31 to Stand Trial in CIA Kidnapping Case

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MILAN, Italy (AP) -- An Italian judge on Friday indicted 26 Americans and five Italians in the first criminal trial over the CIA's extraordinary rendition program.

The judge set the trial date for June 8. Prosecutors allege that five Italian intelligence officials worked with the Americans - almost all CIA agents - to abduct terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr from a Milan street on Feb. 17, 2003.

Nasr was allegedly transferred by vehicle to the Aviano Air Force base near Venice and then by air to the Ramstein Air Base in Germany and on to Egypt, where critics say he was tortured.

All but one of the American suspects have been identified as CIA agents, including the former station chiefs in Rome and Milan. The other is a U.S. Air Force officer stationed at the time at Aviano.

[sweetheart]

1. good, justice needs be done

and the unilateral executive has gone too far.

[panader0]

2. Unfortunately, none of the bunch is in Italian custoddy

nor havs the Italian government asked for extradition.