An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric off the streets of Milan in 2003, a landmark verdict against one of the CIA's most valued anti-terrorism tools - a practice known as extraordinary rendition.
One of those convicted for her role in a US government-backed plot admitted she ''broke the law'' but felt abandoned by her superiors.
Sabrina DeSousa told ABC television in the US that she and 22 other Americans sentenced in absentia ''broke the law'', but that everything she did was ''approved back in Washington''.
''And we are paying for the mistakes right now, whoever authorised and approved this'', she said, adding that she felt ''abandoned and betrayed''.
The court's decision was a victory for Italian anti-terrorism prosecutors and police who spent six years building the case.
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