Executive Branch
Italian Court Convicts 23 Americans in CIA Kidnapping Case
Posted Nov 4, 2009, 10:52 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Twenty-three Americans tried in absentia in Italy have been convicted of kidnapping an Egyptian terror suspect as part of a CIA extraordinary rendition program.
Judge Oscar Magi sentenced 22 of the Americans to five years in jail and sentenced former Milan CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady to eight years in jail, the Associated Press reports.
Magi acquitted three other Americans on the ground of diplomatic immunity and acquitted five Italian defendants because Italy withheld information in their cases.
The trial is the first in the world involving the CIA extraordinary rendition program, AP says. The kidnapped cleric, Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, says he was taken from a Milan street, spirited to Germany, and then taken to… Continue reading...
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