Milan. Egyptian Abu Omar, from the mosque-study center on Viale Jenner, was abducted by American agents and transferred first to Aviano and then to Cairo. For this, the Americans and Italians of the SISMI were convicted of kidnapping by the Italian justice system. All this led to a double disaster: the dismantling of our security services with the publication in L’Espresso of the names of our agents (88 in total) in the Middle East. And, worse, the CIA and other American intelligence agencies no longer passed sensitive information to us. Nor to the French, due to a communication pact between the Paris and Rome intelligence services. Pollari and Mancini, heads of the SISMI, were acquitted in February 2014 thanks to the Constitutional Court. On April 5, 2013, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano pardoned American Colonel Joseph Romano, convicted by the Milan Court of Appeal on December 15, 2010, which became final on September 19, 2012. On December 23, 2015, Italian President Sergio Mattarella pardoned Robert Seldon Lady and Betnie Medero. President Mattarella reduced Robert Seldon Lady’s sentence by two years. The compensation ordered by the Italian court is to be paid entirely by the 22 CIA agents, amounting to $1 million for Abu Omar and $500,000 for Nabile Ghali.
