Showing posts with label Victor Bout. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012

CHARLES TAYLOR WORKED FOR THE PENTAGON

Child soldier from Liberia

From the early 1980s onwards, Charles Taylor worked for the USA's Defence Intelligence Agency.

In January 2012, this was confirmed by the Pentagon, thanks to a Freedom of Information request from the Boston Globe.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088010/Former-Liberian-dictator-Charles-Taylor-worked-U-S-intelligence-Africas-notorious-warlord.html#ixzz1jnYsRGR9

Taylor, former president of Liberia, is linked to the financing of 9 11.

At least two of these people are said to be spooks: Jemima Khan, Imran Khan, Naomi Campbell, Charles Taylor, Nelson Mandela, Gracha Machel, Quincy Jones, Mia Farrow and Tony Leung

Al Qaeda and Taylor worked together in the African diamond trade.

They raised millions of dollars for terrorist activities, according to UN war crimes documents. (Liberia's Taylor gave aid to Qaeda, UN probe finds - The Boston Globe)

"Taylor ... was a business partner with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson...

"According to British and Israeli intelligence sources, Taylor enabled Al Qaeda to launder blood diamonds for cash through Liberia...

"Taylor and Victor Bout had powerful interests in the United States: a combination of the Christian Right and ... organizations like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), both of which ignored and continue to ignore Israeli organized crime connections to Al Qaeda and terrorism." (WHO SELLS THE WEAPONS OF WAR?)

Liberia is run by the CIA and Pentagon, reportedly.

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Arnt Breivik was the World Food Programme's Country Director in Liberia. (Cached)

Anders Breivik reportedly visited a Serbian 'crusader commander' in Monrovia, Liberia.

There he reportedly joined the Knights Templar, who 'are planning attacks in Europe'.

(From liberal roots to extremist massacre)

Allegedly, over nine years, he was involved in writing, planning, weapons procurement and bomb-making - without arousing suspicion.

Reportedly, he mentions plans to celebrate completion of his operation by enjoying the company of high-class prostitutes.

(From liberal roots to extremist massacre )

Medical Assistance - Horn of Africa
American soldier in Liberia.

LIBERIA?

The Embassy Bombings are linked to Liberia.

AHMED GHAILANI was reported to have been in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, in 2001, with another suspect in the embassy bombings, a Kenyan man Fazul Abdullah Mohammed.

(Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani profile)

The UK's Observer newspaper (Bin Laden's $20m African 'blood diamond' deals.) reported in 2002 that the two men allegedly ran an al-Qaeda/CIA financing operation, trading "blood diamonds".

Reportedly, Ghailani and Mohammed were lavishing money on women and alcohol.

Liberia was run by Charles Taylor who was said to be a friend of the CIA and a friend of al Qaeda.

the face of terrorism

LIBERIA is an important base for the CIA and its friends.

"Victor Bout was Liberian dictator Charles Taylor's primary arms and diamond smuggler.

"Bout and his associates were given Liberian diplomatic passports and, with Taylor's blessing and protection, they registered a number of their front companies in Monrovia, the Liberian capital.

"Taylor ... was a business partner with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson...

"According to British and Israeli intelligence sources, Taylor also enabled Al Qaeda to launder blood diamonds for cash through Liberia.

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Liberia

"Liberia and neighboring Sierra Leone were where Israeli mobsters engaged in business ... under the full protection of the Israeli Likud government.

"Before Likud began purging Mossad of experienced intelligence officers with ties to the Israeli Labor Party, the Israeli-Al Qaeda diamond financial connection in West Africa was being pointed out by those officers as suicidal for Israeli interests.

"However, Taylor and Bout had powerful interests in the United States: a combination of the Christian Right and pro-Likud organizations like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), both of which ignored and continue to ignore Israeli organized crime connections to Al Qaeda and terrorism."

(aangirfan: WHO SELLS THE WEAPONS OF WAR?)

