A Milan judge on Friday ordered 26 Americans, most of them thought to be CIA agents, to stand trial with Italian spies for the kidnapping in 2003 of a terrorism suspect, who was flown to Egypt where he says he was tortured.
Among those indicted are the former heads of the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency in Rome and Milan, Jeff Castelli and Robert Lady, and the former head of Italy's SISMI military intelligence agency, Nicolo Pollari, court sources said.
The trial, set to begin on June 8, will be the first criminal trial over "renditions" -- one of the most controversial aspects of U.S.
President George W. Bush's war on terrorism.
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