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The Italian government, once regarded as a key Bush administration ally in the "war on terror," is seeking to prosecute 13 suspected CIA operatives involved in the February 17, 2003 abduction of radical Muslim cleric Hussain Mustafa Omar Nasr in Milan. Citing Italian court documents, the June 26 London Guardian reported that Nasr "was bundled into the back of a van, driven to a U.S. airbase in the north of Italy and secretly flown to Egypt, where he was interrogated and tortured."
The "snatch squad" involved in this operation was hardly a model of operational discipline. "While most of the operatives used false identities, they left a long trail of paper and electronic records that enabled investigators to retrace their movements in detail," recounted the Washington Post. Staying at five-star hotels, the ...