Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Politics and Bedfellows An Age Old Story Told Once Again We do not know what to make of the gossip being circulated about likely 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton these days. It seems strange that material which appears to be damaging about her would surface over two years before the 2008 Presidential Election. Yet such material is surfacing all over the place these days. Perhaps it is relevant to her current campaign for re-election to the US Senate in New York State where up until recently she had been viewed as an odds on favorite to win re-election by a wide margin. That, however, was before the arab terrorist threats against The Pope began. " Mujahideen's Army threatens Pope with suicide attack George Conger and JPost staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 16, 2006 As security was beefed up around Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday night, the Mujahideen's Army movement in Iraq threatened to carry out a suicide attack against the Pope in revenge for his comments about Islam and jihad....Churches attacked in Gaza,(and in Judea and Samaria)...On a website used by rebel movements in Iraq, a message posted by the Mujahideen's Army said members of the organization would " smash the crosses in the house of the dog from Rome. " European religious and political leaders have backed the Pope in the wake of the Muslim protests over his academic lecture at Regensburg University Tuesday... " New York State is heavily Roman Catholic, as are many key states in Presidential Electoral Politics, and in the 2006 race, where key US Senate races in New York State, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,Connecticut and Rhode Island, and elsewhere, might easily be swayed by a shift in Roman Catholic voters away from Democrats, who are widely viewed to be appeasers of arab terrorists, if not allies of arab terrorists, towards Republicans, who are widely viewed as protectors of America and the rest of the civilized world from the threat of arab terrorism. Though the name Arthur Turco is known to few Americans today, if the allegations about his romantic and political relationship with Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1969 when Hillary was at Yale turn out to be true Arthur Turco's name might become as much a household word as Monica Lewinsky's name was in the late 1990s. Unlike Monica Lewinsky however, Arthur Turco in 1969 was no starry eyed 20 something intern being sexually used and abused by the most charming President of the United States ever to hold that office. Gerald Lefcourt, David Brothers, Abbie Hofmann, Dave Dellinger, William Kunstler, Jerry Rubin, and Arthur Turco can be seen at a Black Panther Rally at Federal Court, in a photo taken on March 22nd, 1969. Arthur Turco is the clean shaven white man in the dark glasses,wearing a tie with his hand in the pocket of his rain coat, standing behind bearded Jerry Rubin. You can see the photo in which Turco appears at KnowTheEnemy/ in the Birds of A Feather photo album at http://ph.KnowTheEnemy/photos Arthur Turco was the New York City based leader of a weird white group called THE PATRIOTS in 1969. THE PATRIOTS were allied with THE BLACK PANTHERS and a Puerto Rican group called THE YOUNG LORDS in something called THE RAINBOW COALITION. This was a different group from the Jesse Jackson related Rainbow Coalition group. THE PATRIOTS operated relatively openly from an office in far uptown Manhattan but reputedly also used one or more covert " Safe House " style apartments in the CHELSEA section of Manhattan. Some of those " Safe House " style apartments were allegedly fortress like places,allegedly filled with heavy weapons including explosives, as well as handguns, and automatic weapons. Some alleged background on Black Panther Party attorney and ally, Arthur Turco may be found at http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=11450 which describes Arthur Turco as the " Panthers' New York lawyer,Arthur Turco. " The article states that : " Caplan says he believes that the Panthers' New York lawyer, Arthur Turco, was the ringleader in the commission of this crime. " He was apparently in the house when the torture and the murder took place and was part of the conspiracy to kill and remove the body, " Below is an example of a post which dates back to the Bill Clinton era we found describing some of the story. " Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow black named Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was a fellow Panther suspected of disloyalty. Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized his'friends'tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him. When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member Warren Kimbo took Mr.Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn. Perhaps at this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black Panthers. In 1977, that's only eight years later, only one of the killers was still in jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard. He later became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College. Isn't that something? As a `60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone's head,and a few years later, in the same state, you can become an assistant college dean! Only in America! Erica Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to a California School Board. How in the world do you think these killers got off so easy? Maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers during their trial. One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't a member of a California School Board. He is now head of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean? No, Neither! The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at the time. She is now known as The " smartest woman in the world. " She is none other than...Hillary Rodham Clinton. " We checked Hillary's official White House bio and found that: " In 1969, Hillary entered Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of Yale Law Review and Social Action... " source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/hc42.html We also dug up the 1997 piece below on Bill Lan Lee " G.O.P Leader Says Nominee Will Be Halted November 10, 1997, Monday By STEVEN A. HOLMES (New York Times) National Desk Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 22, Column 1, Senator Orrin G Hatch, chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee, says nomination of Bill Lan Lee, President Clinton's choice for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, is dead; nomination has run into opposition among Republicans, who accuse him of supporting racial quotas and affirmative action... " Want to know something really scary? We do not know if there is any truth to them at all, but allegations are beginning to resurface concerning the alleged connections, which may have begun in 1969, between Hillary Rodham,while she and her husband to be Bill Clinton were Yale students, and something callled THE RAINBOW COALITION, not the one associated with Jesse Jackson, but another one, which was composed of 3 allied groups: THE BLACK PANTHERS, a Puerto Rican group called THE YOUNG LORDS, and a bizarre Maoist " white " group called THE PATRIOTS. The so-called RAINBOW COALITION was an alliance between ARTHUR TURCO'S white terrorist group THE PATRIOTS, and the original BLACK PANTHERS,(not to be confused with a group using that name today), and a Puerto Rican group called THE YOUNG LORDS in 1969 when Hillary and Bill Clinton were Yale students. A relatively covert alliance also existed between THE PATRIOTS and heavily armed international arab terrorists,including those controlled by arafat,operating even then in the United States,and elsewhere. In particular the allegations center around the alleged connections between Hillary Rodham and Arthur Turco, and others. Turco was the leader of THE PATRIOTS. THE PATRIOTS members wore dungaree " uniforms " including dungaree pants and dungaree jackets and held Maoist style " self-criticism sessions " . THE PATRIOTS were allegedly heavily involved in drug use, which included " snorting " horse tranquilizer drugs, among other things, and allegedly were regular visitors to YALE. They also allegedly regularly read responsively from Lin Piao's radical book. ( " Encyclopedia of World Biography on Lin Piao (1907-1971) was a Chinese Communist military commander and political leader. His distinguished military career and loyalty to the principles of Mao Tse-tung were the basis for his rise to second position in the Chinese Communist leadership. He was involved in an unsuccessful coup d'etat in 1971. " ) We would like to know what, if anything, you have found about this story? Is there any truth to it at all? We do not know. Then there is the matter of the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. Famed Jewish columnist A.M.Rosenthal of THE NEW YORK TIMES called Bill Clinton, who he had backed in the 1992 Presidential race against then President George Herbert Walker Bush, BOMBER BILL because of Clinton's prosecution of the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. In those wars some 5,000 Serbian civilians were slaughtered in Guernica like air raids. Many of the same targets in Serbia that were bombed by the Luftwaffe in World War Two were bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1999. Bill Clinton turned the US Airforce into AIR BIN LADEN, flying missions against Serbians who were fighting against Osama bin Laden's forces in the Balkans. Why would Bill Clinton, the former anti-war activist of the 1960s,who had demonstrated against the Vietnam War,wage war against Serbia as President of the United States in the 1990s? The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution limits Presidential terms of office to 2 terms. Bill Clinton was elected to those 2 terms and served them. His last full year in office was 2000, the year his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the US Senate from New York State. He left office on January 20th, 2001. Many observers viewed the 2000 US Senate race in which she was elected from New York State as a stepping stone to the White House for Hillary Rodham Clinton. In New York State winning state wide Republican candidates need the nomination of the New York State Republican Party to be augmented by the nominaton of the New York State Conservative Party. Winning statewide without BOTH nominations is not an easy thing for any Republican candidate in New York State. The website of the New York State Conservative Party proudly proclaims : " The 1994 elections were a breakthrough for the Conservative Party as we provided the margin of victory for Governor George E. Pataki with the 326,605 votes cast on our line. " source: http://www.cpnys.org/history/history.html In New York State the votes of candidates on for example the Republican Party line may be combined with votes for the same candidates received on for example the New York State Conservative Party line. Thus winning the nomination