Jamie writes "Agnese Trocchi analyses the recent Pisanu report on 'diffuse political illegality' for Metamute. See the latest Metamute webexclusive, published today. Including translation of the Disobedienti response by Matthew Hyland."

This week, in anticipation of imminent conflict in Iraq, the Italian Minister of Internal Affairs Giuseppe Pisanu has decided that the moment is right to deal a blow against voices in disagreement with the war.

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In a document entitled 'Internal and International Terrorism', presented to the Italian Parliament's Commission of Defence and Constitutional Affairs on the 27th of January 2003, Pisanu outlines some disturbing new strategies intended to counter the perceived danger of terrorism from internal and external quarters. He points to the threat of what he calls 'international Islamic terrorism', and highlights the relationship between this 'terrorism' and the so-called 'subversive groups of the extreme left' in Italy - for example, certain insurrectionary anarchist groups and the Red Brigade, which purportedly murdered politician Marco Biagi last year. Such groups, Pisanu argues, are part of a 'diffuse political illegality' - and amongst them, he says, the 'Disobedienti movement' is particularly culpable.

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