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And in 2012, Italy's high court upheld the conviction of 22 CIA agents and an Air Force colonel in conjunction with the extraordinary rendition of Egyptian cleric Abu Omar from a street in Milan.
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Also on board was Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli air force who was the first citizen of his country to fly in space.
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has pardoned a US Air Force colonel convicted in absentia over the rendition of an Egyptian imam in 2003.
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"The military says they have zero tolerance, but in fact that's not true, " said Dr. Katherine Scheirman, a retired Air Force colonel with more than 20 years of service in the U.S. and abroad.
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Carter pointed out, for example, a transitioning Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 20 years of experience who recently joined the Starbucks team as a senior accountant after robust networking with AFN partners.
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Al-Asaad, a former colonel in the Syrian air force who defected and fled to Turkey in 2011, became the head of the Free Syrian Army, a group of army defectors who were among the first to declare armed struggle the only way to topple Assad.
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