BBC ON THIS DAY | 16 | 1978: Aldo Moro snatched at gunpoint 1978: Aldo Moro snatched at gunpoint Former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro has been kidnapped in Rome. Mr Moro's escort of five police bodyguards were killed when he was snatched at gunpoint from a car near a cafe in the morning rush-hour. Chief police investigator Signor Moro said 12 gunmen took part in the attack on the former prime minister as he was being driven to parliament. Police have set up dozens of roadblocks and all exits from the city are being watched. Helicopters are hovering overhead and anti-terrorist officers have been sent to the airport. The extreme left-wing Red Brigade, in a telephone call to a Rome newspaper, has said it kidnapped the Christian Democratic leader, 61. We kidnapped Aldo Moro Red Brigade spokesman A spokesman said: "We kidnapped Aldo Moro. He is only our first victim.

We shall hit at the heart of the state." The man demanded that the Turin trial of Renato Curcio, who is suspected of leading the Red Brigade, and 14 others accused of membership of the group should be suspended. Witnesses reported seeing a white Fiat car move in front of Mr Moro's vehicle, along with a man on a motorbike. The Fiat braked hard and Mr Moro's car crashed into it. Gunmen jumped out of the Fiat and others who had been waiting nearby raised pistols and sub-machine guns. Trade unions have called a 24-hour general strike and workers have left many shops and offices in the city in a shocked reaction to the kidnapping of the much-respected statesman. Investigators are examining spent bullet cases at the scene of the crime and among guns seized they found "a rarely used Soviet weapon". Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti has condemned those who took Mr Moro, saying they were "destroying the fabric of the nation and threatening to make it ungovernable". On This Day: Aldo Moro Kidnapped by the Italian Red Brigades Aldo Moro in a photo released by the Red Brigades to the media on April 20, 1978.

On This Day: Aldo Moro Kidnapped by the Italian Red Brigades March 16, 2012 06:00 AM by findingDulcinea Staff On March 16, 1978, former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped by a left-wing extremist group; he was killed 55 days later when the terrorists’ demands were not met. Many in Italy believe that domestic or international government forces were complicit in the murder of Moro, who was due to sign a controversial agreement with the Communist Party on the day of his kidnapping. Moro Kidnapped Before Compromise Two-time former Prime Minister Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democratic Party, had negotiated an agreement to form a coalition government with the Italian Communist Party (PCI) . Known as the Historic Compromise, it alarmed both right wing parties and the extreme left, including the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group. “The Red Brigades completely opposed this idea, as it interfered with the declared aim of spearheading an armed Marxist revolution in Italy, led by a ‘revolutionary proletariat,’” explains The Florentine.

On the morning on March 16, as Moro was en route to the House of Representatives to enact the compromise, a dozen members of Red Brigades launched an assault on his car. The extremists shot and killed five of Moro’s bodyguards and abducted him, taking him to a safe house. The Red Brigades demanded the release of 13 leftist prisoners in exchange for Moro . Throughout his captivity, Moro was allowed to send letters to political allies and family members, in which he pled with the Italian government cooperate with the terrorists. In one letter, Moro writes to Italian Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga : “Weigh your actions carefully in order to avoid further evil ... In the given circumstances, besides humanitarian reasons, what becomes apparent is the reason of state. Most of all this reason of state means that in my present condition I find myself under full and uncontrolled domination. There is the risk that I will be induced to talk in a manner that could be dangerous ... May God enlighten you for the best.” Despite pleas from his friends, family and Pope Paul VI, the Italian government, which had negotiated with the Red Brigades in previous situations, refused to negotiate for Moro .

On May 9, Moro’s body was found in the trunk of a ca r, parked symbolically between the headquarters of the Christian Democrats and the Communist Party. The BBC: Italy’s history of terror There are many theories that the Italian government or foreign governments were involved in the kidnapping of Moro , or that they were willing to let Moro be killed for their own political gain. At issue is the Historic Compromise, which never went through due to the kidnapping. Italy would have become the first post-war Western European country to include communists in the majority government. There were many significant opponents to the compromise: right-wing and anti-communist politicians, along with some Christian Democrats, did not want to see the Communists given power. Both the United States and Soviet Union opposed the compromise, believing that it would destabilize East-West relations. The U.S. and NATO were concerned that the deal might threaten NATO’s position in Italy. A 1978 article by journalist Mino Pecorelli, who was murdered the following year, said that the kidnapping had “the hallmark of a lucid superpower.” Pecorelli suggested that the Gladio, a covert anti-communist network in NATO, aided the Red Brigades in the kidnapping.

