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A Milan judge ruled Wednesday that Prime Minster Silvio Berlusconi and his predecessor Romano Prodi, can be called as witnesses in a trial on the alleged abduction of a terrorism suspect by agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Berlusconi who returned to office as premier last week was in power in 2003 when an Egyptian imam, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr - better known in Italy as Abu Omar - was allegedly snatched from a Milan street.
A total of 33 defendants - including 26 CIA agents as well as several top Italian intelligence officials - are accused of Omar’s kidnapping, with the complicity of Italy’s military intelligence agency SISMI. Read more
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