Italy convicts 23 US agents in CIA kidnapping trial

Published: Wednesday November 4, 2009

An Italian judge Wednesday convicted 23 US and two Italian secret agents for the CIA's kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003.

The CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Lady, was sentenced to eight years in prison and the other Americans to five years, all in their absence.

The two Italians were given three-year prison terms.