Italian judge Oscar Maggi listens on November 4, 2009 at a Milan's court at the end of the trial of 26 US secret agents in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect, Osama Mustafa Hassan, an imam better known as Abu Omar, from a Milan street. The high-profile case involves the CIA's covert 'extraordinary rendition' programme in which scores of terror suspects are thought to have been transferred to countries known to practise torture. Placard on wall reads: 'Law is the same for everyone'. Getty Images logo Getty Images 3 weeks ago

Italian judge Oscar Maggi listens on November 4, 2009 at a Milan's court at the end of the trial of 26 US secret agents in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect, Osama Mustafa Hassan, an imam better known as Abu Omar, from a Milan street. The high-profile case involves the CIA's covert 'extraordinary rendition' programme in which scores of terror suspects are thought to have been transferred to countries known to practise torture. Placard on wall reads: 'Law is the same for everyone'.

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  1. Iraqi Abu Omar threads beads at his stall as his client chats with another man while he assembles a string of prayer beads known in Arabic as Masbaha in Baghdad, on November 11, 2009. The beads that Abu Omar threads are imported from China and India and the more valuable amber comes from Russia. Muslims recite the 99 names of Allah as they roll their beads.

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  1. Iraqi Abu Omar threads beads at his stall as his client chats with another man while he assembles a string of prayer beads known in Arabic as Masbaha in Baghdad, on November 11, 2009. The beads that Abu Omar threads are imported from China and India and the more valuable amber comes from Russia. Muslims recite the 99 names of Allah as they roll their beads.
  2. Iraqi Abu Omar threads beads at his stall where he makes and repairs prayer beads known in Arabic as Masbaha in Baghdad, on November 11, 2009. The beads that Abu Omar threads are imported from China and India and the more valuable amber comes from Russia. Muslims recite the 99 names of Allah as they roll their beads.
  3. Abu Omar shows off a basket full of beads to a client (unseen) at his stall where he makes and repairs prayer beads in Baghdad, on November 11, 2009. The beads that Abu Omar threads are imported from China and India and the more valuable amber comes from Russia. Muslims recite the 99 names of Allah as they roll their beads.
  4. Prosecutor Armando Spataro speaks during the trial of Abu Omar in Milan November 4, 2009. An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a symbolic ruling against "rendition" flights used by the former U.S. Government.
  5. Prosecutor Armando Spataro speaks during the trial of Abu Omar in Milan November 4, 2009. An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a symbolic ruling against "rendition" flights used by the former U.S. Government.
  6. Judge Oscar Magi reads the sentence during the trial of Abu Omar in Milan November 4, 2009. An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a symbolic ruling against "rendition" flights used by the former U.S. Government.
  7. Italian judge Oscar Maggi reads on November 4, 2009 at a Milan's court, the verdict at the end of the trial of 26 US secret agents in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect, Osama Mustafa Hassan, an imam better known as Abu Omar, from a Milan street. The judge convicted 23 US and two Italian secret agents for the CIA's kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003. Placard on wall reads: 'Law is the same for everyone'.
  8. Italian judge Oscar Maggi reads on November 4, 2009 at a Milan's court, the verdict at the end of the trial of 26 US secret agents in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect, Osama Mustafa Hassan, an imam better known as Abu Omar, from a Milan street. The judge convicted 23 US and two Italian secret agents for the CIA's kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003. Placard on wall reads: 'Law is the same for everyone'.
  9. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 07: Bob Grenier, former CIA station chief in Islamabad, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing about Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill October 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. On the eighth anniversary of the United States' invasion of Afghanistan, witnesses testified, and disagreed, about what affect a withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country would have on Al-Qaeda.
  10. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 07: Bob Grenier, former CIA station chief in Islamabad, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing about Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill October 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. On the eighth anniversary of the United States' invasion of Afghanistan, witnesses testified, and disagreed, about what affect a withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country would have on Al-Qaeda.
  11. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 07: Bob Grenier, former CIA station chief in Islamabad, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing about Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill October 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. On the eighth anniversary of the United States' invasion of Afghanistan, witnesses testified, and disagreed, about what affect a withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country would have on Al-Qaeda.
  12. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 07: Bob Grenier, former CIA station chief in Islamabad, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing about Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill October 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. On the eighth anniversary of the United States' invasion of Afghanistan, witnesses testified, and disagreed, about what affect a withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country would have on Al-Qaeda.
  13. Bob Grenier, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Al-Qaeda threat in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
  14. CIA Director Leon Panetta, right, meets with Imam Husham Al-Husainy at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Panetta addressed members of the area's large Middle Eastern community at the Iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
  15. CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009 during the iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
  16. CIA Director Leon Panetta addresses the media at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Panetta was scheduled to address members of the area's large Middle Eastern community at the Iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

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