
Another teachable and poignant lesson from this attack is the failure of the security to protect their chief object of protection, for which they are employed and paid. At least someone among the prime minister's security detail should have seen this mad guy raise his hand to launch and should have blown him out of this world before he was able to launch his missile at the Prime Minister. But no, the team failed woefully and completely; only to live in the shame of not being able to protect the only one who they were employed to protect. Icheoku asks, what if the weapon of choice of the attacker was not a statue but a gun or knife or some other more lethal weapon? Italians should conduct an inquiry to unravel what went awry and figure out a way to guard against any future likely occurrence! No explanation is good enough for this lapse or collapse of security that enabled this monster to draw the blood of a seating Italian prime minister and no one should suggest otherwise. It was a total and complete failure of security and not even the infamous and despicable President George W. Bush shoe-throwing incident compares to this blatancy; at least President GW was nimble en0ugh to duck those unpolished dirty Iraqi shoes and denied the Iraqi-fanatic the joy of finding his intended target? But neither Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi nor his retinue of security details were able to see the statue-missile coming, until it was too late; with only a bloodied Prime Minister's mouth and face to show as evidence that the launched missile honed in well on its intended target.
Italian Prime Minister, 73 year old Silvio Berlusconi was attacked by a lunatic following a rally he held in central Milan to fight off series of virulent attacks waged on him in recent past. He slumped to the ground and was whisked away by his security guards to San Raffaele hospital for observation and treatment. Berlusconi sustained a gash cheek wound, bursted upper lip, a fractured tooth, a broken nose and bloodied face. The prime minister was mingling through a crowd of supporters of his People of Freedom party, in the square in front of the Duomo, the Milan’s Gothic cathedral, signing autographs. But unbeknownst to him and his security details and real supporters, a disgruntled attacker was lurking in their midst, waiting for opportunity; and eventually, like a viper, sprung the unsuspected attack! The attacker's weapon of choice, a statue of the Duomo, the city's world-famous cathedral with gargoyles the symbol the city of Milan.



It will be recalled that this is the second time that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been attacked publicly in a somewhat similar fashion. In 2004 he was hit on the head with a camera tripod while taking a walk in Rome. But being the survivor he is, the prime minister will pull through this challenge; it is just another nasty side of what public officers are once in a while, forced to put up with; and Icheoku wishes him well.

I guess Berlusconi doesn’t have the catlike reflexes of George W., or maybe he's just not used to having random objects thrown at him …
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