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". Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I had hoped that Mr Fava would not mention today’s news from Italy, but, seeing that he has, in my capacity as an Italian Member of this Parliament, and not as the coordinator of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, I would like to say that today Osama Bin Laden must be laughing his head off because, in my country, instead of arresting terrorists, they concentrate on arresting their captors. As regards the report, I believe, Mr President, that it is not sufficient for the rapporteur to say that he can accept some of our amendments. It is a highly tendentious report, which takes into consideration only those points of view critical of the United States. Two examples: until now they have refused to insert two statements by Mr Solana and Mr de Vries because they both said things that were not to the liking of the committee and that were not satisfactory to the Left; they declared that they had no knowledge of any breach of the law by European Member States in their cooperation with the CIA. Now, as a great concession, it appears that they are ready to accept it. However, they refuse to accept another statement because it goes against the so-called truth that the committee is trying to impose on us; that is the statement made by an expert from Human Rights Watch which as we know, is definitely not an organisation that is in favour of the Bush Administration to our committee: ‘we have our suspicions, but no proof.’ We all know that the Americans have made mistakes, for which they must be criticised or even condemned, but they have made mistakes because they are doing something. I would have been pleased to see in this report recognition of the fact that, if today we are meeting to discuss the CIA problem, it is thanks to the US press, the US Congress and the US people and not thanks to the report writers. There is no trace of this in the report. For all these reasons, we remain extremely critical, not to mention disappointed, in this report."@en1
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