Below is an article about ANOTHER BUSH ASSASSINATION by the Bushes. I'm sick to my stomach.
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Italian agent Calipari: A target of opportunity for US assassins
Not the first Italian target of US covert 'silencers'
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
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March 22, 2005--High-level European intelligence sources report that the 51-year old slain Italian SISMI military intelligence agent, Dr. Nicola Calipari, killed by U.S. sharpshooters while accompanying the freed Italian hostage--Il Manifesto journalist Giuliana Sgrena--to Baghdad International Airport, was a prized target of opportunity for American assassins because of his knowledge about past Republican White House ties to Saddam Hussein's nuclear program.
Calipari was also reportedly privy to information about illegal U.S. covert operations in Iraq from his sources within the bloc of Iraqi resistance fighters led by former Republican Guards. Moreover, European intelligence sources report that Calipari was not the first Italian intelligence agent with expertise on Iraq to be killed by U.S. covert "wet affairs" operatives.
In 1989, the former Italian military attaché in Baghdad, Air Force Colonel Giuseppe Schiavo, was found shot to death in his home in Turin. Police ruled the death a suicide, however, Schiavo's diplomatic and military colleagues in Baghdad claim that Colonel Schiavo had stumbled across critical evidence of a complicated scheme by the George H. W. Bush administration, the CIA, Italian businessmen and government officials, U.S. auditors, Iraqi diplomats, spies, and central bankers, British and Italian intelligence agents, and Saudi bankrollers to finance Saddam Hussein's NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) weapons program through U.S.-government-backed credits provided by Atlanta's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL). Schiavo was killed before Italian magistrates could question him about his knowledge of the Iraqi weapons affair. One colleague of Schiavo in Baghdad called him a professional and not someone who would kill himself. "He was taken out because of what he knew," claimed the colleague.
According to Money Laundering Alert, shortly after September 11, FBI agents visited the Drawing Center, a New York City art museum, to examine diagrams drawn by artist Mark Lombardi that visually represented the complex connections of BNL to the George H. W. Bush administration. In 2000, Lombardi, 48, allegedly committed suicide. The FBI's interest in Lombardi's drawings was part of its investigation of the September 11 "al Qaeda" terrorist attacks on the United States.
Schiavo and Calipari were both experienced Iraq intelligence assets. But they both knew that the George H. W. Bush administration was heavily involved in propping up Saddam Hussein's government with intelligence, components for poison gas such as that used by Saddam against Kurds in Halabja, anthrax and other bio-toxins, and nuclear weapons production components such as krytrons and centrifuges. U.S. government-backed BNL loans were also used by Iran to procure military weapons and nuclear components.
In addition, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Time, and the Sunday Times of London reported that Saudi Arabia funded nuclear weapons programs in Pakistan and Iraq in order to develop its own nuclear capability. Saudi funding involved Houston money tranches and accounts linked to banks and offshore entities controlled by George H. W. Bush and his closest business partners. Pakistan's nuclear bomb father, A. Q. Khan, maintained close relations with Saudi Arabia and Time reported that Khan sold nuclear weapons equipment, including uranium enrichment cylinders, to Saudi Arabia.
Part of BNL's loan guarantees for Iraq's nuclear program, some $720 million out of a total loan package of $2.6 billion, were backed by the U.S. Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) and laundered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. According to congressional investigators, much of the remainder of BNL's loans to Saddam were backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the US Export-Import Bank's Foreign Credit Insurance Association. The BNL credits were masked as being for generic "raw materials" and "heavy equipment."
Christopher Drogoul, the BNL Atlanta manager who was later jailed for bank fraud, claimed in congressional testimony that the U.S., British, and Italian financing and arming of Saddam Hussein involved companies like Matrix Churchill (UK), Bechtel (US). Kissinger Associates (US)--Henry Kissinger was also a member of BNL's international advisory board--Hewlett Packard (US), XYZ Options (owner of CarbiTech) (US), and Lummus Crest (US).
Additional congressional testimony indicated other U.S. companies involved in exporting "dual use" civilian/military goods to Iraq included Bell Helicopters, Lockheed, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Perkin Elmer, Rockwell International Collins, United Technologies, Scientific Atlanta, Swissco Management Group/Westfield Holdings of Miami Lakes, Florida; Tektronix, Teledyne Wah Chang, and Union Carbide,
The testimonies of Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter were sought by Democratic congressional committees, including Rep. Henry Gonzalez's House Banking Committee. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, as did his successor William Barr, constantly blocked Gonzalez's committee's investigation of the senior Bush's financing of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
In late 1989, after a State Department memo and a CIA report warned Baker that Saddam was using U.S. commodity credits to purchase nuclear, biological, and chemical materials, Baker urged Yeutter to approve additional loan guarantees for Iraq.
On October 27, 1992, Gonzalez reported that the Agriculture Department had spent the entire previous weekend shredding documents pertaining to the BNL-Iraq loans. When the Republicans took over the Congress in 1995, the investigations of BNL, the first Bush administration, and Saddam Hussein were quickly dropped.
However, Attorney General Janet Reno appointed John Hogan, a Miami prosecutor, to examine whether Bush administration officials and U.S. companies profited from arming Saddam with WMD and other arms. Hogan's report, issued in 1995, was nothing more than a whitewash of the Bush Sr. administration and "Iraqgate."
It was later reported by The American Spectator that from 1990 to 1992, Hillary Rodham Clinton served on the board of Lafarge Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of French consortium Lafarge SA. Lafarge was reportedly involved in shipping arms components to Iraq via the BNL-financed conduit.
During 1992, Senator Al Gore, the then-Democratic vice presidential candidate, was warned off by senior Clinton campaign advisers, including George Stephanopoulos, from investigating BNL or bringing it up as a campaign issue.
In exasperation, Rep. Gonzalez, in an October 16, 1990 hearing on BNL, sharply criticized George Bush Sr. for his intransigence, "My contention is that the president is, and has continued to act, extra-unconstitutionally, and certainly in violation of the very statutes that the Congress has passed as early as 1974."
Then-Rep. Charles Schumer of New York, a member of Gonzalez's committee said of the BNL scandal, "From where we stand today, a nation with over 200,000 of its soldiers standing toe-to-toe with the bloodthirsty Iraqi war machine, and with thousands of its citizens held hostage by a ruthless dictator, these eight years of US largesse are shocking, almost incomprehensible. In effect, we've doled out billions of dollars of free money, which enabled Saddam Hussein to build the powerful nation that confronts us today. And all this could have been accomplished much more easily. The US government should simply have asked Saddam Hussein what weapons he wanted, ordered them from a manufacturer, paid the bill, and shipped them, postage paid, to Iraq. If the US is going to act stupidly, they at least ought to do it simply."