Sebastian Rotella

Recent stories written by Sebastian Rotella

U.S. agents guilty of kidnapping (11/5/2009)

ROME – An Italian judge convicted 23 Americans on Wednesday of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric off the streets of Milan in 2003, a sweeping verdict against one of the CIA's most valued anti-terrorism tools – the practice known as extraordinary rendition.

Trans-Atlantic plot bucks usual trend (11/1/2009)

WASHINGTON – It is a worrisome first: an American accused of going to Europe to plot a terrorist attack there.

Britons convicted in bombing plot (9/8/2009)

LONDON – Three young Britons were declared guilty Monday in a London court of planning to blow up trans-Atlantic planes in an al-Qaida terrorist plot that could have killed thousands of people.