of the New York State Conservative Party is vital to making a successful statewide run for office in New York State. Things were not shaping up at all well for Rudy Guiliani, who was the odds on favorite for the Republican nomination for the US Senate race in 2000 against Hillary Rodham Clinton. " Giuliani at Fund-Raiser, but Not Conservative Party's November 17, 1999, Wednesday By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN (New York Times)Metropolitan Desk Late Edition - Final, Section B, Page 5, Column 1 Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani attends Broadway fund-raiser for his presumptive United States Senate campaign, but he is left out of State Conservative Party's annual fall cocktail party—which may have even more important implications for his political future; Conservative Party chairman Michael R Long says Giuliani was not invited because he has not yet expressed interest in winning party's endorsement… " To his credit then Governor George W. Bush did what he could to pitch in to help Rudy Guiliani. " Bush Offers Giuliani Help On the Right November 30, 1999, Tuesday By ELISABETH BUMILLER (New York Times)Metropolitan Desk Late Edition - Final, Section B, Page 1, Column 5, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, on his first political trip since Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her intention to run for United States Senate, basks in praise of political benefactor, Texas Governor George W. Bush. Bush, at rally in Austin, Texas, volunteers to help Giuliani win endorsement from New York State Conservative Party in his likely race against Hillary Clinton; endorsement has been held up over Giuliani's position on abortion rights; at issue is Giuliani's opposition to ban on what critics call `partial-birth' abortions… " The alleged Clinton master plan to win Hillary Rodham Clinton a seat in the US Senate from New York State as a vital stepping stone to the White House was built on a very simple proposition: DIVIDE AND CONQUER. Winning that seat in the Senate for Hillary in 2000 could theoretically be accomplished by assuring that the 2000 US Senate nominaton of the New York State Conservative Party did not go to the 2000 US Senate nominee of the New York State Republican Party. But how could such a thing be accomplished? Who could be persuaded to split the right so that Hillary Rodham Clinton could be elected to the US Senate from New York State in 2000? Ominously it was on May Day of 2000 that the following happened: " Giuliani Gets A New Rival On the Right May 1st, 2000, Monday By ADAM NAGOURNEY (New York Times) Metropolitan Desk Late Edition - Final, Section B, Page 1, Column 6, Former United States Congressman from Westchester County Joseph J DioGuardi, in move that could complicate Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani's campaign for United States Senate, says that he will seek support of Conservative, Right-to- Life and Independence Parties in campaign for Senate; repeatedly assails Giuliani as being out of step with Conservative-minded Republicans… " Who was Former United States Congressman from Westchester County Joseph J DioGuardi, and how did he fit in to the alleged Clinton master plan to win Hillary Rodham Clinton a seat in the US Senate from New York State as vital stepping stone to the White House? DioGuardi has been described by New York City's Village Voice newspaper as : " NEW YORK'S KOSOVO KINGPIN " http://www.villagevoice.com/features/9915/vest.shtml In 2000 DioGuardi was poised to give not-so-hilarious Hillary Rodham Clinton a seat in the US Senate from New York by virtue of his own campaign for that seat that would have split right-wing opposition to Hillary, thus ensuring her election. We opposed Ms.Clinton then,and we oppose her now. Unlike Ms.Clinton who favors a so-called " palestinian " state we are opposed to such an entity coming into existence. We were also opposed to Clinton's anti-Serbian policy in the Balkans. There is more data available on the so-called " palestinian " state issue: " B'NAI B'RITH DISAPPOINTED WITH THE FIRST LADY'S COMMENTS ON A PALESTINIAN STATE " http://bnaibrith.org/pr/hillaryclinton.html http://www.usaid-wbg.org/98dec14a.html A group calling itself the " National Association of Arab Americans " http://www.naaa.net/alerts/aa050898.html urged its members to " Please write, phone, or fax the First Lady at the following address to express your appreciation for her remarks " which favored a so-called " palestinian " state.) Nor has Hillary, not-so-Hilarious Clinton been squeamish about supporting Albanians " Hillary Clinton awarded Albania's highest civilian honor " http://www.cnn.co.uk/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/06/22/hrc.award/ http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/columns/hrc040799.ht ml Please see the url below from THE NEW YORK TIMES regarding the 2000 DioGuardi US Senate candidacy. http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/politics/camp/050100sen-ny.html DioGuardi hopes to run on the Conservative Party, Right-to-Life and Independence Party lines in New York State. The Independence Party was the name for the Reform Party in New York State which then appeared likely to have Patrick J. Buchanan as its Presidential standard bearer in the fall 2000 elections. http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/buchanan_intro. html http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/on_nazis.html http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/on_segregation. html