Thursday, November 29, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Friday, November 23, 2012
ITALY Part 3
ITALY Part 3
2000 – British MP Gerard Batten, of the UK Independence
party, also became an acquaintance of Litvinenko, who was in his constituency.
Before fleeing Russia in 2000, Litvinenko spoke to Colonel General Anatolly
Trofimov, a former deputy chief of the FSB. Trofimov told Litvinenko, don’t go
to Italy, there are many KGB agents there, among the politicians. Romano Prodi,
then PM of Italy, and foreign head of the EC, is our man there, he said,
Trofimov and his wife were murdered in Moscow in 2005. (Russia’s new cold war
27 November 2006 Neil MacKay).
25 September 2000 – Livia Turco, Italy’s social affairs
minister, pushed to make sex slavery legal and encourage women to form left
wing coops. (Internet timeline).
2001 – Countering terrorism through international
cooperation. Alex Schmid UN Rome. International scientific and professional
advisory council of the UN and the UN terrorism prevention branch.
16 April 2002 – Afghanistan’s former King Mohammad Zaher
Shah returns to Kabul after 24 years of exile in Italy.
19 November 2002 – Italian newspapers reported that the
‘Ndrangheta, or Calabrin version of the Sicilian mafia, got 3% of the
multimillion dollar contracts for work on highways through the area. (AP
11/20/02 timeline internet).
2003 – Nicolo Pollari, head of SISMI, Italy’s secret
service, was accused of helping the CIA kidnap a terrorist suspect in 2003 in
Milan. They were also accused of paying journalists to plant stories and spy on
magistrates. Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr was grabbed of a Milan street and driven
to a US airbase in northern Italy. Then flown to Egypt where he says he was
tortured. (21 November 2006 CNN Reuters).
2003 – Scaramella moved from environment expert to KGB
specialist, when he was appointed as a consultant to the Mitrokhin commission.
It was that work which put him in contact with Litvinenko. (27 November 2006.
The Mail on Sunday UK).
2003 – Mafia brotherhoods. Organised crime Italian style.
Letizia Paoli. Oxford university press.
2003 – Reversible destiny, mafia, anti-mafia and the
struggle for Palermo. Jane C Schneider. Peter T Schneider. University of
California press.
February 2003 – Abu Omar aka Osama Nasr was under
surveillance by Italy’s special branch police force, the Digos, on suspicion of
recruiting terrorists. CIA Milan chief was Robert Seldon Lady. The Italian
government had given permission for the CIA mission and wiretapping is common
in Italy. Police and spies tap 100,000 phones every year. Tracing the phone of
Marco Mancini, SISMI’s number two. On 5 July 2006 police raided the apartment
on via Naziamah in Rome. They found a SISMI spy with dossiers on enemies of the
Berlisconi government. (27 July 2006 Patrick Radden Keefe).
6 March 2003 – Italian police raided a house in Palermo and
captured Salvatore Rinella, a top mafia boss aged 49. (AP 3/7/03 internet).
2004 – The Bilderbergers met at the five star grand hotel
des Iles Borromees in Stresa Italy. There were angry protests about the
occupation of Iraq by American troops. European opposition to US military
action. The Bilderbergers said the UN should be given a greater role in future
outbreaks of violence. (Who really runs the world ©2005 UK T Burnett & A
Games).
The Mail on Sunday said that in June 2005 Italian police
launched an investigation into a plot, to smuggle uranium from the Soviet Union
into Italy, after being tipped off by Scaramella. A tip off from Litvinenko
helped foil an assassination attempt in 2005 on Paolo Guzzanti, an Italian
senator who headed the Mitrokhin inquiry. In 2004 Scaramella led an
investigation on the illegal dumping of nuclear waste by the mafia in an
Italian lake. (The Mail on Sunday 27 November 2006,UK).
2004 – Cosa Nostra. A history of the Sicilian mafia. John
Dickie. Sicilian mafia history.
28 January 2004 – Italian police busted an international
drug smuggling ring. They arrested more than 150 people and seized more than
five tons of cocaine. (AP 1/28/04 & timelines internet).
24 February 2004 –A letter bomb campaign across Europe that
originated in Italy. Italian police said terrorism was not involved in a letter
bomb that exploded in Perugia this week and they arrested a man in his 40’s.
19 April 2004 – Pierluigi Vigna, Italy’s national anti-mafia
prosecutor said, that Italian mafia and Islamic terrorists had links in arms
and drug trafficking. (AP 4/20/094 timeline internet).
11 June 2004 – In Palermo Sicily a court convicted 30 top
Sicilian mafia to life in jail, after a ten year trial covering 77 murders. (AP
6/12/04 timeline internet).
9 August 2004 – Italy takes heat as racist voices rise.
Anti-Islamic book by an Italian journalist sold half a million copies in hours
last week. High beam research. Christian science monitor.
23 August 2004 – al-Qaeda threatens attacks in Italy and
across Europe. A group linked to al-Qaeda issued another threat, to attack
targets in Italy and across Europe.
After Rome ignored an ultimatum to leave Iraq. Italian PM was Silvio
Berlisconi. We target all of Europe, a statement signed by the Abu Hafs
al-Masri brigades al-Qaeda organisation, posted on an Islamic website, expiry
on 15 July 2004, of the truce offer by bin Laden. In a statement on 15 August
2004 the group threatened to launch attacks throughout Italy and target
Berlisconi. Italy has 3,000 troops in Iraq.
