Showing posts with label al-qaeda. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Monday, November 26, 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.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
CANADA
Canada
Adil al-Magrebi Charkaoui trained at a camp in
Afghanistan according to CSIS. He was detained in Montreal facing possible
deportation.
1945-56 – Operation DEW WORM. The RCMP had
recruited a contractor who was rebuilding the Russian embassy and had installed
RCMP officers undercover as workmen on the site. With the help of Igor
Gouzenko, a Russian who had worked inside the old embassy as a cipher clerk
until he defected to the Canadians in 1945. Guernsey pinpointed where KGB and
GRU secret sections and cipher rooms were located.
5 September 1945 – Igor Gouzenko a clerk in
the Soviet embassy in Ottawa Canada defected to Canadian authorities.
Gouzenko’s disclosures of wartime Soviet espionage activities in Canada and the
US lead to an FBI investigation of suspect US Federal employees.
1952 –55 – Files marked KEYSTONE. 1952 when a
Russian entered Canada with a false name intent on developing cover as an
illegal agent for the KGB. His destination was the US. The KGB sent their
illegals to Canada first to establish a secure legend or false identity before
going across the border. He was made KGB illegal resident in Canada responsible
for running other illegal agents through Canada. In Summer 1955 he was recalled
to Russia.
July 1955 – M15 received a request for
technical assistance in an operation the royal Canadian mounted police RCMP
were planning to install microphones in the Russian embassy in Ottawa. The old
three storey embassy built overlooking the Rideau river had recently burnt
down. Terry Guernsey was the head of RCMP counter espionage department B
branch. His assistant was James Bennett.
January 1957 – The Polish government opened a
consulate in Montreal. In January 1957 Montreal RCMP installed a microphone.
The RCMP knew the identity of the UB Polish intel officer and the location of
his room.
August 1961 – A Soviet scientist who defected
to Canada Mikhail A Klochko, a specilist in water chemistry and a Stalin prize
winner. A professor and head of a lab at the Kurnakov institute in Moscow. He
apparently escaped from his KGB minders while attending a conference in Ottawa
and got political asylum from the Canadian government.
May 1965 – Canada agreed to provide a nuclear
power plant to be located in Karachi called the Karachi nuclear power project
KANUPP in Pakistan. (Spying on the bomb ©2006 Richelson).
1979 – A Canadian subsidiary of BCCI was
launched and it established eight branches eventually.
1985-87 – A Canadian lawyer Patrick Anthony
Good laundered $7.5 million in cash through BCCI Vancouver branch. About $3
million was converted into US dollars with the rest transferred overseas.
1995 – Assem Hammoud studied for seven years
beginning in 1995, a Lebanese terrorist suspect. He graduated with a bachelors
degree in commerce in 2002. Plot to bomb New York tunnels. Concordia university
in Montreal.
1995 – Canadian security intel service CSIS a
successor agency to the royal Canadian mounted police security service
communications security establishment CSE communications intel. (Espionage ©1995
E Volkman).
25 May 1995 – First Islamic banking conference
Toronto Canada co-sponsored by the Islamic society of North America. Zafar and
associates and the American journal of Islamic finance.
July 1997 – Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer was
arrested by New York city police, his plan to bomb the subway system. He had
been arrested on three separate occasions by the immigration service within
about a year before his arrest each time for illegally entering the US from
Canada. He was a member of Hamas, visa fraud. (American Jihad ©2002 S Emerson).
February 1999 – Hamid Aich fought in
Afghanistan and Bosnia. He came to Montreal in 1995 and later moved to
Vancouver where he lived with Abdelmajid Dahoumane who helped build Ahmed
Ressam’s bomb. He left Canada in February 1999.
14 December 1999 – Algerian Ahmed Ressam was
caught entering the US with 130 pounds of explosives at the Canadian border at
Port Angeles Washington. Ressam had links to other al-Qaeda militants and
trained in an Afghanistan al-Qaeda camp.Authorities learn his intended target
was Los Angeles international airport.
August 2001 – Immediately before 9/11 bin
laden sent al-Qaeda’s key financier Mohammed Mansour Jabarah (A Kuwaiti with
Canadian citizenship) alias Samy, to Malaysia to prepare attacks against US and
Israeli diplomatic targets in Manila Philippines.
1 October 2001 – Terrorists active in Canada
by Deborah Tetley. Calgary Herald.
6 December 2001 – Jim Bronskill and Rick
Mofina Hamas funded by Canadian agency, report, aid organisation accused of
sending money to US charity, shut down for alleged Hamas ties Ottawa citizens.
2002 – el Shukrijumah was seen in 2002 in
Hamilton Ontario posing as a student at McMaster university which has a 5
megawatt research reactor. US officials believe he was in Hamilton trying to
obtain radioactive material for a dirty bomb. At least three other al-Qaeda
terrorists were seen in Hamilton in 2002 Anas al-Liby and Jaber Elbareh and Amer El-Maati.
13 uly 2006 – ELF claims of vandalism spread.
Earth Liberation Front direct actions incendiary devices.
9 August 2006 – Quebec anti-terror squad and
oil executives car blast. A group called Initiative de resistance internaliste
IRI claiming it firebombed the car in emails sent to new media.
9 August 2006 – Ten more Saskatchewan farms
quarantined due to anthrax outbreak. Total farms 123, dead animals mostly
cattle and bison 615.
21 August 2006 – Que police confirm bomb
destroyed oil executives car.
16 September 2006 – Bomb making parts found in
York apartment, an explosive package and an empty gas can. White powder forces
store evacuation. Dynamite found in car. Canadian university shuts down after a
mystery outbreak.
19 September 2006 – Suspicious package grounds
Air India flight at Toronto Pearson airport.
9 October 2006 – Dozens sick in Ontario after
E.Coli outbreak.
18 October 2006 – Regina, powder scare at post
office, white powder was found in an envelope.
15 November 2006 – Bomb scare at Garrison
false alarm.
19 November 2006 – Canadian pharmacists raise
the alert of a cross border threat, fake pills cold containing cyanide or
anthrax.
19 November 2006 – Russian spy arrested in
Montreal as he was about to board a plane to leave the country. Canadian
counter intel op espionage is alive and well long after the Cold War.
To be continued…..
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