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ART OF WAR »
Italian
special forces at Camp Darby
by Manlio Dinucci
The news is not yet official,
but is already being discussed – as from October, the Italian flag will be
flying over Camp Darby. Are the United States about to close down the largest arsenal
they have in the world outside of their homeland, and return to Italy the
approximately 1,000 hectares of territory that they occupy between Pisa and
Livorno?
Not at all. They are not in the
process of closing down, but restructuring the base in order to be able to
store even more weapons, and to increase the liaisons with the port of Livorno
and Pisa airport.
In the restructuration, a small
portion of the recreation area remained unused – 34 hectares, hardly more than
3 % of the total surface of the Camp. This is what the US Army Europe has
decided to give back to Italy, more specifically to the Italian Minister for
Defense, in order to use it more productively. So an agreement was drawn up
planning for the transfer to this area of the Comando delle Forze Speciali
dell'Esercito (COMFOSE) which is presently housed in the Caserne Gamerra in
Pisa, headquarters of the Centre for Parachute Training. These are the Forces
which are used more and more frequently for secret operations – they infiltrate
foreign territory by night, note the targets to be hit, eliminate them with
sudden actions by parachuting from planes or jumping from helicopters, then
disappear without leaving a trace other than the dead and the destruction.
Italy, which had used these
forces especially in Afghanistan, took a decisive step in their
potentialisation when, in 2014, it made the COMFOSE operational – it now counts
four regiments under a unified command - the 9th assault regiment Col. Moschin
and the 185th Folgore regiment for the acquisition of targets, the 28th
communications regiment Pavie and the 4th Rangers Parachute regiment.
During the inauguration
ceremony in 2014, it was announced that the COMFOSE would maintain a
« constant liaison with the US Army Special Operations Command », the
most important US command for special operations, composed of approximately
30,000 specialists employed particularly in the Middle East.
At Camp Darby – as was
specified last year by Colonel Erik Berdy, commander of the US Army Italy –
joint training operations were already under way with US and Italian soldiers.
The transfer of COMFOSE to an area of Camp Darby, which legally belongs to
Italy, will enable the complete integration of Italian and US special forces,
and their use in secret operations under US command. All of this under cover of
military secrecy.
It is therefore difficult not
to think about the history of secret operations at Camp Darby – the
investigations of judges Casson and Mastelloni revealed that since the 1960's,
Camp Darby has served as a base for the putchist network created by the CIA and
by the SIFAR (Intelligence Service of the Italian Armed Forces) in the context
of the secret Gladio plan. The USA/NATO bases – wrote Ferdinando Imposimato,
honorary President of the Supreme Court of Cassation – supplied the explosives
for the massacres of Piazza Fontana, Capaci and Via d’Amelio. In these bases
« extreme right-wing terrorists, NATO officers, mafiosi, Italian
politicians and Freemasons gathered together
on the eve of the attacks ».
And yet no-one, either in
Parliament or the local collectives, worries about the implications of the
transfer of Italian special forces, which, inside Camp Darby, will be under US
command.
The municipalities of Pisa and
Livorno, which passed respectively from Pd to the Lega and M5S, have continued
to promote, with the region of Tuscany, « the integration of the US
military base of Camp Darby with the surrounding community ».
A few days ago, it was decided to integrate the Web sites
of the local administrations with those of Camp Darby. The Camp Darby network
is expanding increasingly across the territory.
il manifesto, 5 March 2019
Translator: Pete Kimberley
FOR THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF NATO
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