random notes

New America Media: "Editor's Note: Italian investigators probing the kidnapping of an Egyptian imam off the streets of Milan have uncovered links between Italian defense firms, former top-level politicians and covert U.S. operations. At the web's center is the man who many say delivered the falsified Niger 'yellowcake' uranium ore dossier to the White House -- a document the Bush administration used to push for war on Iraq. Jeffrey Klein, a founding editor of Mother Jones, freelances for magazines, radio and television. Paolo Pontoniere is a New America Media European commentator."