An Italian court has issued a European arrest warrant for 22 CIA agents suspected of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003. The CIA agents are accused of grabbing Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr off the streets and then flying him to Egypt where he was reportedly tortured. Meanwhile the U.S. government has admitted it may have flown detainees to Syria even though the country has one of the worst human rights records in the Middle East. The U.S. embassy in Britain was forced to make the admission after the U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Robert Tuttle, told the BBC “I don’t think there is any evidence that there have been any renditions carried out in the country of Syria. There is no evidence of that.” But the U.S. Embassy has since issued a clarification to Tuttle’s comments acknowledging the reports in the media that the U.S. had in fact sent detainees to Syria. The embassy spokeswoman said the ambassador “recognized that there had been a media report of a rendition to Syria but reiterated that the United States is not in a position to comment on specific allegations of intelligence activities that appear in the press”.