Giuliano Amato contends French missile brought down a passenger jet, killing all 81 persons aboard the Italian domestic flight, while targeting then-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who Amato says was tipped off by Rome.
In the aftermath of the crash, French, US and NATO officials denied any military activity in the skies that night. / Photo: AP Archive
While acknowledging he has no hard proof, Amato also contended that Italy tipped off Gaddafi, and so the Libyan, who was heading back to Tripoli from a meeting in Yugoslavia, didn't board the Libyan military jet.Some say a bomb exploded aboard the Itavia jetliner on a flight from Bologna to Sicily, while others say an examination of the wreckage, pulled up from the seafloor years later, indicates it was hit by a missile.
NATO planned to"simulate an exercise, with many planes in action, during which a missile was supposed to be fired" with Gaddafi as the target, Amato said.
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