Sabrina De Sousa, an ex-CIA agent
involved in the abduction of Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Omar
Nasr in Milan in 2003, has told the Associated Press that she
will be extradited to Italy after losing her final appeal, at
the Portuguese 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 26 Americans convicted in abstentia in
Italy in the case of the rendition of the Egyptian cleric, an
Islamist suspected of recruiting jihadi fighters.
De Sousa faces four years in prison.
The Nasr case was the world's first judicial examination
of the controversial practice of extraordinary rendition in the
so-called war on terror.
Other convicts in the case have been given presidential
pardons by Italy.
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