Terrorist collusion, a threat always lurking

(Maurizio Giannotti) In October 1981 the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Nobel Peace Prize winner Anwar Al Sadat is assassinated in the manner we know well by Islamic extremists close to the Muslim Brotherhood sect.

A Muslim killed by Muslims perhaps because he is too open-minded and in too close contact with the Christian-Copts, so much so as to force him to exile "Baba Shenuda" right in the oasis of Wadi el-Natrun to satisfy the more radical Muslims who did not see good eye the openings towards the Copts as well as towards Israel. A move, I believe, shared with Shenuda III himself as many believe but that was not enough and President Al Sadat on 6 October 1981 was massacred.

It 's the idea that I have been doing for some time, an idea that contrasts with what I saw several weeks ago on RAI History led by Dr Mieli where, if I misunderstood, President Anwar Al Sadat is presented as a persecutor of the Christian Copts.

All this because, reflecting on what happened in the past and on what is happening today, I believe it is legitimate to fear that certain ties have never been dissolved and that someone from our terrorist world, who feels the urge to return to the field, may find it convenient. to strengthen certain bonds with the "new" and violent political-religious terrorist organizations.

There are fewer and fewer differences between the various organizations, violence is spreading everywhere on all continents, no one excluded, the political-social vision is almost common, the economic aspect affects all the players of this frightening game who together find it easy too. in transnational criminal organizations that may find it convenient in many ways to get involved.

At this point I do not think it is appropriate to continue to "toy" with abstruse psychosociological reasoning on the return of foreign fighters, on the desire to emulate crazy deeds by "wolves that are often not very solitary", on the enormous amount of psycho of all ages in circulation always ready to act, etc .. at this point I believe that everywhere there is just a great desire for subversion regardless.

I hope I am wrong, but if I look at the last decades I see that terrorism of any origin and motivation has made great strides in the world both in terms of financial resources, organizational structure, capacity for global use of media and new technologies in a broad sense, operational capacity in general and ability to develop various and sophisticated mission profiles, etc ..

It cannot be a coincidence and I begin to believe that probably all this is due to a strong desire to subvert a planetary order built after World War II and the fall of the Berlin wall; an order, today, for some no longer convenient as it once was and easily attacked riding the global crisis we are going through.

There are too many coincidences, the possible "business combinations", the probable intertwining of a different nature and all this can legitimize the suspicion that behind all this there is a direction, a transnational super direction that has as its mad objective the domination over all and everything and the reorganization of the planet for the use and consumption of a "chosen" few.

This reflection took me back in time, to a trip to Egypt during which I was able to know how certain dynamics already existed then.

It was 1979 and thanks to some Christian-Coptic Cairo acquaintances I was received in audience by Pope Shenuda III who entertained me for a long time talking to me about President Anwar Al Sadat, of the great appreciation for what he was doing for his people, of his foresight for the interfaith dialogue being Sadat Muslim and deeply religious, for the openness to the Coptic community that involved at all levels and, above all, for the success of the policy of detente with Israel that led to the Camp David peace accords and the recognition of two presidents of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978. At the moment of my farewell he suggested that I go to visit the Monastery of S. Macario in the oasis of Wadi el-Natrun because it would be interesting for many reasons.

I went there and, besides the beauty of the place and entered the crypt in which it is believed that the relics of St. John the Baptist are preserved, I got to know Father El-Meskin the spiritual guide of the Monastery, a monk who struck me very very much.

I talked with him for a long time and amazed at the fact that he knew perfectly the Italian political situation telling me, among other things, that he was very worried because terrorism had been raging in a country for too long a country that represents the guide for all the peoples of the Mediterranean and not only.

He explained to me that every night he listened to the Italian radio for hours and when it was possible he got the publications that were about our country.

He told me that surely the Italian terrorists were connected to the most extreme and revolutionary fringes of the Middle East and that it would have been opportune for the states to collaborate closely to eradicate this phenomenon as soon as possible because it could have been devastating for everyone in the near future.

This today sounds like a prophecy to me.

Terrorist collusion, a threat always lurking