The former chief of a CIA unit based in Milan has been arrested in Panama.
Robert Seldon Lady was convicted in absentia by an Italian court for the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003.
The cleric, known as Abu Omar, was then reportedly flown to Egypt and tortured.
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