Italian officials say an ex-CIA base chief convicted in absentia for the extraordinary rendition of an Egyptian cleric has been detained in Panama. Robert Seldon Lady, who ran the CIA’s station in Milan, was convicted in Italy and sentenced to nine years in prison for the kidnapping of an imam known as Abu Omar, who was snatched from the streets of Milan in 2003 and taken to U.S. bases in Italy and Germany before being sent to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. Omar was eventually freed without being charged with a crime. A Panamanian police official told Reuters Robert Seldon Lady had been handed over to Interpol.