Updated Wednesday, May 14, 2008 0:00 am TWN, Reuters

Italian PM may be drawn into CIA abduction case

MILAN -- An Italian judge could decide on Wednesday to make Silvio Berlusconi the first head of a government to testify in criminal proceedings over secret CIA transfers of terrorism suspects. Judge Oscar Magi is expected to announce his decision on whether to call Berlusconi and other politicians when he resumes a trial at 0800 GMT against 26 Americans and seven Italians accused of carrying out a transfer or “rendition” in 2003.

Prosecutors say a CIA-led team kidnapped a Muslim cleric off the streets of Milan and secretly flew him to Egypt. There, the terrorism suspect, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, says he was tortured under questioning and held for years without charge before being released in 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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