The CIA's Extraordinary Rendition Trial in Italy, Part One

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This is part one of Max Keiser's film, 'Extraordinary Antics' for Aljazeera English. It is about the trial of 26 CIA agents in Italy on charges of kidnapping. Max discovers that by putting the alleged agents (or private contractors?) up in luxury hotel rooms as part of these kidnapping operations, great status is being conferred upon the kidnappers.

The defendants, including an Air Force colonel and two CIA station chiefs, are being tried in absentia at the Milan Palace of Justice for the 2003 abduction of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar.

The CIA tactic under scrutiny is called 'extraordinary rendition', and it is the first time the CIA will go to trial for its use. 'Extraordinary rendition' involves the capture of a terrorism suspect in one country and his transfer not to the US, but to a third country for interrogation - without court orders or judicial oversight.