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Italy: Calabrian mafia N'drangeta 'sold
radioactive materials to Saddam'
4.12.2007
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December
4, 2007
Potenza, Italy,-- Anti-mafia police in the
southern Italian city of Potenza are investigating
allegations that the Calabrian mafia (N'drangheta)
helped an Italian firm to sell radioactive materials
to the regime of late Iraqi president Saddam
Hussein.
In his latest book, 'N'drangheta' an Italian
historian and expert on the N'drangheta, Antonio
Nicaso, explains that a now declassified CIA
document supports these allegations.
The unnamed Italian company on three occasions
between 1979 and 1982 sold uranium to Saddam, who
wanted to acquire nuclear weapons, the CIA document
claims.
Quoting the CIA report, Nicaso said the materials
included 486 tonnes of yellowcake uranium, 33,470
kilogrammes of urainum dixoide and 6,005 kilogrammes
of depleted uranium dioxide from Italy, Portugal,
Nigeria and Brasil.
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Several N'drangheta bosses were involved in the
toxic and radioactive waste materials trade,
N'drangheta turncoat Francesco Fonti testified in a
memorandum to Italy's national anti-mafia
directorate cited by Nicaso.
In the memo Fonti said he was paid 330,000 euros to
'dispose' of 600 containers of dangerous waste
materials stored in two warehouses belonging to
Italy's new technologies and environmental agency
ENEA.
The materials came from Italy, Switzerland, France,
Germany and the United States and were removed on
10-11 October, 1987, Fonti said.
Eight former ENEA directors and two alleged
N'drangheta bosses are reported to be currently
under investigation in connection with Fonti's
testimony,www.ekurd.net
according to Nicaso.
Fonti also testified there had been other
consignments of uranium and of Kalashnikov rifles
and cash.
He claimed a number of politicians had been involved
in this trade, and said several ships transporting
radioactive materials had sunk off the southern
Italian coast,www.ekurd.net
Nicaso said.
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