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2023-09-05 Europe

Italy's former PM claims France, US downed plane in attempt to kill Gaddafi in 1980

[Jpost] France destroyed the Itavia Airlines Flight 870 passenger plane in an attempt to assassinate Libya’s then-dictator Muammar Gaddafi, former Italian prime minister Giuliano Amato claimed in an interview with la Repubblica published Saturday.

He further called on French President Emmanuel Macron to stop "hiding the truth."

Amato claimed that on June 27, 1980, a French missile caused the crash of Itavia Airlines Flight 870.

"A plan had been launched to hit the plane on which Gaddafi was flying,” Amato told the source, which was cited by Ansa. “But the Libyan leader escaped the trap because he was warned by [former Italian prime minister Bettino] Craxi. Now the Elysée can wash away the shame that weighs on Paris.”

"After 40 years, the innocent victims of Ustica have not received justice. Why continue to hide the truth? The time has come to shed light on a terrible state secret. Macron could do it. And NATO could do it.

"Who knows now, speak: it would have great merits towards the families of the victims and towards history", Amato said in a new call for justice. "The most credible version is that of the responsibility of the French Air Force, with the complicity of the Americans. They wanted to kill Gaddafi, flying on a Mig of his air force. The plan envisaged simulating a NATO exercise, a staging that would have allowed the attack to be passed off as an involuntary accident".

Posted by badanov 2023-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 This is the left wing Jerusalem Post reporting. They drag the USA into this event with no corroborating evidence.

Posted by Jerens Black9355 2023-09-05 09:36|| 2023-09-05 09:36|| Front Page Top

#2 ^former Italian prime minister Giuliano Amato claimed in an interview with la Repubblica

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-09-05 09:58|| 2023-09-05 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 (raises his hand)

Why would Gaddafi - who had several fairly large, luxurious jets at his disposal - fly on a second-tier Italian airline?

I'll wait.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-09-05 10:20|| 2023-09-05 10:20|| Front Page Top

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