Bush administration clears US troops in slaying of Calipari and wounding of Sgrena

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Special Report

Bush administration clears US troops in slaying of Calipari and wounding of
Sgrena
By Wayne Madsen Online Journal Contributing Writer

"The U.S. hit team wanted to kill Calipari and Sgrena because they had
intimate knowledge of the Iraqi resistance and how some loyalists of the
U.S.-supported Iraqi regime may have cooperated with the alleged Zarqawi
forces to seize Western hostages and decapitate them on videos for
propaganda purposes. Many of the beheading videos show masked men who do
not appear to be extremist Muslim Iraqis or even Arabs from their build,
stance, sporting of jewelry, and, in one case, speaking Russian."

March 15, 2005?The Bush administration took specific legal steps that
cleared a U.S. Special Forces assassination team in Iraq from any future
criminal proceedings arising from their assassination of Italian SISMI
intelligence number two man Nicola Calipari.

Calipari, the deputy head of SISMI and an experienced Iraqi expert, was
accompanying freed hostage Giuliana Sgrena to Baghdad International Airport
when their Toyota Corolla was fired on by well-trained U.S. sharpshooter
assassins. Calipari was on the phone to the office of Italian Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome, where his wife also works, when he was
shot in the head. Sgrena and the driver, a Carabiniere officer, were
injured in the attack.

Pentagon officials claim the car was speeding past a checkpoint and that
shots were fired only into the engine block. The Italians claim the
interior light in the car was on, the car was traveling at only 30 miles
per hour, and prominently displayed the Italian flag. Italian intelligence
officials also believe that the Americans identified the Italian vehicle
because National Security Agency systems had intercepted Calipari's cell
phone signals and triangulated its specific location.

The legal protection for the American assassination team stems generally
from the refusal of the Bush administration to recognize the International
Criminal Court (ICC), but more recently and specifically from a new
counterintelligence doctrine outlined by National Counterintelligence
Executive Michelle Van Cleave, who was once a member of Ronald Reagan's
National Security Council staff. That strategy, announced by Van Cleave at
a March 5 speech at Texas A&M University in College Station, calls for
"attacking" foreign intelligence services by using counterintelligence
operations. The immunity from ICC jurisdiction, the new counterintelligence
strategy, the Pentagon's approval of special assassination teams in Iraq
and elsewhere, as well as approval of a CIA "Worldwide Attack Matrix," now
authorizes U.S. military forces and intelligence agents to assassinate
those deemed a threat to the United States.

Calipari and Sgrena, according to well-placed Italian sources, had
irrefutable evidence of U.S. war crimes in the siege of Fallujah, involving
the use of napalm, mustard gas, and nerve gas. Sgrena works for the Italian
daily, Il Manifesto.

Calipari's intelligence collection efforts and previous hostage rescue
missions in Iraq were supplemented by assistance from the Vatican's own
intelligence services, which maintained close ties to Eastern Catholic
members of Saddam's government, including former Foreign Minister Tariq
Aziz. Calipari's brother is a well-connected monsignor in the Vatican
Secretariat.

Calipari maintained liaison with Iraqi resistance fighters, who were
formerly members of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard, to secure Sgrena's
release. This did not sit well with the Bush administration.

According to Italian sources, the ex-Republican Guard members have worked
with Italian intelligence to combat the alleged al Qaeda and Abu Musad Al
Zarqawi "terrorists" who took Americans, Italians, and others hostage. The
Bush administration and its neo-conservative architects of the Iraq war do
not want it widely known that the Iraqi resistance is split between
ex-Republican Guards, who have worked with the Italians, and fanatic
Islamists.

The U.S. hit team wanted to kill Calipari and Sgrena because they had
intimate knowledge of the Iraqi resistance and how some loyalists of the
U.S.-supported Iraqi regime may have cooperated with the alleged Zarqawi
forces to seize Western hostages and decapitate them on videos for
propaganda purposes. Many of the beheading videos show masked men who do
not appear to be extremist Muslim Iraqis or even Arabs from their build,
stance, sporting of jewelry, and, in one case, speaking Russian.

According to Italian sources, the ex-Republican Guardsmen view the alleged
Zarqawi and his alleged al Qaeda allies as "monsters," but also know that
the ex-Republican Guard members, many of whom are secular Muslims, had
nothing to do with the hostage taking and beheadings as often claimed by
neoconservatives in the Bush administration.

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based journalist and columnist, and the
co-author of "America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II."


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