A former CIA officer who was accused of taking part in an illegal counter-terrorism programme said she is facing imminent extradition to Italy from Portugal after a high court in Lisbon rejected a last-minute legal appeal.
Sabrina de Sousa, a 60-year-old former CIA officer who was convicted in absentia in Italy in 2009, faces a four-year prison term for her alleged role in the kidnapping of a radical Egyptian cleric named Abu Omar, who was grabbed off the street in Milan by CIA officials in 2003 and sent to Egypt, where he was imprisoned, interrogated and allegedly tortured. [...]
The De Sousa case been criticised by some conservative media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal editorial page, which accused the Obama administration of abandoning one of its operatives and sending a “demoralising message to all who serve in the shadows, even as the war on terror enters a dangerous new phase”.
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