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December 25, 2010 - Transfer by helicopter to the Navy EH101 Farah - Photos of Joseph Lami



Language NATO military is full of acronyms, are used to communicate between their soldiers who speak different languages, such as a turkish with a Lithuanian .

FOB stands for Forward Operating Base, which is advanced operational base.
In FOB Farah is home to the command of the Regiment Venice Lagoon, with an increase of light tanks from the 1st Reconnaissance Regiment Dardo Sharpshooters of Cosenza. This group of men and equipment represents the control group of the Alpine Brigade Julia who has command of the entire western region of Afghanistan.

The FOB Farah, though we live in a tent, is a relatively comfortable shared with the Americans here that have a department MEDCAP surgery center has a highly organized and intense CIMIC activities to humanitarian and social issues.
Above the base station as a guard dog, a balloon packed with chips, sensors and computers can detect and monitor movements of people about 25 miles away.

December 25, 2010 - The arrival of General David Petraeus to C130J Farah - Photos of Giuseppe Lami

I arrived in Farah on Christmas Day with a helicopter of the Navy, it was Christmas I noticed the amount of cribs, all made with rare skills using recycled materials, present in all the crossroads between the tents but also for the 'sudden arrival of the C130 General David Petraeus. General 4stars came to bring greetings to its soldiers, including Italians, and then leave quickly to go and meet the Chief of Staff to Camporini Bakwa, using 's EH101 our Navy from which had just landed.

December 25, 2010 - The commander of the Regiment, Colonel John Parmer Venetian Lagoon receives General David Petraeus just landed sull'aviosuperfice Farah - Photos of Giuseppe Lami

Despite the feast day the base was in great turmoil with the mechanics to work until late at night around the Lynx and the darts in a continuous succession of briefing at various levels, and the lagoon cleaned their weapons and closed bags and backpacks.
the evening of 25 after putting some American soldiers came to visit the area and offered the Italian cakes sent by their fellow citizens together with many small gifts, not directed at anyone in particular but to the American soldiers as such: cakes, books, magazine subscriptions, aftershave, socks, hiking ... One way to tell America. soldier .. thanks for what you're doing to me. I know you're risking your life in a place that I can not even find on a map, but thanks to you I can eat turkey and drink the wine from California in my warm house, with my family today is Christmas and thus have a concrete certainty that this will last!

The next day I started with a motorized column to reach another FOB, to Bala BALUK, silent Lagoon II by the Company of the Regiment with whom I shared an exercise in the past months in the lagoon. At that time I begin to understand what they are made of the Lagoon, proud of their role and significance of their badges with the image of the lion of San Marco. P er avoid any doubt about their specialties amphibious transported from Venice to Afghanistan the anchors of their landing craft, which have graced the field, arousing great interest among the Afghan soldiers who had never seen a 'again and that they exchanged for weapons mysterious!
But the guys from Venice lagoon have also brought notebooks, pencils and other materials collected by the Lagoon to be deployed in the villages during their patrols.

December 26, 2010 - In the column through the desert towards Bala BALUK - Photos of Giuseppe Lami


The purpose of this massive transfer of personnel and equipment by Farah Bala in BALUK was to reinforce the outpost to assist and protect a unit of the ANA (Afghanistan National Army) in military action to clear , ie cleanup of a village by the presence of insurgents of various kinds such as the Taliban, extortionists, extortionists, drug traffickers and arms with their retinue of armed Janissaries and bombers.

As the column began to move from the Farah come warning from 'intelligence that indicate the likely presence of IEDs along Route 517 and so the column will move to an alternate route across the desert, a virtual street, identified only by GPS, conventionally called Federica .

