AN Italian judge yesterday convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme in the war on terrorism.

A group of 23 CIA agents were convicted today of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric from Italy in a landmark case involving the agency’s extraordinary rendition programme in the war on terrorism.

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.