A soldier of International Security Assistance Force, ISAF, placed under NATO command, died today in Afghanistan. This is the lieutenant of the Italian military Massimo Ranzani in the Asian country. Ranzano died in the explosion that hit an armored vehicle near Shindand Lynx. The officer, a native of Ferrara, was on duty in the Army since 1999 and was on his second mission outside the box. Other four Italian soldiers were seriously injured, involved in the explosion. All were members of the 5th Regiment of Alpine Sterzing. This is the crew of an armored vehicle that was part of a column of military vehicles, 13 in all including an ambulance, which was part of an activity Medcap jointly with Afghan forces. It is a medical assistance operation to the local population. At this time nothing has served the electronic bollard, which prevents activation of a bomb at a distance, of which half was provided. The survivors of the attack were transported to the military hospital, Role 2, the base of Shaft Shindand, the headquarters of Task Force Centre. They are all in serious condition although they are not life threatening. From 2001 to date 2348 foreign troops killed in Afghanistan. Since the beginning of 2011, 66 soldiers have died, 34 of them by February 1. Four in one day today. International coalition of military who have died in the country of poppies killed by Taliban insurgents. A cause of death are ever more IEDs, improvised explosive devices. It is rudimentary and handmade explosives produced by the same rebels Afghans. Weapon, that despite the significant progress accomplished by ISAF to counter the threat, has become the favorite weapon of the Taliban, which place them along the paths traveled by the patrol and roads traveled by military convoys. And every day there are victims, 35 of the 66 soldiers killed since the beginning of ISAF were killed by IEDs. However, 30 percent of cases also affects civilians. Innocent victims of a war fought under conditions of low security. The proof and the long list of casualties among the soldiers of the international coalition intervened in Afghanistan since October 2001. A list that includes the dead Italians in Afghanistan. With the death today of Lieutenant of the Alpine increases to 37 the number of Italian soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the mission in 2004. Three of them were killed in the last 59 days. On the eve of New Year's Eve last year, December 31, 2010, is 'touched' the corporal Matteo Miotto. The military, under the Seventh Regiment Alpini Belluno, was killed by a sniper while he was under guard in the Snow in Gulistan. In fact, Miotto was the last foreign military to be killed in Afghanistan in 2010. On January 18, then, is 'touched' the corporal, Luca Sanna, Eighth Regiment Rifleman Alps. Sanna tradiemento was killed by an Afghan soldier in a forward base near Bala Murgab in the west Asia. Today, then, 'touched' a lieutenant Massimo Ranzani and tomorrow who knows who 'touch. It 'no use pretending the withdrawal of Italian troops from Afghan soil there will be other deaths, other deaths, other young lives cut, other families who mourn the mourning ritual of condolence and other other state funeral. A ritual that was repeated up to 36 times so far and will be repeated this time 37th. In Italy, on hearing the news of Shindand, in Afghanistan, made against the Italian contingent engaged in the international ISAF mission, immediately they left the chorus of condolences and controversy. Of course, my condolences are circumstantial and are political polemics. While instead, you should only raise a unanimous chorus: "This is enough, winding up the price in blood paid by Italian soldiers in Afghanistan." Once again there has been a duet Berlusconi - La Russa. The Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi is still a wild time wondered if this sacrifice servant. "It 's an ordeal, we wonder whether we are making efforts for democracy in that distant country they are going to port," said Berlusconi. Immediate comment from the Minister of Defense Ignazio La Russa coem to want to balance the claims of the head of government. "In Afghanistan, our line does not change the face of a sad event. The choices you make whatever by taking some account of this sacrifice that these choices imply, "said the minister adding that:" I bow to the memory of this boy to be added to a list painfully too long. A list that we can not and do not want to forget. " In connection with the death of the hold of the Alpine prosecutor of Rome has opened a file. In the process, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Pietro Saviotti and given to prosecutors Giancarlo Amato and Franscesco Scavo assumed the crime of attack with the purpose of terrorism and subversion.
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