Waiting for the Moon

MILAN —
Twenty-three Americans, including a C.I.A. station chief, were convicted on Wednesday in a landmark case involving the seizure of a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan more than six years ago.

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The convictions were a huge symbolic victory for Italian prosecutors, lauded by critics of the Bush administration as proof that that measures used to fight terrorism were against the law. It was the first time that American agents were tried in a foreign country for kidnapping in a case of the United States’ politically sensitive practice of rendition, in which terrorism suspects are captured in one country and taken for questioning in another, presumably one more open to coercive interrogation techniques.

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