24 August 2004 – Italy says it has no intention of
withdrawing its 3,000 troops from Iraq. Demands were made from kidnappers who
seized an Italian journalist. The government says it planned to secure the
released of the journalist, Enzo Baldoni, but the Italian presence in Iraq
would continue. PM Silvio Berlusconi’s office said, a group called the Islamic
army in Iraq said, its holding the journalist Enzo Baldoni, Diario magazine
driver was found dead near Najafi. He had been
missing since 19 August 2004. (BBC UK).
Thursday, November 22, 2012
ITALY Part 2
ITALY Part 2
2 April 1860 – The first Italian parliament met at Turin
Italy was unified. The Rothschild’s banking empire bankrolled Italy’s
independence. (Internet).
1930 – Mount Storomboli erupted and hurled 30 ton rocks onto
houses three kilometres away. It caused a tidal wave as the island mountain
rose. (Pac Disc spring 96 p30 and timelines internet).
23 July 1930 – An earthquake struck Ariano Italy which killed 1,500 people. (mc 7/23/02 and
timelines internet).
1948 – Elections in Italy in which the Communist party got
31% of the vote. (Econ 6/11/11 SR p9 and timelines internet).
1958 – A new law shut down state controlled brothels. (sfc
9/25/00 pA12 and timelines internet).
1976 – Soviet defector Golitsyn’s daughter died of a drug
overdose in Italy.
6 May 1976 – There was an earthquake in northern Italy near
the Austrian Yugoslav borders. It killed more than 1,000 people and left 80,000
homeless. (Timelines internet).
20 March 1979 – In Rome the mafia killed Mino Pocorelli, a
journalist and magazine editor. (Timelines internet).
23 November 1980 – 2,600 people were killed by a series of
earthquakes in southern Italy. (AP 11/23/07 and timelines internet).
1981 – The terror network. The secret war of international
terrorism. Claire Sterling. London UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson).
1983 – Mafia, peasants and great estates, society in
traditional Calabria. Pino Arlacchi.
1985-91 – In Italy a mafia war during this time claimed 600
lives. Giovanni Tegano was a senior mafia in Reggio Calabria and a key participant.
(Econ 5/8/10 p54 and Timelines internet).
23 September 1985 – Italian journalist Giancarlo Siani was
killed after he wrote investigative reports about the mafia in Naples daily LL
Mattino. (timelines internet).
10 February 1986 – The largest mafia trial in history with
474 defendants opened in Palermo. (AN 2/10/97 internet).
1990 – In Naples $60 million disappeared, in incomplete
construction sites for the soccer world cup. (Timeline internet).
19 July 1992 – Paolo Dorsellino, an anti-mafia judge was
murdered by the mafia. (mc 7/19/02 internet).
8 January 1993 – In Sicily a journalist named Beppe Alfano
was killed by the mafia. He was born in 1945. (Timeline internet).
27 May 1993 – Italian police arrested mafia boss Benedetto
“Nitto” Santapaola. (timeline internet).
1994 – Roberto Pannunzi Italian mafia was arrested in
Colombia. He had links to Colombian cartels for trade in cocaine. He was
extradited to Italy and released. He had a heart attack and disappeared in
2009. (Timeline internet).
1995 – Italian genealogical records and ecclesiastical.
Trafford R Cole. Ancestry inc. Italian record keeping history and development.
.POBox 476 Salt Lake city Utah USA. Google books.
1995 – The Italian port Gioia Tauro began handling container
ships. The local mafia ‘Ndranghetta extorted $1.50 for every container.
(Timelines internet)
1996 – The Sicilian mafia. The business of private
protection. Diego Faubetta.
1997 – Six Naples mafia were sentenced to life terms for the
murder of journalist Giancarlo Siani in Naples in 1985. (Timeline internet).
26 September 1997 – A court in Sicily convicted 24 mafia for
the 1992 bombing of anti-mafia prosecutor Salvatore Toto Riina. (timeline
internet).
1998 – Mafia money and politics in Sicily 1950-1997. Rene Seindel.
11 February 1998 – President Yeltsin visited Italy for three
days and $5 billion in trade and
investment contracts. (timeline internet).
2000 – British MP Gerard Batten, from the UK Independence
party, also became an acquaintance of Latvinenko’s, who was in his constituent.
Before fleeing Russia in 2000 Litvinenko spoke to Colonel General Anatolly
Trofimov, who was a former deputy chief of the FSB. Trofimov told Litvinenko,
don’t go to Italy, there are many KGB agents where among the politicians.
Romano Prodi, then PM of Italy, former head of the EC, is our man there, he
said. Trofimov and his wife were murdered in Moscow in 2005. (Neil MacKay 27
November 2006 Russia’s new Cold war).
2001 – Countering terrorism through international
cooperation. Alex Schmid. UN Rome. International scientific and professional
advisory council of the UN, the UN terrorism prevention branch.
16 April 2002 – Afghanistan’s former King, Mohammad Zaher
Shah, returns to Kabul after 29 years of exile in Italy.
ECUADOR
ECUADOR
1987 – Politics and petroleum in Ecuador by John D Martz.
12 October 2000 – Helicopter hijacking in Sucumbios province
Ecuador. A group of armed kidnappers, led by former members of Colombian terror
group, the Popular Liberation Army EPL. They took hostage ten employers of
Spanish energy consortium REPSOL. Those kidnapped included one New Zealander,
five US citizens, one Argentine, one Chilean and two French pilots, who escaped
four days later. On 30 January 2001 the kidnappers murdered American hostage
Ronald Sander. The remaining hostages were released on 23 February following
the payment of $13 million in ransom by the oil companies.
