Italy Asks Interpol For CIA Agents

Extradition Of CIA Officials Accused Of Kidnapping Cleric

(CBS/AP)  But Vince Cannistraro, a former leading counterterrorism official in the CIA, said he doubted the U.S. government would launch such an operation in an allied country without coordinating first with the government.

"No question," he told The Associated Press in Washington, adding the government may look the other way, as happened in Sweden when two suspected Islamic terrorists were handed over to Americans.

Nasr, 42, was believed to have fought alongside jihadists in Afghanistan and Bosnia, and prosecutors were seeking evidence against him before his disappearance, according to a report in La Repubblica newspaper last year, which cited intelligence officials.

The Milan prosecutor's office called the imam's disappearance a blow to Italy's own terrorism investigation.

Nasr reportedly was tortured in Egypt, Milan prosecutor Manlio Claudio Minale says. He reportedly was hung upside down and subjected to extreme temperatures and loud noise that damaged his hearing. Nasr spoke of the torture in an intercepted cell-phone call to his wife.

The 13 alleged CIA officers are listed by name but some of the names might be aliases, as is often a practice of such operatives overseas. Several gave U.S. post office boxes as their addresses.

One suspect described as playing a key role was identified as former Milan CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady, 51. The order said he had been listed as a diplomat, but was retired and living near Turin.

Attempts to reach Lady for comment were unsuccessful. His whereabouts were not known. Italian police raided his house Thursday, but he was not there, Italian newspapers reported.

The report cited "serious circumstantial evidence" against him based on cell phone contacts with other alleged members of the group.

In the report, Judge Chiara Nobili says cell phone records show Lady was in Egypt from Feb. 22-March 15. The report says that those were likely the first days Nasr was being tortured during interrogations.

The report details how investigators followed a trail of credit card information and U.S. addresses that the purported CIA agents gave to five-star hotels in Milan around the time of Nasr's alleged abduction. It said two pairs of agents took a Venice holiday after delivering the Egyptian to Aviano, a joint U.S.-Italian air base north of Venice.

Nasr was then flown to Ramstein, another U.S. base in Germany, and finally on to Egypt, according to the report.