IMAM WANTS DAMAGES FROM CIA

A Muslim scholar allegedly snatched by the CIA from Italy to Egypt in 2003 filed for ten million euros of damages from Italian and American spies on trial for his abduction. Nasr, who was under investigation in Italy on suspicion of helping terrorists, was released early in 2007 from a Cairo jail. His wife separately filed for five million euros in damages. Nabila Ghali, Nasr’s second wife and an Italian citizen, said through her lawyer that she and her children had gone through “immense pain” because of her husband’s ordeal. Several top Italian ex-spies including the former head of military intelligence Nicolo’ Pollari, are on trial along with 25 CIA agents and one American military officer for the alleged abduction and transfer of Nasr. Last week prosecutors asked for prison terms of 13 years for Pollari, the same term for the CIA’s former Milan station chief Jeff Castelli, and 12 years for both ex-Rome station chief Robert Seldon Lady and a former US consular official prosecutors say was an undercover agent, Sabrina De Sousa.