Sunday,
June 15, 2008
Aldo Moro Murder 30 years ago. The Truth?
The
ANNOTICO Report
Thirty
years ago this month, the extreme left terrorist group, the Red Brigades murdered
former Italian prime minister Aldo
Moro who they’d kidnapped and held for Ransom nearly two
months.
US.
The
Rumor has persisted that Cossiga did not negotiate
with the Red Brigades because he preferred the death of Moro, because Moro was
the head of the Christian
Democratic Party, which was moving towards a parliamentary
coalition with the Italian Communists,which
was unacceptable to the Right
Wing Italians and Anti-Communist
USA.
The truth about Aldo Moro’s murder?
Euro News
May 9, 2008
Thirty years ago
this month, the extreme left terrorist group, the Red Brigades murdered former
Italian prime minister Aldo Moro who theyd kidnapped and held for nearly
two months. Moro was the head of the Christian Democratic Party, which was
moving towards a parliamentary coalition with the Italian Communists, a move
opposed by some in the far left and which worried western power, particularly
the
EuroNews : Youve been accused of refusing to negotiate with the Red
Brigades, because you actually wanted Moro to be killed.
Francesco Cossiga: Why would I have wanted Moros death? If
I hadnt refused to negotiate the state would
have collapsed and we would have found ourselves in a crisis, which it would
have been very difficult to get out of. And on top of that I was nothing
compared to someone like Moro.
EuroNews: There are some who
say that as long as Cossiga and Andreotti
are alive, the truth about what really happened with Moro will never been
known.
Cossiga: There are some who
dont want to accept this one thing: that Aldo Moro was killed by the Red
Brigades. Some in the former Christian Democratic Party who turned Moro
into an icon, a left-winger, an enemy of the
EuroNews: You never believed
Italian politician Romano Prodis explanation
that he heard the name of the street where Moro was held at a seance. Why would Prodi
lie about that?
Cossiga: He didnt lie, he said that because he didnt
want to reveal his sources, especially at a time like that. But even now, if he
revealed who told him, I dont know how long his informant would remain
alive. He and the others invented this story of a seance
and words spelled out on Ouija board to be able to make the information public
and protect their source.
EuroNews: A
Cossiga: Its important
to note that after the
EuroNews: In
Cossiga: You want my
opinion? So many years have passed. You know Im the person who was branded
a Nazi, and accused of being responsible for torture and ordering killings, and
lots, lots worse. I always felt there should be a blanket amnesty, that we
should draw a line under the whole period when it was almost like a civil war,
rather than reviewing the individual cases.
EuroNews: One of those
Cossiga: Hes both.
Being one doesnt exclude
being the other. Its as if youd asked me if Caravaggio was a major
painter or a violent man, who killed someone in a bar fight :
hes one and the same.
EuroNews: Outside
Cossiga: The first person to
telephone him was
EuroNews: Youve said that the exclusion of the radical left from
Parliament could create the right conditions for terrorism to reappear. Are
there any indications that could happen?
Cossiga: The radical left
took the extreme left as its reference point. I remember a big rally in
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