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Italy Indicts 26 Americans in C.I.A. Abduction Case

Posted by FTR ⋅ February 16, 2007Post a comment Email This Post Email This Post Print This Post Print This Post

by Ian Fish­er
THE NEW YORK TIMES

ROME, Feb. 16 — An Ital­ian judge today ordered the first tri­al involv­ing the Amer­i­can pro­gram of kid­nap­ping ter­ror sus­pects on for­eign soil, indict­ing 26 Amer­i­cans, most of them C.I.A. agents, but also Italy’s for­mer top spy.

The indict­ments cov­ered the episode in which a rad­i­cal Egypt­ian cler­ic, Has­san Mustafa Osama Nasr, who dis­ap­peared near his mosque in Milan on Feb. 17, 2003, says he was kid­napped. The cler­ic, known as Abu Omar, was freed this week from jail in Egypt, where he says he was tak­en and then tor­tured. [READ ENTIRE ARTICLE]

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