http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/on_women.html http://www.adl.org/presrele/holna_52/2585_52.html http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/window_buchanan ..html http://www.adl.org/presrele/asus_12/3481_12.html http://www.adl.org/frames/front_buchanan_own_words.html http://www.adl.org/backgrounders/reform_party_and_fulani_and_newman.h tml http://www.adl.org/frames/front_background_article2.html " Buchanan has consistently portrayed war criminals as patriotic Americans, innocent victims of " revenge-obsessed Nazi hunters " in Washington. Virtually everything the accused and their defenders have said he accepts as truth, and, in the words of one critic, he wages " journalistic guerilla warfare " on their behalf. Says Neal Sher, former director of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations: " Buchanan went to bat for every Nazi war criminal in America. " Liberty Lobby, the leading anti-Semitic and racist organization in America, overwhelmingly endorsed Pat Buchanan during the 1996 presidential primaries. An editorial in its publication, The Spotlight, pointed out that " the 112 issues or legislative positions that Liberty Lobby has taken over the past 40 years...shows that Pat Buchanan stands with us. " The predominant issue they share is Holocaust revisionism, the spearhead of the international anti-Semitic movement. Buchanan used his syndicated column and his office as communications director in the Reagan White House from 1981-1987 to assist pro-Nazi Eastern European organizations in trying to block the denaturalization and deportation of Karl Linnas, John Demjanjuk, and at least seventeen others who had been charged by the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations or had been convicted in federal courts of concealing war crimes in order to gain illegal entry into the U.S. The Karl Linnas Case In 1981 the Federal District Court in Westbury, NY stripped 67-year-old Karl Linnas of his citizenship for having lied to immigration officials thirty years earlier about his Nazi past. Linnas's crimes, the judge said, " were such as to offend the decency of any civilized society. " From 1941-43 Linnas had commanded a Nazi concentration camp at Tartu, Estonia, where he directed and personally took part in the murder of thousands of men, women, and children who were shot into anti-tank ditches. A 1986 federal appeals court upheld his deportation order, ruling that the evidence against the defendant was " overwhelming and largely uncontroverted. " Summarily rejecting the court's findings because evidence had been obtained from the Soviet Union, Buchanan orchestrated a national media effort to exonerate Linnas, demanding that his citizenship be reinstated. He championed the Linnas cause in his syndicated newspaper column and TV program " Crossfire, " and arranged for then U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III to meet with him and members of Eastern European organizations who hailed Linnas as a hero. On March 31, l987, Menachem Rosensaft, founder of the International Network of Children of Holocaust Survivors, wrote a New York Times Op-Ed piece calling for a congressional investigation to determine whether any American official or functionary had intervened on Mr. Linnas's behalf. Buchanan responded by saying it was the Office of Special Investigations that needed to be investigated. " Let us get it all out in the open, " he wrote, " nothing un-American can live in the sunlight. " Attorney General Meese delayed the deportation of Linnas as long as possible, all the while searching for a haven. After sixteen countries had refused, Panama agreed to accept Linnas " on humanitarian grounds. " News of the decision prompted Rosensaft and others to intercede with Panamanian officials in Washington, who told them that their government had not been informed of Linnas's wartime atrocities. Panama withdrew its offer and issued a statement saying that " our country and our Government reject and condemn the crimes committed by fascists. " On April 20, 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a final appeal. At that point Meese was legally bound to comply with the deportation order. Linnas was flown to the Soviet Union and three months later died in a prison hospital while awaiting trial. " http://uahc.org/rjmag/1096ca.html The obvious question came to mind. Was the potential third party DioGuardi 2000 Senate candidacy, which could have guaranteed Hillary the US Senate seat from New York a " big payoff " for the Clintons for the 1999 pro-Albanian Balkan war against Serbia which saw Kosovo stolen from Serbia? http://aacl.com/indexmain.html is the url of a group which describes itself at that website as " the Albanian American Civic League. The Civic League was founded by former Congressman Joseph DioGuardi and a board of Albanian Americans in 1989 as the only registered lobby in Washington, DC, representing the concerns and interests of the Albanian people. Pay close attention to the phrase " living side by side in " found in the quote below, and note how it has since been used by advocates of a so-called Two State Solution, which envisages a so- called " palestinian " state " living side by side in " so- called " peace " with Israel. In reality the so-called Two State Solution is more like Hitler's infamous FINAL SOLUTION, as it is really a Two Step or Two Stage plan, with the first step being get Israel to hand over everything it will without total war, and then wage total war against Israel from the land Israel hands over to destroy the