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Italy Officer Tells of Spying on Spies in Cleric's Kidnapping

Tracy Wilkinson writes in The Los Angeles Times:

One of Italy's top cops told a court Wednesday how, with meticulous detective work and substantial luck, he blew the lid off one of the Bush administration's most controversial counter-terrorism tactics.

Testifying in the trial of 26 Americans, most of them CIA operatives, who are accused of abducting a radical Egyptian cleric in Milan, the senior officer described tracking massive amounts of cellular telephone traffic to piece together Europe's only prosecution of the much-disputed practice known as extraordinary rendition.

posted by Fergie @ 5/28/2008 11:04:00 PM