Italy’s justice minister has refused to send a request to the United States for the arrest and extradition of 22 purported CIA agents accused of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003.

EUROPEAN governments are not willing to reveal what they know about US intelligence service activities on their territory, effectively obstructing an investigation into allegations of CIA secret prisons and flights in Europe, Human Rights Watch said it planned to tell the European Parliament today.

European governments are not willing to reveal what they know about US intelligence service activities on their territory, effectively obstructing an investigation into allegations of CIA secret prisons and flights in Europe, Human Rights Watch said it planned to tell the European Parliament tomorrow.

European investigators looking into claims of secret CIA prisons will release an interim report today saying US agents illegally transported and held terrorist suspects on the continent, the leader of the inquiry says.

US policies in the war on terror are contravening international laws on human rights, a top European investigator says.

AN ITALIAN judge has issued European arrest warrants for 22 purported CIA operatives in connection with the alleged kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street in 2003.

A EUROPEAN investigator said yesterday he has mounting indications that the US illegally held detainees in Europe - then hurriedly shipped out the last ones to North Africa when word leaked out.

A European investigator said today he has mounting indications that the US illegally held detainees in Europe – then hurriedly shipped out the last ones to north Africa when word leaked out.

Spain’s National Court has received a prosecutor’s report on allegations that the CIA used an airport on the Spanish island of Mallorca for a program of covert transfers of terror suspects, court officials said today.