Sabrina De Sousa, an ex-CIA agent
convicted of involvement in the abduction of Muslim cleric
Hassan Mustafa Omar Nasr in Milan in 2003, was extradited
from Portugal to Italy Tuesday and will arrive in Italy
Wednesday, sources said.
De Sousa, a 61-year-old who left the CIA in 2009, is set to
serve a four-year term after three years were lopped off a
European warrants because of an amnesty.
She was arrested at Lisbon airport in October 2015 on an
international arrest warrant and has lost several appeals
against extradition.
De Sousa was among 23 Americans convicted in absentia in
Italy in the case of the rendition of the Egyptian cleric, an
Islamist suspected of recruiting jihadi fighters.
De Sousa looks set to be the first to actually go to jail
over the case - the other 22 have not returned to Italy and
three have been given presidential pardons.
The Nasr case was the world's first judicial examination of
the controversial practice of extraordinary rendition in the
so-called war on terror.
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