rest of Israel. The self-described " purpose of the Civic League is to further the human rights and the national cause of the divided nation of more than seven million Albanians living side by side in the Balkans in Albania, Kosova, western Macedonia, southeastern Montenegro, Presheve, Medvegje, Bujanovc (southern Serbia), and Chameria (northern Greece). By bringing the political perspectives of 400,000 Albanian Americans to the US Government, the civic League works to end the repression and oppression of Albanians living under hostile Slavic Communist regimes in the Balkans and to preserve the culture, identity and human rights of Albanians throughout the world. " While you are digesting that quote, which sounds to me to be more than a bit like the propaganda sprouted by the nazis about the so-called " Sudetenland " http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Chlup/chluplinks/sudeten.html http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/albums/palbum/p02/a0133p5.html http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Chlup/chluplinks/munich.html http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Chlup/czechcon.html and other places inhabited by Germans and others which used the German population as a pretext for annexation and in some cases war by Germany. Saddam did the same thing when he move arabs into Kurdish sections of so-called Iraq. Syria has moved a million so-called " civilian " FIFTH COLUMNISTS into Lebanon, a nation which numbers under four million people, not counting those million Syrian FIFTH COLUMNISTS. NATO bombed Belgrade TV repeatedly, after Belgrade TV started to show the comedic film " Wag the Dog " which is about a US President who starts an Albanian War while he is in the midst of a sex scandal. Ken Starr, where are you now that we really do need you? (Ken Starr was the anti-Clinton prosecutor who got nowhere in his attempts to oust Bill Clinton from the Presidency.) Some more thoughts from a different source are quoted below: " Fri, 2 Jul 1999 SendMeHack SendMeHack at aol.com VOICE OF THE GRUNT SPECIAL REPORT FROM BEN WORKS BUYING AN INTERVENTION: KOSOVO AND ALBANIAN PAC MONEY IN CONGRESS By Benjamin Works,, The Strategic Issues Research Institute Hack and I, along with a select group of others, have been at war with the KLA over its heroin and terrorist connections. We also knew something about how political money bought this war policy. Here's the story. Back in 1995, late in the Bosnian war, I got a reference to a 1986 Senate Resolution proposed by Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, decrying Yugoslavian official oppression of the Albanian population of Kosovo-that's 1986, when the Albanian Autonomous government was still fully operational. Joseph DioGuardi, a New York Republican, sponsored the companion House Resolution, both of which never emerged from committee. I got a copy of that Senate Resolution Nr. 150 from the Congressional Register of June 19, 1986 and then let it sit in my file for a long time, while the NATO occupation of Bosnia appeared to keep things calm. Meanwhile, Bob Dole managed to lose the 1996 Presidential Election, then vigorously supported Mr. Clinton's year-by-year extensions for keeping some 6900 US soldiers in Bosnia. As the KLA insurrection in Kosovo reached civil war levels, I began to think about that resolution and how it misrepresented history. I had done considerable reading on the origins of the Yugoslav conflicts, pulling Washington Post, New York Times and other reports from the 1980s, bearing on Kosovo and the collapse of the Federative Republic's communist government under the pressure of ethnic-nationalism. Well, pieces fit together showing that all along it has been the ethnic nationalist fascist losers of World War II in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo who have been exploiting the political process in Germany and the United States. Their goal has been to effect the division of Yugoslavia and the cleansing of Serbian populations from their territories, while purporting that " Greater Serbia " was the menace to European security and not the post- fascist " Greater Croatia " and " Greater Albania. " Survivors of the Croat Ustashe movement in southern Germany began their work in the 1960s, but Joseph DioGuardi must be given credit for a sustained campaign to influence Congress beginning in the mid-1970s. DioGuardi, an Albanian American whose ancestors came from an Albanian transplant community in the heel of Italy, sat in Congress for several years in the mid-1980s as a Conservative Republican from New York's Westchester County, but creating a Greater Albania was his agenda as a map on his website shows (www.aapac.com). " His Political Action Committee (PAC) activities are easy to follow from 1988 on. What makes the PAC and individual contributions to campaigns more interesting is the demonstrated connection between the Kosovo Heroin Mafia, its " pizza connection " distribution ( " inherited " from the Gambino crime family) and money-laundering networks, and the number of pizzaria owner-contributors listed in DioGuardi's filings. The Croats and Albanians came up with big pots of laundered money, then spread it around selectively, with American politicians helping to persuade other members in Congress. I have indications of a political alliance between DioGuardi and Bob Dole going as far back as the early 1970s, but have not yet got all the evidence in hand. What I do have is sufficient to reach tentative conclusions about how foreign policy, in a democracy, can