http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/26/53042/825<snip>
"The first meeting occurred in Rome in December, 2001. It included Franklin, Rhode, and another American, the neoconservative writer and operative Michael Ledeen, who organized the meeting. (According to UPI, Ledeen was then working for Feith as a consultant.) Also in attendance was Ghorbanifar and a number of other Iranians. One of the Iranians, according to two sources familiar with the meeting, was a former senior member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who claimed to have information about dissident ranks within the Iranian security services. The Washington Monthly has also learned from U.S. government sources that Nicolo Pollari, the head of Italy's military intelligence agency, SISMI, attended the meetings, as did the Italian Minister of Defense Antonio Martino, who is well-known in neoconservative circles in Washington. "
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Rozens's pulling the now known contacts and dates of the neo's second Roman holiday and with the same Pollari, chief of Italian intelligence. Plus assorted goodies of concidence.
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10506# Italy's intelligence chief met with Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley just a month before the Niger forgeries first surfaced
# Nicolo Pollari, chief of Italy's military intelligence service, known as Sismi, brought the Niger yellowcake story directly to the White House after his insistent overtures had been rejected by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2001 and 2002.
# Sismi had reported to the CIA on October 15, 2001, that Iraq had sought yellowcake in Niger, a report it also plied on British intelligence, creating an echo that the Niger forgeries themselves purported to amplify before they were exposed as a hoax.
# Pollari also met secretly in Washington on September 9, 2002, with then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.
# Pollari had previously insisted that the only member of the U.S. administration he met with was his former CIA counterpart George Tenet.
# La Repubblica also now quotes a Bush administration official saying, "I can confirm that on September 9, 2002, General Nicolo Pollari met Stephen Hadley."
# The significance of that date is because three days later a story in Panorama a weekly owned by Italian Prime Minister and Bush ally Silvio Berlusconi claimed that Iraq's intelligence agency, the Mukhabarat, had acquired 500 tons of uranium from Nigeria through a Jordanian intermediary.
Too many concidences between the neos and Rome? Wonder what Fritz thinks.