Reply #46: Italian connections via book Spider's Web by Alan Friedman [View All]

[EVDebs]

are curious. Banco Nationale de Lavoro BNL in Atlanta GA and the only thing close to WMDs found thus far are US-made HMX/RMX and PETN
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-cornwell261004.htm

Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/17/1615235

""Now, I discovered this at the end of the 1980's when I was reporting for The Financial Times of London and we uncovered the scandal of more than $5 billion of American taxpayer backed credits that had been funneled by the Atlanta, Georgia branch of an Italian bank to Saddam Hussein with the full knowledge of the C.I.A. and later on of the White House, under the Bush administration. That’s because that bank, it later transpired, an Italian bank called B & L, its Atlanta, Georgia branch was being used to surreptitiously finance Saddam Hussein's purchase of both agricultural goods and weaponry. And the very frightening part of it is that this group of intelligence agents outside the government, but working with the blessing of the government as it later turned out with the blessing of people like James Baker and George Herbert Walker Bush, this organization of arms dealers and transshipment specialists continued to sell a whole variety of equipment to Saddam Hussein, including U.S. military rocket cluster bombs that were transshipped from Pennsylvania through Chile to Iraq, nuclear and chemical weapons technology, and missile technology and the United States didn't really do anything to stop this shipment because at the time the argument used by the C.I.A. and the White House was that if you allowed a limited amount of military weapons and technology to flow to Iraq, even though it was completely illegal against U.S. law, against international treaties, if you allowed this to happen, as an intelligence operation, the rationalization in the Bush administration went, then you could keep better track of what kind of weaponry Saddam was developing""

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and fabricated intelligence too. The pretzel logic of Bushed-up intel agencies has spawned this bastard of a situation. The US taxpayer deserves better treatment.