2003 – Indians, oil and politics. A recent history of
Ecuador. A Gerlach. SR books.
22 February 2007 – Ecuador plans to rejoin the OPEC
countries, La Hora reported, citing Ecuador’s energy minister. Ecuador will
seek OPEC’s endorsement for its oil plans. Including financial issues, and a
report for Algerian council on matters related to natural gas. Ecuador is the fifth
largest producer of oil in South America. Exporting 69% of its oil production.
(Stratfor Intel summary).
April 2011 – Ecuador expels US ambassador, after Wikileaks
published diplomatic cables, alleging widespread corruption in Ecuador’s police
force. (Timelines BBC Internet).
9 February 2012 – Ecuador’s Foreign Minister said, police in
Italy found nearly 90 pounds (40 kilos) of cocaine in January. It was in
diplomatic mail sent to Italy. Two suspects were arrested. Crates inspected by
police dogs before leaving Ecuador, travelled to Italy through a third country.
(AP 2/9/12. Timelines Internet).
16 November 2012 – Body on yacht. Pacific’s largest cocaine
haul was found on a yacht in Vava’u Tonga. the Pacific. It went from Ecuador
and was bound for Australia, according to the US DEA in August. Organised crime
syndicates were involved. (Matangi Tonga online).
20 November 2012 – Chevron seeks probe over Ecuador case. By
Ed Crooks in New York. Oil and gas. Financial Times.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Friday, November 16, 2012
PACIFIC
PACIFIC
17 December 2002 – Fears of a coup and renewed violence,
sparked by disgruntled police who fired on the PM’s home in Honiara. New
Zealand born … Lloyd Powell and others fled the country on a chartered plane.
(Christchurch Press AFP Kiwis flee Solomon islands.)
23 December 2002 – PM pays extortionists. Australia
criticised Solomon islands PM Sir Allen Kemakeza for using public service money
to pay more than $A 360,000 to police who were extorting him. We have made the
point that the Solomon islands government cannot give in to the extortion
deals. New Zealand and Australian police trying to restore law and order.
(Christchurch Press AFP)
22 or 27 November 2004 – Vanuatu stolen aid. Australia has
expressed concern about trans-national crime in Vanuatu and the implications
for regional security, lawlessness and deeply entrenched corruption. PM Serge
Vohor visited Taiwan to sign a military agreement to grant Taiwan official
diplomatic recognition in spite of Vanuatu’s recognition of China. Australian aid
to Vanuatu is being stolen by the government. No money was going to the people.
Australia threatened to cut aid. Pm Serge Vohor refused to take part in
Australian diplomatic talks in Port Vila. (AFP Christchurch Press).
2 December 2004 – A report the Pacific is viable written by
Australian national university professor Helen Hughs was released by the centre
for independent studies. The report suggests policy changes including
abandoning communal land ownership for individual property rights and freeing
up labour markets. Aid to the Pacific region was more than $1.5 billion a year.
(Christchurch Press NZPA).
27 November 2004 – Takiveikato was found guilty on three
charges of inciting a mutiny. On 2 November 2000 in which rebel soldiers tried
to kill military commander Voreque Bainimarama. (The Fiji Times Christchurch
Press AFP).
18 October 2006 – Fiji PM warns of a coup threat.
1 November 2006 – Commodore Bainimarama is in Iraq. He told
the Fiji Sun newspaper, the EU, Australian, NZ and US. Governments had been
deeply corrupt and unconstitutional
practises by the Qarase led government. (Stuff NZ news Michael Field).
20 November 2006 – International criminal gangs are reported
to have laundered billions in the island of Nauru in the past ten years. The US
accused Nauru of selling large numbers of false passports. (VOA Phil Mercer
Sydney).
27 November 2006 – Tension grows with coup alert. There was
clear evidence that the military chief was planning to stage a coup within two
weeks. (Fiji Pacific).
US to stage biggest anti-terrorist exercise on Guam. The
worlds biggest anti-terrorism exercise will be held this year on Guam.
Underscoring the Pacific islands groups importance to Washington. Exercise
TopOff4 is part of a series of large scale moves established to strengthen the
US ability to respond to terrorist attacks involving WMD. William Marhoffer the
US coast guard commander in Guam said the TopOff4 exercise would be bigger than
last years Valiant shield war game in which the US,,, 30 ships 280 aircraft and
22,000 military personnel. (Washington Times 19 Feb 2007. Cable gram. Agence
France presse)
6 March 2007 - Vanuatu PM Ham Lini state of emergency. Port
Vila ethnic clashes left two men dead and eight others in hospital. Armed
police arrested more than 100 people. Dozens of armed personnel from the
Vanuatu mobile forces made arrests for unlawful assembly, assault and property
damag said police spokesman Willie Ben (Christchurch Press AP).
February 2011 – Elder Perry creates the first LDS stake in
Guam. (Ensign p78).
7 November 2012 – Big gold and silver find in the waters off
Tonga. Nautilus mineral mining company. (TVNZ Stuff.co.nz Michael Field)
16 November 2012 – Cocaine and a corpse found on an
Australian bound yacht. In Tongan waters. ( Lisa Martin AAP.The Australian).
16 November 2012 – Corpse and cocaine worth $120 million was
found on a shipwrecked boat in Tonga. Suspected to be from Ecuador. (The
Vancouver Sun AP Sydney).
