Quello che non stiamo facendo

“I got a call from Nicolo Pollari” – the former head of Italy’s military intelligence agency. “He said, ‘Edward, I know what we’re doing – but I want you to do what we’re not doing.” According to Luttwak, the Swiss government had helped fund an Italian security operation to keep al-Qaida operatives from entering western Europe. And the Italians wanted Luttwak’s help. Luttwak told me that he began by identifying the main entry points for al-Qaida members coming to Europe. In each of these locations, he put into action a carefully tailored plan. To deal with the operatives coming into Sicily by boat, Luttwak conducted town-hall-style meetings in cinemas near the harbours. Accompanied by his closest friend from childhood, the politician Calogero Mannino, Luttwak arranged a series of meetings with boat skippers, in which he explained they would not get into any kind of trouble – neither with the mafia nor the government – for following his instructions. “I told the ship captains that they would have to turn everyone in [who seemed suspicious]. I said, ‘You’ll know who they are because they will be young men, they won’t have trouble paying, and they’ll be less flea-bitten than the others.’” As part of his work for the Italians, Luttwak also claims to have conducted operations in Trieste and the Austrian city of Klagenfurt. In the Italian port city of Bari, Luttwak says his work included helping the police fight off the local mafia, who were helping Albanian smugglers deliver rafts that included al-Qaida operatives onto the country’s shores. Luttwak enlisted another old friend, a scholar of Arabic at the Catholic University in Milan, to conduct the interrogations of the captured suspects. “She could tell the accents of the men, search out the obvious lies, and determine their true origins,” he said. “No one was tortured,” Luttwak reassured me several times. “Instead we gave them speeches: ‘We’re going to take you out of solitary and put you in the main prison. You know Italian prisoners were very moved by September 11. Some of them cried while watching the towers go down. So they’re going to rape you several times before they kill you.’” Luttwak claims his intelligence operation was spectacularly successful. “The Italians are frivolous about many things,” he told me, “but not about counter-terrorism.”theguardian

Dov'è quel ragazzone che tuonava perchè dovevamo ringraziarlo per il fatto che in Italia non c'erano stati gli attentati come a Londra e a Madrid ?
Bisogna spiegargli un paio di cose prima che invecchi troppo.

Luttwak sa monetizzare dai conflitti.
E' bravo a litigare e a far litigare.
Per quello lavora bene con i Paesi del terzo mondo inclusi noi.

Secondo me qualche rendition casalinga l'abbiamo fatta tra la Sicilia e il nord Africa.
Ma c'era bisogno di Luttwak per bloccare gli ingressi ?
Frivoli magari no. Ma un pò imbecilli decisamente.