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He was brought to <a href="/wiki/Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> where he says he was tortured as a subject to CIA "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition" class="extiw" title="w:Extraordinary rendition">rendition</a>". He was later released. Also on trial is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolo_Pollari" class="extiw" title="w:Nicolo Pollari">Nicolo Pollari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="Italy">Italy</a>'s former spy chief, and members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SISMI" class="extiw" title="w:SISMI">SISMI</a> military intelligence agency. </p><p>This is the first criminal trial over "renditions", aspects of the Bush administration's "war on terror". One of the defendants <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Seldon_Lady" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Seldon Lady">Robert Seldon Lady</a>, the former CIA station chief in Milan, said via his lawyer that he did not recognize the court. </p> <table cellpadding="5" align="left" style="border-collapse:collapse; width:200px; border:1px; background-color:#eeeeee; border-style:none; margin-right:1em; clear:left" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td width="10" valign="top"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/26_Americans,_mostly_CIA_agents,_charged_for_kidnapping_in_Italy" title="26 Americans, mostly CIA agents, charged for kidnapping in Italy"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Cquote1.svg/10px-Cquote1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Cquote1.svg/15px-Cquote1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Cquote1.svg/20px-Cquote1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="40" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><span style="color:#0000CC; font-family:Verdana, sans-serif; font-size:smaller"><b>I have been reduced to a wreck of a human being.</b></span> </td> <td width="10" valign="bottom"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/26_Americans,_mostly_CIA_agents,_charged_for_kidnapping_in_Italy" title="26 Americans, mostly CIA agents, charged for kidnapping in Italy"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Cquote2.svg/10px-Cquote2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Cquote2.svg/15px-Cquote2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Cquote2.svg/20px-Cquote2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="40" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="padding-top:5px; background-color:#DDDDDD"><p style="font-size:smaller; line-height:1em; text-align:right"><cite style="font-style:normal">—<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Mustafa_Osama_Nasr" class="extiw" title="w:Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr">Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr</a></cite></p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, a Muslim cleric also known as Abu Omar was taken by a CIA-led team in Milan on 17 February, 2003 and allegedly transferred by vehicle to the Aviano Air Base near Venice, later by air to the Ramstein Air Base in <a href="/wiki/Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Germany">Germany</a>, and lastly sent to Egypt. 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