Proponents of this theory point to the near-perfect execution of the kidnapping as evidence that the kidnappers were aided by elite forces. In particular, the fact that the kidnappers were able to kill the five bodyguards without harming Moro suggests that a professional shooter was involved. There are also many people who believe that, even if the Red Brigades carried out the kidnapping without outside help, there were governmental figures who wanted Moro to be killed and obstructed efforts to save him . Italian authorities launched a nationwide manhunt for Moro, but ignored key leads that would have led them to the kidnappers. Furthermore, for a country known for being willing to negotiate with terrorists, it was unusual for the government to adopt a hardline stance. Steve Pieczenik, a hostage negotiator in the State Department, claimed in 2008 that Moro was “‘sacrificed’ for the ‘stability’ of Italy.” According to his book, “We Killed Aldo Moro,” the U.S. and Italian governments instructed Pieczenik to write and deliver a false statement attributed to the Red Brigades, announcing Moro’s death.

Pieczenik said the statement was presented as a means of communicating to the Red Brigades that the Italian government already considered Moro dead, thereby removing the authority they leveraged through his captivity. Richard Drake, author of “The Aldo Moro Case,” rejects the conspiracy theories that have emerged surrounding Moro’s murder . He argues that the killing more aptly represents the threats of a country captivated by Marxist-Leninist ideology: “For all those under the beguiling spell of the revolutionary mystique, the prescriptions of Marx and Lenin transformed the most bestial acts of inhumanity into thrilling deeds on behalf of the proletariat. The Moro kidnapping was just such an act.” Munich Massacre The Brigate Rosse, known as the Red Brigades, was created in 1970s by radical Marxist-Leninist students who wished to see the overthrow off the capitalist system. The most active of Italy’s paramilitary groups during the “Year of Lead,” the Red Brigades became famous for the kidnapping of prominent Italian officials and industrialists . Following the murder of Moro, the Italian government cracked down on the Red Brigades and the extreme left .

More than 10,000 leftist leaders were arrested in 1980, while many of the Red Brigades’ leaders “disavowed their political doctrine and turned their comrades into the police,” reports The Florentine. Due to the crackdown, Red Brigades fissured around the mid-1980s, splitting off into The New Red Brigades/Communist Combatant Party and the Union of Combatant Communists. The New Brigades inherited the militancy of the original Red Brigades . The New Red Brigades claimed responsibility for the assassinations of labor minister advisor Massimo D’Antona in 1999, professor Marco Biagi in 2002 and a police officer in 2003. Aldo Moro mystery: Italian prosecutors revisit former PM's 1978 murder | World news | The Guardian Aldo Moro mystery: Italian prosecutors revisit former PM's 1978 murder Investigation may be reopened after claims about involvement of external forces in abduction by terrorist group A picture of Aldo Moro released by the Red Brigades in April 1978.

Photograph: AP Monday 17 June 2013 13.23 EDT First published on Monday 17 June 2013 13.23 EDT Close This article is 3 years old It was arguably the darkest episode of Italy's postwar history: the kidnapping of former prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978 and the discovery of his corpse 55 days later in the boot of a Renault 4 in central Rome. Despite four trials, numerous investigations and the passage of 35 years, the affair continues to raise questions among Italians, with many sharing the belief that the truth has never fully come out. On Monday it emerged that Rome prosecutors had taken a tentative first step towards reopening the case, after new claims about the supposed involvement of external forces. There is no doubt that the murder was carried out by members of the urban guerrilla Red Brigades, several of whom were given hefty sentences for the crime. But there are unanswered questions over how Moro's 55 days in captivity were handled by the authorities. Some suspect that acting alongside the terrorists were bigger forces for whom Moro's disappearance was, in the circumstances, a necessary evil.