16 November 2012 – The Pacific’s largest cocaine haul was
found on a yacht in Vava’u Tonga. From Ecuador bound for Australia, the US DEA
said in August 2012. Organised crime syndicate and a body was on the boat too.
(Matangi Tonga online).
16 November 2012 – Nauru police charged 15 Iranian asylum
seekers with doing damage on the island. (Herald Sun).
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ITALY 2010 - 2012
ITALY 2010 – 2012
18 November 2010 – Silvio Berlusconi and the mafia. The
Telegraph UK by Nick Squires Rome.
19 March 2012 – Police arrested 16 Italian judges for
suspected ties to the mafia. Bribes from Camorra mafia by Amy Silverstein.
31 March 2012 – Thailand arrests Vito Roberto Palazolo,
South African, mafia banker wanted in Italy. Global Post America the gutted.
28 June 2012 – Advertisements for organ trafficking appear
on the internet in Spain, Italy, Greece and Russia. The black market for body parts
spreads among the poor in Europe. The New York Times By Dan Bilefsky. Belgrade
Serbia.
27 September 2012 – Ghana’s Radio Gold is used for
trafficking young girls into Italy for sex slavery. Ghana web the new free
press.
29 October 2012 – Italian police bust a human trafficking
ring. International criminal group. Anti-mafia prosecutors. IOC news Europol.
29 October 2012 – Italian police bust a human trafficking
gang. Iraqi Kurds smuggled into Italy by the crime group. Smuggling Kurds
through Syria, Iran and Turkey to Europe. The Balkan route. Mafia today.
8 November 2012 – Italy busts suspected gold smuggling
network $200m in laundered money. Mafia
today.
9 November 2012 – In Italy doctors were held over
unauthorised treatments. Nine cardiologists, experiments and corruption. BBC
Europe.
10 November 2012 – Colombia and Italy to partner against the
mafia and drug trafficking. All about Italy Rome Interpol.
14 November 2012 – EU approves $850 million in earthquake
aid for Italy, after criticism of foot dragging. Washington Post business AP
Brussels.
EGYPT 2012
EGYPT 2012
10 November 2012 – 10,000 rally in Cairo demand Sharia law.
Islam and the Muslim brotherhood. Arutz sheva.
11 November 2012 – In Cairo Egypt a baby trafficking ring
was broken up. Safe world for women. BBC. Arrested nurses and doctors. Kevin
Connolly Cairo.
12 November 2012 – Destroy the idols. Egyptian Jihadists,
with links to the Taliban, call for removal of the sphinx and pyramids. Al
Arabiya news.
12 November 2012 –
About 30,000 Salafists stage a rally demanding Shariah law in Egypt.Examiner.com
Cairo. By Jim Kouri.
13 November 2012 – Growing ties between Egypt and Turkey may
signal a new regional order. La Times Cairo by Jeffrey Fleishman. Los Angeles
Times.
13 November 2012 – Zawahiri calls on Muslims to impliment
Sharia. By Thomas Joscelyn. Site intel group. The long ware journal, foundation
for defence of democracies.
16 November 2012 – Egypt, Gaza and the Sanai peninsula.
Stratfor.
16 November 2012 – Thousands of Egyptians protest in Cairo
and Alexandria, against Israel’s operation in Gaza, after Egypt’s PM visits
Gaza. The Times of Israel.
CANADA 2010 - 2012
CANADA 2010 – 2012
10 November 2010 – Mafia boss Nicolo Rizzuto (born 1924) was
gunned down at his home in Montreal Canada. (internet).
24 November 2011 – The body of mafia boss Salvatore Montagna
was found in a river north of Montreal Canada. (internet).
18 May 2012 – Oil politics. Canada’s role in the energy
world. Canada has the second largest oil reserves in the world. (BBC).
29 September 2012 – New players in the Montreal mafia
surface as Rizzuto family falls. (The mafia now.com internet).
3 October 2012 – Italian prosecutors say Canada too lax on
mafia. Narangheta to have presence in Toronto’s Thunder bay. Money laundering
and Colombian drugs. (CBC news).
6 October 2012 – Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto’s destination
unknown, after arriving in Toronto. Rizzuto was aged 66. Quebec Charbonneau
commission examines the Rizzuto clan control over major building projects in
Montreal. (Graeme Hamilton Montreal National Post).
9 October 2012 – China’s Huawei’s business grows in Canada.
The Wall street journal by Will Connors and Alistair McDonald Toronto.
11 October 2012 – Anti-corruption squad raids Montreal area
construction firms. 70 officers take files from six different sites. CBC news
Montreal.
13 October 2012 – Corruption not limited to construction. Duchesneau
CTV news.
22 October 2012 – The Rizzuto’s Sicilian roots. Tracing the
Quebec mafia ties to Cattolica eraclea. Vito Rizzuto. National Post by Adrian Humphreys.
28 October 2012 – 7.7 magnitude quake hits Canada British
Columbia, followed by aftershocks. By Jeffrey Hodgson Reuters.
31 October 2012 – Canada’s Vancouver based TAG oil offers
$534 million for Greymouth petroleum New Zealand. Deal journal Australia. Wall
street journal. By Gillian Tan.
1 November 2012 – Corruption casts a dark shadow over
Montreal. Westmont examiner by Toula Foscolos.
5 November 2012 – 70 year old victim Joe Di Maulo killed. A
mafia boss. The murder marks a new era in organised crime in Canada. The
Huffington Post. Sidhartha Banerjee Canadian press.