Imagine dozens of armored vehicles and light tanks with the follow-up trucks with fuel, ammunition and supplies moving across the desert in a hostile area and suitable for ambushes. A transfer of more than six hours of off-road in real hot and then cold, with the boys in coupling focused on their angle of fire, always exposed to a light and soft as talcum powder that goes everywhere .
are weighed down by body armor and dall'elmetto and I'm tied up like a sausage with a five-point harness car seats for small armored Lince; try not to show discomfort and fatigue to young Lagoon me home in their midst and who tell me their experiences.
Meanwhile encrypted over the radio we hear that along the road and found the Genius 517 IED defused three for our column, you probably discovered by the Predator or the AMX while a fourth is missing a pick up of the ANA, killing the occupants, the Afghans are less scientific of us in the movements.
As the voltage increases down the darkness, traveling without headlights and all operations are carried out with night vision goggles and clothing that was too hot for the day became too cold for the night desert.
finally come to call Bala BALUK who knows FOB ironic, but in reality is a small outpost for a company of light infantry, set out to pull the curved insurgents fact that they pull some rocket cycle, fortunately without a target appropriate. Our answer can only physically see someone who starts the rocket, just before or just after that guy is a citizen of Afghanistan for good. This quirky and a bit self-destructive process is an integral part of the rules of engagement and is governed by a very severe caveat: In fact, after an exchange of blows our soldiers are subjected to questions and inspections of a commission of inquiry and until recently, the weapons and vehicles involved were seized by a court of Rome!

Bala BALUK has organized a series of small tents to accommodate about 120 people already in difficult conditions that, suddenly, has doubled the presence means and men.

Here supplies come with great dangers in trucks escorted by the army or civilian police Afghan organizing long convoys and that, in addition to the task of protection, should be vigilant for the frequent acts of violence that the insurgents are the largest source of income and to control what they kill each other, in the purest style mafia .
A BALUK Bala was the period of Christmas elsewhere in the world, but there was no bread, coffee, milk, jam, cakes, beer and wine. Rations, as well cooked by the chef of the FOB, called by all Bulldozer for his energy and determination were really skinny.

December 27, 2010 - Bala BALUK, the head chef outpost is a certainty for the Lagoon that have affectionately appealed Bulldozer.

Temperature, degrees from the winds of the day, night Calavita conspicuously below zero.
One night the heat of the pitched tent where I slept and went to the block, with extreme courage I got up and , wrapped up as a refugee, I tried to reach the toilet away two hundred yards from the tent only to discover that the toilet taps the container were blocked by ice, the temperature was -4.
numb from the cold I got up gaze at the sky, perhaps to curse, and instead I stopped, with the nose to look at the incredibly bright and huge star in Asia, the same as the pastor of which he wrote Leopardi ...
So at three in the morning halfway between my tent and the toilet of the FOB Bala BALUK I started acting, smiling to myself: What are you doing , moon in the sky? Tell me, what are you doing, silent moon? ... it may be a sign of senility an early but I thought there to be BALUK Bala, Afghanistan, on Christmas Day, sharing the dangers and hardships with my friends Lagoon was a privilege!


Then, when the military operation was about to begin and the tension of the soldiers was ready to face the risks was suddenly suspended because the Afghans prevarications one hand, it is part, is part tomorrow ... We were all disappointed when we were informed that the operation had been officially penniless .
Excuse my frankness but my disappointment was more understandable! I had traveled almost 5,000 kilometers on board commercial aircraft, C130, and Lynx helicopters to participate in a military true, action aborted because the insurgents had disappeared for not having to do with the good guys faces of our soldiers, who are just like the ones next door, just a little more athletic and toned and always smiling despite the weight of the equipment, weapons and responsibility ; that military life requires.
In Herat the next few days some friends of services (but it seems it has also written wikileakes ) have told me that Italians are identified by insurgents with muffled blend of engines and the crackle of tires on the stones caused by Lynx, and when they can, if they hear these sounds if the harm to the legs.
In those days in Bala BALUK the Lynx were really many and the news has definitely crossed into the outpost ...

December 27, 2010 - A defensive position outpost of Bala BALUK - Photos of Francesco Lami

disappointed at the action undone so I begin to wander waiting for the field re-entry, not at all impressed, just like the boys of FOB, by providing warning M rocket attacks against the camp 107.
I'm going to try to put forward their Lagunari Abruzzi interviews TG3 Abruzzo, the chaplain interviewed randomly sitting under a rosary of bullets from the 12.7 Browning within the infirmary and then commanded by Lt. Col. Andrea Polo, DOC Veneto, offering me coffee and biscuits which, as an agnostic and late, I celebrate Christmas.
drink coffee while I reflect on the fact that if a doctor of his experience and his degree is in this small outpost means that there must be a real danger .
Then something happens.
call from the advanced guard: an unexpected guest arrived.
From a distance we see the master of the rapid reaction force, which protects the field, which raided two bearded men with a baby and then greets them kindly: you know.

