Italy - Judge clears way for CIA "rendition" trial
MILAN, March 19 (Reuters) - An Italian judge on Wednesday ordered the resumption of a trial against U.S. and Italian spies accused of abducting a terrorism suspect, in a blow to efforts to halt a case that Rome says violates state secrecy rules.
The trial in absentia against 26 Americans -- almost all believed to be CIA agents -- is the first anywhere over the U.S. practice of "extraordinary rendition", whereby terrorism suspects are secretly transferred to third countries.
Italian spies, including the former head of Italy's military intelligence agency Nicolo Pollari, are accused of helping the CIA team abduct Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr in 2003 and fly him to Egypt. There, Nasr says he was tortured.
a glimmer of hope in a sea of despair.
at least someone has the balls to stand up to these bastards.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
Truth Seeker-- go my fellow italians, prosecute, and convict, turn the verdict over to interpol and make them and their masters and financiers wanted for war crimes and torture, arrest them wherever they are..