5 November 2012 – I suspect this is only the begining.
Police fear Montreal mafia murder may be start of bloody mafia war. National
Post. Adrian Humphreys. Giuseppe Joe Di Maulo Montreal mafia murder.
5 November 2012 – Montreal man with mafia ties, Joe Di Maulo
was killed in front of his home. He was 72 years old and entered the mafia in
the 1960’s. The Globe and Mail. By Les Perreaux.
6 November 2012 – Montreal trying to move past corruption
scandal. The Globe and Mail by Rheal Seguin and Ingrid Peritz.
7 November 2012 – Two more Canadian oil explorers appear in
Hawkes Bay New Zealand. Scoop business.
7 November 2012 – Canadian firm optimistic about oil
pipeline. The Eagle AP Texas USA.
9 November 2012 – Laval Mayor resigns amid corruption
allegations. Quebec’s construction industry. CBC news Montreal.
13 November 2012 – Prostitutes offered to Montreal city
officials, corruption inquiry hears. Construction companies.Edmonton journal by
Sidhartha Banerjee Canadian press Montreal.
13 November 2012 – Corruption allegations are tainting
Quebec cities, The Gazette Montreal by Kevin Dougherty.
13 November 2012 – Man found dead in alley in NDG Montreal
police say. Head injury 55 year old victim. The Gazette.
13 November 2012 – It’s a crisis for Quebec women. The
Gazette Montreal by Charlie Fidelman health.
15 November 2012 – Corruption trial and the Rizzuto mafia.
Mafia used intimidation on construction cartel, business testifies. The
Star.com by Allan Woods Montreal Quebec bureau.
15 November 2012 – Toronto lawyer stripped of license after
$3m taken, mostly from charity. The Tyee by Allison Jones Canadian press
Toronto.
17 November 2012 – Ottowa Canada strongly condemns Hamas
says Israel has right to defend itself. The voice of the Orthodox Jewish
Community VIN news no date on report.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
SUDAN
SUDAN
1972 – Khashoggi helped arrange a revolving loan of $200
million. It was to be raised by 31 banks and guaranteed by the Saudi central
bank. It was for a giant project that originally included sugar, cattle,
textiles, minerals and cement. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).
2 March 1973 – In Sudan the US ambassador, Cleo A Noel jr
and diplomat George C Moore were taken hostage and killed. The Fatah
organisation were suspected.
2 March 1973 – US ambassador to Sudan was assassinated. Cleo
A Noel and other diplomats were killed, at the Saudi Arabian embassy in
Khartoum by members of Black September.
1 March 1974 – Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum was seized
by Black September terrorists. Diplomats were taken hostage. The terrorists
murdered two Americans and one Belgiun diplomat.
1976-82 – As part of Cuba’s alliance with Mengistu Haile
Mariam’s regime in Ethiopia, Cuba engaged in political and military support for
the Liberation movement of southern Sudan. It was headed by John Garang,
against the Arab Muslim regime in Khartoum.
1978 – In Sudan another BCCI branch was due to open. This
was unusual because every other bank in Sudan was nationalised.
1980 – A payoff to an African central banker Swaleh Naqvi
asked Akbar Bilgrami to take senior official from Sudan’s central bank on a
shopping trip at Harrods in London. BCCI paid more than $100,000. In return the
official put millions of dollars of Sudan’s foreign exchange reserves into
BCCI.
1989 – The leader of Sudan sent a delegation to Peshawar
Pakistan. Al-Qaeda Sudan relations.
Late 1989 to late 1991 – Bin Laden relocated al-Qaeda
infrastructure to Sudan. Most of al-Qaeda’s fighters moved to Sudan. (Inside
al-Qaeda ©2002 R Gunaratna).
1991 – Sudan Islamic banking http:reference.allrefer.com for
the Sudan.
1991-96 – In 1991 bin Laden left Saudi Arabia and moved to
Sudan where he remained until 1996.
April 1991 – Saudi Arabia expels bin Laden so he takes up
residence in Sudan.
Late 1991 – In Sudan members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad were
being trained in the use of explosives. Sudan’s intelligence worked closely
with al-Qaeda. (Inside al-Qaeda ©2002 R Gunaratna).
1992 – Nizam al-Zakah fi al-Sudan Omdurman Islamic
university printing and publishing p192 Sudan. Muhammad Bashir Abdulqadir.
1993 – Sudan is placed on the State departments list of
countries that sponsor terrorist activities. Bin Laden’s followers try to get
components of nuclear weapons and begin to work with Sudan’s NIP to develop
chemical arms.
1993 – The Third World relief agency TWRA a Sudan based fake
humanitarian organisation. It was used as a go between for the suppliers and
fighters in Bosnia. TWRA had links with Islamists like Sheikh Omar Abdul
Rahman, the blind sheikh, involved in the 1993 WTC bombing and bin Laden.
1993 – Cofer Black transferred from London to Khartoum
Sudan. He arrived as the CIA station chief. Sudan’s government sponsored
terrorism and the US had imposed economic sanctions. A Muslim Brotherhood
inspired political party, called the National Islamic Front, led by Hasan
al-Turabi had taken power. Turabi proclaimed Solidarity with terrorists both
Socialist and Islamic. Hamas, Hezbollah, Egypt’s Islamic group, Algeria’s
Islamic Salvation Front, Carlos the Jackal and Osama bin Laden. (Ghost wars
©2004 Steve Coll).
