Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Iraq, Sempre più gravi le conseguenze del fallimento della NATO

    * AFP - The Iraqi military announced the capture on Thursday of the man 
said to be the head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, as at least 73 people were killed 
in bombings on the deadliest day in Iraq in 14 months.
"Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was arrested today in Baghdad," the capital's security 
spokesman Major General Qassim Atta told AFP. "It was Iraqi forces who 
arrested him based on an intelligence tipoff from someone."
Atta added that Baghdadi -- who has been reported captured or killed several 
times in the past -- will be shown on television after being questioned, 
without specifying when.
Baghdadi is said to be the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, a 
self-styled umbrella organisation for Al-Qaeda-affiliated insurgent groups 
fighting US and Iraqi forces that has pledged loyalty to Osama bin Laden.
US Defence Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said that while the Pentagon 
had not yet confirmed whether Baghdadi had been captured, his arrest would 
be significant.
"We think this is a significant Al-Qaeda leader and if the report is true 
that would be very good news," he said. "Baghdadi has been believed to be a 
key leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq for some time."
The US military in the past had accused Baghdadi of being a ruse designed to 
put an Iraqi face on a group that has always been led by foreign fighters.
In July 2007 a US military spokesman said Baghdadi was a fictional character 
and that the voice on audiotapes released in his name was that of an actor.
The US military has always said that the real leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq is 
Abu Hamza al-Muhajir -- better known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri -- a veteran 
Egyptian militant named Al-Qaeda chief in June 2006 following the death of 
his better-known Jordanian predecessor Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a US air 
raid.
The Iraqi military's announcement came amid a surge in bloodshed in two 
attacks on Thursday that killed more than 70 people less than three months 
before US troops are set to withdraw from all Iraqi cities and major towns.
In the deadliest strike, at least 45 people -- including many Iranian 
pilgrims -- were killed when a suicide bomber struck a restaurant in the 
town of Muqdadiyah northeast of Baghdad, a military official said.
The official said another 55 people were wounded in the restaurant, which 
was packed with Iranian pilgrims on their way to the Shiite holy city of 
Karbala south of Baghdad.
The bombing took place in the ethnically and religiously mixed Diyala 
province, which still sees sporadic attacks despite the security 
improvements seen elsewhere in Iraq.
Another 28 people, including children, were killed in a suicide attack on 
police distributing food aid to displaced people sheltering in an abandoned 
building in southeastern Baghdad, security officials told AFP.
An interior ministry official said the dead included 10 police and five 
children. Another 52 people were wounded in the blast in the mixed Al-Riyadh 
district, defence and interior ministry officials said.
Omar Ali, a Sunni Muslim who was displaced from his neighbourhood by Shiite 
militants, said the suicide bomber was a woman.
"There were many women and children gathering here. They were happily 
receiving food from Iraqi security forces when this woman exploded among 
them," he said, choking up. "What did these poor people do to deserve this?"
The front of the building was pockmarked with shrapnel and the street was 
strewn with burning clothes and flesh, according to an AFP reporter.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned on Sunday at a meeting of senior 
security officials that the danger from "terrorist cells" was far from over.
His remarks followed an upsurge in violence over recent weeks after several 
months which saw a steady reduction in the number of attacks.
"We have succeeded in re-establishing security, but maintaining it is more 
difficult," Maliki said.
Iraq's 560,000 police and 260,000 soldiers are to assume greater 
responsibility for security as US forces withdraw from all cities by June 30 
and from the country as a whole by the end of 2011.
Violence has plummeted over the past two years as American and Iraqi forces 
have allied with local tribes and former insurgents to bring calm to vast 
swathes of the country.
However more than 150 people have been killed since the start of April, 
according to an AFP count based on reports from security officials. 

 in bombings on the deadliest day in Iraq in 14 months.
Perchè? Cosa c'entra la NATO in Iraq?

 in bombings on the deadliest day in Iraq in 14 months.
è tornato outis, il capo becchino del cimitero di IPI.... 

 Perchč? Cosa c'entra la NATO in Iraq?
Ottima domanda. Ma sta di fatto che alla coalizione hanno partecipato tutti 
i principali membri della NATO, piů molti altri paesi con contributi di 
scarso peso. 

 scarso peso.
Corea del Sud e Ucraina (non membri della NATO) hanno fornito
contingenti consistenti e molto superiori alla maggior parte dei paesi
NATO presenti in Iraq.
In Iraq la NATO non c'entra una sega: non è la NATO a dettare le
politiche estere dei paesi aderenti (è piuttosto un organismo di
coordinamento per le forze dei paesi aderenti, nei casi limitati in
cui decidano di agire militarmente in maniera coordinata su di una
questione. Quindi il fatto che paesi NATO siano presenti in Iraq non
significa affatto il coinvolgimento della NATO come organismo.
Il discorso cambierebbe se tu avessi citato l'Afghanistan... dove la
NATO è giustappunto coinvolta in quanto tale.

 NATO č giustappunto coinvolta in quanto tale.
Osservazioni formalistiche da avvocaticchio che, come sempre, non capisce un 
cazzo di politica 

 cazzo di politica-
Mi sembra un livore eccessivo, mio caro outis, di fronte ad una
replica alquanto cortese...
Ma forse prendi esempio dal presidente Mao, che incitava i cinesi a
scatarrare per terra (cosa che ha richiesto molte campagne
pubblcitarie per essere corretta in vista di Pechino 2008) in nome
della necessità di scardinare la cortesia, sintomo di infezione
borghese ;-)