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Thu 11 Nov 2009Italian judge convicts 23 Americans in rendition flights trial
MILAN/ROME – An Italian judge sentenced 23 Americans to up to eight years in prison yesterday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric, in a symbolic condemnation of the CIA “rendition” flights used by the former US government.
The Americans were all tried in absentia because the US refused to extradite them.
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