SISMI


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SISMIServizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare (Italian Defense Secret Service)
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I didn't need any more details; the official from SISMI had the answers to all the questions that occurred to me.
Issa: in his latest work, Algerian-born writer Amara Lakhous--whose previous novel was hailed as the first contribution ever, from a foreigner, to serious Italian literature--examines the uneasy relations between Muslims and Europeans in multicultural Rome, his adopted city
Osama Mustafa Hassan, an imam better known as Abu Omar, was snatched from a Milan street on February 17, 2003, in an operation coordinated by the CIA and SISMI.
Italy requests tougher sentences for CIA abduction
Nicolo Pollari of SISMI had said Martino was working for French intelligence as the time (on a freelance basis) and that this could be behind Britain's claim that a "separate intelligence agency" was the source of the Niger document.
Finally, Knight Ridder reports that, contrary to recent Italian denials, US officials said SISMI did pass on "bogus allegations to the United States of an Iraqi effort to buy uranium ore from the African nation of Niger for a nuclear bomb program".
IRAQ - The Italian Dimension
The issue of the Niger yellowcake uranium precursor had been a point of controversy since late 2001, when the Italian secret service, SISMI, reported to their American, British and Israeli counterparts that they had obtained documents on Niger government letterhead indicating that Iraq had attempted to purchase 500 tons of yellowcake.
Drinking the Kool-Aid
17, 2003, in an operation coordinated by the CIA and Italy's SISMI military intelligence.
Prosecutor expects CIA trial involving Egypt's Abu Omar to continue
Italy's secret service SISMI learned that a former Iraqi army colonel had told a suspected al-Qaeda cell in Madrid to strike, said Il Messagero newspaper.
Face of a massacre suspect
17, 2003, in an "extraordinary rendition" operation coordinated by the CIA and Italy's SISMI military intelligence.
Italy's high court sinks CIA rendition case
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