- Italian judge and investigators have
WMR editor under scrutiny. As reported by WMR, this editor appeared on
an interview on RAI Italian TV and discussed the National Security Agency's
(NSA) role in monitoring cell phone communications in Iraq, including those
of slain Italian SISMI intelligence deputy chief Nicola Calipari by US
forces. Now, neo-con disinformation operatives in Italy have trotted out
an Iraqi prisoner of the US, Mustafa Mohamed Salman, who claims the car
carrying Calipari, freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, and the Carabinieri
driver was carrying a car bomb and that is why US troops fired on it.
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 Calipari killed by shot from U.S. Army
machine gunner -- neo-cons want to justify the attack on Calipari based
on dubious statement from jailed Iraqi.
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- Italy's AGI wire service is reporting
today that Italian law enforcement officials are following this editor's
steps and that once I am "found," I can expect to be summoned
before a U.S. court pursuant to a letter rogatory from the Italian authorities
to the U.S. Justice Department and likely to the INTERPOL Central Bureau
in Washington, which is under the FBI.
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- INTERPOL defines a letter rogatory as
follows:
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- Letter of rogatory is a formal communication
in writing sent by the Court in which action is pending to a foreign court
or Judge requesting the testimony of a witness residing within the jurisdiction
of that foreign court may be formally taken thereon under its direction
and transmitted to the issuing court making such request for use in a pending
legal contest or action.
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- While I am more than happy to provide
Italian authorities with the same kind of technical information that I
provided the European Parliament concerning ECHELON, I will not divulge
confidential sources under any circumstance, especially to a government
that is riddled with proud and unapologetic neo-fascists, the ideological
off-spring of the thugs and war criminals my father fought against in Spain
during the civil war. However, if Italian authorities are acting on behalf
of the Bush administration, especially John Negroponte and Porter Goss,
to obtain information on U.S. government leakers, I will use my First Amendment
constitutional rights and invoke my freedom of press rights, which are
not trumped by any letter rogatory from Italy or any other country. It
has been a traditional practice of U.S. intelligence agencies to use foreign
counterparts to conduct operations against U.S. citizens that are barred
under U.S. law.
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- CALIPARI: IRAQI VERSION AND EX NSA AGENT
AT JUDGE'S SCRUTINY
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- (AGI) - Rome, 29th March - Rome's prosecutor's
office wants to interrogate Mustafa Mohamed Salman, the terrorist held
in an Iraqi prison who apparently revealed unknown particulars with respect
to certain kidnappings, including those relating to Giuliana Sgrena and
the death of the '007' agent that freed her, Nicola Calipari, to local
police. According to Salman, Calipari was killed because the Sunnite Mosque's
Imam, who was supposed to have been interviewed by the 'Manifesto' journalist,
on the 4th of February 2005, advised the U.S. about a car bomb on the road
to the airport, indicating that it was contained in the vehicle carrying
the Italians. The head of the anti-terrorist pool, Franco Ionta already
submitted another official request to Iraqi authorities, claiming that
it was absolutely "advisable" to crosscheck the version of the
facts given by Salman which contradict Sheik Hussein. The capital's judge's
inquiry proceedings do not yet include the declarations made by the Iraqi
prisoner, which were referred to Baghdad police and to the Carabinieri
about a month ago. The content of the statement, therefore, "needs
to be crosschecked" they explain. There is no doubt on the fact that
Salman's version is "advantageous to the U.S." because it exonerates
the only suspect in Calipari's death, machine-gunner, Mario Lozano, the
soldier who apparently took fire on the vehicle respecting the rules, because
the mobile vehicle apparently contained a bomb, according to notification
given. "The U.S. claimed this version from the very start", say
investigators. The probability that the account of the Iraqi terrorist
could be "contaminated" and that it may have been divulged came
out when the Roman inquiry had already concluded its check against Lozano.
There is actually another version which came out about a month ago at the
Judge's examination, which apparently puts the blame on the behaviour of
American soldiers, tied to declarations, reported by the international
press and later by the Italian press, relating to an ex secret service
agent of the National Security Agency (NSA), according to whom the U.S.
intercepts all existing movement in the Iraqi territory, including that
of Capilari, who on the 4th of March 2005, was able to free Giuliana Sgrena.
Even in this case, the prosecuting office did not want to waste its time,
and gave the job to investigators who will follow the steps of this ex
agent. It is clear that it will be necessary to obtain a rogatory letter
from the U.S. once he is found, in order to be able to interrogate him.
(AGI) -
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