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To testify in CIA case

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

ROME: An Italian judge decided on Wednesday that Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi could be called to testify in a trial involving an alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan. Judge Oscar Magi ruled that both Mr. Berlusconi and the former Premier, Romano Prodi, could be called to testify in the trial in which U.S. and Italian spies were accused of abducting a terrorist suspect in Milan and flying him to Egypt.

Italian prosecutors said Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr was abducted in February 2003 as part of the CIA’s programme to secretly transfer terror suspects to third countries. Mr. Berlusconi was in power in 2003. — Xinhua

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