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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).
Friday, November 16, 2012
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
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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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