[Sosfbay-discuss] Italian President: 9/11 Was an Inside Job

[Drew Johnson]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/5/124322/766
Italian President: 9/11 Was an Inside Job
by kimishka
Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 10:32:10 AM PST

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.

http://www.corriere.it/politica/07_novembre_30/osama_berlusconi_cossiga_27f4ccee-9f55-11dc-8807-0003ba99c53b.shtml

Cossiga was elected President of the Italian Senate in July 1983 before
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.