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The hypocrisy of those who invoke the privacy

Privacy e sicurezza

da Corriere.it

Strano, davvero: la vita privata viene quotidianamente uccisa senza resistenza, però si grida alla privacy violata dall’intrusione di un body scanner negli aeroporti. Daily trace with meticulous precision every atom of our existence, and we are shocked, however, if our body is subjected to X-rays to prevent the disintegrated in flight due to a rogue hiding explosives in his underwear.
Perhaps they think that security agents can live a scene from "I see naked" with Nino Manfredi. But it is only a vaguely paranoid fantasy, because those devices will come up to the silhouette of a lot of human form, gray, awkward, not at all attractive. The only secret will be revealed the presence of internal prosthesis: a pity, but it will not be too high a price to be sacrificed on the altar della sicurezza. Certo, il corpo esibito, scrutato, frugato, svelato ha sempre qualcosa di conturbante. Guardandoti dentro, sembra che vogliano denudare l’anima, penetrare in una dimensione segreta, profanare il carattere sacro della propria intimità. Ma molti passeggeri avranno già avuto esperienze di radiografie, Tac, ecografie. C’è sempre qualcosa di imbarazzante nello sguardo altrui che oltrepassa la soglia della pelle di ciascuno, scavalca la frontiera dell’invisibile che ciascuno di noi comprensibilmente custodisce come una sfera inviolabile. Ma non si rendono conto che quella frontiera è già stata sgretolata da intrusioni forse più immateriali ma non meno invadenti, prepotenti, arroganti. E allora perché alarmed at a time when, in exchange for a momentary shift in the technological eye that looks into the body, can increase the reasonable assurance that your trip is not the goal of life?
Moreover, the privacy of passengers forced against their will to go under the rays of the body scanner is just the faded memories of an era passed. A credit card with which you purchased the electronic ticket has already pointed out the route of a passenger. Mail and text message confirming reservations, schedules and accommodation are in full readiness of the Great Eye that scrutinizes every movement of citizens. The toll has already indicated motorway journeys. I have phone records already fixed frequency, sequence and duration of your incoming and outgoing calls. The fixed cameras have already closed the passage along the city streets. A satellite of Google may have already reached anyone with millimetric precision. The smart card of the supermarkets have already made available detailed information on the Great Eye regularly bought food, types of toothpaste, detergents, drinks brands, ingredients for breakfast. The databases have already mastered every movement of banking, payment, transfer, withdrawal.
If it is not the physical body was to be searched, scrutinized, observed, it is still all of the acts of an individual who knows no more privacy, privacy, secrecy, shame. Prisoners of universal transparency, victims and targets of unlimited visibility that has already taken steps to pulverize every barrier that separates the private from the public, passengers will be subjected to the intrusion of airports have already provided to public authorities much more detailed information on itself. And without any protests to the intolerable invasion of privacy have had the slightest echo. What in ordinary life is accepted and internalized as the inevitable cost of personal and social life, becomes an increasingly vulnerable to raids by malicious something that offends even, as has been said, the dignity human. The invasion into the sphere of behavior, habits, lifestyles, consumption, frequent, human relations, family life does not appear as an attempt to protect something which once seemed sacred and undeniable. An x-ray made with questionable purposes hardly seems rather outrageous and unacceptably invasive. The private life is already gone, but she was born a company a bit 'schizophrenic, who resigned to accept the inevitable, but rejects a simple opportunity to travel (a bit') more secure. Nor is the plot of "I see naked."

Pierluigi Battista

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Change?

