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(Story Below)
Well, we all know it is the CIA who is dealing in illegal drugs.
That's how
they get some of their money to do illegal operations against sovereign
nations.
The other Al Qaida tie to the CIA is, of course, the Bush Family's ties
to Saudi
Arabia, including Jonathan Bush's handling of the Saudi 9/11 hijacker's
money,
and Marvin Bush's handling of the 9/11 WTC thermite situation. We all
saw
Michael Moore's film about the Carlyle Group, and we all know that the
Bush
family have always been war profiteers.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/

Pass this along. BushCo is so full of crap they make swine lagoons
look like
Club Med.

Additionally, note that the FBI will investigate the Repugnicant Sicko
Foley,
but they won't investigate Yale's Lyme crimes, because the only filth
involved
in the Lyme scam is Chuck P. McSweegan talking about McSweegan being
"hung like
a horse" and of course the DCF-Rowlandgate Whoring for the Jails
Enterprise
Show:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CIRCLE_J_RANCH_REPUBLICANISM_101.htm

KMDickson
(PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS FOR PRESIDENT !! Write him in!
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts09302006.html )

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FBI worries about al-Qaida ties to mob
By PAT MILTON, Associated Press WriterMon Oct 2, 1:07 AM ET
The FBI's top counterterrorism official harbors lots of concerns:
weapons of
mass destruction, undetected homegrown terrorists and the possibility
that
old-fashioned mobsters will team up with al-Qaida for the right price.
Though there is no direct evidence yet of organized crime collaborating
with
terrorists, the first hints of a connection surfaced in a recent
undercover FBI
operation. Agents stopped a man with alleged mob ties from selling
missiles to
an informant posing as a terrorist middleman.
That case and other factors are heightening concerns about a real-life
episode
of the Sopranos teaming with Osama bin Laden's followers.
"We are continuing to look for a nexus," said Joseph Billy Jr., the
FBI's top
counterterrorism official. "We are looking at this very aggressively."
The new strategy involves an analysis of nationwide criminal
investigations,
particularly white collar crime, side by side with intelligence and
terrorist
activity.
"We have developed an ability to look harder and broader in a greatly
enhanced
way to see if there is any crossover," Billy said in an interview with
The
Associated Press.
Organized crime syndicates could facilitate money transfers or
laundering, human
smuggling, identification fraud or explosives and weapons acquisitions,

officials said.
The options are many for terrorists groups.
There are the five reputed La Cosa Nostra families in New York, Russian
criminal
enterprises from Brighton Beach in the New York borough of Brooklyn to
Moscow,
and the emerging Asian crime syndicates that operate in many Islamic
countries
with al-Qaida offshoots.
A contract study produced recently for the Pentagon and obtained by the
AP
warned that the potential for organized crime assisting terrorists is
growing.
"Although terrorism and organized crime are different phenomena, the
important
fact is that terrorist and criminal networks overlap and cooperate in
some
enterprises," the study said. "The phenomenon of the synergy of
terrorism and
organized crime is growing because similar conditions give rise to both
and
because terrorists and organized criminals use similar approaches to
promote
their operations."
The traditional mafia has highly developed networks for acquiring goods
and
services and money, all for a price.
The mob's potential interest in helping a terrorist has nothing to do
with
ideology or sympathy but with greed, said Matt Heron, head of New York
FBI's
organized crime unit.
"They will deal with anybody, if they can make a buck," Heron said.
"They will
sell to a terrorist just as easily as they would sell to an order of
Franciscan
monks. It's a business relationship to them."
"If the mob has explosives and a terrorist wants them and they have the
money,
they could become instant friends," he said.
Pat D'Amuro, a retired senior FBI official and now chief executive of
Giuliani
Security, said a Mafia boss once acknowledged that the mob would help
terrorists.
"I am aware of a high-level Mafia figure, who was cooperating with
authorities,
being asked if the Mafia would assist terrorists in smuggling people
into Europe
through Italy," D'Amuro said. "He said, 'The Mafia will help who ever
can pay.'"
Officials said they have no specific evidence that such a relationship
has been
cemented. But concerns were heightened last year after an Armenian
immigrant was
arrested in New York for allegedly leading a plot to sell military
weapons to an
FBI informant posing as a middleman for terrorists.
Arthur Solomonyan had claimed to be able to deliver shoulder-fired
missiles from
his connection in Russian organized crime to the informant, who claimed
to have
ties to al-Qaida, federal prosecutors said. Solomonyan and 17 others in
New
York, Florida and California were charged in the case.
Solomonyan is scheduled for trial this month. His lawyer, Seth
Ginsberg, said he
plans to "vigorously contest" the charges and call the government's
confidential
informant to the stand to challenge his motives. The Italian, Russian,
and Asian
mafia remain active, particularly in New York, even though the
government has
successfully prosecuted numerous figures in recent years.
In the past three years, well over 100 associates from all five La Cosa
Nostra
families have been arrested in New York, Heron noted.
While the potential of a gangster-terrorist marriage is on the FBI's
radar,
homegrown terror cells and weapons of mass destruction are also big
concerns for
those in the FBI given the job of stopping the next terrorist attack.
"We are not only aware that they want to come across the ocean to
attack us but
they may be physically here developing in our own homeland," Billy
said.
The Internet has become the new Afghanistan, allowing terrorist
sympathizers to
promote their radical ideas and to recruit and train followers right
their home
computers. That makes it far more difficult for investigators to
identify them.
Billy said his biggest concern remains weapons of mass destruction.
While
Hezbollah and Hamas are more defined terrorist groups, with a
territorial focus
and a political platform, al-Qaida is more unpredictable.
"We know they were trying to acquire it prior to 9/11, bin Laden's own
words
said that," said Billy. "What makes us think they are still not
trying?"
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