It has to be fully confirmed but you should read it. If all of these stories that TPM and TWM have been relaying are true... wow. But like the post says, take it with a grain of salt. It is not known how reliable this information coming out of Italy is through
La Republica.
Here is the latest post on this:
The Washington Monthly: Political Animal (blog)
MORE FROM LA REPUBBLICA....I don't really know what to make of this, but this week La Repubblica is running yet another 3-part series about the origins of the Iraq war. Via Nur al-Cubicle, here's an excerpt from Part 1. Note that SISMI is Italian intelligence, and Pollari is Nicolò Pollari, the head of SISMI:
The story of Italian military intervention in Iraq begins
when the resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Michael Ledeen, sponsored by Defense Minister Antonio Martin, debarks in Rome with Pentagon men in tow to meet a handful of “Iranian exiles.” The meeting is organized by SISMI in an agency “safe house” near Piazza di Spagna (however other sources told us it was a reserved room in the Parco dei Principi Hotel).
Twenty men are gathered around a large table, covered by maps of Iraq, Iran and Syria. Those who count are Lawrence Franklin and Harold Rhode of the Office of Special Plans, Michael Ledeen of the AIE, a SISMI station chief accompanied by his assistant (the first is a balding man between 46 and 48 years of age; the second is younger, around 38, with braces on his teeth), and some mysterious Iranians.
(...)
....The bogus Italian dossier on the Niger uranium turns up also — and we don’t know exactly why — because Chalabi is in possession of it.more...
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_10/007464.php
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