bit safer for longer in a country which opposes the US. In his words: You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk because they're such powerful adversaries. No one can meaningfully oppose them. If they want to get you, they'll get you in time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Mustafa_Osama_Nasr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Mustafa_Osama_Nasr
- mike_esspe 13y ago
  http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2011/03/03/mossad-kidnaps-gazan-engineer-in-ukraine-now-held-incommunicado-in-israeli-prison/ http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2011/03/03/mossad-kidnaps-... This happened just two years ago. Palestinian engineer, traveling in Ukraine, was captured by unknown people, and was found in Israel prison week later.
- threeseed 13y ago
  But it will go off the top news. The US government has all the time in the world and in months/years from now when nobody remembers his name there will be an opportunity for a extradition to be done quietly.
  - goldfeld 13y ago
    That's my thought . But I guess there's a way for him in working together with Assange from now on, thus keeping a high profile.
MattDL 13y ago
Didn't they have to lure him away from the UK to be in a position to abduct him in the first place though? So really it depends where you are and what you're willing to do.

by werid 13y ago

Mossad kidnapped Vanunu from Italy. With or without local help, you can be kidnapped anywhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu

tzury 13y ago

1986 is not 2013. The fact this is not going off the top news makes it much harder - in all aspects (the tactic operation is just one aspect to such act).

grey-area 13y ago
Osama Nasr was abducted by the US from Milan, Italy in 2003 without permission or cooperation from the Italian government and tortured in Egypt. Illegal abduction can happen anywhere. I agree publicity would make it harder, but the US has shown willingness to act extra-legally and ignore the fallout even from allies (Pakistan, Italy etc), so Snowden is probably not safe anywhere, just a bit safer for longer in a country which opposes the US. In his words: You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk because they're such powerful adversaries. No one can meaningfully oppose them. If they want to get you, they'll get you in time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Mustafa_Osama_Nasr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Mustafa_Osama_Nasr
mike_esspe 13y ago
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2011/03/03/mossad-kidnaps-gazan-engineer-in-ukraine-now-held-incommunicado-in-israeli-prison/ http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2011/03/03/mossad-kidnaps-... This happened just two years ago. Palestinian engineer, traveling in Ukraine, was captured by unknown people, and was found in Israel prison week later.
threeseed 13y ago
But it will go off the top news. The US government has all the time in the world and in months/years from now when nobody remembers his name there will be an opportunity for a extradition to be done quietly.
- goldfeld 13y ago
  That's my thought . But I guess there's a way for him in working together with Assange from now on, thus keeping a high profile.

MattDL 13y ago

Didn't they have to lure him away from the UK to be in a position to abduct him in the first place though? So really it depends where you are and what you're willing to do.