ROME (Reuters) - Prosecutors hoping to put 22 CIA agents on trial in Italy for kidnapping a Muslim cleric there say they have gleaned new evidence from German phone records, a well-placed judicial source said.
The CIA agents are accused of grabbing Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr off a Milan street in 2003 and flying him for interrogation in Egypt, where he has said he was tortured.
One of the main arguments in the Italian prosecutors' case is that Nasr was flown from Italy to a U.S. military base in Ramstein, Germany, before changing planes and heading to Egypt.
Ramstein was first identified partly by Nasr's description of how long he spent in the air and from examination of outbound flights at the Aviano military base north of Venice, which is used by the U.S. Air Force.
New checks into German phone records -- including at the Ramstein air base and a hotel -- have produced more evidence of the stopover, the source at the Milan prosecutors' office said.
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