December 28, 2010 - Amir, along with brother-in-the door to the infirmary of his son Hamdullah Bala BALUK - Photos of Francesco Lami

The younger man named Amir A few weeks ago, he committed an act of courage for the sake of his son Hamdullah, while creating havoc among the ranks of insurgents , he appeared to protect the base gates.

Amir tried to explain to the guard that his son was sick, not walk, had a fever, not eating at the same time and showed the child's right leg deformed and totally devastated by a plague-infected.
He was asking for help, tense and with a slight trembling of the body, he knew that asking for help to infidels may result in retribution and retaliation but love for her son, in this place in the world where life can not be worth anything, is stronger than fear and dogma.

December 29, 2010 - Bala BALUK the ten. with the doctor and Andrea Polo small Hamdullah - Photos of Giuseppe Lami

The base commander, Lieutenant Colonel Puce understands the significance of that visit policy that represents an act of liberation from the injury that the territory under the blackmail of the revenge of the insurgents, has against ISAF soldiers.
Andrea Polo and his boys are affected by this boy about 5 years and anguish of his father, himself sick and starving, that there surely has to take it beyond doubts and fears and miles of desert on foot.


















December 29, 2010 - Hamdullah with Amir and his father is edited by CM Zuccaro '

Hamdullah has a stone encysted in the foot now totally warped, does not complain even more, is a shapeless bundle breathing slower and slower, if nothing is done soon in some ways has now counted the hours.
What for a military doctor as Andrea Polo with the experience of a veteran of dozens of missions in the most wretched of the world, is an intervention normal administration becomes an act of love that is spreading rapidly throughout the Second Company of the Venetian Lagoon Regiment to garrison the apparent immense anything surrounding the FOB Bala BALUK. The Lagoon, sleeping in tents under freezing skies, spend the Christmas holidays in arms, no milk, coffee and cake, away from everything and take all Amdullah chorus.
The child is cared for and nurtured and father begins to comply with ever greater precision appointments for follow-up care. Lt. Col. Andrea Polo discovers that there is a more serious problem, a tumor pushes on the spinal cord that requires such care Hamdullah and clinical investigations over the potential of the field and Afghanistan.
Take a plan to transfer Hamdullah in Italy but in Afghanistan there is no registry, you must overcome many bureaucratic problems as well as to raise the funds necessary for your trip the small of his companion who will stay in Italy for at least six months.
The motto of singing Lagoon As the rock as I break wave sweeps and in fact they stop at nothing and that strip of land in the desert of Afghanistan than all the loopholes and bureaucratic hurdles, tax themselves, canvass Lagoon in Italy other than them once set to work.
I ask a guy in the field that this story has played a role, because all this effort. He looks at me puzzled and then he responds with a thin smile mica we Lagoon case for !
Hamdullah is now better, about to leave for Italy, Andrea Polo medical officer of Bala BALUK in his life he has seen all the colors of a poem dedicated to him, is convinced that will do it.
Hamdullah's story is all here.
certainly not change the destiny of Afghanistan, but he scored all those who have played a role, even marginal, like mine.
scattered in the village But this story has created a small problem: every day in front of the gates Bala BALUK someone comes along who wants to visit provoking hatred and anger among the insurgents , with weapons, because if we win the war, with the confidence is gained peace.

When I came back to Italy someone asked me why I spent the Christmas and New Year in Afghanistan, sometimes evading the answer.
For many it is impossible to understand how such an experience both as a grace without price.

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HEALTH 'A BALA MOURGHAB

Our friend and colleague of Anna Rolli Agency Radical between Christmas and New Year Bala Mourghab visited the border with Turkmenistan, one of the hottest places of RCW Afghan territory under the control of the Italian contingent and we kindly sent this text and related photos.

TALK ABOUT HEALTH CONDITIONS AFTER THIRTY YEARS WAR

by Anna Rolli

At border with Turkmenistan in the northwest of Afghanistan, Bala Murghab in the valley, a river and bright blue-green glazed into the soil as dry and dusty. The river called Murghab heads north and is perennial, the latter feature of great importance in an extremely arid country. Not far from its shores rise the villages of ethnic Pashtuns, with minorities of Tajiks, Uzbeks and Turkmen. Smaller than a few hundred people while the largest Bala Murghab counts 10,000 inhabitants and a bazaar in the center and a small hospital with two Afghan doctors working on a catchment area of \u200b\u200babout 44,000 inhabitants. The hospital has no operating room, one of the doctors speak English, enjoys a reputation for being very good and takes care of the male ward, the other only speaks the local dialect, it is not known with certainty whether a doctor or a sort of curator in charge of women's wing. Another hospital operates more in the south, two days travel by bus in the town of Qala-I-Nau, where is even the nearest bank.