Moro, president of the then powerful Christian Democrat (DC) party, was on his way to inaugurate a new government on 16 March 1978 when he was snatched and his five bodyguards killed. The government was to have been a "historic compromise" between the DC and the Italian Communist party (PCI), the biggest of its kind in the west. With the cold war raging, Moro's plans were deeply controversial – in Rome, Moscow and Washington. In the eight weeks before his bullet-ridden body was discovered on 9 May, the Italian government insisted it would not negotiate with terrorist organisations. A massive police investigation failed to rescue Moro. Some say tipoffs were mishandled or ignored. Prosecutors are reported to be evaluating if there is enough fresh evidence to warrant reopening the case. La Repubblica said they were acting in response to some of the new claims and tipoffs received in recent years. The intervention that appears to have carried most weight is a book written by a former magistrate who led investigations of the affair, in which he implicates foreign intelligence services such as the KGB and the highest echelons of the Italian state.

Ferdinando Imposimato, now honorary president of Italy's supreme court, singled out former prime ministers Giulio Andreotti and Francesco Cossiga when he told the AffarItaliani website: "The role [of the Italian political class] was one of absolute subordination to this foreign hegemony. In Italy the orders that came in from abroad were obeyed." Andreotti died last month; Cossiga in 2010. Andreotti was initially convicted but later acquitted of ordering the murder of an investigative journalist suspected of knowing too much about the Moro affair. Writing in La Repubblica, Miguel Gotor, a centre-left politician and historian, condemned the "intellectual and civil sloth" that had led to the lingering mystery over the murder.

He said a new judicial investigation, while to a certain extent welcome, risked being "the belated and rotten fruit of a sick country", adding: "Certainly, this new move by the magistrature could prove useful because it will gather together new documents and testimony, but we will be forgiven for doubting that it will be able to give qualitatively more justice than has hitherto been the case." ITALY RE-EXAMINES 1978 MORO SLAYING - NYTimes.com ITALY RE-EXAMINES 1978 MORO SLAYING By ALAN COWELL, Published: November 7, 1993 ROME, Nov. 5— Fifteen years after terrorists kidnapped and killed Aldo Moro in postwar Italy's most enduring national trauma, investigators have been confronted with new evidence suggesting that the wrong man was convicted of the killing and that key testimony in court cases was false. The Moro case is as obsessive for Italians as John F. Kennedy's assassination is for Americans. And like the killing in Dallas in 1963, the 1978 slaying of the respected former Prime Minister has produced an endless stream of conspiracy theories.

If they were ever proved, however, they would almost certainly implicate politicians who are still alive today, and that is one reason Italians find them so fascinating at a time when the country is confronting a vast bribery and corruption scandal and demands for political and economic change. The affair has assumed added urgency in what seems a resurgence of Red Brigades activity against the American military here. The Red Brigades, one of the most ruthless of the urban guerrilla gangs in Europe in the late 1970's, was blamed at the time for Mr. Moro's kidnapping and murder. Arrests and Discoveries Shots were fired last month at Aviano air base, the installation in northern Italy that is used by United States fighters to fly patrols over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Three suspected Red Brigades members were arrested last week along with four organized-crime suspects, and the police discovered plans for ambitious kidnappings of business executives. While Interior Minister Nicola Mancino dismissed the terrorists as "isolated phenomena," some commentators have expressed fears that terrorism may be reviving.

In the last month testimony by people who took part in the Moro killing, including former Red Brigades terrorists, has contradicted the version of events accepted by the courts when the killers and kidnappers came to trial. Most dramatically, Adriana Faranda, a former Red Brigades terrorist, has told investigators that Prospero Gallinari, the man convicted of killing Mr. Moro after his 55 days in captivity, did not carry out the slaying, even though Mr. Gallinari has said repeatedly that as a Red Brigades member, he accepts responsibility for it. 'Fourth Man' Identified Ms. Faranda has identified another person, Germano Maccari, as the long-suspected so-called fourth man who was overseeing Mr. Moro's imprisonment in a Rome apartment. Previously, only three Red Brigades terrorists were positively identified as the captors who stayed with Mr. Moro throughout his ordeal. Mr. Maccari had not previously been brought into the Moro investigation, and he has denied the charges of murder, kidnapping and membership in a terrorist group brought against him as a result of Ms. Faranda's testimony. Ms.

