--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ex-Italian President: Intel Agencies Know 9/11 An Inside Job > Man who blew the whistle on Gladio tells Italy's largest newspaper > attacks were run by CIA, Mossad > > Former Italian President and the man who revealed the existence of > Operation Gladio Francesco Cossiga has gone public on 9/11, telling > Italy's most respected newspaper that the attacks were run by the > CIA and Mossad and that this was common knowledge amongst global > intelligence agencies. > > Cossiga was elected President of Italian Senate in July 1983 before > being winning a landslide 1985 election to become President of the > country in 1985. > > Cossiga gained respect from opposition parties as one of a rare > breed - an honest politician - and led the country for seven years > until April 1992. > > Cossiga's tendency to be outspoken upset the Italian political > establishment and he was forced to resign after revealing the > existence of, and his part in setting up, Operation Gladio - a rogue > intelligence network under NATO auspices that carried out bombings > across Europe in the 60's, 70's and 80's. > > Gladio's specialty was to carry out what they coined "false flag > operations," terror attacks that were blamed on their domestic and > geopolitical opposition. > > Cossiga's revelations contributed to an Italian parliamentary > investigation of Gladio in 2000, during which evidence was unearthed > that the attacks were being overseen by the U.S. intelligence > apparatus. > > In March 2001, Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn > testimony, "You had to attack civilians, the people, women, > children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any > political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public > to turn to the state to ask for greater security." > > Cossiga's new revelations appeared last week in Italy's oldest and > most widely read newspaper, Corriere della Sera. Below appears a > rough translation. > > "[Bin Laden supposedly confessed] to the Qaeda September [attack] to > the two towers in New York [claiming to be] the author of the attack > of the 11, while all the [intelligence services] of America and > Europe ... now know well that the disastrous attack has been planned > and realized from the CIA American and the Mossad with the aid of > the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic > Countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part ... > in Iraq [and] Afghanistan." > Cossiga first expressed his doubts about 9/11 in 2001, and is quoted > in Webster Tarpley's book as stating that "The mastermind of the > attack must have been a "sophisticated mind, provided with ample > means not only to recruit fanatic kamikazes, but also highly > specialized personnel. I add one thing: it could not be accomplished > without infiltrations in the radar and flight security personnel." > > Coming from a widely respected former head of state, Cossiga's > assertion that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job and that this is > common knowledge amongst global intelligence agencies is highly > unlikely to be mentioned by any establishment media outlets, because > like the hundreds of other sober ex-government, military, air force > professionals, allied to hundreds more professors and intellectuals > he can't be sidelined as a crackpot conspiracy theorist.
Seems very plausible to me. I've seen no other satisfactory explanation.