Obama, sogni e realtà

da La Stampa

Con la fine dei cosiddetti «anni zero» il primo decennio del XXI secolo ci appare segnato in profondità, quasi dall’inizio alla fine, dall’incubo e timor panico scatenati dal terrorismo islamico principalmente in America e poi nel mondo che, in ampio senso storico, potremmo definire occidentale o cristiano. Ma vorrei circoscrivere il discorso ai fatti incalzanti che, dagli ultimi giorni di dicembre, irretiscono il governo e la società degli Stati Uniti.La grande paura, che paralizzò l’America in the fateful September 11, prompting the Bush administration in the war of retaliation in Afghanistan and the disastrous pre-emptive war in Iraq, returned to impact on the Christmas of 2009, resulting in, approximately, the same scenario of psychosis that followed the tragic and failed attack 2001. Paralysis and blocks of airports, misleading bomb scares from the East Coast and even from California, was more panic in the Obama administration, commissioning site of extraordinary measures of safety and control technology, such as' full body scanners, "never taken up today. The images come from Newark, emergency meetings in the Situation Room of the White House, the language exceptionally altered darkened and the President, we have provided the atmosphere of a country scared. A country is not known if in a state of siege and war. Moreover, not so much in the background, the ghost of a possible escalation in the rocky deserts of Yemen, inviolate sanctuaries of Al Qaeda, no longer led by the warmongering Bush threatened but even a Nobel Peace Prize. Meanwhile, as indicated by the allusions of the same words from Obama or his advisers and ministers, the list of countries 'suspicious', whose citizens flying to the U.S. will be checked rigidissmi, it is stretched from Iran to Sudan, from Syria to Yemen, from Pakistan to Nigeria. All these countermeasures have also been cumbersome, psychologically, from being taken after an attack virtual, not consumed, which could result in tragedy if the destructive gimmick, hidden in the underwear of the Nigerian non-suicide, was actually exploded. Nothing remotely similar to what happened with the collapse of the twin towers of New York. But the dreaded non-value added, if we want to call it that, of asymmetric warfare strategy devised by the nihilism of Al Qaeda, is that they work even in cases where the material fails: do not produce the massacre, but verges causing the repetition of a mass neurosis evoking already suffered massacres and never forgotten. In the latest case, as we see, he has not ripetuta per fortuna sull’aereo in discesa sul suolo americano una replica minore dell’11 settembre; si è ripetuto, invece, un rilancio maggiore e più esteso delle difese immunitarie di una superpotenza che si sente in guerra con un nemico inafferrabile.È iniziata così la giostra delle opinioni, fra coloro che approvano le misure più dure dell’amministrazione democratica e quelli che le disapprovano perché lesive dei diritti civili e, quindi, contrarie alle speranze suscitate dallo stesso Obama al principio del mandato presidenziale. Sia gli uni che gli altri hanno cominciato a domandarsi se già esista o non esista ancora, dopo un anno di politica estera ondivaga, piena di colpi alterni o simultanei al cerchio e alla botte, una credibile «dottrina Obama» in campo internazionale. Per molti, la prova del nove delle intenzioni del neopresidente avrebbe dovuto essere Guantanamo. Obama non ha soddisfatto né i sostenitori liberal, che ne aspettavano la chiusura definitiva, né tanto meno i critici conservatori che non hanno approvato le sporadiche liberazioni, con il contagocce, dei prigionieri qaedisti. Oramai Guantanamo, chiusa per due terzi e semiaperta per un terzo, resta una spina nel fianco della diplomazia ammiccante di Obama e quasi un simbolo tangibile delle incertezze della sua poco efficace politica estera. Quando egli afferma: «Colpiremo al Qaeda ovunque, ma anche svuoteremo Guantanamo», fa venire a mente, per modo di dire, la nota circonlocuzione veltroniana nth power. The fact is that now, least of all, Obama will be able to keep within the announced deadline of 22 January, the most prevalent and proclaimed its promises: the Yemeni al-Qaeda, released from prison and returned home, they are forgiven immediately the service of the parade in proliferating terrorist bases beyond the grasp of a government "pro-American" nepotistic and corrupt. The same people who may have trained without much profit, the suicide bomber in flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.La truth is that the stubborn resistance and unpredictable set of events, beginning with the asymmetric war neurosis that makes nations more vulnerable to hatred of fundamentalists, sta imponendo a Obama una graduale revisione delle sue buone ma spesso semplicistiche opinioni sulla complessità del mondo contemporaneo. Egli non può essere più quello che avrebbe desiderato essere: un riformatore liberal della repubblica imperiale degli Stati Uniti. Ne è anche l’erede. Per ora una «dottrina Obama» non esiste. È in corso semmai, forzata dagli eventi, la ricerca da parte di Obama di un compromesso possibile tra sue idee originarie e le sue tremende responsabilità di curatore di una vulnerabile eredità imperiale.