Faranda's version has been contradicted by another former Red Brigades terrorist, Mario Moretti, who broke a long silence on the affair when he said in an interview with two Italian journalists published last week that he alone had fired the fatal shots. "I would never have allowed anyone else to do it," Mr. Moretti said. Ms. Faranda, by contrast, indicated to investigators that both Mr. Maccari and Mr. Moretti carried out the murder. Mr. Gallinari, the convicted killer, dismissed the whole controversy in a letter to Il Manifesto, a left-wing newspaper, two weeks ago, saying it was designed to insure "that people don't see the woods for the trees." Mr. Gallinari is serving a life sentence. Five Killed in Kidnapping Mr. Moro was kidnapped and five of his bodyguards were killed on March 16, 1978, as he drove to Parliament. Fifty-five days later, he was shot dead in the garage below the apartment where he had been held, and his body was found later in the trunk of a car parked in central Rome. At the heart of the mystery is the question of what Mr. Moro told his captors.

According to Francesco Biscione, the author of a study of Mr. Moro's responses to their questions, sections of what the politician wrote may have been mysteriously excised from versions found in a Red Brigades hide-out in Milan in 1978 and 1990. "In two instances, when they referred to the secret services in Libya and the relationship between Andreotti and the secret services, the texts seemed to be incomplete," Mr. Biscione said, referring to Giulio Andreotti, who was Prime Minister at the time of the kidnapping and whose Government rejected Mr. Moro's entreaties for the authorities to negotiate with the Red Brigades for his life. "This is an indication, but not proof, that something is missing." Two people thought to have seen the full texts of Mr. Moro's responses -- Mino Pecorelli, a journalist, and Gen. Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa of the Carabinieri -- were subsequently killed. A Mafia informer, Tommaso Buscetta, has accused Mr. Andreotti of ordering both killings. Mr.

Andreotti has termed the charges "falsehood and lies." Red Brigade - definition of Red Brigade by The Free Dictionary Red Brigade - definition of Red Brigade by The Free Dictionary Also found in: Thesaurus , Encyclopedia , Wikipedia . Red Brigades pl n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the Red Brigades a group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–78) in 1978 ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Noun 1.

Red Brigades - a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s; wants to separate Italy from NATO and advocates violence in the service of class warfare and revolution; mostly inactive since 1989 Brigate Rosse , BR act of terrorism , terrorism , terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear Italia , Italian Republic , Italy - a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us , add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content . Link to this page: Moro References in periodicals archive ? Shortly thereafter, the former Red Brigade member received amnesty after 11 years in prison and began working in a church-run social service center in Calabria.

Roots of terror Timothy Leary and his eventual unlawful kidnap from Afghanistan by American agents, to the creation of the Red Brigade terrorist faction and their assassination of ex-Prime Minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, Black reveals that covert intelligence agencies from various nations, most notably America and Britain, were directly involved. REVIEW: Acid: A New Secret History of LSD During the 1960s and 1970s, hundreds who didn't think so went to their graves: peasant rebel Ruben Jaramillo, the Tlatelolco and Corpus Christi demonstrators, guerrillas Lucio Cabanas, Genaro Vasquez, Guero Medrano, the young men and women of the Twenty-third of September League, Mexico's Red Brigade. What happened to the Mexican left? s Red Brigade, Finland's Yomi Media, and India's Mascot Systems. Aldo Moro found dead - May 09, 1978 - HISTORY.com Aldo Moro found dead Publisher A+E Networks On May 9, 1978, the body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro is found, riddled by bullets, in the back of a car in the center of historic Rome.

He was kidnapped by Red Brigade terrorists on March 16 after a bloody shoot-out near his suburban home. The Italian government refused to negotiate with the extreme left-wing group, which, after numerous threats, executed Moro on May 9. He was a five-time prime minister of Italy and considered a front-runner for the presidency of Italy in elections due in December. Aldo Moro was regarded by many as Italy’s most capable post-World War II politician. A centrist leader of the Christian Democratic Party, he served five times as prime minister in the 1960s and 1970s and promoted cooperation between Italy’s disparate political parties. When he formed his first cabinet in 1963, he included some Socialists, who were thus participating in the Italian government for the first time in 16 years. Moro last served as prime minister in 1976, and in October 1976 became president of the Christian Democrats. On March 11, 1978, he helped end a government crisis when he worked out a parliamentary coalition between the Communist Party and the dominant Christian Democrats. Just five days later, Mr.

