By Sherwood Ross | Aletho News
New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released
FBI reports of Israelis circulating classified documents in the US Congress, "compromising" the authority of the U.S. President. http://irmep.org/ila/economy/06201984.pdf
US Trade Representative concerns that AIPAC was tactically "divulging" classified information supplied by US industries opposed to AIPAC lobbying initiatives. http://irmep.org/ila/economy/06211984.pdf
Reports from the International Trade Commission that AIPAC and Israeli operatives "usurped" US government authority and that an Israeli intelligence service operative was working undercover on AIPAC's staff: http://irmep.org/ila/economy/08131984r.pdf
Internal Department of Justice prosecutorial opinions that "theft of government property" had occurred: http://irmep.org/ila/economy/08301984.pdf
An FBI director order that the Washington Field office give the AIPAC investigation top priority after Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was caught on video surveillance stealing classified US national defense information: http://irmep.org/ila/economy/11151985.pdf
FBI special agent interviews of Israeli minister of economics Dan Halpern who claimed diplomatic immunity. Halpern admitted passing classified US documents to AIPAC but refused to name his source: http://irmep.org/ila/economy/03071986DHALERN.pdf
FBI special agent interviews of AIPAC's former director of legislative affairs detailing how he made copies of the classified documents for AIPAC's lobbying use after being ordered to return them to the US government. http://irmep.org/ila/economy/02131986DB.pdf
FBI interviews of key AIPAC employees involved in handling the classified US government information (full document listing): http://irmep.org/ila/economy/
According to research director Grant F. Smith, the newly released files present startling new insights into AIPAC's activities in the United States. "These files, available on the Internet for the first time, reveal activities that undermined rule of law and governance. They have wrought massive economic harm to American businesses and workers. We urge all concerned Americans to carefully review and ponder the implications of these FBI files and other documents now available from the Israel Lobby Archive."
The Israel Lobby Archive, http://IRmep.org/ila is a unit of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington. The Archive digitizes declassified documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act filings with law enforcement, economic, diplomatic and intelligence agencies. IRmep is a Washington-based nonprofit that studies U.S. Middle East policy formulation.
SOURCE Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy
Disinformation from the "Counterterrorism Blog"
FBI Replaces Brotherhood Tainted Liaison with Brotherhood Tainted Liaison
By The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)
A top FBI official met Wednesday with the vice president of the Islamic Society of North America, a move which followed the Bureau's decision "to use ISNA as their official point of contact with the American Muslim community," an email from an intelligence community veteran that was widely distributed Wednesday said.
The FBI has not yet commented on the claim. But the IPT has confirmed that the meeting did take place at FBI headquarters. The decision to make ISNA the FBI's contact point came over the objections of case agents and supervisors investigating Muslim Brotherhood activity in the U.S.
Last year, the FBI cut off outreach communication with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), after evidence in the Hamas-support trial against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) raised questions "whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and HAMAS." The FBI's case agent testified that CAIR was a Hamas front.
Like CAIR, ISNA was an unindicted co-conspirator in the HLF trial. It is listed among "who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood." Jamal Badawi, an ISNA board member, also was named as an unindicted co-conspirator, listed among people who raised money for HLF.
The evidence involving ISNA, however, was not as deep as it was with CAIR. In CAIR's case, its founders are included on a telephone list for members of a secret Hamas support network in the U.S. created by the Muslim Brotherhood. And they participated in a 1993 meeting of Hamas members and supporters called to discuss ways to thwart U.S.-led peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians.
In that weekend-long meeting, CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad discussed ways to mislead Americans about their goals and ideology. Executive Director Nihad Awad discussed media strategies to help the cause.
In the evidence admitted by the court, ISNA officials were not named among members of the Hamas support network, called the Palestine Committee. But FBI investigative records show it held a significant role in the Brotherhood's U.S. activities. According to an FBI memorandum from the 1980s obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, past "ISNA conferences provided opportunities for the extreme fundamentalist Muslims to meet with their supporters ... The annual conferences are used for both religious and political purposes. The political purpose is to further the Islamic Revolution, which includes providing anti-U.S. and Israel publications and publications that support the war effort of Iran in the Iran-Iraq war."
The Brotherhood is an 80-year-old Egyptian movement which seeks to spread the rule of Shariah, or Islamic law, throughout the world. But some top FBI officials are not convinced the Brotherhood is a problem, a law enforcement source said Thursday. This, despite the fact that FBI investigation has uncovered documents showing the U.S. Brotherhood's goal is "a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
The problem, the source said, is too many FBI officials have developed friendly individual relationships with the leadership of groups like ISNA. "As an FBI agent, we use facts and evidence and truth to base our decisions and not because we went to dinner with someone."
ISNA's roots in the Brotherhood are clearly established. Internal Muslim Brotherhood records in evidence the HLF trial show ISNA was created by Muslim Brotherhood members in the U.S. who had been leaders of the Muslim Students Association. In addition, the Chicago Tribune and federal prosecutors in Dallas have documented the link.
Read our full post on the ISNA-FBI developments here.
http://counterterrorismblog.Without the FBI........

Israeli proxy gets busy to silence Americans
"These students did not even accuse me of doing anything which we would consider anti-Semitism -- discrimination against Jews, against the Jewish religion and so forth," he told Counterpunch in an interview. "They said openly and outright that the professor introduces material which criticized the state of Israel and that equals anti-Semitism," he continued. Various student and academic groups in the United States have come to Robinsons defense and have described the motion against the California academic as "a clear attempt to silence the criticism against Israel". Three weeks of Israeli airstrikes and a ground incursion resulted in the death of over 1,350 Palestinians and the injury of nearly 5,450 people -- most of them civilians. Thirteen Israelis also died in the operation.
The carnage also inflicted more than $1.6 billion in damages on the Gazan economy. Israeli war crimes include, but are not limited to, the use of deadly white phosphorus shells in densely populated civilian areas in Gaza. Tel Aviv initially denied using the controversial weapon, but mounting evidence later forced Israeli officials to admit to having employed the shells. Despite the international outcry caused by the military operation, Israel continues to enforce a 21-month blockade on the Palestinian territory with US support. According to Professor Robinson, the Anti-Defamation League -- which has come under severe criticism for its unswerving support for Israeli interests in the United States -- is behind the move to prosecute him. "We have just learned about this; were going to go public with it," he said. Renowned American author and political analyst Noam Chomsky, who is himself Jewish, exposed much about the Anti-Defamation League in his 1989 book titled Necessary Illusions.
"The ADL has virtually become one of the main pillars of Israeli propaganda in the US, as the Israeli press casually describes it, engaged in surveillance, blacklisting, compilation of FBI-style files circulated to adherents for the purpose of defamation, angry public responses to criticism of Israeli actions, and so on," he wrote. "These efforts, buttressed by insinuations of anti-Semitism or direct accusations, are intended to deflect or undermine opposition to Israeli policies, including Israels refusal, with US support, to move towards a general political settlement," he adds
The Russian-Israeli Mafia: Off-limits to FBI, US intelligence
The same cancer that bankrupted the Soviet Union and the early Russian Federation, namely the Russian-Israeli Mafia -- the global organized crime syndicate that uses Israeli government protection and passports to cover their illegal worldwide activities -- has so thoroughly permeated the American political and business system that the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies are virtually powerless to bring the major perpetrators to justice.
Across the United States, FBI agents have been hamstrung by the Justice and Homeland Security Departments, led by two individuals, Michael Mukasey and Michael Chertoff, whose close links to the Russian-Israeli Mafia in New York and New Jersey have seen case after case involving Russian-Israeli mobsters going un-investigated and virtually ignored.
In fact, the National Security Agency (NSA), FBI, and the military intelligence services have seen their ranks of Russian linguists slashed by the Bush administration. In most cases, Russian-Israeli mobsters use their native Russian language in their telephone conversations and email communications. Only recently, perhaps owing to a shift within the Defense Department led by Robert Gates, has the NSA began re-hiring Russian linguists, although at a very slow pace.
