By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A judge in Italy must decide whether a witness in a kidnapping trial linked to the CIA's extraordinary rendition program can refuse to testify by citing national security, lawyers attending the closed session said Wednesday.
Twenty-six Americans, most of them CIA agents, and five Italian intelligence operatives are charged with abducting cleric and terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, from a Milan street on Feb. 17, 2003, allegedly as part of a CIA program to secretly transfer terrorism suspects to third countries.
Nasr, who was suspected of recruiting Islamic fighters to train in Afghanistan, has claimed he was tortured in Egyptian custody.
On Wednesday, military intelligence agent Giuseppe Scandone declined to respond to a question from a lawyer defending former head of the Italian military intelligence, Nicolo Pollari
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