Italy upholds last US convictions in rendition

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MILAN (AP) — Italy’s highest court upheld guilty verdicts Tuesday against the final three U.S. defendants in the 2003 extraordinary rendition kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect.

The decision, after a series of trials spanning six and a half years, brought to a close the only prosecution to date against the Bush administration’s practice of abducting terror suspects and moving them to third countries that permitted torture.

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