May 1993 – Pakistan crackdown on Arab radicals in spring. So
bin Laden sent money to fly 480 of these Jihadists to Khartoum. They became
part of bin Laden’s businesses. Money went to Egyptian Islamists for printing
presses and weapons.
27 April 1993 – Declaration of Jihad against African
Sudanese. Fatma issued from Kordofan El Obeid. Quraishi M Tariq.
1994 – Four Arab veterans of the Afghan war tried to kill
bin Laden during 1994. The assassins opened fire inside a Khartoum mosque where
bin laden preached. They shot several worshippers dead before they realised
that bin laden was not there. (Ghost wars ©2004 Steve Coll).
January 1994 – By this time bin Laden was financing at least
three terrorist training camps in north Sudan, where rebels from at least six
nations received training.
Late 1994 – bin Laden was working closely with the Sudanese
intelligence services, Sudanese intelligence were running paramilitary and
terrorist operations in Egypt and elsewhere. Bin Laden had access to Sudanese
military radios, weapons, and about 200 Sudanese passports. These passports
added to the false documents bin Laden had acquired for his aides, and for the
travel papers of Arab volunteers who were killed in the Afghan Jihad. Three
training camps in northern Sudan, a multinational private army. (Ghost wars
©2004 Steve Coll).
1995 – Using Iranian funds, al-Turabi of Sudan helped
Palestinian Islamic Jihad return to Israel where it carried out terror
operations. Hamas, Algerian Islamic Salvation Army fighters, Iranian revolutionary
guards, and al-Gama’at al-Islamiyya also relied on the government of Sudan. By
1995 half of the 3,000 Iranian revolutionary guards sent to Khartoum Sudan had
came from Lebanon, of these more than 1,000 were Lebanese Hezbollah. (American
Jihad ©2002 S Emerson).
1995 – Mugniyeh was flying back to Beirut from Sudan after a
meeting with bin Laden. The US arranged for his Middle East airways plane to
make a unscheduled stop in Saudi Arabia. But Saudi authorities refused to make
him leave the plane.
1995 – An FBI source was Jamal al-Fadl a Sudanese militant
who fled bin Laden’s circle after stealing a large sum of money from him in
1995. he was recruited by the Americans in 1996. (al-Qaeda ©2003-4 J Burke).
17 August 1996 – Sudanese rebel kidnapping Sudan’s peoples
liberation army SPLA rebels kidnapped six missionaries in Mapourdit including a
US citizen, an Italian, three Australians and a Sudanese. The SPLA released the
hostages 11 days later.
Late 1990’s – al-Qaeda got uranium in Khartoum and hired
Egyptian and Pakistani physicists to research the development of unconventional
weapons.
1 November 1996 – Red Cross worker kidnappings in Sudan. A
breakaway group from the Sudanese people liberation army SPLA kidnapped three
international committee of the Red Cross ICRC workers. Including a US citizen,
an Australian and a Kenyan. On 9 December the rebels released the hostages in
exchange for ICRC supplies and a health survey for their camp.
20 August 1998 – US unleashes cruise missile strikes against
suspected terrorist installations in Sudan. In retaliation for the US embassy
attacks in Africa.
20 August 1998 – al Shifa a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum
was tied to the production of chemical weapons for bin Laden. Cruise missile
attack in retaliation against bin Laden.
5-8 May 1998 – Contemporary government application of zakat
in Sudan. Seminar on contemporary applications of Islamic economics. Casablanca
Morocco. Abd al-Muem al-Gusi.
September 2001 – Mohamed Atta, who piloted a jet into the
WTC, wired money to bin Laden’s former paymaster in Sudan. Shaykh Said al-Masri
(aka Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad) on the eve of 9/11. (Alms for Jihad ©2006 Burr and
Collins).
30 September 2001 – Resentful West spurned Sudan’s key
terror files. David Rose. The Observer.
2003 – Obligatory almsgiving, an inquiry into zakat in the
pre colonial bilael al-Sudan. Helsinki oriental society p26. Holger Weiss.
January 2003 – Ibn Baz federation al Afandi establishment
African company Sudan al Amoudi group. Ibrahim Muhammad Afandi (Alms for Jihad
©2006 Burr and Collins).
15 November 2006 – 32 people were killed and 18 wounded in
Darfur. Militia attack rebels Sudan.
16 February 2007 – US appeals court upholds terrorist
designation for Islamic charity. A Federal appeals court upheld the US
government decision to freeze the assets of an Islamic charity, with alleged
links to a Sudanese group that supports terrorism. The Treasury department
claims that Islamic American relief agency USA is an affiliate of the Islamic
African relief agency. A Sudan based charity that US government says finances
al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. The US court of appeals for the district
of Colombia agreed with a lower courts 2005 decision, saying the charity was a
branch of the Sudanese based agency. (Int Herald Tribune, Site institute 15 Feb
2007).
7 November 2012 – Iranian warships dock in port Sudan. Iran
Daily Brief.
ALBANIA
ALBANIA
1997 – During Albanian unrest 100,000 passports were stolen.
Interpol said they may be used to smuggle members of Islamist groups into
Europe. Weak states with low law enforcement are ideal grounds for smuggling.
1998 – Albania’s role in the Balkans, when Osama bin Laden
and Iranian revolutionary guards signed a deal to use Albania and Kosovo for
armed attacks in Europe. Iranian
involvement in Albania dates back to 1997. Robbery, terrorism, drug smuggling,
kidnapping. Sex slavery and trafficking were sources of income. Mohsen Nurbakan
governor of the Iranian central bank told domestic banks to invest in Albania.