Neo-con outlets such as The Daily Telegraph in Great Britain, which has also witnessed an infiltration of its government, law enforcement, and intelligence services by individuals linked to the Russian-Israeli mob, are now complaining that there are so many Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) agents in Britain that MI-6, MI-5, and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) are finding it difficult to battle Islamist terrorists. However, the FSB is primarily a law enforcement agency that has been waging battle against the Russian-Israeli Mafia, particularly its major backers like exiled Russian-Israeli oligarch Boris Berezovsky who have been granted protection by the British government while they plan subversive activities against Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
In fact, as seen in the poisoning of Russian ex-FSB and KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London, there are solid links between Berezovsky, the Russian-Israeli Mafia, and Islamist guerrillas in Chechnya and abroad. However, British intelligence, which recently suffered a major blow with the strange illness that struck the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), Alex Allan, who was found in a coma and covered with blood in his Hammersmith apartment in the London suburbs, has been unable to crack down on the Russian-Israeli Mafia infiltration of Britain since the billions of pounds in dirty money has made its way into the coffers of top Labor and Conservative politicians.
Allan reportedly had plans to return to Freemantle, Australia, where he lived with his Australian-born wife before she died of cancer. Allan had been the British High Commissioner in Canberra before moving back to London to serve as JIC Chairman. As JIC Chairman, Allan coordinated the activities of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ. The last high-ranking British spy to take up residence in Australia was the late Peter Wright, whose book Spycatcher,detailed past secret activities of MI6 and MI5. Attempts by the Margaret Thatcher government to have the books publication banned in Australia were unsuccessful.
The United States is only second to Britain in infiltration by the Russian-Israeli gangsters in the highest echelons of government. The Bush administration has ignored INTERPOL arrest warrants and requests for information issued on behalf of Russia for wanted Russian-Israeli billionaires like Leonid Nevzlin, Boris Berezovsky, aka Platon Elenin (suspected by Russian authorities of links to the assassinations of Litvinenko and Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya), Arkady Gaydamak, Semyon Sam Kislin, Michael Chernoy, and others.
The Russian-Israeli interference in the law enforcement activities of the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have hobbled major investigations to the detriment of the national security of the United States. The FBI investigation of the assassination of retired CIA Houston station chief Roland Tony Carnaby, who was investigating Israeli Mossad and Russian-Israeli mob activities in the Houston area, has been relegated to a low-level and non-descript national security investigation by FBI higher ups. The DEA and FBI investigations of the activities of Israeli art students and movers in the months leading up to the 9/11 attacks were similarly stymied by the direct orders of then-FBI director Louis Freeh and Attorney General John Ashcroft, according to a major wire service journalist who covered the Justice Department. The Boston-based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), funded by wealthy Jewish American private contributors and the Israeli government, threatened media outlets, including the Associated Press, who continued to report on the activities of the Israeli art students and movers.
The FBI has also ignored the massive thefts of personal data of American citizens. WMR has previously reported that most of the major thefts are part of a covert operation by the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security to pick up where Iran-contra felon Admiral John Poindexter left off with his aborted Total Information Awareness (TIA) system, designed to collect the most personal details of American citizens in a massive database. A February 27, 2008, truck theft of backup data tapes from Bank of New York Mellon Corporations 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), Peoples United Bank of Connecticut, and the Bank of New York were informed that their stock sale transactions may have been compromised. WMR has learned that Disney stock holders were not officially informed of the theft of their data until June 13, 2008, four months later. Perhaps not coincidentally, a number of Israeli-owned computer services companies are now offering protection against data theft to potential customers. In addition, Kislin was linked to a money laundering scandal involving the Bank of New York, now Bank of New York Mellon. WMR previously reported on the Bank of New York (BONY) scandal and 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. In 2002, OPERATION SPIDERWEB, a joint FBI-EUROPOL operation, resulted in the arrest of 20 Russian-Israeli dual citizens on charges of money laundering. The laundering primarily involved the Bank of New York (BONY), the Russian bank Menatep, and an Internet bank called the European Union Bank. More importantly, the money laundering network also included Benex, a firm connected to Bill Clinton-pardoned Mossad figure Marc Rich, who still resides primarily in Switzerland. . . . Benexs office was located on Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills in the same building where Grigori Loutchansky headquartered 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 Loutchanskys role in the smuggling of nuclear materials. Loutchansky also was closely linked to Clintons 1996 re-election campaign through New York real estate magnate and Democratic donor Sam Dombs. . . . Forest Hills was also the hometown of international diamond dealer Yehuda Abraham, convicted in a plot to smuggle surface-to-air missile launchers from Russia into the United States, mere four months after 9/11, and launder the proceeds from the deal through Malaysia. 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.
It is now being reported that John McCain has a severe gambling addiction, evidenced by his long bouts with the craps tables in Las Vegas. There are reports that convicted GOP lobbyist and Russian-Israeli mob money launderer Jack Abramoff traded favors with McCain and Alabama Governor Bob Riley, who, through election malfeasance, cost Democratic Governor Don Siegelman his governorship in 2002 and then proceeded to engage in a criminal conspiracy to indict and convict Siegelman on trumped up charges.
A set of emails sent between Abramoff and Tom DeLays Communications Director in December 2002, emails that were never produced by McCains Indian Affairs Committee, show that Abramoff was conspiring with Riley, a casino gambling opponent, to keep gambling from the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation to benefit gambling on the Coushatta Indian Reservations in Mississippi. The email also describes efforts between Mississippi Republican Governor Haley Barbour and Maryland Republican Governor Bob Ehrlich to bring casino gambling to Indian reservations in their states. Ehrlich and his staff were targets of a federal investigation linking them to a prostitution ring involving Pamela Martin & Associates escorts and Shirlington Limousine, which ferried escorts on behalf of individuals and lobbyists linked to Abramoff in the Washington, DC and Baltimore areas. That investigation was shut down after George W. Bushs re-election in 2004.
McCain has also been linked to Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska, another member of the Russian Mafia who has been denied an entry visa to the United States. Deripaska, unlike his Russian Jewish comrades, has maintained good links to Putin. Deripaska has also figured prominently as a supplier of aluminum to the European Airbus aircraft frames to be used in the production of the US Air Force tanker plane, a contract pushed hard by McCain and his top campaign advisers, some of whom were lobbyists for Airbus.
The Russian-Israeli mob infiltration of the McCain campaign is only the continuation of a cancerous infiltration of the American body politic that began with the takeover of the Senate office of Washingtons Henry Scoop Jackson by anti-Soviet Jewish neo-conservatives in the early 1970s and blossomed into the full scale coup witnessed in the presidential election of 2000.
Feds: Drugs made at kosher meat plant
Federal authorities charged that a methamphetamine laboratory was operating at the nation's largest kosher slaughterhouse and that employees carried weapons to work.
The charges were among the most explosive details to emerge following the massive raid Monday at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa.
In a 60-page application for a search warrant, federal agents revealed details of their six-month probe of Agriprocessors. The investigation involved 12 federal agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the departments of labor and agriculture.
According to the application, a former plant supervisor told investigators that some 80 percent of the workforce was illegal. They included rabbis responsible for kosher supervision, who the source believed entered the United States from Canada without proper immigration documents. The source did not provide evidence for his suspicion about the rabbis.
The source also claimed to have confronted a human resources manager with Social Security cards from three employees that had the same number. The manager laughed when the matter was raised, the source said.
At least 300 people were arrested Monday during the raid, for which federal authorities had rented an expansive fairground nearby to serve as a processing center for detainees.
The search warrant application said that 697 plant employees were believed to have violated federal laws.
Agriprocessors officials did not return calls from Media seeking comment.
international call-girl Ring Master has ties to Israel
He might be be charged with beingThe feds busted a diamond-studded international call-girl ring
the ring leader but I am sure if they
really investigated you would
see many from Israel were involved
that offered well-heeled johns "fashion models, pageant
winners and exquisite students" for up to $5,500 an hour -
after one of the prostitutes turned on her pimp, authorities said.
The johns paid as much as $50,000 for a weekend with a
prostitute and had the option of purchasing a "buy out"
of their favorite girls, which allowed them to book trysts
directly with the hookers, Manhattan federal prosecutors said.
The Emperors Club, an upscale escort service, ranked its hookers
on a seven-diamond scale on its Web site and then charged its
wealthy clientele accordingly for "dates," court papers said.