be " bought " -that is precisely what happened in the case of the Kosovo Air War. In early 1987, kicking off his 1988 bid to wrest the GOP nomination from then-vice president George Bush, Dole received $1.2 million from Albanian American supporters in New York City, while DioGuardi received $50,000 at the same dinner. I expect the funding trail goes back further, at least to Dole's 1976 campaign.It certainly continued from 1987 through to the present. As the collapse of Yugoslavia loomed, the Croatian and Albanian lobbies continued their campaign: Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, Mar 31, 1993 issue, reported as much as $50 million was larded around Capitol Hill in a two-year period which saw the defeat of George Bush and led to Bob Dole's control of the Republican party: The United States Congress, still reeling from a series of financial scandals involving representatives and senators, is now bracing for a new problem: the massive financial " contributions " which have been made to election funds of politicians by Croatian sources over the past two to three years. One Congressional investigator told Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy that the donations and expenditures on Washington lobbying by the Croatians over the past two years " could well exceed $50-million. " " Much of this came directly from Croatian lobbyists, and some from Croatian American businessmen " Many of the campaign contributions have been recorded legally, " the investigator said, " but many are questionable. But what is more important is that there has been a pervasive attempt to push the United States along a line defined by foreign powers-Croatia and Germany-and it has not been subtle. Elected officials are being told to either support the Croatian line or face either a removal of funding or are told that funding will be given to their opponents. Or they are literally bribed into supporting the Croatian line. This was going on long before Croatia even made its open bid for recognition as an independent state. " Now, as to individual contributions, there are campaign contribution limits on individuals, then there are Political Action Committees (PACs), " Soft Money " contributed to the parties and fed back to candidates, and there is the time-honored custom of passing bundles of hundred dollar bills in brown paper bags to favored candidates. Federal Election Commission (FEC) records are on-line (http://www.tray.com/fecinfo/) and I have been able retrieve records for Joseph DioGuardi's PACs going back to the 1988 election cycle, and have also tested Bob Dole's 1996 Campaign and Liddy Dole's Campaign-2000. It is all there in the lists of candidates and contributors. In particular, most of the Congressmen speaking loudest against Serbia and Serbs are those receiving money from DioGuardi's PAC. Some have simply been beguiled,others may be more disingenuous. Recipients come from both sides of the aisle but are mostly members of the House or Senate foreign relations committees...These records do not reveal monster sums of money, but demonstrate the tip of the iceberg, where " soft money, " individual declared contributions and bags full of $100 bills also find their way to select candidates. It is clear that Bob Dole and Joe DioGuardi, in league with Croat and Bosnian fascist emigrees, worked very effectively to set up US foreign policy to dismantle Yugoslavia and ruin the Serb people. They have succeeded admirably because they were organized and persistent, while their opponents were disorganized and, ultimately, outnumbered by the overwhelming flood of media propaganda. Now, the US taxpayer is on the hook for Billions of Dollars, while our service personnel will be tied down for years in Bosnia and Kosovo,again attempting the kind of nation building that failed so spectacularly in Somalia and Haiti. For those wishing to inspect the details of these fundraising, I have loaded the summary lists compiled thus far at my website along with a companion reading file on the KLA and Heroin: " http://www.siri- us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/AlbanianAmericanPac-1980-98.html and http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/KLA-Drugs.html see also: http://www.truthinmedia.org/TruthinMedia/Kosovo/Peace/ps13.html http://glasgowcrew.tripod.com/albanian.html " I am not naive, " KT McFarland told the Republican Convention in late May(of 2006), as she announced her continuing campaign to take a senate seat from former First Lady Hillary Clinton. " I know Mrs. Clinton has considerable resources and advantages and that the race ahead will be formidable. Let's face it, at this point she's probably better known in Albania than I am in Albany. " source: http://www.politicalnotebook.org/2006/06/to_feel_better_.html What do you think? Did the Bill and Hillary Clinton anti-Serbian Balkan War of 1999 almost reap its reward with a seat in the US Senate almost being handed to Hillary, not-so-Hilarious Clinton by former New York Congressman Joseph DioGuardi? " 15 YEARS OF THE ALBANIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE February 1999. Congressman Jim Traficant joins a Civic League delegation to Tirana to speak at an international conference on the independence of Kosova. " SOURCE: http://aacl.com/12m.htm Note: re above Albanians spell Kosovo with an a at the end of it rather than an o, hence the Albanian spelling Kosova above. " Congressman's Corruption Trial Opens with Bickering Tuesday February 5th, 2002 By Jay Miller CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The