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He issued European arrest warrants in 2005 against approximatively 20 Central Intelligence Agency agents accused of having taken part in the abduction of Abu Omar, the Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. The case is known in Italy as the Imam Rapito affair. Before that, Guido Salvini was in charge of investigations, since July 1988, concerning Italy"s strategy of tension during the 1970s.
These targets included former Prime minister Romano Prodi, his staff, General Giuseppe Cucchi (current director of the CESIS), Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro, also in charge of the "Imam Rapito" case, as well as Louisiana Repubblica reporters Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe Doctorate"Avanzo, who discovered the Yellowcake forgery manipulations.
This network includes, according to Salvitti, Mario Scaramella, Nicolò Pollari, head of SISMI intelligence agency indicted in the Imam Rapito affair, Marco Mancini, n°2 of SISMI arrested in July 2006 for the same reason, as well as Robert Lady, Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Milan also indicted in the kidnapping of Abu Omar in Milan. Guido Salvini started investigating events relating to Italy"s strategy of tension, which have involved a North Atlantic Treaty Organization stay-behind anti-communist network kwown as Gladio, in July 1988.
After 463 interrogations, the investigations produced 60,000 pages. He indicted in 1998 David Carrett, officer of the United States Navy, on charges of political and military espionage as well as participation in the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing.
The neofascists had decided to kill Mariano Rumor, on retaliation against his decision not to proclaim the state of emergency following the Piazza Fontana bombing — which, according to neo-fascist Vincenzo Vinciguerra, was one of the main objectives of this bombing.
