In news from Europe, a Spanish prosecutor has asked a judge to issue arrest warrants for thirteen CIA agents who are said to have been involved in the kidnapping and detention of an innocent German citizen named Khalid El-Masri. El-Masri was seized in Macedonia as part of the CIA’s secret extraordinary rendition program. He was held in a secret prison in Afghanistan for months before being abandoned by the CIA on a hillside in Albania. In November 2009, an Italian court convicted twenty-three Americans for their role in the extraordinary rendition of a Muslim cleric who was kidnapped in Milan in 2003.