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To: Taro who wrote (293478)	7/5/2006 11:42:06 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1576879

Italian secret service members arrested in CIA abduction probe Two members of the Italian secret service were arrested for their possible role in the 2003 abduction, allegedly by the CIA, of a Muslim cleric in Milan, the city's public prosecutor has said. An earlier media report had said that three Italians had been arrested. "Six arrest warrants were issued, of which four were against American citizens and two against officials in the Sismi (Italy's military intelligence service)," the office of public prosecutor Manlio Minale said in a statement. One of the Americans worked at a US military base in northern Italy, and the other three are members of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the statement added, adding to the arrest warrants for 22 CIA members issued last year. One of the Italians is under house arrest and the other is in custody. Unconfirmed Italian media reports said that one of those arrested is Marco Mancini, a high-ranking Sismi director. Mancini was reported last May to have been involved in the abduction, and has since been on sick leave, news agency Ansa reported. Milan magistrate Armando Sparato has long been investigating the clandestine arrest and removal to Egypt of Egyptian-born imam Osama Mustafa Hassan, also known as Abu Amar. The investigation indicates that Amar, who had political refugee status in Italy, was abducted on February 17, 2003 by CIA operatives and taken to the US air base at Aviano in northern Italy for interrogation. He was then flown to Cairo via the US base at Ramstein in Germany, according to the investigation, and is now in an Egyptian jail, where Italian investigators have been unable to question him. One of the 22 CIA members subject to arrest warrants issued last year is Robert Lady, a former official in the US consulate in Milan. Milan's public prosecutor had also issued international arrest warrants on the 22 as well as extradition requests to the US, but both measures were blocked by the justice ministry of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, a close ally of US President George W. Bush. Spataro said on May 31 that he expected to put the 22 on trial in absentia before the end of the year and that he expected to complete his investigation by mid-July.