Making deals with terrorists...

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Back in 70s there was a wave of Palestinian terrorism in Italy, along with other types of far-left and far-right terrorism. This included:

1972: Blowing up 150,000 tons of oil near Trieste:
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1973: Murder of 34 people, with 14 injured in Rome:
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1982: Murder of a 2-year old child, and injuring of 37 at a synagogue in Rome:
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1983: 19 dead and 120 wounded in military attacks on passengers at airports:
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The Italian politician, tired of Palestinian terrorism, made a deal with Palestinians, letting them travel freely through Italy if they wouldn’t engage in terrorism. His motivation in “Lodo Moro” was:

in many cases, exchanges have been made in the past, everywhere, to safeguard hostages and save innocent victims

You might wonder what happened to this politician, Aldo Moro? He was kidnapped by Red Brigades, the communist terrorists, and killed:

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Maybe a cautionary tale about tolerating terrorism in any form. Game theory >> naive ethics.

Also, a lesson about what it takes to be a live player vs a literally dead player:

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Palestinian? Maybe, but that wasn’t the main interest behind terrorism in Italy.

Operation Gladio wore many masks.

Aldo Moro

Aldo Moro was one of the founders of Christian Democracy, a Christian democratic political party in Italy. The Red Brigades (BR), an Italian far-left armed organisation abducted him on the 16th of March 1978 and then killed him on the 9th of May of the same year.

Some investigations proved that Gladio knew about Moro’s abduction 14 days before and that the bullets shot by the BR were the same found in some Nasco.

Secondly, on the morning of the kidnapping, Colonel Camillo Guglielmi, a Gladio trainer at Capo Marrargiu, was accidentally on the crime scene.

Finally, the same printer the BR used to do propaganda against Moro was the same one used in a Gladio office specialised in training the gladiators.

Moro at the time of his abduction was involved in a process against the BR.
From: Operation Gladio: The CIA’s Clandestine Network in Italy - Grey Dynamics

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