Four people were charged with prostitution and
tax crimes for allegedly raking in more than $1 million
with a stable of 50 girls that serviced clients in
New York, Washington, LA, San Francisco, Chicago,
Miami, Las Vegas, London, Paris and Vienna.
Mark Brener, the 62-year-old alleged ring leader from
Monmouth Junction, NJ, along with his girlfriend and
alleged top madam, 23-year-old Cecil "Katie" Suwal, ,
from Cliffside Park, NJ, both face up to five years in prison
on prostitution charges and 20 years behind bars
for money laundering.
Authorities raided Brener's home early and
found $600,000 in cash and 19,000 in Euros
in various safes, prosecutors said.
Brener, they said, had two Israeli passports in addition
to his US passport.
Two other women, Tanya Hollander, 36, a nutritionist from
upstate Rhineback, and Temeka Rachelle Lewis, 32, of Brooklyn,
face similar charges for handling the day-to-day business.
For several years, wealthy men could go online and pick
through mini-biographies of the women.
Their bodies were pictured but their faces obscured.
"Raquel," who worked in New York and LA, was described
as "an avid writer, actress and journalist."
Men paid $1,100 to $5,500 an hour or could get
discounted day or multiple-day rates of $25,000 to $50,000.
American Express and wire transfers were accepted.
Sometimes the women took imprints of the men's credit
cards on the spot and faxed them back to the pimping couple.
The operation started to unravel after one of the hookers
agreed to become a confidential source for the FBI in late 2006.
The Emperors Club boasted of customer satisfaction,
but not all the employees were happy.
One prospective prostitute in London e-mailed Suwal in
January complaining that the $1,000 an hour she'd
receive was too low, especially if the john wanted
sex twice in an hour.
"This is the kind of money I make very easily in photo shoots,"
she wrote. "But to provide sex for 500 pounds [$1,000] an hour,
I just thing [sic] this is not a price I would ever consider,"
an e-mail intercepted by the FBI read.
Brener was held with no bail after prosecutors said
he's a flight risk. Suwal was held in lieu of $500,000 bail.
Hollander and Lewis were each released on
$250,000 bail that they have one week to pay.
SPHR condemns terrorist attack at Ryerson Univer sity in Toronto Canada
Ryerson University in Toronto.
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights with
its' 14 branches and affiliates across Canada, stand
shoulder to shoulder with our Black
brothers and sisters at Ryerson University who
have suffered from a terrorist attack on the offices
of the East African Students Group (EAST).
The arson attack targeted the bulletin board of
EAST witch carried posters and information against
Racisim, Islamophobia, and Military Occupation. This attack
follows the re-activation in Canada of the
Jewish Defense League (JDL),
the only Jewish group labeled by the FBI
as a "right-wing terrorist group."
On February 4th at Ryesron University during events
held by Black and Palestinian students,
around 50 JDL members harassed students attending
the lecture without police interference. This sent a message
to the JDL and other Jewish supremacist individuals that it
is acceptable to target visible minorities in our cities.
Furthermore, this decision by the Toronto
police to stand-by idly only emboldened those who
committed this terrorist action a week later.
The police are not alone in creating a climate of acceptance
around the JDL as several Jewish news agencies, including
the Canadian Jewish News, have touted the founder of the
Canadian JDL, Meir Weinstein, as a strong leader to be
respected and covered the racist harassment at
Ryerson U on the 4th as community empowerment.
On the US side of the border, the JDL was responsible
for many murders and arson attacks in the 1980s, leading
the FBI to label them "the second most active terrorist group
in the United States." In Canada after the tragic events of
September 11, 2001, the JDL Chairman,
Montreal born Irv Rubin, initiated a campaign of bomb
scares and death threats against students at Concordia
University who were critical of US and Israeli state policies.
At the time, Montreal Police also were
unconcerned by the JDL threat. Community
members were assured by Montreal police officers that
Ruben was only able to recruit 5 students at Concordia.
Of course it takes only one person to wreck
havoc upon innocents. A few months later Irv Rubin was
arrested by police in Florida preparing to bomb a host of
targets, including the largest Mosque in the USA and
Concordia University in Montreal.
We urge the Toronto Police force to take our
concerns seriously and investigate any links that could be
made between the attack on the East African Students group
and the reconstitution of the JDL in
Canada. Inaction on the part of the police will send the wrong
message to those who perpetrated this heinous act.
We also call on Jewish organizations to speak
loudly against Jewish supremacy, violence and terrorism
within their community. Setting a good example in tolerance
is the only way any community can isolate fanatics.
We finally call on all people to join
Ryerson students in solidarity
on Tuesday, February 26 at NOON
outside the Cafeteria at the
University to show our opposition to such acts.
To Contact SPHR-National:
Laith Marouf
Chapter Coordinator
(514) 999-1948
sphr.national@gmail.com
www.sphr.org
To contact affected students at Ryerson University:
Mohammed Malik, East African Students of Toronto
@ Ryerson, m8malik@ryerson.ca
Heather Kere,
Vice-President Education of the Ryerson Students' Union
vp.education@rsuonline.ca or (416) 979-5255 ext. 2318
Inside the world of war profiteers
From prostitutes to Super bowl tickets,
a federal probe reveals how contractors
in Iraq cheated the U.S.
By David Jackson and Jason Grotto
ROCK ISLAND, Ill.—Inside the stout federal
courthouse of this
of Iraq war profiteering keep pouring out.
Hundreds of pages of recently unsealed court records detail
how kickbacks shaped the war's largest troop support
contract months before the first wave of U.S. soldiers
plunged their boots into Iraqi sand.
The graft continued well beyond the 2004 congressional
hearings that first called attention to it. And the massive fraud
endangered the health of American soldiers even as it lined
contractors' pockets, records show.
Federal prosecutors in Rock Island have indicted four former
supervisors from KBR, the giant defense firm that holds the contract,
along with a decorated Army officer and five executives from
KBR subcontractors based in the U.S. or the Middle East.
Those defendants, along with two other KBR employees who
have pleaded guilty in Virginia, account for a third of the 36
people indicted to date on Iraq war-contract crimes,
Justice Department records show.
On Wednesday, a federal judge in Rock Island sentenced
the Army official, Chief Warrant Officer Peleti "Pete" Peleti Jr.,
to 28 months in prison for taking bribes. One Middle Eastern
subcontractor treated him to a trip to the 2006
a defense investigator said.
Prosecutors would not confirm or deny ongoing grand jury
activity. But court records identify a dozen FBI, IRS and
military investigative agents who have been assigned to the
case. Interviews as well as testimony at the sentencing for
Peleti, who has cooperated with authorities,
suggest an active probe.
Rock Island serves as a center for the probe of war profiteering
because Army brass at the arsenal here administer
KBR's so-called LOGCAP III contract to feed, shelter and
support U.S. soldiers, and to help restore Iraq's oil infrastructure.
In one case, a freight-shipping subcontractor confessed to
giving $25,000 in illegal gratuities to five unnamed KBR
employees "to build relationships to get additional business,"
according to the man's December 2007 statement to a
federal judge in the Rock Island court. Separately,
Peleti named five military colleagues who allegedly
accepted bribes. Prosecutors also have identified three
senior KBR executives who allegedly approved inflated
bids. None of those 13 people has been charged.
A common thread runs through these cases and other
KBR scandals in Iraq, from allegations the firm failed
to protect employees sexually assaulted by co-workers
to findings that it charged $45 per can of soda:
The Pentagon has outsourced crucial troop support jobs
while slashing the number of government
contract watchdogs.
The dollar value of Army contracts quadrupled from
$23.3 billion in 1992 to $100.6 billion in 2006, according
to a recent report by a Pentagon panel. But the number of
Army contract supervisors was cut from 10,000 in 1990
to 5,500 currently.
Last week, the Army pledged to add 1,400 positions to its
contracting command. But even those embroiled in the
frauds acknowledge the impact of so much war privatization.
"I think we downsized past the point of general competency,"
said subcontractor Christopher Cahill, who for a decade
prepared military supply depots under LOGCAP. Now
serving 30 months in federal prison for fraud, Cahill added:
"The point of a standing army is to have them equipped."
