Showing posts with label smuggling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smuggling. Show all posts
Friday, November 16, 2012
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.
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.
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