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FO/Milan-Cleric

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Abu Omar. Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons License. SLUG: FO/Milan-Cleric DATE: Downloaded email 12/01/2005 (EEL) CREDIT: Corriere Della Sera (Italian newspaper) LOCATION: Milan, Italy CAPTION: Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, a radical Egyptian cleric known as Abu Omar, was allegedly kidnapped by CIA operatives in February 2003 while walking to a mosque in Milan. According to Italian investigators, this surveillance photograph of Nasr was found on a computer disk in the home of the CIA's ranking official in Milan and was taken on Jan. 14, 2003, one month before he disappeared. The photograph shows Nasr walking along the Via Guerzoni in Milan in the same location where a witness reported he was kidnapped one month later.

SLUG: FO/Milan-Cleric DATE: Downloaded email 12/01/2005 (EEL) CREDIT: Corriere Della Sera (Italian newspaper) LOCATION: Milan, Italy CAPTION: Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, a radical Egyptian cleric known as Abu Omar, was allegedly kidnapped by CIA operatives in February 2003 while walking to a mosque in Milan. According to Italian investigators, this surveillance photograph of Nasr was found on a computer disk in the home of the CIA’s ranking official in Milan and was taken on Jan. 14, 2003, one month before he disappeared. The photograph shows Nasr walking along the Via Guerzoni in Milan in the same location where a witness reported he was kidnapped one month later.

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