Kabul, still dead Italians. 
Afghanistan, military attack on the Italian paratroopers of the Folgore six killed, four wounded.
Car bombs at two armored Lynx on the road to the airport in the capital.
Two of the victims returned today Kabul.La the Taliban claim.
over 20 civilian deaths.
KABUL - It 's almost noon in Kabul when all hell breaks loose. On the way to the airport, a car with 150 pounds of explosives at two armored spear Italians. The blast is heard from miles away. Die six paratroopers of the Folgore, four other soldiers (three paratroopers and an airman) are injured. Many are also victims among civilians, more than 20 Afghans who crowded a nearby market were killed and 60 others were injured. Two soldiers recently returned from leave. The convoy was part attacked the headquarters of the ISAF contingent at the airport after picking up a couple of paratroopers just disembarked from them taken back to Kabul at the end of a license in Italy. At the height of the checkpoints that control traffic to the airport, the white Toyota loaded with explosives was hurled against the first half of the convoy. It 'been a massacre. No soldier on board that had armored escape. The flames reached the second Lynx, on which another soldier died and four were seriously injured comrades who were with him. The names of the dead and injured. They belonged to
186esimo Parachute Regiment stationed in Pisa , four corporal, a sergeant and the lieutenant who commanded the two armored vehicles. With them are 21 soldiers dead
start of the mission in Afghanistan since 2004.
The victims of today are: Lieutenant
Anthony Fortunato, 35, a native of Lagonegro (Potenza), the first
Corporal Matthew Mureddu , 26, of Solan, a small town in the Sardinian province Oristano, younger brother of
Stefano, who was also military, the former corporal David Curley, 26, native of Glarus (Switzerland); Sergeant Major
Roberto Valente, 37 years Naples , the former corporal
Pistonami Gian Domenico, Orvieto 26 years, the former corporal
Massimiliano Randino , Salerno, 32 years. field hospital in the French corporal
Rocco Leo, 26, Brindisi;
Sergio Agostinelli, 32 years, born in Switzerland and living in the Salento;
Good Ferdinand, 30, of Naples, the Air Force sergeant
Calandriello Felice, 58, Sassano (Salerno).
are all in shock but senza altre gravi ferite.
Un cratere sull'asfalto: "Sembrava la fine del mondo".
Un'esplosione devastante. Decine di veicoli hanno preso fuoco. Lo scoppio è stato così violento che sull'asfalto ha provocato un cratere profondo quasi un metro. Khuja Hedayatullah si trovava nel bazar a pochi metri di distanza dal luogo dell'attentato: "Sembrava la fine del mondo". In quel momento il mercato vicino era affollato di gente che faceva la spesa per la fine del Ramadan. "Prima c'è stato un fragore enorme - racconta il testimone - e poi piccole esplosioni dall'interno del blindato. Tutto intorno, sulla strada, c'era gente che implorava aiuto, sanguinava e gridava. Molti erano morti. The air was filled with smoke and flames were very high. "The Taliban claimed responsibility. The attack was claimed by the Taliban. On the official website of the militants is written with triumphalist tone:" He drove the car bomb of a hero ' Islamic emirate, the mujahid Hayatullah ". the massacre of civilians they accuse the military:" It 's the fault of the occupation force that after the explosion, they started to shoot blindly hitting many of the on-site. "The journalist escaped to 'attack. The two armored Lynx were returning from the headquarters of the quota in the company of two fellow soldiers just returned from Italy. Balotelli Cristina, a journalist for Radio 24-Il Sole 24 Ore, had arrived at the airport Kabul on the same flight on which he had traveled the soldiers. Exit from the airport were the paratroopers. "They told us: now bring our headquarters. Then go back and come and get him. We were loading the luggage into a container - remember the reporter - when we heard the thud of a distant explosion and we saw a rise column of smoke into the sky. "
The expert: "The Lynx has no rivals."
explodes And the controversy about the reliability of Lince.Dopo armored attack in July in which the corporal died
Alessandro Di Lisio , the artifice of the Thunderbolt victim of a bomb exploded under the armored vehicle near Farah, the jeeps were reinforced, but it was not enough. Experts, however, repeated that the tanks are still the best Italian: "Saying that the Lynx are not sure - said
Native Andrea, director of Rid, Magazine Italian defense since 2000, and in 2008 of Risk - is a needless controversy. If someone find me half of the genre that resists better to the bombs, the prize. Worldwide, the Lynx has no rivals. "Karzai. The suicide attack occurred just minutes after Afghan President Hamid Karzai had signed a press conference dedicated to the disputed results of elections
. "It 'a barbaric attack and anti-Islamic," said Karzai. "Afghans will never forget the service that the Italian soldiers are making for peace and security in our country. "Six years ago, Nasiriyah. What in Kabul is the most serious attack suffered by Italian troops from
massacre in Nasiriyah, Iraq, of November 12, 2003 . Then the explosion of a tanker base in front of the Italian Carabinieri MSU caused 28 deaths, 19 Italians (12 carabinieri, five army soldiers and two civilians in a crew that ran a documentary) and nine Iraqis.
source: laRepubblica
