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Titolo: Italians 'confess' to murder plot in Afghanistan

l'Articolo :-)
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7094630.ece
From The Times April 12, 2010
Italians 'confess' to murder plot in Afghanistan
Jerome Starkey, Kabul
Three Italian aid workers seized by Afghan police in Helmand have confessed 
to their part in a plot to assassinate the provincial governor, Afghan 
officials claimed yesterday.
The men were among nine people arrested on Saturday when Afghan security 
forces stormed a hospital in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province.
The hospital has a reputation for treating Taleban wounded. The policy has 
made the Italian charity Emergency, which runs the hospital, unpopular with 
local officials. It is one of three hospitals run by Emergency - the others 
are in Kabul and the Panjshir Valley, which is home to the one of the key 
anti-Taleban Northern Alliance groups.
A statement on the charity's website said that the accusation "sounds simply 
groundless".
"We still have not been able to reach them by phone," the statement said. 
"The only contact we have been able to make has been through one of the 
employee's cellphones answered by someone who identified himself as a 
British military official. This person notified us that the Italians were 
well, but unavailable to speak at the time."
The Italian ambassador has flown to Lashkar Gar in an attempt to see the 
accused Italians.
Afghan police and intelligence agents stormed the hospital - which 
specialises in providing accident and emergency treatment to war victims - 
on Saturday afternoon.
"All nine people detained have confessed," the governor's spokesman, Daoud 
Ahmadi, said. "They were accused of links with al-Qaeda and terrorists. 
During the raid we found explosives, including hand grenades, suicide vests 
and some weapons, concealed in medicine boxes.
"These explosives were smuggled into Helmand disguised as medical supplies. 
They have accepted their crime. They have confessed. They said there was a 
plan to carry out suicide attacks on crowded bazaars, the governor's 
compound, and they wanted to kill the governor."
Gulab Mangal, the Governor - who enjoys a relatively good relationship with 
the British headquarters in Lashkar Gah - told reporters he was "the No 1 
target" of the plot.
Military officials insisted that Nato forces were not involved in the raid. 
Britain's Special Forces and the Secret Intelligence Service based in 
Helmand are not part of the Nato mission but they work alongside Afghan 
forces in Helmand.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior in Kabul, Zamerai Bashery, said: 
"Right now we're trying to find out how the equipment got into the hospital, 
why and who is responsible."
Mr Ahmadi claimed that the detainees had links with the Taleban's Quetta 
Shura, the exiled leadership council named after its new base in Baluchistan 
province, Pakistan. He said they had been paid $500,000 (£325,000) to carry 
out the attack.
The Italians were named as Matteo Dell'Aira, the Milan-based charity's 
medical director, Marco Garatti, a surgeon, and Matteo Pagani, its logistics 
chief.
Mr Ahmadi said that intelligence agents had been monitoring the hospital for 
more than a month. He said the detainees had planned to launch a series of 
suicide attacks in the town's bazaars and then wait for the Governor to 
visit the wounded in hospital.
"There are no weapons allowed in the hospital, so it's the Governor's habit 
to come in without his bodyguards," Mr Ahmadi said. "The plan was to launch 
a second attack inside the hospital, to kill [Govenor Mangal]."
After the raid a British Army bomb disposal teams was called in "because of 
the IED vests and the grenades, to make sure the hospital was safe", a 
British spokesman said. "The hospital is now safe," he added.
The hospital, close to the Helmand river, is in an upmarket part of Lashkar 
Gah city, just a few hundred yards from the Governor's heavily guarded 
compound.
"Five other employees, including four Italians and one Indian, are currently 
at the international staff house, and in constant phone contact with our 
staff in Milan," the Emergency statement added.
"No Afghan authorities or representatives from the international coalition 
have contacted us to explain the reasons for this detention."
Witnesses said that 200 protesters marched through the city yesterday, some 
chanting, "Death to the Emergency hospital."
The charity's Italian staff quit Afghanistan en masse after the head of the 
Lashkar Gah hospital was arrested in 2007.
Police seized Rahamatullah Hanafi in connection with the death of an Afghan 
driver who was killed when the Italian journalist he was working for was 
kidnapped.

 Beh sembra una cosa molto circostanziata e degna di esame
rinco, quello è l'articolo di ieri che il GOVERNATORE AFGHANO ha
smentito completamente!

 Am.
sono assolutamente d'accordo. L'articolo del Times � troppo ben 
circostanziato. A mio avviso si � voluta dare una mano alla traballante 
posizione italiana. Tutto qua. Non mi sembra inverosimile che i soggetti di 
cui sopra abbiano realmente confessato di aver ospitato, a mo' di armeria, 
la santa barbara dei talebani locali. Del resto chi andrebbe a cercare le 
armi in un ospedale?? Un classico. 

,

a partire dal titolo messo tra virgolette...ROTFL.

 a partire dal titolo messo tra virgolette...ROTFL.
dietro quelle virgolette c'č un mondo che non puoi capire... ;-) 

smentito completamente!
il Times comunque non ha smentito... 

 il Times comunque non ha smentito...
Mica e' il Times che ha in arresto i tre medici,
Oppure mi sbaglio? Son gia' nella torre di Londra.

Oppure mi sbaglio? Son gia' nella torre di Londra.
penso che il Times abbia delle fonti migliori rispetto alla media dei media 
italiani :-)...senza dubbio ne sa molto di piů di Frattini... :-)