Robert Seldon Lady, the former CIA chief in Milan, has gone into hiding. He is the subject of an extradition order from Italian authorities for the role he played in the kidnapping of radical Muslim cleric Abu Omar in Milan. Washington is seeking to derail the trial — perhaps because Condoleezza Rice may have given the operation the green light.
After 24 years with the agency, he had planned to retire in Penango. But now he’s become a bit of a vagabond instead. He was in Florida last, but he reportedly moved on already. His farm is nestled in the soft hills of Penango, a small town in northern Italy. He’s had to leave everything there: his antique furniture, his books, the wine and the family photos. To this day, he continues to pay his $4,000 mortgage.-
Kidnap, torture and he still pays his mortgage, what a model operative of the Empire. After all he apparently was an Iran-Contra player with that Negroponte Honduran death squad seal of approval:-
Lady grew up in Honduras and became a New York City police officer in the 1970s. In the early-1980s, he joined the CIA, and later in the decade, Lady ran the Contra-support operations from the Honduran military base at Ojo de Agua, 30 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa. He continued to work in Central America until his transfer to Milan in 2001.
It appears he was involved in black ops: he allegedly infiltrated left-wing organizations, radicalized them and set them up for the fall.-
What a guy, I can only hope his wife is not so happy her Italian rustic dream built out of blood is lying empty, ‘Way to get indicted Bob, ever thought of not being so evil and maybe NOT FUCKING UP OUR BEAUTIFUL HOUSE! I want a divorce, what are doing with that icepick? Oh I’m sorry did I kick you in the balls again? Fucking douchebag. My mother was right about you.’
-He has connections to the Niger uranium con, made in Italy for war against Iraq. {Once on the run} He was spending most of his time in Honduras, near the capital city of Tegucigalpa. US has used Honduras, its closest Central American ally, as a base for puppet-nation-building in Latin America for over 25 years and doesn’t want its Central American machinations exposed. (The Reagan administration aided Contras, or “Againsts,” in Nicaraqua and “Fors” in states with repressive right-wing regimes like Guatemala and El Salvador.) Also, if pressured, Lady might squeal what he knows about Nigergate, the use of forged documents, obtained through Italy and France, to drive the US to war.-
But :-
Until very recently, it seemed certain that the case would move ahead. But last week the Italian government asked the country’s highest justices at the constitutional court to determine whether the trial could proceed. This has fueled hope for Seldon and, indeed, the entire US administration, that a legal drama might still be prevented. -
Italy, don’t make me -Dammit! you; You’ve been warned.
