In Italy, a judge has ordered the resumption of the trial of twenty-six Americans and five Italians accused of kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan. Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar, was taken to US bases in Italy and Germany before being sent to Egypt. There, he says he was tortured during a four-year imprisonment. All twenty-six Americans are being tried in absentia. The case marks the first criminal trial over the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program. The trial was suspended last June, pending a state secrecy ruling that has yet to be handed down.