whitebeard

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What do you think about this kidnapping and of the modality?

It's another step forward in this tunnel of horror. It is clear that by now whoever is a foreigner in Iraq, is a target. This, I must however say, is also a consequence of an intentional, meditated and programmed operation that is being carried out for some years now, of mixing humanitarian and military intervention.

Could you please explain yourself?

I mean, when the humanitarian war started, the countries that made war, at the same time, in order to try to alleviate their responsibilities said: "We are making aid available". The same has happened then in Afghanistan. The same is happening in Iraq in ever more marked ways, that is going as far as to say:"Our troops are carrying out humanitarian work". Well then if everyone is there to carry out humanitarian work, everyone becomes a target. I think that this kidnapping is a tragic consequence of this practice. I hope there are no other strategies underneath such as that of eliminating all uncomfortable testimonies, that is forcing all humanitarian organizations to go away from Iraq in order to be able to continue, undisturbed, this barbarity that we are witnessing every day.

But just to say it clearly: who would want the humanitarian organizations to leave the country?

For example all the occupying forces ...

That is to say Americans, English, Italians, ...

The Americans, the English, the Italians, all those who are participating in the aggression on Iraq. They have never approved the presence of external non-embedded critical observers. It has already happened in other places. It has happened in Chechnya. It has happened in Afghanistan. Perhaps the assassination of Enzo Baldoni can be read in the same key. The kidnapping of the two French journalists as well, who were certainly not journalists of a warmongering composition.

Listen, doesn't it seem a bit too much of a conspiracy to you?

You see, I believe that in that strange world over there of the secret services ... a friend of mine says that the cleanest has the scabies and I'm convinced that it is so. It is certainly not difficult for someone to infiltrate anyone. In the end it really becomes irrelevant who materially carried out that assassination. We need to see who benefits. Even though we don't have any proof, because it is a story that repeats itself, that of trying to eliminate possible voices of dissent or voices that denounce, it doesn't even seem strange or surprising to me that it is being attempted in Iraq.

What can happen now?

The problem is what will happen after this kidnapping affair will have been concluded, let's hope in a positive and not violent way. Another [kidnapping] will take place. There will be another bombardment and another car-bomb and there will be this chain of deaths to which we really risk getting accustomed to. Because watching the TV news is like this in Israel and in Palestine, in Chechnya and now also in Jakarta, then in Iraq, then in Afghanistan. Well, this world is becoming a world of blows and I believe this should make us all reflect...

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