The above may already give an idea of \u200b\u200bthe drama of the situation.

One morning, a military convoy, I went to visit the hospital Bala Murghab and welcomed us at the height of surprise, the doctor in a white coat with whom I exchanged the first bars in English is placed in the hall where the male ward. Now, a little 'excited, I was invited to move in the female ward. I knew that my presence there, among many bearded men, already in itself, was a sacrilege, just for fun, I got beat around the bush. "But I'm not a patient, 'I said," then we can talk here. " The doctor insisted, and looked around with a desperate thugs everywhere and frowns in turbans and dark in front of a wild west, not only unveiled but the supreme horror, in flak jacket and helmet, with the following three young soldiers armed with submachine gun and an armored vehicle waiting outside. It was so obvious that its total loss taken by human sympathy I followed meekly.

In the back of a courtyard crowded with figures veiled in blue and crying children, a cold room serves as a clinic. There we sat, next to the doctor "for women" in white cap and dark wooden rosary in his hands, and the doctor "for men" I spoke at length with his typical, monotonous eastern English. I spoke of malaria that reappears every year with the summer, typhoid, hepatitis and dysentery, endemic since there is a sewage system and water carrying bacteria and dust everywhere, the lack of trees for hundreds and hundreds of miles to where people are forced to use twigs for the fire and then arrives at the hospital with a terrible brucellosis disease transmitted by the uncooked meat enough, rheumatism and arthritis in a territory that in winter reaches 20 degrees below zero and it is not possible any form of heating. The doctor told me that while there are only two would need at least six doctors and twenty nurses finally asked me to thank with all my heart that our soldiers treat the sick and sometimes with the 'plane had delivered the most serious in distant hospitals.

Near the village of Bala Murghab, military peacekeepers, military nell'avamposto allocated the same name, dealing with health care according to a plan told MEDCAP. Americans as well as make available their operating room provide drugs and equipment, the Italians send medical and para-medical staff in all the most needy at least once a month. For people in fact, especially in winter, with ice and snow, it is very difficult to get to the hospital. Without roads, just trails paths, arriving on foot from distant places tens of kilometers or km, and sometimes they do carrying the sick with a wheelbarrow.

soon returned to base I found out that a few months ago, the Italian health care workers in group * had requested, in writing, permission to take care of the sick and the Afghan commander, Colonel Andrea Rainbow, had given willingly by providing a tent for the surgery. The young and gentle medical officer, Lieutenant Trevisani said "We are a particular area and if we do not give us a hand who can give a hand? ". He also explained that the private doctors in Afghanistan are very picky and that there is a lot of corruption in public hospitals, where poor people can not get care in a public hospital is targeted Italians, however, in order to create a climate of collaboration with doctors at the hospital of Bala Murgham, it requires patients to go before they come and in the case of to our base with a diagnosis written in English. He also explained that only two years ago the situation here was much more difficult, but now you can establish good cooperation with the local population and improving day by day, so it tends to reduce and replace them with the MEDCAP 'training of Afghan health workers who show very willing but ill-prepared because doctors often are not groped for and then you must teach him as much as you can. Then he told me that the wounds become infected easily and cases of gangrene and amputations carried American hospital, and shoes, one of the most common requests, especially in winter, as well as to build water wells, and Turkoman women who are more free and come to ask for help while the Pashtuns do not hardly ever go out of house , and the humanity of many poor farmers who struggle to save their loved ones and mourn when doctors declare them out of danger.

While we were talking came a child of six or seven years, and a bearded dad. He was very poor and dirty clothes and huge lower lip because a small cut on his chin had been infected. Did not cry, did not complain while it disinfects and incerottavano just waved his hands in silence, in the end we watched with wide eyes, eager to receive liquorice and candy, as every child knows local, are awarded to small by our soldiers, then serious and he sat composed in front of the tent and began to unwrap and munch oblivious to the mouth in poor condition, and his father beside him and waited patiently while with eyes of fire, under the tattered turban, stared the scandalous familiarity with which men and Western women dare to be working together and then slaps on the back and handshakes and even entertaining to laugh and chat.