Moro’s car was attacked by a dozen armed Red Brigade terrorists. His five guards were killed, and Moro was abducted and taken to a secret location. On March 18, the Red Brigade issued a communique claiming responsibility for the kidnapping and stating that Moro would undergo a “people’s trial.” The Red Brigade, established in 1970 by Italian Renato Curcio, employed bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, and bank robberies as a means of promoting communist revolution in Italy. The Italian Communist Party, which supported democracy and participated in Parliament, condemned the terrorist Red Brigade, and the Red Brigade accused the Communist Party of being a pawn of the bourgeoisie. Renato Curcio and 12 other Red Brigade members were on trial in Turin when Moro was kidnapped, and legal proceedings were only briefly halted after his abduction. The Italian government declined to negotiate with the kidnappers, claiming that such an action would undermine the state and throw Italy into chaos. Some critics accused the Christian Democrats of yielding to pressure from the Communist Party, whose leaders were even more strongly opposed to a dialogue with the Red Brigade.

Police and the army arrested hundreds of suspected terrorists and scoured the country looking for the “people’s prison” where Moro was being held but failed to find any solid clues. On March 19 and April 4, letters apparently freely written by Moro were delivered pleading with the government to negotiate. The government attempted secret talks, but on April 15 the Red Brigade rejected these negotiations and announced that Moro had been found guilty in the people’s trial and sentenced to death. Threats to execute him led nowhere, and on April 24 the terrorists demanded the release of 13 Red Brigade members held in Turin in exchange for Moro’s life. On May 7, Moro sent a farewell letter to his wife, saying, “They have told me that they are going to kill me in a little while, I kiss you for the last time.” Two days later, his body was found on Via Caetani, within 300 yards of the headquarters of the Christian Democrats and 200 yards from the Communist Party headquarters. According to a wish expressed by Moro during his abduction, no Italian politicians were invited to his funeral.

During the next decade, many Red Brigade leaders and members were arrested, and the organization was greatly weakened. Related Videos US envoy admits role in Aldo Moro killing - Telegraph World News US envoy admits role in Aldo Moro killing Aldo Moro, the former Italian prime minister, who was seized at gunpoint by the Red Brigades in 1978 By Malcolm Moore in Rome 12:01AM GMT 11 Mar 2008 An American envoy has claimed that he played a critical role in the fate of Aldo Moro, the former Italian prime minister who was murdered by terrorists in 1978. Steve Pieczenik, an international crisis manager and hostage negotiator in the State Department, said that Moro had been "sacrificed" for the "stability" of Italy. In a new book called We Killed Aldo Moro, Mr Pieczenik said he was sent to Italy by President Jimmy Carter on the day that Moro was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, a far-Left terrorist group.

Moro, who had been prime minister for a total of more than five years between 1963 and 1976, was snatched at gunpoint from his car in Rome. Related Articles Sting nets Moro kidnapper 18 Jan 2004 He had been heading to parliament for a crucial vote on a ground-breaking alliance he had proposed between the Christian Democrat Party and the Italian Communist Party. The alliance enraged both sides of the political spectrum in Italy, and also upset both Moscow and Washington. Moro's widow, Eleonora, later said Henry Kissinger had warned her husband against his strategy. "You will pay dearly for it," he is alleged to have said. Mr Pieczenik said he was part of a "crisis committee" headed by Francesco Cossiga, the interior minister. Moro was held for 54 days. Mr Pieczenik said the committee was jolted into action by the fear that Moro would reveal state secrets in an attempt to free himself. A false statement, attributed to the Red Brigades, was leaked saying that Moro was dead.

