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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
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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.
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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