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Italy’s CIA crackdown

Italy’s CIA crackdown

An Italian court sentenced 22 CIA operatives, including former Milan station chief Robert Lady, and one U.S. Air Force colonel in absentia for the 2003 abduction of Muslim cleric Hassan Moustafa Osama Nasr (or Abu Omar) in Milan. Full Article at The Week

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  1. NOBODY knows how many people have fallen victim to CIA-organised “extraordinary renditions”—operations in which suspected terrorists are snatched and shipped to third countries for interrogations that often involve torture. Full Article at Economist

  2. MILAN -- An Italian court on Wednesday convicted 22 CIA operatives and a U.S. Air Force colonel of orchestrating the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in Milan in 2003 and flying him to Egypt, where he said he was later tortured. Full Article at Michael Moore - This Just In

  3. MILAN - An Italian judge says he has convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street in a CIA extraordinary rendition. Full Article at MSNBC

  4. Prosecutor Armando Spataro speaks during the trial of 26 Americans and seven Italians accused of orchestrating a CIA-led kidnapping of an Egyptian terrorism suspect, Muslim cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, in Milan. Full Article at NPR

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