Prodi faces test over extradition of 26 CIA agents

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Italy's prime minister, Romano Prodi, was facing a political dilemma yesterday after it emerged that prosecutors had asked his government to demand the extradition of 26 CIA agents from the US so they can be put on trial for kidnapping a terrorist suspect.

Judicial sources said the wanted men and women included a former head of the CIA in Italy, named as Jeff Castelli. The extradition request was sent to Rome by prosecutors in Milan investigating the disappearance three years ago of an Islamist cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar.

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Yesterday new evidence surfaced indicating that the abduction of Abu Omar had been authorised at a high level while Mr Berlusconi was in office, and there is growing support for the view that it was a joint US-Italian intelligence operation.

Abu Omar, who was suspected of recruiting Islamist terrorists, disappeared from Milan in 2003. Prosecutors investigating another case came across evidence he had been seized by Americans and taken to Egypt, where he was tortured.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1826502,00.html

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1. How low can we go?.

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2. Every time that question is asked

They seem to find a way to go even lower then we thought possible.