Enzo Bettiza

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The third front?

Venti di guerra nel Golfo

da La Stampa

Venti di guerra nel Golfo di Aden: il traballante Stato dello Yemen, appollaiato fra Africa e Asia, è teatro di due conflitti sovrapposti che sommano i principali attori della lunga guerra al terrorismo che ha segnato la prima decade del secolo.Il primo conflitto è quello che oppone il governo di Sana’a ad «Al Qaeda nella Penisola Arabica», le cellule jihadiste che hanno le roccaforti nelle province di Shabwa, Marif e Jouf da dove hanno pianificato e rivendicato la fallita strage di Natale sui cieli di Detroit con un’aperta dichiarazione di guerra all’America di Barack Obama.L’evacuazione decisa dai governi di Washington e Londra delle rispettive ambasciate nello Yemen «nel timore di attentati» coincide con una escalation di mosse da parte dei due alleati atlantici: in primis, la scelta di addestrare, armare e finanziare una «forza di controterrorismo» yemenita da schierare in tempi stretti. Poi l’annuncio di una conferenza internazionale il 28 gennaio a Londra fra tutte le nazioni «preoccupate per l’affermarsi dell’estremismo in Yemen», la tappa a Sana’a del generale David Petraeus comandante delle truppe Usa in Medio Oriente e lo spostamento verso il Golfo di Aden di un numero imprecisato di unità della Quinta Flotta di base nel Bahrein. Obama e il premier britannico Gordon Brown stanno chiedendo al presidente Ali Abdallah Saleh di launch a broad offensive air and ground, in the three remote and mountainous provinces, guaranteeing them a strong coverage of international politics and also the massive support of intelligence, drones and special forces on a large scale to repeat what happened on 17 and 24 December last, when thirty jihadi militants have been eliminated thanks to two Yemenis blitz led away from the "war room" of Petraeus in Tampa. If Saleh Anglo-American will accept the request to the extreme pro-Western choice made after September 11, 2001, if it will admit they do not have the strength to exercise sovereignty in the areas of the country infested with Al Qaeda could be le forze speciali alleate a entrare direttamente in azione. Lo schema in questo caso potrebbe essere quello visto all’opera a metà settembre in Somalia, quando sei elicotteri e una trentina di soldati scelti americani piombarono dal nulla e in pieno giorno su un convoglio di jihadisti nel distretto di Barawe, a 250 km da Mogadiscio, eliminando Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, il colonnello dei miliziani sunniti shebaab che firmò gli attacchi terroristici agli hotel di Mombasa nel 2002. Petraeus considera Somalia e Yemen un unico teatro tattico perché il nemico è lo stesso: le cellule di Al Qaeda fuggite dall’Afghanistan, insediatesi in aree che sfuggono al controllo dei governi, finanziate con i proventi della pirateria e dei rapimenti, e posizionate in a strategic area of \u200b\u200bthe Gulf of Aden is the link between the operations of Egyptian jihadists, Saudis and Sahel.Ma not all. To make the mixture more explosive Yemen - and complicate both the military plans to Petraeus that the policy choice of Saleh - the fact that there is simultaneously a second act in conflict. It takes place in the northern provinces and starring Hout rebels or the breakaway Shiite tribes financed by Iran and trained by the Pasdaran in order to turn them into a repetition of the local Lebanese Hezbollah. On October 20 Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, praised in a letter written by the Pasdaran commanders for the operation "Yemen Khosh Hal" (Joy of Yemen) or 'the training of the Shiites, the supply of weapons that are used, the direct involvement in combat support and intelligence. " Some ships of the Fourth Fleet of Iran, including "Salaban 'and' Khareq", entered the Gulf of Aden to support Houthis and the fear of exporting the Iranian revolution in the Arabian Peninsula has pushed the aircraft to enter Saudi in action, bombing several times the Shiite militias in the territory with the backing of Sana'a Yemen. For Yahya Salih, head of counterterrorism in Yemen, Tehran is conducting through the Houthi a "war for proxy, "which aims to weaken the Saudis and Yemenis, two of the strongest allies of Washington.Da here the reality of the Republic of Yemen with its limited and poorly armed contingents caught between two fires, the Sunni jihadists of Al Qaeda and the Shiite fundamentalists wire -Tehran, which have a common interest to topple President Saleh to pursue the opposite regional hegemonic designs. And 'this scenario that explains the necessity of Obama and Brown to consider the possible use of every option under the arsenal of anti-terrorism. Including the use of force.