KBR, a former subsidiary of
been paid $28 billion under LOGCAP III. The firm says it
quickly reports all instances of suspected fraud and has
repaid the Defense Department more than $1 million for
questionable invoices.
In a statement, KBR said its roughly 20,000 employees and
40,000 subcontractors have performed laudably in a war
zone where Army demands shift rapidly and local suppliers
don't always maintain ledger books. Spokeswoman Heather
Browne wrote: "Ethics and integrity are core values for KBR."
But a wiretapped transcript recently released in Rock
Island underscores the brazen nature of the exceptions.
In October 2005, with federal agents tailing them, three
war contractors slipped through London's posh Cumberland
hotel before meeting in a quiet lounge. For the rest of that
afternoon, the men sipped cognac and whiskey and discussed
the bribes that had greased contracts to supply U.S.
troops in Iraq.
Former KBR procurement manager Stephen Seamans,
who was wearing a wire strapped on by a Rock Island
agent, wondered aloud whether to return $65,000 in
kickbacks he got from his two companions, executives
from the Saudi conglomerate Tamimi Global Co.
One of the men, Tamimi operations director Shabbir
Khan, urged him to hide the money by concocting
phony business records.
"Just do the paperwork," Khan said.
Party houses, prostitutes
In October 2002, five months before the U.S.-led invasion ofIraq, Khan threw a birthday party for Seamans at a Tamimi "
party house" near the Kuwait base known as Camp Arifjan.
Khan "provided Seamans with a prostitute as a present,"
Rock Island prosecutors wrote in court papers. Driving
Seamans back to his quarters, Khan offered kickbacks
that would total $130,000.
Five days later, with Seamans and Khan hammering out the fine
print, KBR awarded Tamimi the war's first $14.4 million mess
hall subcontract, court records show.
In April 2003, as American troops poured into Iraq,
Seamans gave Khan inside information that enabled Tamimi
to secure a $2 million KBR subcontract to establish a mess
hall at a Baghdad palace. Seamans submitted change orders
that inflated that subcontract to $7.4 million.
By June, Seamans and fellow KBR procurement manager
Jeff Mazon, a Country Club Hills resident, had executed
subcontracts worth $321 million. At least one deal put
U.S. soldiers at risk.
The Army LOGCAP contract required KBR to medically
screen the thousands of kitchen workers that subcontractors
like Tamimi imported from impoverished villages in Nepal,
Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
But when Pentagon officials asked for medical records in
March 2004, Khan presented "bogus" files for 550 Tamimi
workers, Assistant U.S. Atty. Jeffrey Lang said in a court
hearing last year.
KBR retested those 550 workers at a Kuwait City clinic
and found 172 positive for exposure to hepatitis A, Lang
told the judge. Khan tried to suppress those findings,
warning the clinic director that Tamimi would do no more
business with his medical office if he "told KBR about
these results," Lang said in court. The infectious virus can
cause fatigue and other symptoms that arise weeks
after contact.
Retesting of the 172 found that none had contagious
hepatitis A, Lang said, and Khan's attorneys said in court that
no soldiers caught diseases from the workers or from meals
they prepared. It remains unclear if that is because the workers
were treated or because they did not remain infectious
after the onset of symptoms.
Still, the incident shows how even mundane meal contracts
can put troops at risk. Similar disease-testing breaches
cropped up at cafeterias outsourced to firms besides
Tamimi, former KBR Area Supervisor Rene Robinson
said in a Tribune interview.
"That was an ongoing problem," Robinson said.
"When the military asked for paperwork, it was spotty."
KBR was forced to begin vaccinating the employees
at their work sites, he added.
Tamimi and its U.S. lawyers did not respond to requests for
comment. The company has said it is cooperating with
federal authorities.
By July 2005, Tamimi had secured some 30 KBR troop
feeding subcontracts worth $793.5 million, records show
Khan continued to negotiate Iraq war subcontracts for
Tamimi until shortly before he was arrested in Rock Island
in March 2006.
He is now serving a 51-month prison sentence for lying to federal
agents about the kickbacks he wired to Seamans, who pleaded
guilty and served a year and a day in prison. Both declined
to comment.
Seamans, a 46-year-old Air Force veteran, once taught
ethics to junior KBR employees. At his December 2006
sentencing hearing, he expressed remorse for taking the
kickbacks, telling the judge: "It is not the way that
Americans do business."
It was another repentant LOGCAP veteran standing before a
Rock Island judge on Wednesday. Peleti, formerly the military's
top food service adviser for the Middle East, wept as he admitted
taking bribes from Tamimi and three other subcontractors
between 2003 and early 2006.
Ribbons and badges glittered across Peleti's pressed green
Army shirt. "I stand here before you today to convey my remorse
and sincere regret," he said, then broke down.
One subcontractor, Public Warehousing Co., took Peleti
and another top Army official to the Super Bowl, a defense
investigator said in court Wednesday. The firm has denied
wrongdoing. Khan also bribed Peleti to influence LOGCAP
contracts with cash. Peleti was arrested in 2006 while re-entering
the U.S. at Dover Air Force Base with a duffel bag stuffed with
watches and jewelry as well as about $40,000 concealed
in his clothing.
While prosecutors documented kickbacks in only the first
two of Tamimi's mess hall subcontracts, they contend that
the tone was set to corrupt the system.
"Tamimi and Mr. Khan have their hooks into Mr. Seamans,
they have their hooks into KBR," Lang said in court last year.
"It is difficult to assess the kind of damage that did to the
integrity of the subcontracting process when the first two
subcontracts are corrupted."
Auditors in the basement
Military auditors say they closely monitor the layers of KBR
subcontractors who actually perform most of the LOGCAP
work, stationing teams in Iraq. But one Rock Island search
warrant said auditors working back in the U.S. could manage
only limited reviews of the cascade of deals.
In the basement of one of KBR's Houston office buildings,
a 25-member team from the Defense Contract Audit Agency had
"no communications" with "personnel on the ground," so they
could not confirm whether goods and services actually were
delivered, the search warrant application said.
In the absence of oversight, some Middle Eastern businessmen
would offer "Rolex watches, leather jackets, prostitutes, and the
KBR guys weren't shy about bragging about the fact that they
were being treated to all that stuff," said Paul Morrell, whose
firm The Event Source ran several mess halls as a KBR
subcontractor.
Such questionable relationships continued long after early
procurement managers like Seamans had been rooted out.
Early subcontractors such as Tamimi became almost
indispensable in part by outfitting Army cafeterias with expensive
power generators and refrigeration systems, records and
interviews show.
"If you ever gave Tamimi a hard time, you'd get a call," former
KBR subcontract manager Harry DeWolf told the Tribune.
When subcontracts came up for renegotiation, DeWolf said,
companies like Tamimi "would say, 'Fine, we're going to pull
out all of our people and equipment.' They really had KBR
and the government over the barrel."
Complicating the investigation of war-contract crimes,
the government of Kuwait has denied a U.S. request to
extradite two Middle Eastern businessmen accused of
LOGCAP fraud. The country's ambassador last year sent
letters to the Justice Department asking the U.S. to drop its
case against one of them, arguing that international agreements
forbid U.S. prosecution of Kuwaiti residents for crimes allegedly
committed on Kuwaiti soil. Prosecutors disagree, but a judge is
considering Kuwait's assertion.
Investigators also have faced challenges in dealing with KBR.
The company has withheld some internal company documents
relating to Mazon, Seaman's fellow KBR procurement manager,
the firm's attorneys wrote in court filings.
In response to one subpoena, the firm gave agents
about 2,760 of Mazon's computer files but withheld 398 others,
saying they were covered by
attorney-client privilege or other protections.
Federal prosecutors say they have given KBR no special
treatment and that the company has legal rights afforded to
all firms whose employees have been charged with wrongdoing.
"We did withhold some documents as being privileged," a KBR
spokeswoman wrote, but added that the company has provided
statements and grand jury testimony.
Mazon has pleaded not guilty to charges that he inflated a fuel contract.
His attorneys say the fuel subcontract was accidentally inflated when
figures were converted from U.S. dollars to Kuwaiti dinars then
back again. At least 22 KBR troop support subcontracts were
inflated through similar errors, Mazon's attorney J. Scott Arthur
wrote in papers filed in Rock Island.
