Italy Says It Denied CIA Kidnap Assistant Request
Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is denying that he and the Sismi military intelligence agency knew anything about a request from the Central Intelligence Agency, that Italy help the CIA kidnap Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr and fly him to Egypt. Nasr says he was tortured in Egypt.
But one of the suspects in the case, Marco Mancini, says that Simsi knew more about the request than people have admitted in public. And Mancini's lawyer, Luigi Panella, says his client has evidence that his superior knew about the operation as well.
But Panella says Mancini refused the CIA's request to assist in the kinapping. "They were aware of the fact that the Americans had proposed a joint operation to seize Abu Omar. This is true. Mancini and his men, who were heads of all of northern Italy, refused (the mission)."
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