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AP (with additional material by Ananova and CNN). 21 March 2002. Red Brigades Claim Responsibility for Slaying. ROME -- An offshoot of the Red Brigades terror group claimed responsibility for the slaying of a government adviser in a communique posted on the Internet on Thursday. The claim came a day after Interior Minister Claudio Scajola publicly blamed the group for the murder of economist Marco Biagi, who was working on labor reform - a bitterly contested issue in Italy. Biagi, a 52-year-old university professor, was the second economist working on labor reform to be gunned down in three years. The claim of responsibility came at the beginning of a 26-page document written in turgid political prose that was e-mailed to an independent regional news agency, Caserta 24 Ore. The agency posted it on its website Thursday. "An armed nucleus of our organization executed Marco Biagi," the document begins, saying Biagi was targeted because his work as a consultant to the labor minister made him part of a government that "represents the interests of bourgeois imperialism." In its diatribe against modern capitalism, the group accused Biagi of "exploiting" workers with the labour reforms he had co-authored. The message described Biagi's reforms as a "regulation of the exploitation of salaried workers." The document praises the September 11 attacks, saying they show "how it is possible to carry out highly destructive attacks in enemy territory, with destabilising effects, without the use of technologically advanced weapons." The document says that the US military response to the September 11 shows the "need for the forging of alliances between anti-imperialistic forces and revolutionary forces in the regions of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East." The Interior Ministry had no immediate comment. A day earlier, the interior minister said Biagi was killed with the same 9 mm handgun used in the 1999 slaying of another government economics adviser, Massimo D'Antona. Both men advocated measures to loosen up Italy's labor market, one of the most rigid in Europe, by making it easier to fire workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