KBR attorneys said the company informed federal officials
of three similar "double conversions" on other subcontracts.
But KBR said it "has not undertaken an exhaustive search of its
millions of pages of procurement documents" to determine
whether other such errors exist.
dyjackson@tribune.com - jgrotto@tribune.com
Neither Iran nor Hezb Allah bombed Argentinian Jewish centre in 1994
The Iranian defector who was the source
of Argentina's allegation that Iranian officials began
planning the July 18, 1994, terror bombing of a Jewish
community center at a meeting nearly a year earlier
had been dismissed as unreliable by US officials,
according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI)agent who led the US team assisting the
investigation in 1997-98.
The FBI agent, James Bernazzani, also says Argentine
investigators had no real leads on an Iranian link to
the bombing when his team was in Argentina. Three top
officials in the US
Embassy in Buenos Aires at the time - including
ambassador James Cheek - have confirmed the absence of
evidence linking Iran to the bombing, which killed 85
people and wounded another 300.
All four discussed the case with this writer between
November 2006 and June 2007.
Both the Bill Clinton and George W Bush
administrations have also charged consistently over 13
years that Iran was behind the blast. Argentine
prosecutors issued indictments of seven former Iranian
officials, including former president Hashemi
Rafsanjani, in October 2006, but the case against five
Argentines accused of being accomplices was thrown out
in 2004, because of bribery of the key witness and
other irregularities.
Last November, the general assembly of Interpol voted
to put five former Iranian officials and a Hezbollah
leader on the international police organization's "red
list" for allegedly having planned the 1994 bombing.
The Wall Street Journal reported at the time it was
pressure from the Bush administration, along with
Israeli and Argentine diplomats, that secured the
Interpol vote.
Bernazzani, now head of the FBI's New Orleans office,
was in charge of the agency's office of Hezbollah
operations when he was sent to Buenos Aires in late
1997 to lead a team of FBI specialists helping
Argentine investigators to crack the AMIA bombing
case.
In an interview in November 2006, Bernazzani threw new
light on the man whose testimony became the
centerpiece of the Argentine case against Iran,
Abolghassem Mesbahi, an Iranian who claimed he had
been the third-ranking man in Iran's intelligence
service before defecting to the West in 1996. Mesbahi
later testified that the decision to plan the bombing
was made by top Iranian officials at a meeting on
August 14, 1993.
However, Mesbahi had been discredited among US
analysts, according to Bernazzani, because he had lost
his access to high-level Iranian officials well before
the 1994 bombing and was "poor, even broke".
Bernazzani said Mesbahi was "prepared to provide
testimony to any country on any case involving Iran".
Bernazzani recalled that when he arrived in the
Argentine capital, he found the only evidence the
investigators claimed to have of Iranian
responsibility was a surveillance tape of Iranian
cultural attache Mohsen Rabbani shopping for a white
Renault van similar to the one allegedly used in the
bombing.
However, the original intelligence report on the
surveillance, which is available to researchers in the
official Argentine investigation files, shows that
Rabbani was filmed on May 1, 1993 - nearly 15 months
before the bombing. That was also three-and-a-half
months before the time Mesbahi would later claim top
Iranian officials had made the decision to plan the
bombing operation.
Bernazzani said Argentine intelligence had also used a
technique called "link analysis" of telephone records
to make a circumstantial case that the Iranian Embassy
had been involved in the plot. The analysis consisted
of linking a series of calls made between July 1,
1994, and the bombing 17 days later to a mobile phone
in the Brazilian city of Foz de Iguazu, which must
have been made by the "operational group" for the
bombing. They claimed a link between a cell phone said
to be owned by Rabbani and the other calls.
Bernazzani said he had regarded such a use of link
analysis as "very dangerous" because, using the same
methodology, "you could link my telephone with bin
Laden's". The Argentine prosecutors' 2006 report,
however, devoted several pages to a presentation of
the "link analysis" of phone calls as evidence of
Iranian culpability.
The three top US diplomats in Buenos Aires from the
time the AMIA was bombed - ambassador Cheek, deputy
chief of mission Ronald Goddard and chief of political
section William Brencick - all agreed in interviews
that US and Argentine efforts had turned up no
evidence that Iran or Hezbollah had been involved in
the bombing.
Cheek, who was ambassador in Argentina from 1993 until
late 1996, said in an interview last May, "To my
knowledge there was never any real evidence [of
Iranian responsibility]. They never came up with
anything."
Cheek recalled only one promising lead had pointed to
Iran - an Iranian defector named Manoucher Moatamer,
who had claimed in 1994 to have inside information
implicating Tehran in the bomb plot. But Cheek said it
had soon become clear that Moatamer had actually been
just a low-ranking official who hadn't known as much
about Iranian government decision-making as he had
claimed.
"We finally decided that he wasn't credible," Cheek
said.
Former deputy chief of mission Goddard, who was in
Buenos Aires until late 1997, recalled in an interview
that the US government had "suspected very seriously"
that Hezbollah had carried out the bombing, because
many Hezbollah sympathizers lived in the tri-border
area where Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil meet.
The investigation found no evidence, however, to link
either Hezbollah or Iran to the bombing, according to
Goddard. "The whole Iran thing seemed kind of flimsy,"
he said.
As chief of political section, Brencick was the
primary embassy contact with the Argentine
investigation. He recalled in an interview that a
"wall of assumptions" had guided the US approach to
the case.
The dominant assumption, said Brencick, was that the
bombing was a suicide attack against Jews, and that it
therefore must have been done by Hezbollah, which had
been carrying out suicide bombings against Israelis in
Lebanon.
"What struck me initially was that there were a lot of
assumptions but no hard evidence to connect those
assumptions to the case," Brencick recalled.
Bernazzani said the US intelligence community's
conviction that Hezbollah had a terrorist organization
in the tri-border area, which it could have used to
carry out the bombing, was not based on concrete
evidence. "It's conjecture - purely conjecture," the
FBI agent said.
The case against Iran was entirely "circumstantial",
according to Bernazzani, until the Argentine
prosecutors identified the suicide bomber as Ibrahim
Hussein Berro, a Lebanese Hezbollah militant who
Hezbollah insists was killed in fighting with an
Israeli unit in southern Lebanon on September 9, 1994.
That identification was contested, however, by
Patricio Pfinnen, the head of counter-intelligence for
the Argentine intelligence agency, SIDE. Testifying on
the case in court in October 2003, Pfinnen recalled
that Berro's name had come from an informant in
Lebanon he had recruited but whose credibility he had
then come to question. Pfinnen expressed doubt that
Berro was "the person who was immolated" in the
bombing.
Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman told the press in
November 2005 that Nicolasa Romero, the only
eyewitness to the AMIA bombing who had claimed she had
seen the driver of a white Renault van seconds before
the blast, had identified Berro from pictures obtained
from Berro's brothers in Detroit, Michigan.
Romero had admitted in secret court testimony,
however, that she had been unable to identify Berro
from two different sets of four pictures. Even after
police prompted her by showing her the police sketch
made from her description at the time, she said, she
was only "80% certain" of the identification.
Gareth Porter is an historian and national security
policy analyst. His latest book, Perils of Dominance:
Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam, was
published in June 2005.
(The research on which this article is based was
supported by the Nation Institute.)
The Judeo-Russian Mafia
While the FBI and major media obsess about
the Sicilian Mafia (the
"Cosa Nostra") a far more powerful and
sinister force is in
existence that has controlled most of the
globe's organized
crime for at least two decades—the Jewish
mafia from Russia (a
"Kosher Nostra"). Yet there is not even a
desk at the FBI for
their crimes, which dwarf those of the
Italian gangsters in scope,
violence and depth.
BY M. RAPHAEL JOHNSON, PH.D.
(re: Friedman's investigations--who was he:
The investigative stories of Robert I. Friedman
(1951- 2002) appeared from the early 1980s.
Allegedly, he died of a tropical blood disease.