So, they are all friends - the Pentagon, al Qaeda, the Jewish Mafia, the Christian Right, various tyrants?

Saturday, 21 February 2009

Who’s behind Madoff?

Forest Hills, New York. (Photo by Complicated )

What links might there be between Madoff and the Jewish Mafia and Forest Hills?

Wayne Madsen, at Online Journal, 19 Feb 2009, asked Who’s behind Madoff?

According to Wayne Madsen:

1. Part of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was Madoff Energy LLC and a number of other energy groups.

There are links between these and Texas oil and natural gas industry interests, "some close to the Bushes and Dick Cheney."

2. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was part of a larger operation.

Allegedly, this larger operation involved top people from the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, as well as the Russian-Israeli Mafia.

3. One of the investors in Madoff’s scam was the Bank of New York (BONY).

4. BONY was the subject of a Wayne Madsen Report on the activities of the Russian-Israeli mob:

"Forest Hills has been identified by the FBI as a major center for both the Russian-Israeli Mafia and Mossad and it is a place where the two interests often cooperate.

OPERATION SPIDERWEB was a joint FBI-EUROPOL operation in 2002.

It led to the arrest of 20 Russian-Israeli dual citizens on charges of money laundering.

The laundering involved the Bank of New York (BONY) and other groups.

Marc Rich

The money-laundering network included a firm called Benex.

Benex is connected to 'Bill Clinton-pardoned Mossad figure' Marc Rich.

Benex’s office was in Forest Hills in the same building where Grigori Loutchansky had the HQs of two of his companies.

"Loutchansky is a Latvian-born Israeli who laundered billions through his Vienna-based NORDEX firm.

"National Security Agency (NSA) signals intercepts have reportedly yielded intelligence on Loutchansky’s role in the smuggling of nuclear materials.

"Loutchansky also was closely linked to Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign through New York real estate magnate and Democratic donor Sam Dombs. . . .

Loutchansky

Forest Hills was also the hometown of international diamond dealer Yehuda Abraham.

Abraham was convicted in a plot to smuggle surface-to-air missile launchers from Russia into the United States, four months after 9/11.

"The network was discovered to have links with the Viktor Bout weapons smuggling network and money laundering facilities linked to 'Al Qaeda' Southeast Asia affiliate Jemaah Islamiyah.

"Abraham, an Afghan Jew, was linked not only to Mossad but to the Saudi Royal Family."

Yehuda Abraham

Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, was the Clinton administration’s deputy attorney general who approved the eleventh hour Clinton pardon for Rich.

5. Another Madoff investor was Mellon Financial Services. On July 8, 2008, WMR reported:

"A February 27, 2008, truck theft of backup data tapes from Bank of New York Mellon Corporation’s Jersey City Shareholder Services unit has the hallmarks of an organized crime heist.

"Shareholders of the Walt Disney Company, John Hancock Financial Services (a division of Manulife Financial Corporation), People’s United Bank of Connecticut, and the Bank of New York were informed that their stock sale transactions may have been compromised."

6. Obama’s Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, is a former chairman of the Board of the Walt Disney Company.

7. "WMR has learned from a U.S. intelligence source in the Middle East that much of the $50 billion scammed by Madoff is now in Israeli banks and other financial contrivances established to secretly launder the ill-gotten loot."

8. "The Madoff Ponzi scheme may also be linked to the revelations by former Liechtenstein LGT bank employee Heinrich Kieber of secret off-shore accounts held by tax-evading politicians and businessmen in the United States and other countries, as well as the Clearstream entity in Luxembourg that involved allegations of a slush fund used to finance the political ambitions of France’s neocon president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and other right-wing politicians."

9. "Harry Markopolos, a former investment manager-turned-investigator, recently told the US House Financial Services Subcommittee that the SEC failed to take action against Madoff when Markopolos repeatedly warned the regulatory agency of the Ponzi scheme activities of Madoff, a former chairman of NASDAQ.

