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He rose to prominent positions at CIA headquarters, serving as chief of the European division at a time when the agency was abducting al-Qaeda suspects on the continent and U.S. allies there faced a wave of terrorist plots.

Hmmmm... 2003 abduction of Imam Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr in Milan

This case the left went after the CIA and as a result the American agents involved were tried in absentia, one sentenced to 9 yrs for grabbing this dirt bag. This was done to try to shut down the US renditions program, as was all the hooplah over "torture." It's not the "torture" the leftists were really upset about it was the renditions... these muslim terror groups have always been intertwined with radical leftwing ones [Sandinistas with Palestinian hijackers for example] so they are scared.

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Makes you wonder who gave up the identities of CIA assets in Italy in snit fit over renditions?