http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2007-01-26T192254Z_01_L26863483_RTRUKOC_0_US-ITALY-CIA.xml&WTmodLoc=IntNewsHome_C2_worldNews-7

Italian judge orders seizure of CIA agent's villa
Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:23pm ET18

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian magistrate has ordered the seizure of a 
villa owned by former Milan CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady, a key 
suspect in the 2003 kidnapping of a Muslim cleric, judicial sources said 
on Friday.

The seizure order for Lady's villa in the Piedmont region of northern 
Italy was made at the request of prosecutors to guarantee eventual court 
costs and compensation for possible crimes.

Lady is one of 32 suspects, most believed to be CIA agents, accused of 
abducting Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, from a 
Milan street and sending him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.

An Italian judge heard arguments earlier this month on whether to indict 
the suspects and send them to trial. If they were tried it would be the 
first criminal procedure over renditions, one of the most controversial 
aspects of U.S. President George W. Bush's global "war on terror".

The lawyer who represented Lady at that hearing was not immediately 
available for comment.

She has previously said her client refuses to cooperate with the court 
proceedings because he believes the matter should be settled through a 
political, rather than judicial solution.

Any trial of the U.S. agents would almost certainly take place in 
absentia since Washington is not expected to hand them over.

The case has been adjourned until January 29.

© Reuters 2007. All Rights Reserved.

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