Mr Pieczenick said that this had a dual purpose; to prepare the Italian public for the worst, and to let the Red Brigades know that the state would not negotiate for Moro, and considered him already dead. The following month, Moro was shot and placed in the back of a car in central Rome, midway between the headquarters of the Communist Party and the Christian Democrats. In a documentary on French television last weekend, Mr Cossiga admitted the committee had taken the decision to release the false statement. Illuminati News: Was The Assassination Of The Former Italian Prime Minister, Ordered By Henry Kissinger Bettino Craxi (1934-2000) "America's "nobility" were doing their share to destroy the Republic of Italy, a notable contribution having come from Richard Gardner even while in his official capacity as President Carter's ambassador to Rome. At that time Gardner was operating under the direct control of Bettino Craxi , an important member of the Club of Rome and a key man in NATO. Craxi was the leading edge of the conspirators' attempts to destroy the Italian Republic.

As we shall see, Craxi was almost successful in ruining Italy, and as the conspirators hierarchy's leading player, was able to get divorce and abortion pushed through the Italian Parliament, resulting in the most far-reaching and destructive religious and social changes ever to strike at the Catholic Church, and consequently, the morals of the Italian nation. "After President Ronald Reagan was elected, an important meeting was held in Washington D.C. in December 1980 under the auspices of the Club of Rome and the Socialist International. Both these organizations are directly responsible to the Committee of 300. The main agenda was to formulate ways and means of how to neutralize the Reagan presidency. A group plan was adopted and, as we look back, it is perfectly clear that the plan the conspirators agreed to follow has been very successful." Looking back at the explosive testimony by Guerzoni linking Kissinger to the Moro assassination, it is interesting to note it was covered extensively by the Italian media, but not a peep was heard in the U.S. as the big from the wire services and the Post and Time suppressed every word of the Guerzoni testimony to the American public.

The mainstream media further suppressed key testimony by several Red Brigades members about how Moro was brutally shot to death and how they knew of high-level U.S. involvement in the plot to kill Moro. During the years following the Moro killing, I saw up close and personal how the U.S. was orchestrating terrorism in Italy, working undercover with the P2 Masonic Lodge and the Vatican, in the very same manner terrorism and a propaganda-based media is being orchestrated today in America. And to put icing on the cake, leading to a journalistic hiatus near the Adriatic Sea, came the shocking discovery that Black Ops CIA money was also controlling the English language newspaper in Rome and all the other news coming out of the American wire services. Although the news outlets were shut off, Dr. Coleman provided a behind the scenes look at really happened to Moro even though his writings found a long and hard road, never really reaching the mainstream. "In June and July of 1982, the wife of Aldo Moro testified in open court that her husband's murder came about as a result of serious threats against his life, made by what she called "a high ranking United States political figure," writes Dr. Coleman. "Mrs.

Eleanora Moro repeated the precise phrase reportedly used by Kissinger in the sworn testimony of Guerzoni: "Either you stop your political line or you will pay dearly for it." "Recalled by the judge, Guerzoni was asked if he could identify the person Mrs. Moro was talking about. Guerzoni replied that it was indeed Henry Kissinger as he had previously intimated. Guerzoni went on to explain to the court that Kissinger had made his threats in Moro's hotel room during the Italian leaders official visit to the U.S. Moro-then Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Italy, a NATO member-country-was a man of high rank, one who should never have been subjected to Mafia-like pressures and threats. Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830) "Moro was accompanied on his American visit by the President of Italy in his official capacity. Kissinger was then, and still is, an important agent in the service of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, a member of the Club of Rome and the Council on Foreign Relations.

"In my 1982 expose of this heinous crime, I demonstrated that Aldo Moro, a loyal member of the Christian Democrat Party, was murdered by assassins controlled by P2 Masonry with the object of bringing Italy into line with Club of Rome orders to de-industrialize the country and considerably reduce its population. "Moro's plans to stabilize Italy through full employment and industrial and political peace would have strengthened Catholic opposition to Communism and made the destabilization of the Middle East-a prime goal-that much harder. "From the foregoing it becomes clear just how far ahead the conspirators plan. They do not think in terms of a Five Year Plan. One needs to go back to Weishaupt's statements about the early Catholic Church to understand what was involved in the murder of Aldo Moro. Moro's death removed the roadblocks to the plans to destabilize Italy, and as we now know, enabled conspiracy plans for the Middle East to be carried out in the Gulf War 14 years later." For more informative articles, go to Greg Szymanski Greg also has his own daily show on the Republic Broadcast Network.