Maurizio Molinari

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Finally a good and objective article on Gitmo!

Guantanamo. The last prisoners

by Republic

GUANTANAMO BAY cages to 'open air are half-rusted, shrubs and tropical plants are interwoven between the metal and the barbed wire, the' high grass hides the "banana rats, rodents, big cats, that the 'elected to their lair. "Camp X-Ray" was closed in April '2002, but the photos of those cages, the detainees with the orange overalls, hands cuffed and feet shackled under the blazing Caribbean sun, marked forever the history of the most famous prison in the war on terrorism. "Every time you talk about Guantanamo those photos are also republished If it's been almost eight years - stigmatizes the sergeant of the U.S. Navy are treated as prisoners can see for ourselves. " L 'will be the year that the detention camp in the U.S. naval base in Cuba, which over the years has received about eight hundred prisoners including leaders of Al Qaeda, low manpower of terrorism, the Taliban captured in the fighting in Afghanistan ended some innocent here without knowing why, will dismantled. "Close Guantanamo on January 22, 2010, Barack Obama promised on the day of his inauguration at the White House, but a month ago, the American president has had to renege on that promise. Too many outstanding problems, legal problems (which and how many inmates can be transferred and tried by U.S. courts) and logistics (who can be freed or sent to their countries of origin).

"Remember: no pictures that can be recognized by inmates or guards, no faces, no profiles, no word with the prisoners, absolute silence during the prayers. It came just hide the badge of accreditation, no one here needs to know his name. " The 'official to' entrance of Camp Delta, the big doors with reinforced concrete walls around the classic and watchtowers, repeated in a friendly procedures in force at 'internal detention camps. After the closure of the cages of Camp XRay over the years has built six. Fields 1, 2 and 3 are empty now, the 210 inmates still living in camps in Guantanamo Bay 4, 5 and 6. In reality there 's also Camp Seven, where the prisoners are the "Al Qaeda operatives," the leaders of' terrorist organization. It is the best kept secret in Guantanamo, no one knows where he is, and even military guards (except those directly involved in the case) and 'only certainty, as he explains, smiling a military Navy, "is that from any point of Camp Delta can not be farther than 45 miles '(the' maximum extension of the naval base). Nobody knows where he is, no one can say exactly how many detainees there are terrorists ("maximum ten) nor their names. Yet the 'order of transfer of prisoners more famous - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Bin Laden's lieutenant who prepared the attacks of 'September 11, was attacked in all areas he was already informed: the trial in New York, a few hundred meters from the ruins of World Trade Center. At Camp 4 detainees are prisoners more peaceful, all those who respect regolee that the maximum benefits, twenty hours' exercise per day, volleyball and soccer, a room where they can watch tv, the library, individual cells a life in common. We see them, dressed all in white, while the spaces to 'open play football, read, spread out to dry clothes, use the fitness equipment. Speak tra loro in arabo, ogni tanto si rivolgono alle guardie in inglese. Alle cinque di mattina da una torretta li osserviamo nella prima delle quattro preghiere quotidiane. Una lunga fila di figure bianche che si inginocchiano, lo sguardo in direzione La Mecca. Anche chi religioso noné («ce ne sono», confermano le guardie), si adegua, per