But many had their doubts and believed he was
poisoned. The daring Jewish journalist made
headlines exposing politicians, bankers and
mobsters who preyed on the powerless. The ADL
maligned him, death threats poured in, and he was
badly beaten by West Bank thugs. Friedman warned
the FBI of the threat
posed by the first World Trade Center bombers and
delivered vital reports on the long arms of the Russian
Jewish mafia, which offered
$100,000 to have him killed).
On April 28, 2002, a military helicopter
went down in the southern part
of the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia.
On board was a major Russian
dignitary, Gen. Alexander Lebed,
governor of the region. Lebed was
pronounced dead at the scene. Almost
immediately, the international
press blamed "heavy fog" for the incident.
However, at the time,
every member of the Russian military was
convinced the death of Lebed
was no accident, but rather another hit
by the international Jewish
mafia, an organization that had long since
taken control over much of
Russia's economy. Lebed, likely the most
popular man in Russia at
the time, was going to build a national
socialist empire—possibly
with Chinese assistance— based
on the massive oil and mineral wealth
of the region. Had he succeeded, world
history could have changed, and
the 21st century would look very different.
Prior to that, dozens of
anti-Zionists in Russia had been murdered
by car bombs or other devices,
while none of the cases was ever solved.
Only a handful was even
investigated.
The very fact that the Jewish mafia
(often misnamed the
"Russian" mafia) was capable of completely covering
its tracks, being completely left out of all news reports
surrounding the incident, while the common people
(in Russia) were utterly convinced of their
complicity, proves the immense strength of this
rather new movement of organized crime. The Jewish
mafia is nothing like their Irish or Italian
predecessors in its American or European operations.
They are richer, more international in scope and far
more violent and ruthless. They kill children.
They kill policemen and their families. They kill whomever
they like. There has been nothing like it before in
the history of the globe. And they are just getting started.
The major figure in uncovering the web of secrecy that
surrounds the Jewish mafia was a journalist named
Robert I. Friedman, who died at an early age from a
"tropical disease." He has interviewed the
major figures in this underground and has uncovered
their hiding spots and plans. After his book on the
subject was published, major mafia
leaders put a bounty on his head. The "Russian"
mafia knows that it can kill with impunity, and,
given their cozy relationship with
European and American intelligence agencies,
their immunity from real
prosecution will only get more pronounced.
Friedman's work is breathtaking in scope, and this
essay will cite him extensively, especially his book
Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has
Invaded America. Friedman is not afraid to state the obvious,
namely, that the entire "Russian" mafia is Jewish,
without exception, and that they have used this as a
shield to deflect criticism. This shield has permitted
them to grow and prosper. Further, Friedman is also
not afraid to admit that Jewish organizations
throughout the world, led
by the Anti-Defamation League, are the beneficiaries
of largesse coming from organized crime, and that the
organizations in question are aware of it. In other words,
Jewish organized crime is considered an
acceptable part of Jewish life, and that Jewish
organizations have actually lobbied law enforcement
to stop investigations into this
phenomenon, almost always with success.
The confirmation of Zionist
Michael Chertoff, to the post as chief of Homeland
Security guarantees that Jewish organized crime in
America will not be at the receiving end
of the many stings that have targeted the Italian Mafia.
The roots of Jewish organized crime, it is said, go
far back into tsarist times. Organized crime syndicates
assisted Lenin's gangs in bank robberies and the creation
of general mayhem. During the so-called
revolution, it was difficult, sometimes impossible, to
distinguish between Bolshevik ideologues and Jewish
organized crime syndicates. They acted in nearly an
identical manner.
However, in more modern times, they seem to
have had their roots in the
waning days of the stagnant USSR under Leonid Brezhnev.
By the late 1970s, the Russian economy was driven by the
black market, and the early stages of the Jewish mafia were
involved in this black underground. In
fact, the Russian socialist economy would have collapsed
much sooner if it had not been propped up by the extensive
black economy. Soon, the rulers of the black market became
so powerful they were able to form their own "people's courts,"
which dispensed "justice" completely apart from the Soviet state,
and away from its control. Many of these black marketeers
had been recently released from the gulag system of prison
camps in an earlier era for their black market activities, and
the toughness that was required to survive these
dungeons served this new criminal elite very well (Friedman, 9).
The black market acted as a safety valve
for the Soviet state for
decades, making all estimations of the strength of the
Soviet economy subject to speculation. The black market provided
many goods and services the overextended Soviet system could not
provide. In the gulag, they had formed brotherhoods, much like
blacks and Hispanics currently do today in prison. They formed
Jewish bunds that, upon release, served
to create deep bonds that exist today, maintaining a
highly secretive organization almost impossible to
deal with or penetrate.
Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson's famous bill, the Jackson-
Vanick law, linked Soviet trade privileges to the treatment
of Soviet Jews. It was a bill lobbied heavily for by
American Jewish organizations. And while non-Jews could
not emigrate from Russia, Jews could. Quickly, the KGB took
this opportunity to dump its hardcore
criminals into the United States, many whowere Jewish,
as conservatives cheered, believing, naively as usual, to
have scored a major victory against the USSR. Much of the
Jewish mafia's penetration into the
United States came as a result of these Soviet "boatlifts,"
which were partially financed by groups such as the ADL or
the Hebrew Aid Society. Given the substantial nature of the
black market and the Soviet criminal underground, and its
exclusively Jewish character, it is difficult to believe that the
Jewish groups who were financing the
immigration of Russian Jews to America were unaware of
the connections of many of the new arrivals. Regardless,
much of the money earmarked for
immigration to Israel was pocketed by the mafia and
redirected to settling Jews in New York—
the New Promised Land.
Marat Balagula was one of these. A major Jewish crime figure,
he bought a restaurant in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, named
it the Odessa (a major port city in Ukraine), and quickly converted
it into a central recruiting base for mobsters. It was
also closely linked with Zionist agencies in the area,
including the women's group Hadassah, who used
the establishment for meetings and fund raising dinners
(Friedman, 17).
This restaurant also became the seat of real political
power in Brooklyn, for in the upstairs part of the
establishment, Balagula and other Jewish mobsters
would convene the "People's Courts," and their word was
(and is) law. Ordinary courts in the area could not
hope to compete with the mobsters, well protected by powerful Jewish
groups within the city and the municipal government itself.
These courts, controlled by the Jewish mob,
were more powerful and acted
more quickly than the regular municipal courts of New York City.
Balagula had created a state within a state.
The Italian gangs in New
York didn't know what hit them. Public
executions and torturings
were common in Brooklyn, and in broad daylight.
Often, public murders would happen for the tiniest
offenses, or to prove one's toughness.
While the Italians were very cautious and deliberate,
the Jewish mob was flamboyant and gratuitously violent.
Yuri Brokhin, another Jewish mobster who had
already made a name for himself in America, and
Balagula were heavily into stealing diamonds
from jewelry stores and replacing them with cheap fakes.
At one incident, narrated by Friedman, the pair pulled
such a scam in Chicago, and was caught at the airport
with $175,000. As it turns out, the duo
was seen by a Jewish security guard in Chicago's
O'Hare Airport wearing their phony Hassidic garb on the
eve of Yom Kippur, when Jews are strictly forbidden to travel.
This sloppiness got them caught. The duo was convicted, but as
proof of the power of the Jewish mafia, they
both got off without a jail sentence, having committed
major grand larceny, among other crimes. Of course,
Friedman does not speculate as to why this would be, since a
major felony such as this often carried
sentences over 20 years. Both Brokhin and Balagula were
criminals in the USSR, and were able to transfer their
wealth to America via Zionist and
"charitable" organizations of Jewry.
A major connection between the halls of American
political power and the Jewish mafia is the rabbi
Ronald Greenwald. He knowingly did business
with con artists and mafia figures, and used his major
political connections to shield them. Greenwald was a
major player in CREEP, the re-election campaign for
Richard Nixon in 1972. Greenwald was used heavily by
Nixon and other Republicans to gain the Jewish vote,
which he doubled for Nixon during that election
(Friedman, 31) in the state of New York. Soon, the
rabbi was given a post as an "advisor" to
Nixon on "Jewish poverty programs," a post which
certainly made some snicker at the time, though it
was clear that Nixon owed Greenwald,
and the rabbi made quick use of his newfound powers.
