Portuguese court OKs ex-CIA agent extradition to Italy

(ANSA) - Lisbon, April 11 - The Portuguese supreme court has rejected an appeal by Sabrina De Sousa, an ex-CIA agent involved in the abduction of Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Omar Nasr in Milan in 2003, against extradition to Italy, AP reported on Monday. The agency reported that a supreme court official said De Sousa's only recourse now is to appeal to Portugal's Constitutional Court. De Sousa is a 60-year-old who was born in India but has dual American-Portuguese citizenship. Portuguese authorities seized her passport, pending a decision on her extradition, after she tried to leave the country in October to visit her mother in India. She 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. De Sousa faces six years in prison if extradited to Italy. The Nasr case was the world's first judicial examination of the controversial practice of extraordinary rendition in the so-called war on terror.