"The hearing at which Markopolos testified was chaired by Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY), whose 5th congressional district adjoins the 9th congressional district of Forest Hills and Rego Park, a nexus for Russian-Israeli mob activity in the New York City area."

10. On February 9, the SEC announced that Linda Thomsen, the agency’s top enforcement official, was resigning to 'pursue opportunities in the private sector.'

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Original material copyright © 2008 WayneMadsenReport.com

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).

Thursday, 18 December 2008

THE GAMBIA AND ORGANISED CRIME



1. The Gambia is ruled by President Yahya Jammeh, an army officer who seized power in 1994.

According to reports, Mr Jammeh recently told supporters he would “cut off the head” of any homosexual caught in the Gambia.

In the past, he has also claimed he could cure anyone with the Aids virus in three days.

2. A British couple who have spent the past 12 years working as Christian missionaries in the the Gambia have been jailed after being charged with sedition. (British missionaries jailed in Gambia )

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3. Scary Tales of Tiny Gambia Being the Headquarters of the Mafia World

By Bubacarr Ceesay

December 13, 2005

The Gambia is the international limelight again as the center of an international mafia ring.

In a masterpiece investigative report, The Wayne Madsen Report unraveled a network of weapons smugglers and mobsters operating in the heart of the Gambian Capital, working hand in hand with the Gambian leader, President Yahya Jammeh.

In reference to the Gambia, the report stated thus:

"There is also now interest in the activities of Richard T. Hines, the head of the powerful Republican lobbying firm RTH Consulting, Inc.

"Hines, a South Carolina native and a protege of the late GOP dirty trickmeister Lee Atwater, was one of the architects of the dirty tricks campaign by Bush against John McCain in the 2000 South Carolina primary.

"A confederate of Abramoff in the 1980s Reagan administration's covert support network for the Nicaraguan contras, Angolan UNITA guerrillas, and Afghan mujaheddin, Hines is active in various Confederacy resurgence organizations, many of which have clear racist agendas.

"However, that has not prevented Hines from becoming the lobbyist for Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh, a military officer who overthrew Gambia's democratically-elected President Sir Dawda K. Jawara in a 1994 military coup supported by the United States Navy.

President Jammeh

"Hines inherited the lobbying contract for Gambia from the eclectic Washington lobbyist Edward von Kloberg III, an individual who represented Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, Liberia's Samuel K. Doe, Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, Congolese leader Laurent Kabila, the exiled King Kigeli V of Rwanda, and Saddam Hussein.

"Last May, von Kloberg took a swan dive off of a castle in Rome, allegedly committing suicide after a spat with a gay partner.

"The connections between Hines and Gambia are important since the small narrow West African country is also a major base of operations for notorious Russian international arms smuggler Viktor Bout.

"The Gambia is the headquarters for one of many of Bout's front companies -- companies that are used to smuggle everything from weapons to diamonds and mercenaries to international relief supplies.

Bout, reportedly in a Bangkok jail since March 2008

"In fact, Bout was the character on whom fictional arms smuggler Yuri Orlov, played by Nicolas Cage in the movie Lord of War, was largely based.

"Bout's connections with the Christian Right do not end with Gambia.

"Bout was Liberian dictator Charles Taylor's primary arms and diamond smuggler.

"Bout and his associates were given Liberian diplomatic passports and, with Taylor's blessing and protection, they registered a number of their front companies in Monrovia, the Liberian capital.

"Taylor, who is now in exile in Nigeria, was a business partner with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson.

"Robertson's organization mentored both Ralph Reed and Richard Hines.


Pat Robertson

"According to British and Israeli intelligence sources, Taylor also enabled Al Qaeda to launder blood diamonds for cash through Liberia.

"Liberia and neighboring Sierra Leone were where Israeli mobsters engaged in business with Israeli gangsters who operated under the full protection of the Israeli Likud government.

