Rome ? Italian prosecutors want to extradite 13 CIA officials accused of kidnapping a radical Muslim cleric and transporting him to Egypt where he reportedly was tortured, and they’ve asked Interpol to help track down the Americans, a court official said Tuesday.

A man identified as the former CIA station chief in Milan is among the 13, according to a report by the judge who issued the arrest warrants. The American was traced by cell phone records to Egypt in the days after the abduction when the cleric was “likely undergoing the first” rounds of torture, according to the report obtained by The Associated Press.

The Egyptian preacher was snatched in 2003, purportedly as part of the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program in which terror suspects are transferred to third countries without court approval, subjecting them to possible ill treatment.

The order for the arrests in the transfer of the cleric – made public last Friday – was a rare public objection to the practice by a close American ally in its war on terrorism.

The leftist opposition said Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s government will respond in parliament Thursday to their demands to know whether Italian officials were involved.

“It appears to be the most serious violation of national sovereignty in the history of the republic,” said opposition deputy Marco Minniti.

Court officials said they had no evidence of Italian involvement, but Vince Cannistraro, a former leading counterterrorism official in the CIA, said he doubted the U.S. government would launch such an operation in an allied country without coordinating first with the government.

“No question,” he told AP in Washington, adding the government may look the other way, as happened in Sweden when two suspected Islamic terrorists were handed over to Americans.

Prosecutors have asked the help of Interpol in tracing the suspects, all identified as U.S. citizens, said the court official who asked that his name not be used because the investigation is still under way. The Milan prosecutor’s office, in announcing the arrests last week, also said it would ask for American and Egyptian assistance in the case.

The judge’s 213-page order explaining the need for the arrests said the suspects’ links to “foreign intelligence services” gave them the particular ability to destroy evidence and disrupt the investigation.

The U.S. Embassy in Rome, the CIA and Egyptian officials declined to comment.