question: Washington (CNN) -- A former CIA base chief wanted by Italy and detained in Panama has been released, a State Department spokeswoman said Friday.

Robert Seldon Lady, who had been convicted by an Italian court for his role in a 2003 rendition case, was flying back to the United States.

"It's my understanding that he is in fact either en route or back in the United States. Beyond that I have no further details," State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters.

In a 2009 trial, an Italian court convicted Lady and 22 others of abducting Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, or Abu Omar, from the streets of Milan in 2003. Italian prosecutors said Abu Omar was nabbed by a CIA team working with Italian officials.

The trial was the first to deal with a practice that human rights groups call "extraordinary rendition." They say the United States has often transferred terrorism suspects to countries that practice torture.

Abu Omar, who was suspected of recruiting men to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan and was under heavy surveillance by Italy's intelligence agency, was transferred to Egypt and tortured, Italian prosecutors said.

A former senior CIA official said Lady is no longer with the CIA.

In the 2009 trial, the Italian court sentenced Lady to eight years in prison, prosecutor Armando Spataro said. The other Americans were sentenced to five years.

Each of the 23 Americans was ordered to pay 1 million euros (about $1.3 million) to Abu Omar, plus 500,000 euros to his wife.
1. Who wants the chief?
2. Who did the chief work for?
3. What is his name?
4. Does he still work for the CIA?
5. Why did Italy want him?
6. Had he been sentenced?
7. By who?
8. What was his sentence?
9. When was the trial?
10. Was anyone else sentenced at the same time?
11. Who?
12. Was their sentence more lenient?
13. Did anyone know where Lady was?
14. Where was he being held?
15. Did they let him go?
16. Who announced that he was let out?
17. What was her name?
18. Who did she tell this to?
19. When?
20. How many other Americans were convicted with Lady?
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answer: 1. Italy
2. the CIA
3. Robert Seldon Lady
4. no
5. convicted by an Italian court
6. yes
7. the Italian court
8. eight years
9. 2009
10. yes
11. The other Americans
12. yes
13. yes
14. Panama
15. yes
16. a State Department spokeswoman
17. Marie Harf
18. reporters
19. Friday.
20. 22

question: Chapter 2: A Valiant Band.

The permission was not attended with the result that the young prince's counsellors had hoped. For a time, James showed a lively pleasure when Desmond rode over to Saint Germain, walked with him in the gardens, and talked to him alone in his private apartments, and professed a warm friendship for him; but Desmond was not long in discovering that his first estimate of the prince's character had been wholly erroneous, and that his outburst at their first meeting had been the result of pique and irritation, rather than any real desire to lead a more active life. Upon the contrary, he was constitutionally indolent and lethargic. There were horses at his command, but it was seldom, indeed, that he would take the trouble to cross the saddle, although walking was distasteful to him. Even when speaking of his hopes of ascending the throne of England, he spoke without enthusiasm, and said one day:

"It is a pity that it cannot be managed without fuss and trouble. I hate trouble."

"Nothing can be done worth doing, without trouble, Your Majesty," Desmond said sturdily. "It almost seems to me that, if everything could be had without trouble, it would not be worth having."

"How do you mean, Mr. Kennedy?"

"I may illustrate it by saying, Sire, that no true fisherman would care about angling in a pond, close to his house, and so full of fish, that he had but to drop a baited hook into the water to bring up one immediately. The pleasure of fishing consists largely in the hard work that it demands. It is, perhaps, miles to a stream across the hills, and a long day's work may produce but a half dozen fish; but these the angler prizes in proportion to the trouble he has had to get them. I think that, were I born heir to a throne, I would rather that it should cost me hardship, toil, and danger to obtain it, than walk into a cathedral, a few days after my father's death, and there be crowned."
1. Who died?
2. How was he born?
3. Who took a ride?
4. To where?
5. Who was happy to see him?
6. What did they do?
7. Where?
8. WHat else?
9. Was it in public?
10. Where then?
11. Would a real angler fish near his home?
12. How far should he go to fish?
13. Where would he then go fishing?
14. How many would he catch?
15. Over what land would he rule?
****
answer: 1. a father
2. heir to a throne,
3. Desmond
4. Saint Germain
5. James
6. walked
7. in the gardens,
8. talked
9. no
10. in his private apartments
11. yes
12. miles
13. a stream across the hills
14. a half dozen
15. England,

question: Saint Lucia is a sovereign island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 617km (238.23sqmi) and reported a population of 165,595 in the 2010 census. Its capital is Castries.

The French were the island's first European settlers. They signed a treaty with the native Carib Indians in 1660. England took control of the island from 1663 to 1667. In ensuing years, it was at war with France 14 times, and rule of the island changed frequently (it was seven times each ruled by the French and British). In 1814, the British took definitive control of the island. Because it switched so often between British and French control, Saint Lucia was also known as the "Helen of the West Indies".

Representative government came about in 1840 (with universal suffrage from 1953). From 1958 to 1962, the island was a member of the Federation of the West Indies. On 22 February 1979, Saint Lucia became an independent state of the Commonwealth of Nations associated with the United Kingdom. Saint Lucia is a mixed jurisdiction, meaning that it has a legal system based in part on both the civil law and English common law. The Civil Code of St. Lucia of 1867 was based on the Quebec Civil Code of 1866, as supplemented by English common law-style legislation. It is also a member of "La Francophonie".
1. What country is described here?
2. What kind of country is it?
3. In what ocean does it belong?
4. How is it located in regards to Saint Vincent?
5. How many people live there?
6. How do you know?
7. Who were the first settlers?
8. How big is this island?
9. Does it have a capital?
10. What would that be?
11. When did the French arrive?
12. How long did they maintain control?
13. Who took it over?
14. How long did they control it?
15. How many times did it change hands?
16. Who finally was the victor?
17. When?
18. What was the island known as?
19. Did the island ever change its form of government?
20. When?
****
answer:
1. Saint Lucia
2. sovereign island
3. Atlantic Ocean
4. north/northeast
5. 165,595
6. the 2010 census.
7. The French
8. 617km
9. yes
10. Castries
11. 1660
12. 3 years
13. England
14. 1663 to 1667
15. 14
16. the British
17. 1814
18. "Helen of the West Indies".
19. yes
20. 22 February 1979