A folder reading, "notes on the defence in the Abu Omar case" lays on a desk at a Milan's court at the end of the trial of those accused in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect, Osama Mustafa Hassan. An Italian judge Wednesday convicted 23 US and two Italian secret agents for the CIA's kidnapping of the Egyptian cleric in 2003 under the covert "extraordinary rendition" programme.
(AFP/Giuseppe Cacace)