Yesterday Barack Obama paid homage to the 11 victims in silence. A silence full of meaning and importance in days of controversy, accusations and explanations necessary. Under the "survivor tree", the tree survived the collapse of the towers, now there's a wreath that will soon dry up and, since then, really will return to Ground Zero to be the World Trade Center in New York and a wounded city but not tamed.
Many relatives of the victims were celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden. Few New Yorkers have done so. Few Americans have done. And who did it was moved by an instinctive reaction, a kind of liberating feeling. Which, of course, everyone knows not to be definitive. Because terrorism is not over and the United States do not stop being a target.
Mohammed, a Pakistani taxi driver told me to be satisfied for the action that led to the killing of bin Laden. "He brought disgrace to my country. The United States has many responsibilities but we are Arabs and we do not put bombs in the subway or launching aircraft into the towers. We talk.
" Who dies in a bombing is innocent. Anywhere in the world. Whatever the hand that throws the bomb or organize a plan. In the Twin Towers were innocent. Because being American is not a fault. In London buses were innocent. In Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, to die in Africa are very often the innocent.
By virtue of that human madness called war. Under the criminal insanity that is called terrorism. From Sunday, every time I take the subway I've heard the same ad ten years ago, "If you see something, say something." Lately it felt less. Now is the time. And you review police who control packs and bags.
My mother told me "Be careful" and I smiled. I also wondered, though, if those who have so much to the Americans, or Arabs, or Muslims, or the Afghans really makes account until the end, in an explosion in a subway town during rush hour, he would die any angelic Vitaliano, whose life (or whose death) would not be a punishment for America but just a pain for my family and my friends.
To this I agree with the decision of President Obama to not release those photos. And the decision to be silent. Why do innocent people need at least silence. 
Many relatives of the victims were celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden. Few New Yorkers have done so. Few Americans have done. And who did it was moved by an instinctive reaction, a kind of liberating feeling. Which, of course, everyone knows not to be definitive. Because terrorism is not over and the United States do not stop being a target.
Mohammed, a Pakistani taxi driver told me to be satisfied for the action that led to the killing of bin Laden. "He brought disgrace to my country. The United States has many responsibilities but we are Arabs and we do not put bombs in the subway or launching aircraft into the towers. We talk.
" Who dies in a bombing is innocent. Anywhere in the world. Whatever the hand that throws the bomb or organize a plan. In the Twin Towers were innocent. Because being American is not a fault. In London buses were innocent. In Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, to die in Africa are very often the innocent.
By virtue of that human madness called war. Under the criminal insanity that is called terrorism. From Sunday, every time I take the subway I've heard the same ad ten years ago, "If you see something, say something." Lately it felt less. Now is the time. And you review police who control packs and bags.
My mother told me "Be careful" and I smiled. I also wondered, though, if those who have so much to the Americans, or Arabs, or Muslims, or the Afghans really makes account until the end, in an explosion in a subway town during rush hour, he would die any angelic Vitaliano, whose life (or whose death) would not be a punishment for America but just a pain for my family and my friends.
To this I agree with the decision of President Obama to not release those photos. And the decision to be silent. Why do innocent people need at least silence.
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