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By Craig Whitlock
The Washington Post
Friday 10 November 2006
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Milan - In an account smuggled out of prison, a radical Muslim cleric has detailed how he was kidnapped by the CIA from
this northern Italian city and flown to Cairo, where he was tortured for months with electric shocks and shackled to an
iron rack known as "the Bride."
Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, wrote an 11-page letter describing his 2003 abduction at the hands
of the CIA and Italian secret service agents. He somehow transferred the document out of Egypt - where he remains in
custody - and into the hands of Italian prosecutors who are investigating his disappearance.
The Milan public prosecutor's office on Thursday confirmed the authenticity of the letter, the existence of which was
first reported by the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera.
The document has been submitted as evidence to defense attorneys representing 25 CIA officers, a US Air Force officer
and nine Italian agents who have been charged with organizing the kidnapping of Nasr, an Egyptian national, in February
2003.
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