ITALY 2003

Italy 2003 stamps, for sale online at Io Collezionista. On 17 February 2003, the year the issues in this subcategory refer to, CIA agents abducted the imam Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr in Milan. The affair would be reported by the media as the Abu Omar case and would provoke strong controversy at home and abroad, because the CIA operation on foreign soil was unlawful. Omar was being watched by the Italian authorities over alleged links to Islamic terrorism, but his kidnapping effectively brought the investigation to a halt. Among the more interesting Italian Republic stamps in this subcategory are a 2003 stamp in a folder dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the artistic editions of the Alinari brothers, and another 2003 stamp in a folder dedicated to the Italian presidency of the Council of the European Union. In the main Stamps category you can browse other subcategories devoted to particular historical periods, such as Italian States stamps and Italian Colonies stamps.