He used his power to protect the mafia's bilking of
Medicaid programs and other crimes
that were never investigated by the authorities.
His post as head of the "Jewish poverty"
initiative permitted
him to shield those involved with such financial scams,
as well as call off any and all FBI investigations of his
friends. Part of the rise of
Jewish mafia groups was the protection afforded it
by Greenwald's political connections. Greenwald was
also instrumental in protecting Marc Rich, a billionaire
Jewish investor with mob ties. Rich, a major
player in the Clinton administration, swindled
investors out of billions. Nothing was done, again,
though negative media treatment against Rich was permitted
largely because he did do business with Iran,
and thus was considered a traitor by his fellow Jews.
Eventually, Clinton pardoned Rich in a much-publicized case,
and Rich is now free.
Jewish mafia investors all but took over Las Vegas,
also with the political protection and patronage of
Greenwald. Some years back, a movie was released called
Casino, starring Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci.
Concerning itself with the takeover of Las Vegas, the film
depicted Mr. Rothstein (played by the Jewish DeNiro)
as the suave and successful entrepreneur, and Pesci as the typical
Italian wiseguy, brash and insolent. Of course, the purpose of the
movie was to absolve Jewish organized crime and transfer
all blame to Italian mobsters. The opposite
was true.
Balagula, before taking over Jewish mafia interests
in the United States, acted as a mob functionary for
the KGB. In his very own words,
Balagula said that the "KGB gave him visas, no problem"
(Friedman, 44) and was instrumental in sending
him stolen art and jewels, which he sold to foreign
tourists. The KGB also set him up as head of the largest
food co-op in Ukraine, a position he quickly turned
into a major black market operation with the blessings
of the KGB. Near the end of the Cold War, members of
the KGB viewed the Jewish crime
syndicate as a source of possible new jobs for
them after the old system
was destroyed. So, not only did they have the patronage
of the American political establishment under Greenwald,
but also the decaying
intelligence apparatus of the USSR as well.
BOOTLEGGING
What needs to be kept in mind about the bootlegging
operation is that it was never small time. Nothing the Jewish
mob did was ever small. This
operation was multinational in scope. They had a fleet of
massive oil tankers, tanker trucks and hundreds of
gasoline stations and distributorships, all owned by
Jews loyal to the mob. Balagula had
created a massive mafia empire leading from
North Africa to Saudi Arabia
to Venezuela to Brooklyn. The Jewish mobsters
developed an infrastructure within the oil trade that
made them invincible. Mafia
influence is substantial in the price of oil, as well as
acting as the occasional go-between between the
Mossad and Arab oil-producing
sheikdoms. No one of substance was ever brought to justice.
* * *
With all the power that the Jewish mob has
amassed, they are merely a
pimple on the back of the master of them all,
and a man who truly controls much of the globe.
There is no one on Earth more powerful than
he, and, as per usual, he remains unknown, left out
of all press and television reports on the subject.
The CIA considers him a "grave
threat" to global security and the "world's most dangerous
man" (Friedman).
The fact that he remains almost unknown shows the
power of the Zionist-controlled media and their
relentless drive to suppress all investigation into
Jewish crime. He has created a massive,
global communications network and employs
hundreds of Ph.D.s in computer
science, physics and economics to run his massive
financial empire. He
has penetrated every stock exchange in the world
and controls much of the trading therein.
He was also the mastermind of the largest
money-laundering scheme in
U.S. history, "washing" $7 billion through the
Bank of New York, which is a major branch of the
Federal Reserve and his bank of choice.
His name is Semion Mogilevich, born in 1946.
Basing his first operations
in Israel, where he fleeced Jewish refugees
from Russia, Mogilevich acquired Hungarian
citizen- ship after making the comment that the
biggest problem with Israel is that there are "too many Jews
there." However, he single- handedly controls the brothels in
Israel, where Ukrainian and Russian girls are forced into sexual
slavery.
This is legal in Israel if the girls are non-Jews. The name of
Mogilevich has been left out of every report on the phenomenon in
Israel, Ukraine or the United States.
Mogilevich also controls the vodka trade in Russia
and Central Europe. Most ominously, Mogilevich has
bought Hungary's armaments industry.
In other words, he controls the military equipment
being manufactured in Hungary. He has his own
army, artillery, mechanized infantry,
antiaircraft guns and missiles of all types.
NATO has said that he is a
"threat to the stability of Europe," though
his name remains little known. This mobster is
militarily more powerful than many
European countries. He has nuclear weapons from
the former Warsaw Pact countries and is presently
trading with various governments and
providing them with nuclear technology. He has agents
in the intelligence agencies of all European countries,
which means that he may never be prosecuted, for he
is made aware of any pending investigation
into his activities, which quickly gets quashed.
German television reported that the German
intelligence service, the BND, had entered into secret
negotiations with Mogilevich whereby the
latter would supply information on his rivals in Russia.
He has a similar arrangement with French intelligence.
He has close connections to the Mossad, which destroyed
his criminal file (Friedman, 245-247).
Therefore he is immune to prosecution and travels freely.
He controls the black market from Central Europe to Russia.
He has a Rockefeller connection as well, as his main economics
advisor, Igor Fisherman was a
consultant to Chase Manhattan Bank.
Friedman writes, concerning the Fed and its relations
to Mogilevich: "While the bank has not been charged with
any wrongdoing, some investigators believe that the money
laundering could not have taken place unless senior bank
officials were bought off or otherwise
involved" (259). When the Justice Department began a
criminal investigation into Mogilevich
(which went nowhere), he accused the
Department of an "anti- Semitic conspiracy."
George W. Bush's professed mentor, Natan Sharansky,
has long and deep ties to organized crime. The Congress,
State Department and the CIA all have lengthy dossiers on
Sharansky, who acted as a bridge between
the Republican Party and Jewish thugs in a similar manner
to Rabbi Greenwald. Sharansky, knowing his power,
simply refused to sever his ties with organized crime,
infusing the Jewish mafia into the highest
echelons of the Bush administration. A pattern emerges
in relation to the Republican Party: Russian Jews
usually pose as
"anti-Communists." They did this partially because
they had been arrested by security services for their
black market activities, but also because this posture
would make them valuable to Republican
operatives and the Beltway "conservative movement." Their
reputations as "dissidents" protected them almost as much as
their religion.
Because of this, George W.'s father also refused to
cooperate with several investigations into Russian
mob activities in Switzerland. The
CIA has commented that there is no "major Russian
mob figure that does not carry an Israeli passport,"
but the Israeli state refuses
to take any action against the gangsters. Yitzhak Rabin
was the one exception, and met with Mossad figures,
as well as Shin Bet and Israel's FBI, to combat organized
crime, believing that it could
destabilize Israel. Within a few days, he was murdered.
His successor, Shimon Peres, shelved the recommendations
formulated under Rabin, where
they collect dust to this day.
CAUSES
It might be worthwhile to delve into some of the
causes of this phenomenon. Why the Jews? It is true
that many culture groups have engaged in ethnic based
organized crime, but it seems only the Italians
get frequently mentioned. Today, Chechen,
Hispanic and Albanian gangs are growing in power,
but none has come close to being even a footnote
to the Jewish clans. Few people in the FBI, CIA or
DEA speak Hebrew or Yiddish. Some Jewish mobsters go
back and forth between languages,
including Russian, so as to make themselves
more indecipherable. The power of the Jewish gangs is
wielded more ruthlessly than any other
criminal gang. Jewish mobsters enjoy inflicting pain,
they murder children as well as unarmed men and women.
The old code of honor among Irish and Italian gangsters is
nonexistent. These old-time mobsters
would only kill another mobster.
The Jewish gangs have no regard for
these rules, and thus are more feared. The sheer arrogance
of the Jewish gangsters and their outrageous self-assurance
have allowed their "competition" among the Italian gangs
to take a very cautious stance toward their Jewish counterparts.
The state of Israel is a major factor in the rise and
power of the Jewish mafia. Jewish drug dealers, child
porn pushers and slave traders are free from prosecution
in Israel. Israel does not consider these to
be crimes, again, so long as the victims are non-Jews.
The mafia proved its power in the murder of Yitzhak Rabin.