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Link to this page: Curb your pessimism Later waves of fashion in terrorism included the European, Latin American and Japanese "urban terrorist" movements of the 1970s and 80s -- Baader-Meinhof Gang in Germany, Red Brigades in Italy, Montoneros in Argentina, Japanese Red Army and so on -- none of which has any political success at all. Feeding the terrorism beast 1 Shirley Heights won the Derby 2 Princess Margaret sought a divorce from the Earl of Snowdon 3 Former Italian premier Aldo Moro was murdered by a group of Red Brigades 4 Argentina won football's World Cup wordwise The word may sound familiar, but what does it mean? Name the Year Such rhetoric might be effective with older electors, who witnessed communist terrorists the Red Brigades and their neo-fascist counterparts planting bombs and waging terror during the Years of Lead in the late 60s and 70s but it is hardly an election winner.

Why Silvio Berlusconi Decided U-Turn in Favour of Enrico Letta While the rest of Italy is dealing with the most historically astonishing domestic terrorist attack on the state enacted by the Red Brigades (the kidnapping and subsequent murder of renowned politician Aldo Moro, in 1978), three eleven-year-old Sicilian students enamored with rhetoric and language (they invent an alphabet made up of foolish body signs, named "alphamute") find themselves at odds with their surroundings and feel the urgency to take action. Far-left militant who kidnapped ex-PM dies in Italy In a note following a December 1981 briefing by US Embassy and State Department officials, the Government was told: "Since 1978 Gaddafi has turned away somewhat from his previous support of terrorist groups but contact with the PIRA and the Red Brigades and others continues.

TRADE TRUMPS GADDAFI IRA LINK FEARS Older readers may recall Germany's Baader-Meinhof Gang of murderers and Italy's Red Brigades or the violent riots by French students, which soon drew the support of French workers, shook Paris in 1968, and contributed to President de Gaulle's departure from power in 1969. The War of All the People Drawing a parallel between this and the incident in which Marxist organization the Red Brigades kidnapped former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978, Avcy says that the PKK kidnapping AygE-n will have almost the same psychological effect, which was a loss of prestige for Italy. Key events of 1978 | UK news | The Guardian Key events of 1978 Close This article is 8 years old In a year with more than its share of notable deaths there was also one very notable birth. A little before midnight on 25 July, Louise Brown, the world's first IVF baby, was born. The 5lb 12oz (2.61 kg) girl ushered in a fertility revolution that continues to this day.

The former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped and murdered by the Red Brigades; Pope John Paul, head of the Roman Catholic church for just over a month died, and Carl Bridgewater, a 13-year-old paper boy, was shot dead after disturbing a burglary in Staffordshire. Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident, was murdered in London with an umbrella that carried a poison pellet. In Jonestown, Guyana, 918 people died in a mass suicide. The musical world said goodbye to Keith Moon, Jacques Brel, and – most notoriously of all – Nancy Spungen, who was stabbed to death in the Chelsea hotel in New York by Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols. The Bee Gees continued to dominate the charts thanks to their soundtrack to the previous year's Saturday Night Fever, although Boney M (Rivers of Babylon), Paul McCartney (Mull of Kintyre), and Kate Bush (Wuthering Heights) also found chart success. The Sex Pistols played their last gig together and Rod Stewart asked: Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?

Audiences headed to the cinema to watch Danny Zuko pursue Sandy Olsson in Grease, a goofy reporter from the planet Krypton pursue Lois Lane in Superman, and Turkish justice pursue an American drug smuggler in Midnight Express. Those huddled around smaller screens saw Roman Polanksi flee to the UK and then France to escape the pursuit of US justice after admitting unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl. They also witnessed the TV debuts of, among other shows, Grange Hill and Dallas. Ipswich Town beat Arsenal 1-0 to win the FA Cup and Argentina beat Holland 3-1 to win the World Cup on home ground. Democratic government returned officially to Spain after a referendum approved a new constitution and the Nobel prize for literature was won by the Polish-born American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. Britain's ability to defend itself against an attack from the Soviet Union was so diminished in the late 1970s that the prime minister exclaimed: "Heaven help us if there is a war!" Published: 29 Dec 2008

Question: Which former Italian Prime Minister was kidnapped and murdered in 1978?
Answer: Aldo Moro