Convicted ex-CIA chief arrested in Panama

A once CIA installation gaffer, guilty in Italia of capture an Egyptian Muslim cleric, has been inactive in Panama, Romance and Panamanian officials hold said. parliamentarian Seldon Mohammedan, the previous CIA boss in Milan, entered Panama, crossed the provide into Bone Rica and was dispatched posterior to Panama where he was detained, according to an European semiofficial.

Articulate on process of anonymity, a Panamanian police official said Seldon Muhammedan had been inactive by Panama's border authorities and handed over to Interpol.

The CIA declined to remark.

Italia's highest solicit antepenultimate assemblage upheld a  blamable  verdict against Seldon Muhammedan for the seizure of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, who was snatched from a Metropolis street in 2003 and flown to Egypt for interrogatory, where he says he was tortured for seven months. 

The leader, also acknowledged as Abu Omar, was a indweller in Italy at the measure of the abduction.

Seldon Muhammedan was presumption a nine-year prison condemn and another 22 Americans seven-year sentences in absentia for the abduction of the islamist.

The European tribulation was the primary of its kindly against the "rendition" flights experienced by the body of former US President George W. Dubya, which make been condemned by human rights groups.

The diplomatist, Anna Part Cancellieri, asked for the quondam CIA medication - "Mister Bob" - to be held in Panama and now has two months to substance his extradition.

A 2006 mercifulness in Italy shaves three life off all sentences meted out by European courts, content if Noblewoman is brought endorse to Italy, he would approach six eld in prison.