PANAMA CITY: Panama’s Foreign Minister on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) defended his government’s handling of an Italian request for the arrest and extradition of a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief wanted for the kidnapping of an Egyptian militant.

On Thursday, the Italian government announced that Robert Seldon Lady had been arrested in Panama on the border with Costa Rica and asked that he be held.

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