Iranian banks were a source of hard currency in Albania.
1998-99 – Defendants in the 1999 trial in Cairo against the
Islamic Jihad, Egyptian terror group, provided insights into the Arab Afghan
network in Albania. Most of them were employed by Islamic charities in Tirana.
Shawki Salama Mustafa was the Egyptian who headed al-Qaeda’s Albanian cell. He
ran a racket in Tirana forging identities, passports and birth certificates,
which he learned in 1994 in Sudan. Forgery business. Ahmed Ibrahim al-Sayed
al-Naggar, the Jihad member tied to bin Laden in Albania, smuggling arms and
drugs into Europe. They established business ventures with the Italian
mafia, which took responsibility for sale and distribution of drugs.
Albania became a transhipment point in the drug route from Afghanistan to
Europe.
20 November 2001 – CIA backed team used brutal means to
break up terrorist cells in Albania. Andrew Higgins and Christopher Cooper.
Wall Street Journal.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
ITALY
ITALY
2 April 1860 – The first Italian Parliament met at Turin.
Italy was unified. The Rothschild banking empire bankrolled Italy’s
independence. (internet).
October 1944 – March 1945 – The Nazis were facing defeat in
Europe as the Allies pushed towards victory. Angleton was transferred to Rome
Italy as the commanding officer off special counter intelligence unit 2. A
detachment of US and UK personell,
activated towards
the end of the war to arrest enemy agents. In March 1945 he was promoted to
first lieutenant and made chief of X-2 for all of Italy. At age 27 he was the
youngest X-2 branch chief in all of OSS. He was the only American in Italy
cleared to share the intelligence secrets of the top secret Ultra. Allied
victory in Europe in May 1945.
November 1945 – With 1,771,000 members in Italy by the end
of 1945, the Communist party was the largest political party in Italy. (Cold
war ©1993 M Walker).
19 December 1947 – One of the first directives passed was
NSC 4/A ordered Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoeter, the new director of the CIA to use
covert methods to prevent a Communist victory in Italy. The elections of 1948
were a target with propaganda, secret payments and training equipment. (Cold
war ©1993 M Walker).
1961 – The Fiat cars were called Zhigulis in Russia and
Ladas when they went for export. Rolling out of a factory called Togliatti in
Italy. A KGB correspondent in Rome Vladimir Volodya Yermakov of Pravda. A KGB
journalist Valya Kovanoiv in Italy. Leonid Sergeyevich Kolosov was a KGB agent
in Rome in the mid 1960’s. The KGB was directing movimento sociale hiliano MSI
and Enrico Berlinguer of the Italian Communist party. (Under cover lives ©1998
H Womack).
1962-66 – A deal between Italy and the Soviet Union whereby
Fiat helped them build a giant car factory on the river Volga at a place called
Togliatti, after the Italian Communist party leader Palmiro Togliatti. In 1962 Mario Alicata was editor of the
Communist newspaper Unita. In 1963 the left was led by Enrico Berlinguer who
seized power in Italy. The US had military bases in Italy. Building an auto
plant to produce cheap cars for the Soviet market. Fiat was the Soviet
governments partner. In spring 1966 a study of Fiat by Soviet journalist
Marietta Shaginyan .Villorio Valetta was general director of Fiat in Italy. A
general strike was held. (Undercover lives ©1998 H Womack).
October 1962 – The death of Enrico Mattei the president of
the National oil company Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi ENI in Sicily Italy.
(Undercover lives ©1998 H Womack).
October 1962 – At the beginning of the 1960’s countries
benefiting from the Marshall plan were banned from supplying certain goods to
the Soviet Union. Drilling equipment for oil and gas, and pipes to carry fuel.
Enrico Mattei supplied pipes in exchange for Soviet gas. He had plans to supply
the Soviet Union with more equipment in exchange for Soviet oil. In 1967 a
journalist from local paper Ora said Mauro de Mauro was investigating the
murder of the Italian king of oil. (Undercover lives ©1998 H Womack).
July 1964 – 76 – Prosecutor general Villorio Occorsio said
the there was a plot code named Piano Solo, to seize power in Italy. Many
people who knew about Piano Solo died unnatural deaths. Found shot or were
involved in suspicious car accidents. Occorsio was murdered in 1976. Nicola
Gentile died in December 1964 of a heart attack in Sicily. (Undercover lives
©1998 H Womack).
23 July 1968 – El Al airliner from Rome to Tel Aviv was
hijacked to Algiers. The hostages were held for five weeks then released in
return for two Palestinians, one Syrian hijacker and 16 prisoners.
29 August 1969 – TWA flight 840 from Rome to Athens was
hijacked to Damascus it was destroyed after the hostages were freed. Injuries
unknown.
August 1972 – El Al Rome baggage car bomb.
16 August 1972 – El Al flight Rome to Tel Aviv bomb in
luggage compartment. Two suspects were arrested in Rome then freed.
4 April 1973 – Attack on an El Al plane at Rome was foiled.
Two people were arrested and deported to Lebanon.
27 April 1973 – A civilian clerk was murdered at an El Al
desk at Rome airport by Palestinians.
17 June 1973 – A car bomb exploded near Rome El Al desk. Two
Arabs were injured and freed without trial.
5 September 1973 – A planned missile attack at Rome airport
was foiled. Five Palestinians were arrested. Two were released on bail with no
show for trial.
