Domenico Quirico is alive. He disappeared in Syria two months ago (9 April) and there were no news ever since. But the inquiries reached a turning point yesterday: Quirico directly called his wife at home. The conversation was very brief; just few fundamental seconds enough to say he is alive and fine.
There are several expected consequences of the battle in Al Quseir, especially the reaction of the anti- Syria group that hopes to improve its negotiations position before the coming of Geneva II.
The increasing talk about deployment of Patriot missile batteries in Jordan might be also part of this tactic. However, the talk about Patriot batteries in Jordan is not new, in fact it may already be a reality.
It is well known that the political system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as delineated on paper, the reality is somewhat unpredictable, in the last 40 years there have been so many turns and twists that now the external spectator expects to everything. The Constitution of Iran is a bundle of contradictions: it appears as a modern charter, innovative, a novelty in the world and in history, in fact, the Fundamental Charter of Iran is unique as he said the former president of the Republic Rafsanjani:
Syria's conflict has been going on incessantly and it's the same for the repercussions for the area. Lebanon, a country considered a natural extension of Syria for countless factors, has been the scene of clashes increasingly characterized by a high coefficient of violence and intensity. On 26 May, two rockets hit the suburb of Shiyyah in Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold in the south of the city. The attack led to the wounding of four people, in addition to damage to some residential properties.
Domenico Quirico is missing. He disappeared more than 40 days ago and there is no news yet; the investigation process is stuck, no clues, no evidences, no claim of responsibility, no ransom has been demand. Nothing whatsoever.
Syrian civil war seems able to drag Turkey into its vortex. Yesterday early afternoon, Saturday 11 April, Twin car bombs exploded in Reyhanli, Turkish south-eastern town closed to Syrian border and important destination for Syrian refugees escaping from Assad’s regime. At present, 42 Turkish died, 100 were wounded and 13 Syrian fall victims too.
Tension is increased in the Middle East, from the drone shooting down on 25 April to the airstrikes in Syrian territory on Jamraya and Al Saboura; those events undermined the unstable geopolitical balance.
Sunday morning May 5 Israeli jets struck for the second time in three days, several military facilities near Damascus, killing dozens of soldiers near the presidential palace.
The air raids have hit the Republican Guard bases and an important military research center in Jamraya that according to U.S. sources should be the main plant of chemical weapons in Syria.
At present, it is a wide spread news: Domenico Quirico, Italian reporter for La Stampa, is missing. He left Italy on Friday 5 April headed to Homs (Syria) in order to depicture the atrocity of Syrian civil war. According to the newspaper itself revealed, Quirico waited in Beirut (Lebanon) for his sources and he left the day after (Saturday, 6) toward Syrian frontier. The same day at 6:10 pm he confirmed to his head office he was in Syria and two days later he called home confirming his position to his wife too. Last contact is dated 9 April when he sent a text message to a RAI colleague in which he declared he was on the way toward Homs. No more updates henceforward.
On Thursday 25 April, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) coming from Lebanon was shot down by Israeli Air Force at 4-5 miles from the city of Haifa. The Hezbollah were pointed out as main “instigators”, but the group spokesman skirted the issue declaring he had no official information to spread. Five days later, on Tuesday 30 April, the military arm of the “Party of God” officially sent its denial. In a video message, the group leader Hassan Nasrallah, explicitly rejected all charges, asserting that Hezbollah do not miss the courage to bear the responsibility of any action it makes. Moreover, he counter attacked warning Israel against taking any military action in Lebanon: contrariwise Israeli beliefs, Nasrallah declared, Lebanese resistance would create real trouble to Israeli army, determined to defend Lebanon from any external aggression.
