Trial of American spies to resume
A judge ordered the resumption of a trial against U.S. and Italian spies accused of abducting a terrorism suspect, in a blow to efforts to halt a case that Rome says violates state secrecy rules.
The trial in absentia against 26 Americans -- almost all believed to be CIA agents -- is the first anywhere over the U.S. practice of “extraordinary rendition,” whereby terrorism suspects are secretly transferred to third countries.
Italian spies are accused of helping the CIA team abduct cleric Hassan Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar, in 2003 and fly him to Egypt, where Nasr says he was tortured.
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