Guido Salvini (born 1954) is an Italian

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, based in

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. He issued European arrest warrants in 2005 against approximatively 20

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agents accused of having taken part in the abduction of Abu Omar, the Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. The case is known in Italy as the ''

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''. Before that, Guido Salvini was in charge of investigations, since July 1988, concerning Italy's

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during the 1970s.

2000s

According to Rome prosecutor, Pietro Salvitti, quoted by ''

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'', Guido Salvini was one of the targets of a "network" which aimed at slandering various political opponents of

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via the

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, headed by senator

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, by claiming they worked for or were manipulated by the KGB, the former intelligence agency of the

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, dissolved in 1991. These targets included former Prime minister

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, his staff, General Giuseppe Cucchi (current director of the

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), Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro, also in charge of the "Imam Rapito" case, as well as ''La Repubblica'' reporters Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe D'Avanzo, who discovered the

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manipulations. This network includes, according to Salvitti, Mario Scaramella,

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, head of SISMI intelligence agency indicted in the ''Imam Rapito'' affair, Marco Mancini, n°2 of SISMI arrested in July 2006 for the same reason, as well as

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, CIA station chief in Milan also indicted in the kidnapping of Abu Omar in Milan.Il falso dossier di Scaramella - "Così la Russia manipola Prodi"
''

'', 11 January 2007

Strategy of tension

Guido Salvini started investigating events relating to Italy's

, which have involved a

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stay-behind network known as

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, in July 1988. After 463 interrogations, the investigations produced 60,000 pages. He indicted in 1998

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, officer of the US Navy, on charges of political and military espionage as well as participation in the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing. He also indicted Sergio Minetto, Italian official member of Gladio, and '' pentito'' Carlo Digilio, indicted in the Piazza Fontana investigation. The neofascists had decided to kill Mariano Rumor, on retaliation against his decision not to proclaim the

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following the Piazza Fontana bombing — which, according to neo-fascist

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, was one of the main objectives of this bombing. (With original documents, including juridical sentences and the report of the Italian Commission on Terrorism)

References

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2000s

Strategy of tension

See also

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