How I Was Kidnapped by the CIA

In his own words, Italian citizen of Egyptian origin Hassan Osama Mustafa Nasr (a.k.a. Abu Omar al Masri) tells the world how the CIA, with the complicit assistance of Italian intelligence agents, violently abducted him on February 17, 2003, and handed him over to the Egyptian authorities. An “extraordinary” rendition indeed.

In turn, and quite expectedly, Egyptian intelligence agents tortured and interrogated him daily for seven months. When he was released in April 2004, he contacted his family in Italy who has not heard from him for the duration of his imprisonment.

Apparently, these phone calls led to his arrest and re-incarceration at Tora prison, where he wrote this eleven page letter that was delivered to Asharq Al-Awsat, an Arabic language news paper based in London, UK.

From the article: “Last October, the Italian judiciary concluded an investigation into the abduction of Hassan Osama Mustafa Nasr and his transportation by American intelligence to Egypt, where he was tortured. The Italian government made a series of changes to the leadership of the intelligence agency, dismissing the director of central intelligence, General Nicolo Pollari, and charging him for alleged involvement in the abduction of Abu Omar at the hands of American intelligence.”

London Asharq Al-Awsat- Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, otherwise known as Abu Omar al Masri, has provided detailed information to Asharq Al Awsat regarding his case, which is now at the center of a European-American dispute after the CIA was accused of abducting him in broad daylight from a street in Milan and handing him over to Egyptian authorities. In an eleven-page handwritten letter delivered to Asharq Al Awsat, Abu Omar revealed details about his abduction and said that Egyptian and American intelligence services had infiltrated his mosque and home prior to his abduction based on suspicions of links to Al Qaeda.

In the letter that was sent via the Islamic Observation Center, a London-based human rights group that monitors the developments of cases involving fundamentalists worldwide, Abu Omar said that whilst he was being interrogated, a security commander told him that he had visited Italy shortly before the abduction took place and described to him his mosque (the Islamic Cultural Institute) and the street where it is located, as well as the roads that lead to Abu Omar’s home in Milan and the floor that he lives on.

Posted by yaddab

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