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...prosecution charged that Nasr, an imam at a Milan mosque, was grabbed in the street, driven to the U.S. air base in Aviano, put on a plane to Ramstein in Germany, and thence to Cairo. He was released in 2007, after allegedly being tortured. Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, had been linked to the Egyptian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah. But the Egyptian authorities brought no formal charges against...
Frentz, now 28, plans to stay in the Air Force, re-upping when her stint expires at the end of May 2006. She's been promised a job at the Air Force base in Aviano, Italy, once she heals, possibly as early as this summer. She wonders whether her scars might actually serve her in a new assignment. In the military, she says, the guys always ask first how a woman soldier looks, not how well she does her job. "I will have the scars to show what I've been through, and no one will be able to doubt...
DIED. CECILIA DANIELI, 56, developer of compact steel mills, or mini-mills, that revolutionized the steel industry; of cancer; in Aviano, Italy. The so-called Iron Lady turned the Danieli Group into a hugely profitable international company...
Though the U.S. military had imposed a minimum flight altitude limit of 2,000 feet for planes flying out of the Aviano air base, and though the plane flew much lower than that (the pilot said the altitude gauge had malfunctioned), ?one of the things that came out of this accident was the crew?s assertion that they had never heard of the 2,000-feet limit,? says Thompson. The Pentagon, which now relies heavily on Aviano for NATO's Kosovo campaign, has since redoubled its efforts to ensure that safety guidelines for pilots in Italy are made clear...
...defenses been crippled, the pilot could have flown closer to that target, seen it was civilian and aborted the strike and the resulting global horror it provoked. A fellow F-16 pilot, from the 555th Fighter Squadron at Aviano, call sign "Buster," was frustrated by the snafu. "The last thing we want to do," the major says, "is help Milosevic do his job." But mixing Serbian troops with Albanian civilians has been part of Milosevic's strategy. Buster says he has seen "truck, truck, tractor, military, military, bus" convoys. "They're using Albanians as shields," he says, "and that makes...