<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/92ccea9a-8a4f-475c-924c-0c4ff52f1436/D46B81A4-ACB4-4B99-806F-04945C2373C0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/europe/05italy.html?_r=1&hp#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/europe/05italy.html?_r=1&hp#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/europe/05italy.html?_r=1&hp#"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> Italy Convicts 23 Americans for C.I.A. Renditions </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/europe/05italy.html?_r=1&hp#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/494B6415-C322-4167-8361-42D73FF297CC" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/europe/05italy.html?_r=1&hp#"><P class="caption"> Judge Oscar Magi convicted 23 Americans of kidnapping in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric on Wednesday in Milan. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/europe/05italy.html?_r=1&hp#"><P>MILAN — In a landmark ruling, an Italian judge on Wednesday convicted a base chief for the <A title="More articles about the Central Intelligence Agency." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/central_intelligence_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Central Intelligence Agency</A> and 22 other Americans, almost all C.I.A. operatives, of <A title="Times reconstruction in 2005article" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/international/europe/26milan.html">kidnapping a Muslim cleric</A> from the streets of Milan in 2003.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/europe/05italy.html?_r=1&hp#"><P>The case was a huge symbolic victory for Italian prosecutors, who drew the first convictions involving the American practice of<A title="Update on U.S. use of rendition" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/us/politics/25rendition.html"> rendition</A>, in which terrorism suspects are captured in one country and taken for questioning in another, often one more open to coercive <A title="More articles about C.I.A. interrogations." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/central_intelligence_agency/cia_interrogations/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">interrogation techniques</A>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/europe/05italy.html?_r=1&hp#"><P>Critics of the Bush administration have long hailed the case as a repudiation of the tactics it used to fight terrorism. 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