I spoke at length with Lieutenant Joseph Di Lillo, who with others has been used to Herat, the headquarters of the PRT (Provincial Reconstruction Team), where the Italians have worked night and day, well beyond the time of service, to dispose of the endless lines of patients presenting each morning. He told me that sometimes family members carry the sick to the doctor when it is too late to arrive on foot from distant places, or do not allow women to be examined by a doctor but they send a boy of the family to report symptoms and seek a remedy , so women arrive at the hospital when they are already dying. He told me of violence against women that was covered with bruises under the chador, but also of families carrying their loved ones for miles and miles every time you need a dressing. I finally spoke with a bunch of young women with children, devastated by pregnancies that come asking for birth control but our players are not allowed to distribute it in Afghanistan do not talk about family planning by the government.

In one of the poorest countries, with one of the highest rates of infant mortality and a life expectancy among the lowest in the world, we would like to understand why and what we are waiting. What is certain is that the Afghan government to present, to many observers the impression of not worrying enough of women, provided that in this devastated country in many ways is truly frightening.

* Medical Officer, Lt. Marino Trevisani Taranto, Lieutenant Joseph Di Lillo di Maddaloni, Caserta; Corporal chosen Ugo Scognamiglio in Naples, Corporal Maria Nunzia Florio Grazzanise, Caserta.

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WAR, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE

soon fell dall'EH101 Navy which is about to embark on the gen. Petraeus-Photography Giuseppe Lami

I brought in my copy of Afghanistan The Great Game of Peter Hopko k, one of the fundamental texts for understanding the Afghanistan-Pakistan and because the 137 000 soldiers representing 48 nations are here for almost 10 years.

The photographer Giuseppe Lami which, along with Daniel and Mirko Polisano Papa, I shared a tent in the cold the FOB Bala BALUK saw my attempts to read, supported by a battery placed on the head and hands that held the book protected by gloves that just surfaced from the sleeping bag, he told me that he had read and was a beautiful book.

A book is a great way to strengthen friendship, especially in a tent in a forward base, rockets for the coveted target of insurgents and so began to tell of our recent travel experiences in the Islamic countries of the confusion, I Swat him and the Balocistan, very close to our tent, just south-southwest, Iran.

Outside there were a few degrees below zero and a warning another likely to rocket attacks against our FOB held by the lagoon of the Serenissima Regiment, little bigger than a football field and protected most of the trigonometric dall'imperizia bombers that other sophisticated warlike.

Back in Farah in a convoy of Lince we left for Herat on board a English Army Cougar helicopter.

Beneath us, through the great doors open, you could see through the images of the Afghan desert described by Hopkirk. Incisions are evident as the grooves of the caravan, which for millennia have constituted the road junction between the East and the Far 'West Mediterranean, were the only form of man-made but now incorporated into the natural landscape. Gurd breathtaking scenery I intercepted the disappointment of Giuseppe Lami as he pointed with a look at the English gunners, more careful to check that the ground below us. All Spaniards in Afghanistan have in fact received strict orders to prohibit the use of cameras and cameras on board their vehicles as well as strict orders to avoid any possible contact with the armed insurgents , also to help allies : If someone starts to shoot anyone, throttle and exit strategy!

Giuseppe Lami as he embarks on the English-Cougar Pictures Daniel Papa / Cybernaua

Moreover we knew from previous experience that you can not photograph, film or interview a English soldier, but also hinder the landscape of film made us laugh.

The reason for this complaint type Franco is very clear: the English soldiers in Afghanistan are not in Spain but nobody talks about it, the Zapatero government in Afghanistan is a problem of other does not want to alienate fundamentalism of the left which, because of biased and dogmatic intolerance of democracy, could easily team up with Islamic fundamentalism.

In Afghanistan, some 1,600 English soldiers are concentrated mostly at Camp Arena in Herat where he has his headquarters in the Regional Command West, whose leadership was entrusted to Brigadier General of the Italian Marcello Bellacicco Julia and they depend on about 7600 men among the Italians, Americans, Albanians, Lithuanians, Croats, e. .. English.

Spaniards should mentorizzare the Afghan military to enable them to check the area of \u200b\u200bBadghis, where the border with Turkmenistan, the insurgents operate with violent efficiency and instead cover a totally marginal role to meet the tight caveat Zapateros imposed by the government, which prevents them not only to participate in military action in support of allies or the Afghans, but also to give them support if required and necessary to talk with the press and especially Italian!

