An ex-CIA agent who was
convicted of abducting Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Omar Nasr
from Milan in 2003 was arrested Monday at Lisbon's airport and
released two days later, Turin Chief Prosecutor Armando Spataro
told ANSA on Thursday.
Sabrina De Sousa, who has American and Portuguese
nationality, was among 22 CIA agents convicted in Italy in the
case of the rendition of the Egyptian cleric, an Islamist
suspected of recruiting jihadi fighters.
Nasr, whose case led to the world's first judicial
examination of the controversial practice of rendition in the
so-called war on terror, got a prison term of six years for
international terrorism in December 2013.
De Sousa, who faces six years in prison if extradited to
Italy, has said in interviews the operation had been "approved
by Washington" and that she had been "abandoned" by her
superiors.
Portuguese authorities seized her passport, pending a
decision on her extradition.
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