After two years of wrangling to head off a case that centered around the Bush administration’s practice of abducting alleged terrorists abroad and sending them to friendly third states for interrogation, Italian prosecutors won a stunning victory on Wednesday, when 23 US intelligence agents were convicted in absentia by a Milan court for kidnapping. The [...]
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In Italy, the first trial against the America’s “extraordinary rendition” program is coming to a close. Defense lawyer Mark Zaid claims that the Americans standing trial may be the victims of political games. Twenty-six Americans and sevens Italians are accused of helping to kidnap terrorism suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, a Muslim cleric, and move [...]
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