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Bush's Keystone Kop Spooks Guilty of Italy Kidnap

From The BBC, 11/4/09:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8343123.stm

Wednesday, 4 November

CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap

An Italian judge has convicted 23 CIA agents and two Italian secret
agents of the kidnap of a Muslim cleric in 2003.

The agents were accused of abducting Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known
as Abu Omar, from Milan and sending him to Egypt, where he was
allegedly tortured.

The trial, which began in June 2007, is the first involving the CIA's
so-called "extraordinary rendition" programme.

Three Americans and five Italians have been acquitted in the case.

The CIA agents were all tried in their absence.

The CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Lady, was given an
eight-year term, while the other 22 Americans convicted were sentenced
to five years in prison.

The two Italian agents were given three-year prison terms.

Italian prosecutors said Abu Omar was taken as part of a series of
extraordinary renditions carried out by the CIA - when terror suspects
were moved between countries without any public legal process.

They told the court he had been kidnapped in daylight on a Milan
street in 2003 and flown to Germany, and then Egypt, where he was held
for years until being released without charge.

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Harry

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