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Milan Prosecutor Seeks Stiffer Sentence for Ex-CIA Chief Convicted in Italian Kidnapping

Alex Constantine - October 28, 2010

Associated Press

image014 300x245 - Milan Prosecutor Seeks Stiffer Sentence for Ex-CIA Chief Convicted in Italian KidnappingThe CIA's Lady ... Robert Seldon Lady, former Milan station chief

ROME — An Italian prosecutor has asked for a stiffer sentence for a CIA station chief convicted in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan.

Twenty-three Americans, including Robert Seldon Lady, then a CIA station chief in Milan, and two Italians were convicted in November for the kidnapping. It was the first conviction anywhere in the world involving the CIA's extraordinary renditions program. All Americans were tried in absentia.

During the appeals trial, prosecutor Piero De Petris asked on Thursday that Lady's initial eight year sentence be increased to 10 years in prison. He also requested the court overrule the previous decision to acquit two other officials: Jeffrey Castelli, the former Rome CIA station chief, and Nicolo Pollari, the former head of the Italian military intelligence.

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