"Before Likud began purging Mossad of experienced intelligence officers with ties to the Israeli Labor Party, the Israeli-Al Qaeda diamond financial connection in West Africa was being pointed out by those officers as suicidal for Israeli interests.

"However, Taylor and Bout had powerful interests in the United States: a combination of the Christian Right and pro-Likud organizations like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), both of which ignored and continue to ignore Israeli organized crime connections to Al Qaeda and terrorism.

"Robertson and Taylor were business partners in a Cayman Islands front company called Freedom Gold, Ltd.

"In fact, Freedom Gold bas headquartered at Robertson's CBN offices in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Robertson's African interests also crossed paths with Bout's in another country -- the former Zaire.

"Robertson's African Development Company used the cover of Robertson's tax-exempt "Operation Blessing" to ferry conflict diamonds out of civil war-ravaged Zaire (now Congo).

"A UN Security Council report dated November 30, 2005, lists Bout's Gambia New Millennium Air Company as having its address at the residence of Hines' client Jammeh: State House, Banjul, Gambia.



"The UN report states, 'The Director of this firm is Baba Jobe, who is already listed on the Liberia Sanctions Committee's assets freeze list. According to a commercial aviation database, the firm acted as a cover for Victor Bout's operations. Its one aircraft, a Russian-made passenger jet, was acquired from Centrafrican Airlines.'

"It is noteworthy that Hines's client, President Jammeh, just took possession of the Russian-made VIP presidential passenger jet, an Ilyushin IL-62 (C5-GNM) [Gambia] (formerly CCCP-86511 [USSR], RA-86511 [Russia], 3D-RTI [Swaziland], TL-ACL [Central African Republic]).

"And also of interest is the owner of the presidential aircraft: it is none other than Gambia New Millennium Air, the Bout-owned company listed on the UN Security Council freeze list and which is headquartered at Jammeh's State House in Banjul, the Gambian capital.

"In fact, the plane had been previously registered to Bout front companies in Swaziland and the Central African Republic.

" Bout, who flew arms and passengers from Dubai and other locations to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan prior to 9-11, is now providing air services in post-Taliban Afghanistan as well as U.S.-occupied Iraq.

"Bout's transactions with the Taliban were handled by Vial, Inc., a firm based in Delaware.

"One of Bout's closest associates is the Russian-Israeli Odessa-born crime boss Leonid Minin, an Israeli national who, according to the UN Security Council, travels on forged German passports as well as legal Israeli, Russian, Greek, and Bolivian passports under at least ten aliases.

"It is also noteworthy that many of Bout's operations are based in Eastern European countries that have been mentioned in association with the rendition and transporting of CIA prisoners.

"Bout's numerous Russian-built cargo and passenger planes have been seen at the same airports used by CIA flights.


"For example, Bright Aviation, a suspected Bout front, is based at Sofia Airport in Bulgaria.

"Bulgaria is believed to be one of the countries used by the CIA to house secret prisoners.

"Another Bout front, Moldtransavia SRL, is based in Chisinau, Moldova, another suspected stopover point for CIA flights.

"One Chisinau, Moldova-based Bout front company, Aerocom, which also does business as Air Mero, is contracted to fly for Kellogg, Brown & Root in Iraq and elsewhere.

"Aerocom has also been cited in UN and DEA reports for being involved in drug smuggling in Belize.

"Some law enforcement officials in the United States and Europe believe that the covert flights being operated by CIA contractors and Bout's companies in support of secret prisoner movement are also involved in smuggling drugs.

"After being subjected to news reports, Aerocom quickly changed its name last year."

Highly dependable sources in Banjul also informed AllGambian about recent arms purchase by the Jammeh regime from an undisclosed country, amounting to 4.3 million dalasis.

This comes at the heels of a hard-hitting border impasse between the Gambia and Senegal.

The stand-off almost paralyzed the Gambian economy and caused untold hardship on the average Gambian. Observers wondered how the Gambia gov can afford to spend on presidential jets and military hardware at this junction when the economy is in shambles.



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