>This is outrageous even by today's high standards:
>
>http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,341636,00.html
>"Still, no state in the world can just look away when a foreign
>nation kidnaps and deports one of its citizens and acts as if it
>were outside or above the law."
Australia does it all the time. So long as the foreign nation doing the kidnapping is the USA. In fact the Australian Attorney General Phillip Ruddock was uncharacteristically peeved with the USA recently, because it suddenly decided to **repatriate an Australian Citizen who had been held in Guantanamo Bay for three years. He had been kidnapped in Pakistan, sent to Egypt to be tortured by the CIA, then to Afghanistan and then to Cuba. Tortured at every stop, by his account. Last week he sold his story to Australian 60 minutes for $100,000 and the Australian government's response was to make dark threats about confiscating the payment under proceeds of crime legislation. Plus level a few unsubstantiated defamations.
So that would be no state in the world, except Australia. But, to be fair, the Australian government is at least consistent. It also reserves the right to falsely imprison the citizens of other states (except the US, maybe, but don't count on it.)
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas