Guido Salvini is an Italian judge, based in Milan. He issued European arrest warrants in 2005 against approximatively 20 CIA agents accused of having taken part in the abduction of Abu Omar, the Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. The case is known in Italy as the Imam Rapito affair. Before that, Guido Salvini was in charge of investigations, since July 1988, concerning Italy's strategy of tension during the 1970s. Milan (Italian: ; Lombard: Milán (listen)) is one of the biggest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. ... The European Arrest Warrant (EAW) is an arrest warrant to allow the arrest of criminal suspects and their transfer for trial or detention which is valid throughout the states of the European Union (EU). ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... The Imam Rapito affair refers to the ongoing exposé in the Italian press, notably in the newspapers Corriere della Sera and Repubblica, regarding the events surrounding the abduction of Egyptian cleric (and alleged former Albanian national intelligence service asset) Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, from the... A strategy of tension (Italian: ) is a way to control and manipulate public opinion using fear, propaganda, disinformation, psychological warfare, agents provocateurs, false flag terrorism actions and even terroristic actions. ...

2000s

According to Rome prosecutor, Pietro Salvitti, cited by La Repubblica, Guido Salvini was one of the target of a "network" which aimed at defaming various political opponents of Silvio Berlusconi via the Mitrokhin Commission, headed by senator Paolo Guzzanti, by claiming they worked for or were manipulated by the KGB, the former intelligence agency of the Soviet Union, dissolved in 1991. These targets included current Prime minister Romano Prodi, his staff, as well as General Giuseppe Cucchi (current director of the Cesis), Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro, also in charge of the Imam Rapito case, as well as La Repubblica reporters Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe D'Avanzo, who discovered the Yellowcake forgery manipulations. This network includes, according to Salvitti, Mario Scaramella, Nicolò Pollari, head of SISMI intelligence agency indicted in the Imam Rapito affair, Marco Mancini, n°2 of SISMI arrested in July 2006 for the same reason, as well as Robert Lady, CIA station chief in Milan also indicted in the kidnapping of Abu Omar in Milan. ^[1]. La Repubblica (meaning: The Republic) is an Italian daily newspaper. ...   (born September 29, 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor. ... The KGB sword and shield emblem appears on the covers of the three published works by Mitrokhin, co-author Christopher Andrew The Mitrokhin Archive refers to the collected notes taken by Vasily Mitrokhin over 30 years. ... Paolo Guzzanti (August 1, 1940) is an Italian journalist and politician. ... The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language abbreviation for Committee for State Security, (Russian: ; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ...   (born 9 August 1939) is a centre-left Italian politician. ... The town of Cēsis, in Latvia, is located in the northern part of Vidzeme Central upland, on the river Gauja, on high hillocks with terraces, overlooking the blue woods of the Gauja ancient river valley. ... The term Yellowcake Forgery refers to falsified classified documents initially uncovered by Italian intelligence which possibly depicted an attempt by Iraqs Saddam Hussein regime to purchase yellowcake uranium from the country of Niger, in defiance of United Nations sanctions. ... Mario Scaramella in an Italian lawyer and security consultant who came to international prominence in connection to the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning. ... Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare (Military Intelligence and Security Service, SISMI) is the military intelligence agency of Italy. ... Marco Mancini is a senior official in Sismi, the military intelligence agency of Italy. ...

Strategy of tension

Guido Salvini started investigating events relating to Italy's strategy of tension, which have involved a NATO stay-behind anti-communist network kwown as Gladio, in July 1988. After 463 interrogations, the investigations produced 60,000 pages. He indicted in 1998 David Carrett, officer of the US Navy, on charges of political and military espionage as well as participation in the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing. He also indicted Sergio Minetto, Italian official member of Gladio, and pentito Carlo Digilio, indicted in the Piazza Fontana investigation. In 1995, Carlo Rocchi, the CIA's man in Milan, was surprised searching for information concerning Operation Gladio. According to Salvini's investigations, the neo-fascist organizations involved in the strategy of tension, "La Fenice, Avanguardia nazionale, Ordine nuovo" were the "troops" of "occult armed forces", directed by components of the "state apparatus related to the CIA." According to pentito Carlo Digilio, David Carret was very troubled just before the attempted assassination, on 17 May 1973, of Mariano Rumor, President of the Council in December 1969, by an alleged anarchist who was in reality a SID informant ^[2]. The neofascists had decided to kill Mariano Rumor, on retaliation against his decision not to proclaim the state of emergency following the Piazza Fontana bombing — which, according to neo-fascist Vincenzo Vinciguerra, was one of the main objectives of this bombing. But David Carret was fearful that the whole organization would be discovered, and that the "coup projects" of the 1969-1979 years of lead period would be discovered ^[3]. A strategy of tension (Italian: ) is a way to control and manipulate public opinion using fear, propaganda, disinformation, psychological warfare, agents provocateurs, false flag terrorism actions and even terroristic actions. ... NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation[2] (NATO; French: ; also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance, or the Western Alliance) is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Emblem of Gladio, Italian branch of the NATO stay-behind paramilitary organizations. ... The Piazza Fontana bombing (strage di Piazza Fontana) refers to the terrorist bombing on December 12, 1969 in the offices of Banca Nazionale dellAgricoltura (National Agrarian Bank) in Piazza Fontana, Milan, Italy, carried out by far-right terrorists. ... Tommaso Buscetta (in sunglasses), the first important pentito of Italian Mafia, escorted in a court of law. ... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ... Teatro La Fenice (the phoenix) is an opera house in Venice, Italy. ... The National Vanguard (Italian: Avanguardia Nazionale) is a name that has been used for at least two right wing groups in Italy. ... Ordine Nuovo a. ... Mariano Rumor (Vicenza 1915 – Rome 1990) was an Italian politician, a member of the Democrazia Cristiana, and several times Prime Minister of Italy. ... Sid may refer to: Sid Nangia, a member of Exun Mohit, whose name is not Sid. ... A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend certain normal functions of government, may work to alert citizens to alter their normal behaviors, or may order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans. ... Vincenzo Vinciguerra was a member of Avanguardia Nazionale (National Vanguard), a far-right terrorist organization founded by Stefano Delle Chiaie and involved in Italys strategy of tension promoted by Gladio networks. ... The Years of lead was a period in the history of Morocco marked by state violence against dissidents and democracy activists. ...

References

La Repubblica (meaning: The Republic) is an Italian daily newspaper. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... La Repubblica (meaning: The Republic) is an Italian daily newspaper. ...

See also

• Imam Rapito
• Strategy of tension, Operation Gladio