The aircraft that crashed into the ocean off the Italian island of Ustica (south) in 1980, with 81 individuals on board, was was shot down by an Israeli missilewho mistook it for a French ship carrying enriched uranium to Iraq, based on the thesis of Italian journalist Claudio Gatti, who has been investigating the tragedy for 35 years.
“Everybody thinks that the Israelis and the Mossad (secret service) are infallible and that's not true,” Gatti explains to EFE. The writer has simply revealed The Fifth Situation. The Second Act”, his second e-book about one of many biggest enigmas of Italian aviation, which continues to be shrouded in thriller 44 years after June 27, 1980.
After years of analysis and after 19 sentencesthe one clear factor is that The aircraft crashed, however the causes have been by no means revealed -with at the very least 4 potential culprits: Italy, France, the US and Libya- as a result of when the information have been declassified, related data was conspicuous by its absence.
“The generals of the Italian Air Power have been tried after which acquitted, however they weren’t accused of getting dedicated the act, however of protecting it up. And the explanation why they did that is that, being chargeable for the safety of Italian airspace. They didn't know what occurred,” says Gatti.
Italian journalist Claudio Gatti, writer of an investigation into the Ustica air tragedy. Photograph: EFE The truth is that “a civilian aircraft with 81 passengers was attacked in an act of struggle in Italian airspace, one thing unbelievable, even from a world perspective” and “thus far 100,000 assumptions have been made: that the French base in Corsica was open on the time, that an American plane provider was crusing within the space, that the Libyan fighter discovered weeks later after crashing in Calabria was concerned…”
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Start wished to cease the availability of uranium to Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and the Israeli Air Power mistook the DC9 Itavia for a French aircraft with that cargo to Baghdad, based on this veteran journalist who has labored in media akin to New York Occasions EITHER Il Sole 24 Hours.
“In 35 years of labor, I’ve discovered paperwork, proof and information that construct a fully distinctive situation and in accordance with the truth of the second”, he says, explaining that he wrote the e-book after eight months of former Prime Minister Giuliano Amato. beforehand he known as for “Ustica to not fall into oblivion”.
The shadow of Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein's uranium
Amato then mentioned that, with what was recognized thus far, the hypothesis that a French fighter shot down the DC9 eliminating Libyan chief Muammar Gaddafi, considering he was working for him, was extra believable, and Gatti determined to current his concept of nuclear monitor with this e-book, which made Amato change his thoughts.
The journalist, who has lived in New York for 30 years, explains that he acquired a doc from the Italian ambassador in Tripoli that claims the Libyans “had no proof that there was a aircraft” with Gaddafi flying that evening. This “closes all situations”, as all 4 are linked to the presence of the Libyan chief.
The late chief of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, in a 2010 picture. Photograph: AP “Now the query is requested: How is it potential that the Israelis tampered with the aircraft that was carrying 12 kilograms of uranium enriched to 93%, i.e. 60% of an atomic bomb, he says and solutions: as a result of “Mossad”. and “Israelites usually are not infallible.”
Gatti feedback that “it had by no means occurred in peacetime civilian airliner was attacked. Solely as soon as, on the eve of the Suez Struggle, in 1957, when the Israelis realized that the commander of the Egyptian armed forces was to fly Damascus to Cairo they usually attacked and shot down a aircraft” on which he was not touring.
“And two years after Ustika they’d a secret plan which was by no means made public till it appeared in a e-book by Ronen Bergman, an Israeli army analyst, to kill Yasser Arafat, identical to in Ustica”, which was not carried out as a result of on the final second the Palestinian chief was not going.
Gatti is forceful: “I’ve written the reality, I’ve little question, it’s documented by a large number of paperwork, precedents, occasions, indications. When you put all of it collectively, there isn’t any doubt.”