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Guilty verdicts upheld in 'extraordinary rendition' case
Italy's top court has upheld guilty verdicts against 23 Americans, all but one of whom are CIA agents, over the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian cleric.
The 22 CIA agents and one US Air Force pilot were being tried in absentia in one of the world's biggest court cases against the United States' "extraordinary rendition" program.
The program was set up to interrogate alleged Islamist militants after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The radical Islamist opposition figure, known as Abu Omar, was allegedly snatched from a street in Milan in 2003, flown to a US base in Germany and on to Cairo where he says he was tortured for seven months.
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