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Associated PressTrial Opens Involving CIA RenditionBy COLLEEN BARRY
Thursday, June 7, 2007; 8:06 AM
MILAN, Italy -- The first trial involving the CIA's extraordinary
renditions program opens Friday in the absence of all 26 American
defendants accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terrorist suspect.
The trial, which has been an irritant in the historically robust U.S.-
Italy relationship and coincides with the arrival in Rome of President
Bush, was expected to ground to a halt before taking off.
The government has asked Italy's highest court to throw out
indictments against 26 Americans _ all but one of them believed to
be CIA agents _ accused of abducting Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr,
also known as Abu Omar, from a Milan street on Feb. 17, 2003.
The Constitutional Court was expected to consider that and a similar
appeal in the fall, and participants in the trial said they expect
defense requests to postpone the trial until after the high court rules.
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