Sabrina De Sousa, an ex-CIA
agent convicted of involvement in the abduction of Muslim cleric
Hassan Mustafa Omar Nasr in Milan in 2003, is to be extradited
from Portugal to Italy within days, her lawyer Manuel Magalhaes
e Silva said on Tuesday.
De Sousa, a 61-year-old who left the CIA in 2009, is set to
serve a four-year term.
She was arrested at Lisbon airport in October 2015 on an
international arrest warrant and has lost several appeals
against extradition.
She was among 23 Americans convicted in abstentia in
Italy in the case of the rendition of the Egyptian cleric, an
Islamist suspected of recruiting jihadi fighters.
De Sousa looks set to be the first to actually go to jail
over the case - the other 22 have not returned to Italy and
three have been given presidential pardons. The Nasr case was
the world's first judicial examination of the controversial
practice of extraordinary rendition in the so-called war on
terror.
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