Nov 4th, 2009 - TIME
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Twenty-two CIA agents who were convicted by a Milan court on Wednesday of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric are unlikely to spend any time in prison. The verdict, announced by Milan judge Oscar Magi, is only the first step in the labyrnthine Italian legal system, and the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has shown no desire to pursue the case.
According to the Associated Press, Magi convicted 23 Americans, one of whom is an Air Force officer, for the February 2003 kidnapping of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, under the CIA's controversial "extraordinary rendition" program...
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Nov 4th, 2009 - Washington Post
MILAN/ROME (Reuters) - An Italian judge sentenced 23 Americans to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric, in a symbolic condemnation of the CIA "rendition" flights used by the former U.S...
Italy judge convicts 23 Americans in 2003 CIA kidnapping of Egyptian cleric
Nov 5th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
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Nov 4th, 2009 - AOL News
MILAN (Nov. 4) — An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions...
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Nov 5th, 2009 - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The conviction in Italy of 23 Americans for the abduction of a Muslim cleric poses a challenge to the Obama administration's plans to keep so-called "renditions" as an option for rounding up terrorism suspects.
CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap
Nov 4th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr was snatched from a street in Milan
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...
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