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Exclusive: I Was Kidnapped by the CIA

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Abu Omar as he describes his years of torture at the hands of Egypt's security services

Spreading his arms in a crucifixion position, he demonstrates how he was tied to a metal door as shocks were administered to his nipples and genitals

His legs tremble as he describes how he was twice r

Omar ended up inside Egypt's torture chambers courtesy of the United States, via an "extraordinary rendition"

streets of Milan

flagrantly violates the Convention Against Torture, an international treaty that Congress ratified in 1994

An Italian prosecutor has launched a probe of the kidnapping, resulting in the indictment of 26 American officials, almost all of them suspected cia agents

to Egypt, where Abu Omar now lives

Milan, where he'd been granted political asylum in 2001 following an earlier spell of imprisonment and torture in Egyp

something was stuffed in his anus