Head of military intelligence service Sismi Nicolo Pollari arrives to speak at the Senate Defence Committee on the CIA 2003 abduction of radical Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, in Milan July 19, 2006. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's highest court overturned convictions on Monday of former head of military intelligence Nicolo Pollari and his deputy for roles in the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in an operation organised by the United States, a court source said.
Pollari was previously sentenced to 10 years in prison and his deputy Marco Mancini to nine over the abduction of imam Abu Omar, who was snatched from a Milan street in 2003 and flown to Egypt for interrogation during the U.S.-led "war on terror".
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