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...prosecution charged that Nasr, an imam at a Milan mosque, was grabbed in the street, driven to the U.S. air base in Aviano, put on a plane to Ramstein in Germany, and thence to Cairo. He was released in 2007, after allegedly being tortured. Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, had been linked to the Egyptian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah. But the Egyptian authorities brought no formal charges against...
Frentz, now 28, plans to stay in the Air Force, re-upping when her stint expires at the end of May 2006. She's been promised a job at the Air Force base in Aviano, Italy, once she heals, possibly as early as this summer. She wonders whether her scars might actually serve her in a new assignment. In the military, she says, the guys always ask first how a woman soldier looks, not how well she does her job. "I will have the scars to show what I've been through, and no one will be able to doubt...