Saturday, January 8, 2011

A normal day at the front

Holmes calls himself and Defence Forum has set up one of those smilies that are used to design a state of mind: the smiley face that chose whistles and looks away. Maybe this would be enough to understand how the Italian soldiers tell "their" war in Afghanistan: "In the case of the poor dead Alpine - Holmes makes clear - it was an action such as this ...

a normal day on the Afghan front." The smile whistles, below a video showing a group of soldiers in the trenches, machine-gunned to the horizon while downloading enemy. Here, the peacekeeping mission, telling us this is from the buildings here. Wikileaks had told of the "disastrous" campaign by the Americans, the possible "evidence of war crimes," the task force secret, the hypothesis of "double game" conducted by Pakistan.

The name of Italians in those 92,000 reports, you do not. Cablegrams of Assange mentioning Foreign Minister Frattini just to prove his absolute loyalty to the Americans ("We are at your disposal") and to emphasize what is our contribution of ideas: convert "all opium poppy cultivation in good oil olive oil.

" But even without Wikileaks, just take a ride on the discussion forums of the military to find the story of another "peace mission". Andrea V. writes, one of the moderators of Defense Forum, two days ago: "Our political leaders seem to speak of Afghanistan Soviet War of the 80s ...? What war? Here there is no war ....

" We have especially with the Minister La Russa, after his death on the upside of the Alpine Matteo Miotto: "To say the simple truth: 'The soldier died in combat. Are underway to ascertain the causes which will be communicated as soon as they received all the required reports to the Commander and personnel involved in the clash '.

I mean, it was / is so difficult? - Suggests Claudio - These continuous version change, change does not change the substance of the facts. " The advice is clear: the official story should be dispensed with quiet, or you risk that revealing the limits of our missions are not always respected.

As in Nasiriyah, Iraq, in the battle of the bridges, we were told that we had not participated in the fighting, we had actually fired on an ambulance. O in the attack against an Iraqi helicopter Italian Simone Cola, where he died: the initial talk of an exit to help the Portuguese troops.

O to the 'accident' that killed Salvatore Marracino, also in Nasiriyah: according to Wikileaks, that shot did not leave his weapon. As this once useless to discuss whether to kill Miotto was a sniper or a firefight, "it was - explained on Defence Forum - our umpteenth attack on a base in another assault would not have known nothing but there was the dead man (...) We tried to pass off the incident as an isolated case of fire, because to admit the shooting would have to say that our states are engaged in a firefight.

" On Vecio. it - Alpine forum - remember in late November when he visited the Russian troops in Afghanistan and compared himself to "D'Annunzio on the flight to Vienna." Summary memorable: "The announcement Ignatius, the Great Poet (r)". There are also those who have no desire to argue with the minister, because they are too busy bragging about the deeds of those who "means business": Easy on Specwarfare.

it publishes the photos of some soldiers of Task Force 45. Strictly masked, since the two hundred "chosen" special forces are no secrets, official secrets and how the task force. They are the "raiders" from 2006 that are engaged in daily battles. Here too, we discover only when there is some seriously injured.

Or when someone like Lieutenant Alex Romani in September, the field gives us life. In these cases, difficult to whistle and look away. , January 8, 2011 Attachments

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