Iraq.
Chief of Staff Department: "Conditions of our soldiers are stable"
Iraq, attack on Italian soldiers: 5 injured
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November 11, 2019 "With God's help, Caliphate soldiers hit a 4X4 vehicle carrying members of the international crusader coalition and peshmerga counter-terrorism exponents in the Kifri area, with a bomb, causing its destruction and wounding four crusaders and four apostates ".
This is what is read in the ISIS communiqué, released through the propaganda agency Amaq, with which the Islamic State claims the attack on Sunday against the Italian and Iraqi military.
Minister Di Maio: Italy will react
"Isis has just claimed responsibility for the attack in Iraq against our five soldiers, to whom I send again a hug and the closeness of the whole government. Well, on Thursday I will be in Washington precisely for the meeting of the anti-Isis coalition. The message that I will bring it will be very clear: Italy does not retreat and will never retreat an inch in the face of the terrorist threat. The Italian state will react with all its strength in the face of those who sow terror and strike innocent people, including women and children ": Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio said in a message posted on his
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Supreme Defense Council: guarantee presence
"The recent attack on our contingent in Iraq also confirms that transnational terrorism remains the main threat for Italy and for the entire international community. It is necessary to continue to guarantee our presence in the main areas of instability and to contribute decisively. to the strategies aimed at developing an effective system of common contrast to the phenomenon ". This can be read in the statement released by the Quirinale at the end of the meeting of the Supreme Defense Council, chaired by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella.
During the meeting "a situation was made on the main areas of crisis, with particular regard to the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and on the presence of the Armed Forces in the various operational theaters.
Summit in the Prosecutor's Office
In the meantime, a summit between magistrates and carabinieri of the Ros took place in the Public Prosecutor's Office in Rome in relation to the attack that took place Sunday in Iraq and which caused the wounding of five Italian soldiers. To the attention of the prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco, a first report on what happened.
A reconstruction on which the investigators maintain the strictest confidentiality as, for security reasons, they await the evacuation of the Italian soldiers who are still in the area where the ambush took place, in particular in the area about a hundred kilometers away. from the city of Kirkuk. The Roman prosecutors are proceeding for the crime of attack with the purpose of terrorism and very serious injuries.
The injured
The conditions of the five Italian soldiers - two para of the 9/0 Col Moschin assault regiment of the Army and of the three men of the Goi, the naval raiding operational group - are "stable" wounded in the attack in Iraqi Kurdistan. Three of them are in more serious conditions: two suffered serious leg injuries, which resulted in partial amputations, and one was operated on for internal bleeding.
They are all hospitalized in a military hospital in Baghdad. As soon as their conditions have stabilized and transport is possible, they will be repatriated.