The Perpetrators of Rendition

LA Times– compare this to the New York Times version of basically the same assignment.

Arriving individually or in pairs during the weeks leading up to the abduction in February of 2003, they checked into some of Milan’s finest hotels: the $450-a-night Prince of Savoy on Milan’s grand Piazza della Repubblica, the Westin Palace, the Milan Hilton. They ate at good restaurants and rented cell phones and cars. They offered up their frequent-flier account numbers, as well as their passports, VISA and Diner’s Club credit cards and drivers licenses.

Many of the names, home U.S. addresses and telephone numbers contained in the indictment appear to be false or have been changed.

In hotel bills alone, the group ran up a tab of $150,000, the documents indicate.