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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).
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Friday, November 16, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
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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