Portuguese court orders former CIA officer extradited to Italy
Source: WaPost
A Portuguese appeals court has ordered the extradition of a former CIA officer to Italy, where she was convicted in absentia for her role in the rendition of a terrorism suspect and faces four years in prison.
Sabrina De Sousa, a U.S. and Portuguese citizen, traveled in April to Lisbon, where she and her husband spend part of the year. But in October, when she went to the airport to travel to the Indian state of Goa to visit her ailing mother, De Sousa was arrested when authorities saw an alert that she was wanted in Italy.
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De Sousa was one of more than 20 Americans, mostly CIA officials, convicted in absentia by Italian courts for their roles in kidnapping Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, off a street in Milan in 2003. At the time, De Sousa was registered in Italy as a State Department official at the U.S. Consulate in Milan but actually served as a CIA officer.
On Feb. 17, 2003, Omar left his Milan apartment and was snatched, thrown into a van and flown to Egypt, where he was beaten and shocked with electricity, he said after his release. De Sousa has said she was chaperoning her son’s ski trip in northern Italy that day. She also has said that the rendition was approved and orchestrated by higher-ranking CIA officials in Rome and the United States and had the blessing of Italian intelligence officials.
But De Sousa also has acknowledged that she worked as an “interpreter” for the CIA “snatch” team that visited Milan and coordinated with Italian authorities.
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