"You don't have to move in any way except on a cloudy and covered day." Rigid provisions such as orders are written on a piece of paper that is not quite satin. The letter was intended for the kidnappers of an Afghan diplomatic official who was detained from September 2008 to the end of 2010 in a rented house in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The uncertain and incomprehensible handwriting has the signature of terror: Osama Bin Laden. The papyrus is in an imposing bundle of secret papers and cables that the CIA, the largest intelligence organization in the world, first seized and then entrusted to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the American department of secret services. The peremptory order of the creator of the attack on the twin towers in New York, that of “not moving except under the clouds”, is cataloged in the chapter: armed kamikaze drones. Immediately after the killing of Bin Laden, on May 2, 2011, the men of Operation Neptune Spear emptied every shell of camp life of the world's number one terrorist. For weeks, American analysts searched far and wide all the recovered digital and paper tracks in search of clues to reconstruct the strategies and movements of the terrorists. A fact emerges with an obsessive concern in the provisions of the supreme leader of al-Qaida: neutralize the action of armed drones in every way, the American ones first of all.
Bin Laden's dream
Then, in those secret papers, Bin Laden's hidden and recounted dream: to own those armed drones to be launched over the border, between supermarkets and squares crowded with people. It is the other face of the endless race for "stray ammunition", those unmanned drones that chase targets for tens of kilometers, capable of hitting the target, as well as ending up on helpless innocent families, hospitals and schools. Yet the race to those ruthless remote-controlled aircraft, launched from the ground, risks revolutionizing conflicts, capable of transforming themselves into a veritable massacre of innocents. They all fled from Afghanistan: the Americans with an escape treaty signed under the aegis of the enemies of Qatar and the Europeans without the need for farce agreements. The Taliban have returned to that disputed land, terrorists in their home, now, however, with the most advanced weapons, those of the West. Bin Laden's dream materializes: state-of-the-art drones, armed with lethal ammunition, in the hands of al-Qaida's great grandchildren. The Latins told it, "Si vis pacem, para bellum", if you want peace, prepare for war. The men of the war industries have translated it into the "gospel": for them the important thing is to produce instruments of death, better if they manage to unleash some conflict, just to fill the large arms market. It matters little if those lethal tools end up on a school bus loaded with children, whether they are Afghans or Yemenis, Westerners or Americans.
