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Arash
October 25, 2005
Michael Ledeen’s Fingers in the Niger Yellowcake
By Kurt Nimmo
Some of us, those who pay attention, have suspected for some time the fraudulent
Niger yellowcake documents (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake_forgery) —so
crudely slapped together as to be laughable—are tied to Michael Ledeen
(http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/ledeen/ledeen.php), the neocon’s neocon, who is
connected to the neofascist Italian military intelligence agency, SISMI.
Michael Ledeen’s role in dispensing these bogus documents—a puzzle piece fitting into
the larger scam used as a pretext by Bush and Crew to invade a helpless Iraq—is so
well-known it has made it into the Wikipedia entry on the yellowcake forgery:
In an interview published April 7, 2005, [Vincent Cannistraro, the former head
of counterterrorism operations at the CIA and the intelligence director at the
National Security Council under Ronald Reagan] was asked by Ian Masters
(http://www.ianmasters.org) what he would say if it was asserted that the source of
the forgery was former National Security Council and State Department consultant
Michael Ledeen. (Ledeen had also allegedly been a liaison between the American
Intelligence Community and SISMI two decades earlier). Cannistraro answered by
saying: “you’d be very close”. (KPFK 90.7 FM, Los Angeles, April 3, 2005:
http://www.ianmasters.org/archives.html)
Michael Ledeen’s connection to Italian SISMI goes way back—all the way back to Ledeen
fingering the late and pathetic brother of Jimmy Carter, Billy, for allegedly hanging
out with Yasser Arafat and George Habash, a PLO military leader, in Libya in October
of 1978. Ledeen accused Carter of taking loans and expense money from the Libyans.
(Obviously, this an old trick, used over and over, as the neocons now accuse British
MP George Galloway of taking money from Saddam).
“ ‘SISMI was the architect of the scandal over Billy Carter’, and that the material
in this case was gathered mostly by Francesco Pazienza [a SISMI agent] and by his
American friend Michael Ledeen”, Edward S. Herman and Frank Brodhead write in their
book, The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection (Sheridan Square Publications,
1986). As it turns out, Francesco Pazienza “was ultimately indicted in an Italian
court (with Ledeen as an unindicted co-conspirator) for luring President Carter’s
brother Billy into a compromising relationship with Qaddafi during the 1980
presidential campaign”, explain Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, and Jane Hunter
(The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in Reagan Era,1987).
In short, Ledeen is a dirty trickster, having cavorted with fascist elements in SISMI
to undermine a presidential election in the United States. (see the SourceWatch entry
on Michael Ledeen: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Ledeen)
As usual, though, when dealing with all things neocon, it gets worse. “John
Negroponte (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/negroponte/negroponte.php), Michael
Ledeen, William Boykin (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0820-02.htm), Oliver
North (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North), Bernard Kerik
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Kerik). If these figures make you uneasy, they
should. An Italian investigation has uncovered an underground, parallel police
network [GLADIO] with possible links to the CIA which may be involved in the slaying
of Niccola Calipari and Il Diario reporter Enzo Baldoni, the extraordinary rendition
of Abu Omar and Nigergate”, the Daily Kos wrote in July.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/1/134912/3377
Abu Omar (aka Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr) was the CIA asset (according to the Chicago
Tribune) kidnapped off the streets of Milan (subsequently to disappear, a not
uncommon fate for CIA assets). Niccola Calipari was a SISMI agent shot and killed
while escorting the Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena out of Iraq after she was
released from kidnappers. Both Giuliana Sgrena and Enzo Baldoni were working on
Fallujah stories when they were abducted (Baldoni was executed).
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-0507030272jul03,1,7388165.story?coll=chi-newsspecials-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Mark Zepezauer adds:
Many members of Operation GLADIO
(http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/stpeters_squared.html) were also in a shadowy
organization known as P-2 (Propaganda Due); it too was financed by the CIA. P-2 had
connections with the Vatican and the Mafia, and eventually with an international
fascist umbrella organization called the "World Anti-Communist League"…. One of P-2’s
specialties was the art of provocation. Leftist organizations like the "Red Brigades"
were infiltrated, financed and / or created, and the resulting acts of terrorism,
like the assassination of Italy’s premier in 1978 and the bombing of the railway
station in Bologna in 1980 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_massacre), were
blamed on the left. The goal of this “strategy of tension” was to convince Italian
voters that the left was violent and dangerous-by helping make it so.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m13362&l=i&size=1&hd=0
It appears Michael Ledeen, the “influential” neocon, was involved in GLADIO
operations past and is also linked to the faux Niger yellowcake documents cooked up
by Italian intelligence, as noted above.
Now we have Laura Rozen, citing a scoop from the Italian newspaper "La Repubblica",
telling us Nicolo Pollari, chief of the fascist 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”. Nicolo Pollari met with none other
than Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley
(http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/hadley/hadley.php). “Their secret meeting came at
a critical moment in the White House campaign to convince Congress and the American
public that war in Iraq was necessary to prevent Saddam from developing nuclear
weapons…."La Repubblica" also quotes a Bush administration official saying, ‘I can
confirm that on September 9, 2002, General Nicolo Pollari met Stephen Hadley’”.
