The trial was the first in the world to deal with a practice that human rights groups call `` extraordinary rendition . '' U.S. Air Force Col. Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr was convicted in absentia in 2003 . He was nearly two dozen of nearly two dozen tried for their role in seizing a suspected terrorist . ANSA : Washington 's president pardoned U.S. Air Force to solve `` a situation of great delicacy ''
U.S. Air Force Col. Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr was convicted in absentia in 2003 . He was nearly two dozen of nearly two dozen tried for their role in seizing a suspected terrorist . ANSA : Washington 's president pardoned U.S. Air Force to solve `` a situation of great delicacy ''