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May 5, 2006

Heart-wrenching news from Italy

On Monday, the Washington Post reported a story about three Italian soldiers who were killed in a roadside bomb in Iraq. The article claims that Iran was not only involved in the attack, but complicit in planning and orchestrating it.

Iranian agents were accused yesterday of masterminding a bomb attack that killed three Italian soldiers in Iraq last week and intensified political pressure for the incoming government to speed up its withdrawal of troops from that country.

But what would otherwise be merely a tragic story is shaping up to be a disturbing tale of deception and underhanded politics.

Gateway Pundit has new details on the story out of Italy that ,makes me sick. According to GP, Italian intelligence officials claim that Italian citizens (members of the Italian communist party) helped Iranian terrorists with the attack in hopes that the news of the soldiers' deaths would help pressure an Italian withdrawal of troops. They appear to be successful on both counts.

An article on L'Opinione reports (in Italian) that anti-globalization and communist groups based in Italy, among which is the infamous "anti-imperialist camp" (that collecting "Euros for the Iraqi resistance") coordinated with Islamic terrorists in Iraq to attack our troops in Nassiryiah. The Italian intelligence heard phone conversations in which the red fundamentalists instructed the Islamists about how and when to kill our soldiers. It seems that the attack was organized in order to pressure Mr. Prodi to speed the pullout from Iraq.

(From Publius Pundit)
Notice the similarity between the "anti-imperialist camp" collecting Euros for the Iraqi resistance and Code Pink, which gave $600,000 to a group sympathetic with Iraqi insurgents. However disturbing Code Pink's actions have been, the allegation that these Italians not only actively aided in a plot to kill their own soldiers, but did so in order to force a withdrawal of troops is disturbing.

For now, the story appears to be only speculation, however I will continue to monitor any developments.

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Cross posted at The Gentle Cricket, 123beta and California Conservative

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Posted by Butch at May 5, 2006 10:39 AM

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Post by The Gentle Cricket

Posted by: Butch at May 5, 2006 10:46 AM

I post almost on a daily basis on Italian politics and I follow what happens in the country since the day I was born! Although we lost the last general elections by 0.03%, the greatest majority of the Italian electorate "residing in Italy" voted Berlusconi! And if you vote for Berlusconi you are definitely anti-communist and pro-American. Having read the article which appeared on Opinione (based hopefully on a wrong hypothesis) and the BBC article (naively written with many macroscopic mistakes, like the caption under the pic which says that 19 Italians died last week in Nassiryia instead of three!), I don't want to believe for a second that there is any truth in what you have written. Butch, I'm not saying that you are wrong. I just say that "we do not want to believe" that this has really happened!). As I have written on more than one occasion recently, there is a strong possibility that soon Italians will be fighting Italians on Italian soil! Yes, it's that bad! We are entering a new dictatorship, Butch! A communist take-over! I pray to God that this news isn't true!

Posted by: enzo at May 5, 2006 6:08 PM