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10506
Let’s review: Ledeen is suspected of working on the forged Niger yellowcake documents
and Nicolo Pollari, chief of the fascist SISMI, passed these off to the highest
levels of the Bush administration, and these documents played a big part in the
invasion of Iraq and the mass murder of more than a 100,000 Iraqis.
Sounds like the stuff of impeachment to me.
I might as well wish for a pony.
Michael Ledeen is apparently sensitive about his role in the creation of the fake
Niger documents. “When I posted a rumor pointing in the direction of the best-known
SISMI-connected neocon player, Michael Ledeen, who was a big wheel in Iran-contra,
Ledeen emailed me to deny that he had any involvement with the forgeries”, writes
blogger Steve Sailer.
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/07/who-forged-niger-yellowcake-documents.html
Meanwhile, blogger Scott Horton has called for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Fitzgerald) to indict Ledeen.
Scott Horton writes:
As far as Ledeen and the Niger uranium forgeries, [former CIA and DIA agent
Philip Giraldi] explained in [interviews with Horton] that the “couple of CIA agents”
were paid in foreign accounts and that Fitzgerald had “already found the money trail”.
Ledeen’s connections to the Office of Special Plans (OSP) and SISMI are well
documented, he attended a number of meetings in Italy with Harold Rhode, who
“practically lived out of Ahmad Chalabi’s office”, Manucher Ghorbanifar
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manucher_Ghorbanifar) and guilty Israeli spy Larry
Franklin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIPAC_espionage_scandal), around the time the
Italians began passing on the (already debunked) story back to the U.S.
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d8d134f253c6702d?hl=en
Thus, as Scott Horton contends, Michael Ledeen should be indicted. Of course, that
would shed an immense amount of light on the whole neocon operation and send the
neocon rats scurrying to cut deals with Fitzgerald.
It would be heavenly music.
But it ain’t gonna happen.
Unfortunately, in Bushzarro world, this scenario is against the laws of physics.
Stephen Hadley or Irv Lewis "Scooter" Libby
(http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/libby/libby.php) or on the outside Karl Rove
(certainly not Dick Cheney) will have the tender sides of their wrists slapped, maybe
even be indicted and prosecuted, only to be pardoned by Bush on the day he leaves
office—if he ever leaves office. It’s just too much to expect Patrick Fitzgerald to
be a Samson and bring down the whole sordid house of cards.
Plamegate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair) will be a taint. It will not be
the beginning of the end of the Bushcons.
After all, the neocons have a couple more countries to invade.
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=84
La Repubblica - October 24, 2005
Doppiogiochisti e dilettanti tutti gli italiani del Nigergate
By Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe d'avanzo
http://www.repubblica.it/2005/j/sezioni/esteri/iraq69/sismicia/sismicia.html
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:Dno630Wpk3MJ:www.repubblica.it/2005/j/sezioni/esteri/iraq69/sismicia/sismicia.html+&hl=en
The Yellowcake Forgery Gang
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=Repubblica+Translation
Who Forged the Niger Documents?
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21704
Indict Michael "P2" Ledeen
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a9756c05493c05cf?hl=en
GLADIO: from Italy to Iraq--"false-flag terrorism" and "strategy of tension"
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/921b43869ea01f0d?hl=en
Secret agents, freemasons, fascists, and a top-level campaign of political
destabilization
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0220f92feb179492?hl=en
Secret Warfare: Operation Gladio and NATO's Stay-Behind Armies
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/06d71c5e350232a0?hl=en
Articles on NATO's secret cells called GLADIO
http://www.cambridgeclarion.org/gladio.html
Whistle blowers identifying GLADIO 'al-CIA-duh' terrorism
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/aec4a74b8439fda5?hl=en
Iran arrested British agent for twin bombings
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/dee0b993808b6964?hl=en
Shamrock Jihad? British Blame IRA Bombs on Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d852f27b2b8c03b?hl=en
Does West really cares about Democracy, Human Rights, and innocent citizens!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/921b43869ea01f0d?hl=en
Masonic murder case finally opens in Italy
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/cb55c6d0e3331ba3?hl=en
British terrorists exposed in Basra
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/241558c76e9b134e?hl=en
British MP reveals MI6's connections to Islamic terrorists
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/73a70a8a3cf89510?hl=en
Baghdad Bombings: Order out of Chaos
The puppet-masters create "disorder" so the people will demand "order". The price of
"order" always entails a handing over of control and loss of freedom on the part of
the citizenry. Out of "chaos" comes "order" - THEIR order - their new WORLD order.
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6b119d259bf24457?hl=en
New member of "al-Qaeda" is a Jew named Adam Pearlman! (GLADIO never stops)
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/b0e6e14389d367d3?hl=en
Britain now faces its own blowback
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/73a70a8a3cf89510?hl=en
A CIA cover blown, a White House exposed - How JEW screws America
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/433a0266bf2c99d0?hl=en