Italy convicts 23 in rendition case
CIA operatives found to have forcibly sent Muslim cleric to Egypt
Posted: November 5, 2009 at 5:01 a.m.
Italian Judge Oscar Magi, seen at the Milan court, Italy, Wednesday.
An Italian court Wednesday convicted 22 CIA operatives and a U.S. Air Force colonel of orchestrating the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in Milan in 2003 and flying him to Egypt, where he said he was later tortured.
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