How I Was Kidnapped by the CIA Letter from Abu Omar al Masri Imprisoned in Egypt

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How I Was Kidnapped by the CIA
Letter from Abu Omar al Masri Imprisoned in Egypt
29/12/2006
By Mohammed Al Shafey


London

Asharq Al-Awsat- Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, otherwise known as Abu Omar al Masri, has provided detailed information to Asharq Al Awsat regarding his case, which is now at the center of a European-American dispute after the CIA was accused of abducting him in broad daylight from a street in Milan and handing him over to Egyptian authorities. In an eleven-page handwritten letter delivered to Asharq Al Awsat, Abu Omar revealed details about his abduction and said that Egyptian and American intelligence services had infiltrated his mosque and home prior to his abduction based on suspicions of links to Al Qaeda.

In the letter that was sent via the Islamic Observation Center, a London-based human rights group that monitors the developments of cases involving fundamentalists worldwide, Abu Omar said that whilst he was being interrogated, a security commander told him that he had visited Italy shortly before the abduction took place and described to him his mosque (the Islamic Cultural Institute) and the street where it is located, as well as the roads that lead to Abu Omar’s home in Milan and the floor that he lives on.

In his letter, which he sent from within Tora Prison in Cairo, Abu Omar expressed his belief that his mobile phone in Italy had been tapped. He explained that Austrian authorities summoned Sheikh Muhammad Shawqi, a preacher, and questioned him about all matters related to Abu Omar. He wondered if Austrian authorities had also played a role in his abduction in broad daylight at the hands of CIA agents on February 17, 2003.

Abu Omar, who is suing former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for 10 million Euros for his part in the abduction, demanded that a hearing be scheduled for Nabil al Tunisi, currently imprisoned in Milan because he potentially holds useful information on the circumstances surrounding the abduction. Abu Omar also spoke of what he called round-the-clock monitoring of his cellular phone and computer prior to the abduction. He said, "I would receive calls on my mobile phone from people asking for Abu Omar, and they would often hang up before I could respond. I also received hundreds of email viruses." He explained that a security officer had told him during interrogations that a video camera had been installed in his apartment in Milan and that it had monitored him for a significant period