Convicted ex-CIA agent arrested, released (2)

(ANSA) - Turin, October 8 - 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.