The Israeli state will not extradite its citizens to non- Jewish
countries, and, therefore, Jewish
murderers can quite easily escape punishment in Israel.
The unique situation in the former USSR, and the
fact that Jews predominated in the Soviet bureaucracy,
provides another link in the rise of the mafia. Jews
predominated in the earlier and more primitive
black market in Russia, and thus these groups were
physically more ready to take advantage of the crisis in
Russia beginning in the mid-1980s.
Jewish organized crime, connected to both the
KGB and Mossad, automatically had the skids greased
to remain off theradar screen for
allied intelligence agencies.
Likely the most important factor is the complete
control of the media by Jewish families and the power of the
ADL in American culture. The power
of the Jews in America is so great that any
serious investigation into Jewish crime will see shrill attacks
from every major media outlet in
America. In terms of public relations, it is just not
worth it. Therefore, one will see a television program
like The Sopranos about Italian mobsters, but one will
never see the same program featuring
Jewish mobsters.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
There is very little that can be done at this time.
There is every reason to believe that soon,
nationalists and Revisionists will be
targeted by Jewish criminals with strong ties to the
Mossad. The fate of the west is being decided in Moscow,
not in Washington, D.C. or New York. Russian President
Vladimir Putin needs to continue to centralize
power in his own person. His elimination of
provincial governors was meant primarily as a crime
fighting campaign, as local governors were
making peace with the crime bosses. Putin also needs to
continue to reform the military and security services,
making them more and more loyal to the new Russian order.
Putin should begin publicly drawing
attention to the global power of the bosses and the
connivance of
western powers in their rise and present prosperity.
The ruble should be made non-convertible
(so as to prevent its manipulation by crime bosses in the
currency markets), and a strong Sino-Slavic trading bloc
needs to be solidified. Police work in Russia
is now a rough business. Poorly paid policemen need
to be supplemented by local militias to begin direct
and militant confrontations with
organized crime and corruption wherever it might arise.
Putin has the popularity and the power to create a
major security bloc against organized crime, as well as
capitalist imperialism. Russian banks need
to come under state control, and be purged of all
criminal elements. Furthermore, the church, currently the
second most popular institution in Russia after Putin, needs to
place its powerful seal on the development of a mob-free Russia,
and call on all Russians to repent and
begin building a communitarian system.
Agriculture and the village commune should receive
government support to repopulate the countryside, making
Russia self-sufficient in food. And,
of course, Russia's extremely important and
strategic oil and natural gas reserves need to be protected
by interior ministry troops and placed under government
control if need be. Putin, the nationalists
and the church have tremendous popularity and influence.
This capital should be spent on developing a nationalist system
dedicated to purging Russia of Jewish-inspired crime,
imperialism, depopulation and liberalism. He is already moving
in this direction, and Russian economic
growth and a low inflation and unemployment
rate are its fruits. â –(my opinion on Putin is that he is
cornered by the same Talmudic crowd as evidenced in an
earlier post--nothing will be done as suggested here)
ENDNOTE:
This article is based chiefly on: Robert I.
Friedman, Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob
Has Invaded America, 288
pages,
hardcover, Little, Brown; May 1, 2000;
mass market paperback publisher:
Berkley Publishing Group (2002).
Other books of similar interest:
Russian Mafia
in America: Immigration, Culture, and Crime
by James O. Finckenauer;
Comrade
Criminal: Russia's New Mafiya, by
Stephen Handelman; Godfather of
the Kremlin:
The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism
by Paul
Klebnikov; Darkness
at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State,
by David Satter.
THE BARNES REVIEW 47
The state of Israel is a major factor in the rise and power
of the Jewish mafia. Jewish drug dealers, child porn
pushers and slave traders
are free from prosecution in Israel.
“"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of
freedom of the people by
gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than
by violent and sudden
usurpations. ... The means of defense against foreign
danger historically have become
the instruments of tyranny at home…..If tyranny and
oppression come to this land, it
will be under the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
President James Madison
Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn testimony on
Operation Gladio in Europe: "You had
to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent
people, unknown people far
removed from any political game. The reason was quite
simple: to force ... the public to
turn to the state to ask for greater security."
Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga:
"[Bin Laden supposedly confessed] to the
Qaeda September [attack] to the two towers in
New York [claiming to be] the author of
the attack of the 11, while all the [intelligence
services] of America and Europe ...
now know well that the disastrous attack has
been planned and realized from the CIA
American and the Mossad with the aid of the
Zionist world in order to put under
accusation the Arabic Countries and in order to induce
the western powers to take part
... in Iraq [and] Afghanistan."
“We annually spend on military security more
than the net income of all United States
corporations. This conjunction of an immense
military establishment and a large arms
industry is new in the American experience. The
total influence -- economic, political,
even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State
house, every office of the Federal
government. We recognize the imperative need
for this development. Yet we must not fail
to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil,
resources and livelihood are all
involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we
must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted
influence, whether sought or unsought,
by the military industrial complex. The potential
for the disastrous rise of misplaced
power exists and will persist. We must never let
the weight of this combination endanger
our liberties or democratic processes.” President
Dwight D. Eisenhower in a televised
speech 1961
John Swinton New York journalist at a banquet
(1880’s): "What folly is this, toasting an
independent press? There is no such thing, at
this date of the World's history, in
America, as an independent press. You know it and
I know it. There is not one of you who
dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did,
you know beforehand that it would
never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping
my honest opinion out of the paper I
am connected with. Others of you are paid
similar salaries for similar things, and any
of you who would be so foolish as to write honest
opinions would be out on the streets
looking for another job. If I allowed my honest
opinions to appear in one issue of my
paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation
would be gone. The business of the
journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie
outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at
the feet of Mammon [Biblical ref.], and to
sell his country and his race for his daily
bread. You know it and I know it, and what
folly is this toasting an independent press?
We are the tools and vassals of “rich men”
[Biblical ref.] behind the scenes. We are the
jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we
dance. Our talents, our possibilities and
our lives are all the property of other men.
We are intellectual prostitutes."
Past CIA Director William Colby: "The Central
Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any
significance in the major media."
“The individual is handicapped by coming face
to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he
cannot believe it exists”. -- J. Edgar Hoover,
FBI Director 1924-1972, quoted in The
Elks Magazine (August 1956). "It is the duty
of the patriot to protect his country from
its [corrupt feudal] government." -- Thomas
Paine. “Each of you, for himself, by himself
and on his own responsibility, must speak”. --
Mark Twain. “The money powers prey upon
the nation in times of peace and conspire against
it in times of adversity. It is more
despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than
autocracy, and more selfish than
bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies all
who question its methods or throw light
upon its crimes. I have two great enemies,
the Southern Army in front of me and the
bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at
my rear is my greatest foe.” -- President
Abraham Lincoln. “In a time of universal
deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary
act.” -- George Orwell.
"It is perfectly possible for a man to be out
of prison, and yet not free - to be under
no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological
captive, compelled to think, feel
and act as the representatives of the national state
, or of some private interest within
the nation, wants him to think, feel and act.
"The nature of psychological compulsion is
such that those who act under constraint
remain under the impression that they are
acting on their own initiative. The victim of
mind-manipulation does not know that he is
a victim. To him the walls of his prison are
invisible, and he believes himself to be
free. That he is not free is apparent only to
other people. His servitude is strictly
objective." Brave New World Revisited,
Aldous Huxley, 1958
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance
~ it is the illusion of knowledge."
~ Daniel Boorstin .[this is the illusion that the
mainstream news media projects to the
sheeple]
"Zionism is but an incident of a far reaching plan,"
said leading American Zionist Louis
Marshall, counsel for bankers Kuhn Loeb in 1917.
"It is merely a convenient peg on which
to hang a powerful weapon." The far-reaching plan
is Illuminati world dictatorship. The
Illuminati is the highest echelon of Freemasonry,
an occult secret society dedicated to
Lucifer. The world's central bankers have
intermarried with the richest dynastic
families of Europe and America to bring about
world hegemony. They instigated wars and
depressions to degrade and destroy humanity.
The American people have been financing
their wars since 1914.
Zionist Theodor Herzl
"We Will Lead Every Revolution Against Us".