Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Three Days in Rome?

This article should be on the front page of every newspaper.

The Iran/Contra crowd is back, big time.

Now, we have known this for sometime, but this is the best investigative piece we have seen on it.

News media types should be asked why they are not covering this little piece of nostalgia.

Three Days in Rome?:

"On December 21, 2001, military officials and intelligence operatives from three nations, the United States, Italy, and Iran�made their separate ways to a commercial building set anonymously amid the shops, cafes, and fountains of Rome's bustling Piazza di Spagna, and disappeared inside. Among the tourists enjoying the famous Spanish Steps, and the Romans going about their Christmas shopping in the boutiques nearby, few would have had reason to wonder what was going on in the building, which held an unmarked office provided by the Italian military intelligence organization Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare (SISMI). Nor would passers-by have likely recognized among the men two Pentagon officials and key figures in the post-9/11 push to redraw the political map of the Middle East. Rome's centro storico, locus of a few millennia of international intrigue, was the perfect setting for the business at hand. " (Please do read on ^)

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