conformismo o semplice paura. «Il settanta per cento dei detenuti stanno quia Camp4- dice il responsabile del campo quasi tutti parlano un buon inglese, per chi vuole ci sono anche classi di lingua dove perfezionarlo». Nella stanza della tv lo schermo é acceso, possono entrarci in venticinque alla volta, i canali sono tutti arabi, da Al Jazeera alla tv delle Yemen: «Le più seguite sono le partite Football, sometimes also record from other channels, the films of Jackie Chan. The news? Yes listen to them, of course when it comes to Guantanamo, the war in Afghanistan or Iraq c 'is the greatest attention. " Not far from the halls of the library have the shelves full of books, including novels, the most popular at the moment are those of Agatha Christie, but beds are also very religious books on 'Islam. A 'wing part is occupied by the' hospital. The most popular treatments are for trauma, tears and several incidents during football matches but the 'team of military doctors ("we are doctors first and foremost," to take specified) is ready for any eventuality and to interventions also complicated. If c 'is uno sciopero della fame, e ce ne sono sempre, é attivo un reparto speciale dovei detenutia rischio vengono alimentati a forza. Infine la cucina dove una signora di origine cinese da sette anni é responsabile dell' alimentazione: sei diete differenti,a base di carne, di pesce, vegetariana, che i detenuti possono scegliere con un anticipo di due settimane e di cui lei va molto orgogliosa. Il Camp 6 é il più moderno, finito di costruire nel 2006 é l' esatta replica di un carcere di massima sicurezza dell' Indiana. E' una sorta di campo intermedio dove transitano per un periodo i detenuti che arrivano da Camp 5, il carcere dove finiscono i detenuti «che hanno creato problemi»: quelli che tirano le feci addosso alle guardie («succede ogni giorno»), che «non seguono le regole e possono essere un pericolo per gli altri», i duri di Guantanamo. «Per alcuni di loro stare nel Camp5é uno status, vogliono far sapere agli altri e al mondo esterno che loro non si piegano», spiega il colonnello Bruce E. Vargo, che in quanto comandante del Joint Detention Groupéa contatto quotidiano con i detenuti. Qui le ore d' aria sono solo tre al giorno, le celle sono all' interno di stanzoni in cui si possono tenere d' occhio i detenuti senza essere visti, qui si possono ascoltare gli insulti all' indirizzo della guardie militari (soprattutto se sono donne) e i desideri di vendetta («appena libero torno ad ammazzarvi sporchi americani»). «Il regime duro é una their choice, all wanting to know that they can go to Camp 4. The guards? They behave in a totally professional, even those who have had relatives killed in the Twin Towers. " I'm still the damned in 210 at Guantanamo. The 'last to leave the base on Wednesday night was Fouad al Rabiah, a Kuwaiti detained for nearly eight years after a federal judge ordered his release because his confessions obtained by "hard questioning," are not credible. For his lawyer has a case of mistaken people, the 'man accused by the Americans to finance Al Qaeda and Taliban militias to help in Tora Bora was not him. Many others will be released soon, according to Pentagon chief Robert Gates already 116 have been identified as "transferable" to other countries, a couple, or perhaps more, could arrive in Italy. For some of them will mean freedom, others will return to fight, for others will mean a new prison in the country of origin or, worse, end up in the cells of unsavory intelligence. The rumors that filter through from Camp Delta detainees tell of guards and lawyers worried. Not that the future will be better for all the Guantánamo.

Alberto Flores D'Arcais