17 December 1973 – Rome airport attack and hijacking. Five
attackers hit a Pan Am 707 with grenades. They herded five Italian hostages
into a Lufthansa airliner and killed an Italian customs agent, then forced the
plane to fly to Beirut.
17 December 1973 – Attack and hijack at Rome airport. Five
terrorists pulled weapons from their luggage in the terminal building, killing
two people. Then they attacked a Pan Am 707 bound for Beirut and Tehran,
destroying it with grenades and killing 29 people, including four senior
Moroccan officials and 14 American employees of Aramco. Then they herded five
Italian hostages into a Lufthansa airliner and killed an Italian customs agent
as he tried to escape. Then they forced the pilot to fly to Beirut. No group
claimed responsibility.
1976 – Soviet defector Golitsyn’s daughter died of a drug
overdose in Italy.
1978 – The Italian red brigades kidnapped and murdered the
former Italian PM Aldo Moro. Their financial manager was Giuseppe Alessandrini,
a businessman. Nicola Gentile was a mafia KGB in Italy who had lived in the US.
(Undercover lives ©1998 H Womack).
16 March 1978 – Kidnapping of Italian PM Aldo Moro. He was
seized by the red brigade and assassinated 55 days later. Two people were
killed.
1981 – The terror network. The secret war of international
terrorism. Claire Sterling. London UK Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Summer 1981 – Pope John Paul assassination attempt. One
person was wounded.
24 February 1981 – A machine gun attack in Italy wounded
five people.
13 May 1981 – An agent named Mehmet Ali Agca, a young Turk,
who may have plotted to kill Walesa in a january 1981 visit to Rome. He did
shoot and almost kill the Pope in St Peters square on 13 May 1981. Agca had
ties to the Bulgarian intelligence. The Bulgarians needed Moscows approval.
(Cold war ©2005 Gaddis).
1982 – Italian red brigade terrorists kidnapped US Army
Brigadier General James Dozier. The Italians rescued him. (Americas wars ©2003
P Huchthausen).
1984 – Assassination in Rome of Leamon Hunt Un DG.
25 October 1984 – A diplomat from the UAE was assassinated
in Rome.
1985-91 – A mafia drug war this time claimed the lives of
about 600 people. Giovanni Tegano a senior mafia in Reggio Calabria was a key
participant. (Econ 5/8/10/54, internet).
Late 1985 – Max Rabb was the US ambassador to Italy. The
capture of the Achille Lauro terrorists. (Inside the NSC ©1988 C Menges).
7 October 1985 – Achille Lauro hijacking. Four Palestinian
liberation front terrorists seized the Italian cruise liner in the eastern
Mediterranean sea. They took more than 700 hostages. One US passenger was
killed before the Egyptian government offered the terrorists safe haven in
return for the hostages freedom. One person was killed and three others
wounded. The CIA linked these terrorist acts to Libya.
27 December 1985 – Airports in Rome and Vienna were
attacked. Five Americans were among those who died. The CIA linked these
terrorist acts to Libya. (Americas wars ©2003 P Huchthausen)
27 December 1985 – Airport attacks in Rome and Vienna. Four
gunmen belonging to the Abu Nidal organisation attacked the El Al and TWA
ticket counters at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport with grenades and automatic
rifles. Thirteen people were killed and 75 wounded before Italian police and
Israeli security guards killed three of the gunmen and captured the fourth.
Rome airport bomb.
27 December 1985 – Assailants open fire with automatic
weapons and throw grenades at the check in counters of USD airliner TWA and
Israeli carrier El Al at Fiumicino international airport in Rome killing 16 and
injuring 80.
27 December 1985 – Two terrorist groups with automatic
weapons and hand grenades attacked civilian airports in Rome and Vienna. 132
people were killed and wounded including 7 Americans. (Inside the NSC ©1988 C
Menges).
January 1986 – Italy banned further arms sales to Libya.
(Americas wars ©2003 Huchthausen).
10 February 1986 The largest mafia trial in history with 474
defendants opened in Palermo Italy. (HN 2/10/97 internet).
2 April 1986 – Two US passengers aboard a TWA Boeing 727
from Rome to Athens were killed, by the explosion of a bomb placed under a
seat. Nine others were injured.
8 April 1986 – An explosion aboard a TWA flight from Rome
was caused by a terrorist bomb. Four Americans were killed and Libya was
implicated. (Americas wars ©2003 Huchthausen).
14 April 1988 – Naples USO attack. The organisation of Jihad
brigades exploded a car bomb outside a USO club in Naples Italy killing one US
sailor.
Late 1989 – BNL officials met with US ambassador to Italy
regarding the BNL scandal.
19 July 1992 – Paolo Dorsellino, an Italian anti-mafia judge, was murdered by
the mafia. (MC 7/19/02 internet).
1998-99 – Defendants in the 1999 trial in Cairo, against the
Islamic Jihad Egyptian terror group, provided insights into the Arab Afghan
network in Albania. Most of them were employed by Islamic charities in Tirana.
Shawki Salama Mustafa the Egyptian that headed al-Qaeda’s Albanian cell ran a
racket in Tirana forging identities, passports and birth certificates, which he
leaned in 1994 in Sudan. A forging business. Ahmed Ibrahim al-Sayed al-Naggar
the Jihad member who was tied to bin Laden in Albania. Smuggling arms and drugs
into Europe. They established business ventures with the Italian mafia, which
took responsibility for sale and distribution of drugs. Albania became a
transhipment point in the drug trade from Afghanistan to Europe.
To be continued …
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