Abu Omar's Letter

Hey, homies. How ya' doing?

Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, a former CIA chief in Rome, was one of the five Italian intelligence operatives who was caputured by the CIA and brutally tortured in Torah Prison, a prison in Egypt with a brutal reputation. The culprits, who also did the same to 26 Americans, has allegedy put Nasr, a.k.a. Abu Omar, through hell. During the trial of the kidnapping, a letter written by Omar was read to everyone. According to the Chicago Tribune, he wrote:

...he was walking to his mosque in Milan on Feb. 17, 2003, when he was stopped on the street by a man who identified himself as a police officer. The cleric wrote that he was pulled into a van, beaten and taken by plane to Egypt. He described in detail how his Egyptian interrogators tried to get him to agree to become an informer, and he says he refused. What followed, according to his letter, was torture with electric shocks, beatings that caused him to lose the hearing in one ear, and sexual abuse. For long periods of time, he said in his letter, he was kept in an underground cell "where you cannot distinguish between night and day and the cockroaches and rats and insects walk all over my body night and day."

Omar wasn't the first. "Egypt, which has often been accused of torturing prisoners," says the Tribune, "acknowledges taking custody of 60 to 70 radical Muslims abducted by the CIA." Pardon me folks for asking you all this 'cause I'm forgetful, but why did the U.S. captured and (sort of) killed Saddam Hussein?

Hopefully, I can someday grab a hold of the actual letter and show it to you guys.