In 2003, CIA members unlawfully rendered Egyptian imam Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr from Italy to Egypt, where he underwent torture. On November 4, 2009, “Twenty-two CIA agents are convicted in absentia in Milan, Italy for violations of Italian and international law with regard to acts of torture as a result of the practice of ‘extraordinary rendition.’ ”
– M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Page xlix