ITEM - In Sept. '01 Italian intelligence SISMI (details pp. 297-303 Bamford's A Pretext for War) forwards known-bogus Saddam-WMD "documents" to MI6 and CIA, both of which "legitimize" Saddam threat.

- In Sept. '02 Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League informs Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi that the League will present its Distinguished Statesman Award to him in Sept. '03.

- On Tuesday, 9/23/03 (article in 9/19/03 N. Y. Times) Mr. Foxman and Jacob Isaacson, director of the American Jewish Committee make the presentation at a gala Plaza Hotel dinner co-hosted by Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch and Mort Zuckerman (Here, a few phrases from The New Yorker 7/23/07, Nick Paumgarten's interview The Tycoon with Mr. Zuckerman: "Then he began to speak about Israel: 'I met all the major players...I have been involved with these people for years and years and years.'").