Brigadier General Commander of Marcello Bellacicco RCW Daniel Papa-Photo / Cybernaua

The Italians though with caveats quite narrow went into action several times to pull out of scrapes Afghan American e. .. English! With U.S. assistance, in particular, we exchange constantly, as we have seen in person by flying with American helicopters without any restrictions or filming Gen. David Petraeus on Christmas day off from his Bakwa C130 and get on board a Navy EH 101 since I had just fallen, along with my colleagues and onto which we had photographed and filmed almost everything!

The U.S. military in fact are totally available to the media almost always because they enjoy the full support of the Government and the nation but also because they know that their public opinion justifies an error, even serious, but not a lie if properly managed and the communication becomes a pillar of democracy.

In part, this is also true for Italy.
Our Armed Forces in a few years have become much more willing and open to the press and information and not only that Journal of major publishers.
Since it was suspended Lever Italian soldiers have been found to enjoy the support of the nation, in a poll, puts its armed forces in the first place among the institutions for efficiency and credibility.
But sometimes events happen that confirm that something in the relationship between politics and the Armed Forces is still not working well, as evidenced by the somewhat 'clumsy which has been treated in many ways the story of Corporal Matthew Miotto , to which I add a small marginal episode that happened to me during the visit of President of the Senate Schifani in Herat on 24 December.

sbianchettatura The flag with the image of Savoy - still concocted - is a miserable thing , or stuff from top ministry official, however, the KGB and symptoms of un'acerba knowledge of communication and a sense of ill-digested democracy: only insecure and the weak are afraid of history, which can not be deleted for reasons of false modesty or even less to career expectations. I do not know if the corporal had Miotto monarchist or if he has drawn the flag in honor of his grandfather, who made the war when there was the Kingdom of Italy and which somehow directs his beautiful letter. Probably doing it wrong - but I still have not figured out how and why - but those who have cleared with his digital sbianchettatore is more dangerous to the democracy of the historical relic exhibited with joy and satisfaction by Matthew and certainly not to offend the Republic to which has sworn allegiance, and that the servant has died.

Herat January 1, 2011 - The Alpine carry the coffin of Julia Matteo Miotto on C130 to Rome-Daniel Photography Papagni / Cybernaua

How he died Matteo ? At first they said hit by a sniper, then during a combat ... These half-lies have already started to run and now it is said to have been killed by fire Italian, by U.S. planes, who committed suicide that ... that .... that.

kindergarten course of communication one learns quickly that the confusion and lack of clarity generate distrust and rejection, and call into warning that a credibility built on decades of continuous respect for the truth can be destroyed by a half-lie mishandled.

write of these things gives me some trouble and I prefer to remember the tears I held back with difficulty when I saw the body of Matthew wrapped in the flag while being downloaded from the Black Hawk in arms because that was the important moment of this whole ugly story, with our flag and that of the base mezzasta and faces of the soldiers present, people hard, with a number of missions on their shoulders, their faces drawn with tears held .

This story of half-truth or half lie increased the pain of everyone, even those who have not accepted the war have a great respect for those who freely take charge of tough tasks, head held high, knowing the risk to pay with their lives for loyalty to the institutions and values \u200b\u200bthey believe.

Hiding behind a finger is an act of cowardice, away from the concept of democracy and freedom that a young person can also express displaying the flag of his grandfather because we are the fruit of our history, for better or for worse, that Like it or not.

The other episode, marginal but significant the manner in which the power to manage communication and a few days earlier.

December 24 arrived in Herat Senate President Schifani with a retinue of journalists, politicians . ; He made a speech off the cuff that I have found sincere and devoid of rhetoric, then held a conference with the journalists after speaking to all other things, this very Italian in a style that I can not understand: when the Our institutional representatives have been sent abroad on an official visit talking about the homegrown political wrangling, perhaps because they think they are still at the center of world or to give more importance to their words!

Schifani After the conference the President had lunch at the table of our base in Herat, sitting at the table eating the food and the commander of the soldiers, as we have seen it done many times on TV to Clinton, Bush, Obama, Blair ...

I loved this and so I approached the table and I asked the President if I could take back the scene, in my view, very democratic and a winner in terms of communication. Schifani accepted but I could not do the shooting, nor have I been able to explain why I wanted to do.

E 'operative spokesperson of the President who, in very nice, told me he did not like me to do that shot ...

(Antonello Tiracchia)

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