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Italy Orders Trial for CIA Agents in Kidnapping Case

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Fri Feb 16, 2007 at 11:52:16 AM EST
Tags: Ghost Air, Secret Prisons, CIA (all tags)
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A judge in Italy has ordered 26 people, most of them CIA agents, to stand trial on kidnapping charges. In 2003, Egyptian cleric Osama Mustafa Hassan was kidnapped in Italy and flown to an Egyptian prison where he alleges he was tortured.

Now the question is, will Italy seek extradition of the CIA agents from the U.S.

Lawyers say they have compiled thousands of pages of documents and testimony from Italian agents past and present, some of whom have acknowledged working with the US in planning the abduction. The trial is due to begin on 8 June.

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