La Repubblica via Laura Rozen:

Roma - Sismi's director of operations Marco Mancini (the Italian counter-espionage service's number two) and General Gustavo Pignero are in handcuffs. The arrests were made at the request of Court of Milan in regards to the investigation into the kidnapping - by CIA agents with Sismi's support - of imam Abu Omar on February 17, 2003. The charges range from aggravated conspiracy to commit kidnapping, to abuse of power, to intercepting phone calls.

Mancini is accused of listening in on the cell phone conversations of italian journalist Giuseppe D'Avanzo, who co-wrote articles in la Repubblica about Sismi's role in forging and disseminating the Niger-Yellowcake docs. Previous Corrente reporting on this story here.

Abu Omar was kidnapped by CIA agents on Italian soil and rendered to Egypt for torture. Italian courts have issued warrants for the arrests of the CIA agents involved but nobody's counting on the US extraditing them.

UPDATE: Bloomberg reports that the Italian court will re-apply for extradition now that the new government is in place:

The Italian government on April 12 turned down the prosecutor's request to seek extradition of the suspects from the U.S.

The rejection of the extradition request came two days after former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi lost national elections, and the Milan prosecutors have said they will re-file the extradition request with the new government.

Funny what happens when fascist scuzzbuckets (Berlusconi, cough) get kicked out of office: investigations actually take place. And your national soccer team beats Ze Germans 2-0.