bribery and corruption trial of Ohio Rep. James Traficant opened on Tuesday amid bickering and a warning from the judge to the nine-term congressman to behave himself. " " Ohio Congressman James Trafficant has been a vigorous Demjanjuk supporter since the start of the trial in Israel. After Demjanjuk was convicted of crimes against humanity. " " July 17th, 2000 Jim Traficant is perhaps the most colorful Member of Congress of our time. He dresses in outrageous outfits and jokes that he is the " fashion leader of the House. " His hair always looks as if he just got out of bed. During his eight terms in Congress he has become famous for his one-minute speeches on the House floor, where he questions the wisdom and honesty of government policies. He nearly always ends up saying " beam me up, " a reference to the old Star Trek television series. " " Traficant guilty of bribery, racketeering April 12, 2002 Traficant spoke to reporters outside the courthouse. CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) -- A jury found flamboyant U.S. Rep. James Traficant guilty of bribery and all other charges against him Thursday after a two-month federal racketeering and corruption trial. The jury of 10 women and two men convicted the congressman on all counts against him, covering charges of taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering, and forcing his aides to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and on his houseboat in Washington. The verdict followed four days of deliberations. The nine-term maverick Democrat represented himself in court throughout the trial, even though he is not an attorney.... House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Missouri, issued a statement saying a member of Congress who breaks the law and commits bribery " strikes at the heart of representative government. " He advised Traficant to step down from office. " In light of the gravity of the charges outlined in the guilty verdict against Mr. Traficant, I think the prudent course of action would be an immediate resignation, " Gephardt said. … In 1983, while a county sheriff, Traficant was brought up on federal bribery charges. During that trial, he also represented himself. That time, however, he was acquitted. The trial was marked by periodic outbursts by Traficant, who railed against prosecutors and Wells. Prosecutors accused him of accepting gifts and favors from several businessmen in his district, including a convicted felon, in return for interceding on their behalf with federal and state agencies. He also was accused of using employees from his office to perform work on his farm and boat and requiring them to return a portion of their salaries to him each month. The government alleged that staffers baled hay, maintained horse stalls and performed other chores at Traficant's farm. Other charges accused him of underreporting income on his tax returns and asking employees to destroy evidence and provide false testimony after he became aware he was being investigated. " " Traficant Expelled – Sentenced Rep. Traficant of Ohio expelled from House for ethics violations Update: 07/30/02 Traficant Sentenced to 8 Years Less than week after being expelled from the U.S. House of Representatives, former Congressman James Traficant of Ohio was sentenced today to eight years in federal prison for his April 11 conviction on charges of bribery, corruption and tax evasion. At his sentencing hearing, Traficant argued that his expulsion from Congress had been punishment enough. Judge Lesley Wells of the U.S. District Court in Cleveland, disagreed, calling Traficant's expulsion a separate political matter. Judge Wells refused to set bail for Traficant, ordering that service of his term should begin immediately. Denial of bail also sets aside all pending appeals to Traficant's conviction. " source: http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa072502a.htm Bill Clinton turned the U.S. Air Force into Air bin Laden, to support Osama bin Laden's terrorists on the ground, who were allied with Al Queda type multinational terrorists linked historically to Iraq in the Balkan War of the 1990s. Clinton waged against Serbian Christians, Jews. Like the Mafia boss of all bosses he fancied himself to be, as he watched videos of his favorite movie, " The Godfather " , and its sequels, Saddam used " cut-outs " to separate himself from his international terrorism, so that he could maintain " plausible deniability " . During the evil war against Serbia of the 1990s the back-stabbing Saddam pretended to embrace the Serbian cause, but secretly engaged in anti-Serbian terrorism in the Balkans. " during the night of July 18th -19th ,1998 a group of several hundred heavily armed foreign mercenaries (mostly " mujahideens, " Islamic " holy warriors " ) frontally attacked from Albania the Yugoslav Army border guards near the Djeravici mountain. The attack was repulsed by the Serbian troops, and the foreign assailants suffered heavy casualties. Among the dead were six mercenaries from Yemen, five from Saudi Arabia, four from Macedonia. A short while later, Yugoslav authorities arrested Nuri Salip Muhamed, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Iraqi Army as he was trying to enter Yugoslavia illegally from Bulgaria. This Iraqi officer, who reportedly spoke perfect Serbian, was supposed to have commanded the July 18th-19th, 1998 terrorist attack from Albania. But lucky for him, he had not arrived there in time. " " September 21st, 2001 U.S. Pro-Israel Stance Blamed The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) condemned the recent comments of U.S. Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio), who on Sept. 12 blamed the deadly terrorist assault on America's support for Israel. Traficant, long suspected of mob ties in his hometown of Youngstown, reportedly has accepted since 1996 more than $20,000 in campaign donations from the People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran, a group the State Department describes as a front for terrorists. Traficant " is an embarrassment to the Congress, and his congressional colleagues should marginalize him as much as possible and say publicly that his words are beyond the pale, " NJDC Executive Director Ira Forman said. " source: http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=7477 " Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) Sazman-e Mojahedin-e Khalq-e Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA) People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) Muslim Iranian Student's Society National Council of Resistance (NCR) National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Description its primary support came from the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein since the late 1980s. The MEK's history is filled with anti-Western attacks… During the 1970s, the MEK killed US military personnel and US civilians… In 1991, it assisted the Government of Iraq in suppressing the Shia and Kurdish uprisings in southern Iraq and the Kurdish uprisings in the north…. Strength Some 3,800 members are confined to Camp Ashraf, the MEK's main compound near Baghdad, where they remain under Coalition control. As a condition of the cease-fire agreement, the group relinquished its weapons, including tanks, armored vehicles, and heavy artillery…. External Aid Before Operation Iraqi Freedom, the group received all of its military assistance, and most of its financial support, from the former Iraqi regime. source: http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/mek.htm " There were groups that were pretty scary, but if someone had the money, he'd find a way to help them, " a former aide says. As both congressman and senator, Torricelli has championed the cause of a revolutionary Iranian group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), identified by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization. Many Iranian-born MEK sympathizers have given Torricelli money ($136,000, according to one estimate), including $1,000 from Canada's chief MEK organizer, who wrote her check to Torricelli from her new home in Washington a week after an Ottawa court upheld her deportation, according to The American Spectator. Torricelli, in turn, sponsored several resolutions and letters supporting the group as a " democratic alternative " to the Muslim fundamentalist regime and protesting U.S. sanctions against it-the Mujahedin advocacy group in America, the National Council of Resistance, was labeled an " alias for the MEK " by the State Department and barred from receiving any funds to operate on U.S. soil. The State Department is on solid ground. Although it portrays itself as a democratic grass-roots opposition, the MEK killed U.S. military attachés in the 1970s and called for restrictions on Jewish businesses; its military wing is based in armed camps in Iraq, backed by Saddam Hussein. In the past two years, it has openly claimed credit for the killing of three high-ranking members of the Iranian government, according to congressional testimony by then-Assistant Secretary of State Martin Indyk. Fears about Iranian terrorist-linked donors even led Torricelli's staff to joke among themselves about who would go outside to " start the car to see if it blows up, " a source recalls.- Torricelli has also managed to appeal to organizations with virulent anti-Semitic positions. In 1993, for instance, he was the keynote speaker at a banquet co-sponsored by the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), an organization identified by anti-terrorism experts and Israeli intelligence officials as the political front for the Hamas terrorist group. Torricelli sat on the dais next to Ahmed Bin Yousef, the head of UASR, who champions the Hamas cause. When attacked for his appearance at the banquet during his Senate campaign, Torricelli claimed in a news conference that he didn't know that the UASR was a sponsor or that it was tied to Hamas. Apparently he missed the front-page story in The New York Times several months earlier that exposed its alleged terrorist connections. Torricelli is endlessly creative in trolling for support from ethnic communities. He founded a congressional Pakistani caucus and told a dinner hosted by a Pakistani-American PAC in 1996 exactly what they wanted to hear: " Pakistan cannot be intimidated into accepting nuclear nonproliferation as was attempted by the U.S. Congress. " Clinton raises money for Sen. Torricelli, ignores Lewinsky interview March 4, 1999 Web posted at: 12:20 p.m. EST (1720 GMT) NEWARK, New Jersey (AllPolitics, March 4) -- President Bill Clinton attended a fund-raiser Wednesday night for Sen. Robert Torricelli that raised $2.15 million for the New Jersey Democrat, officials said. A spokesman said the $2.15 million that the $1,000-a-plate dinner brought in was the most ever raised in a single night for a member of Congress. The fund-raiser far exceeded earlier expectations of $1.2 million. Torricelli proved to be a staunch supporter of the president throughout his Senate impeachment trial. In his speech, Clinton praised the senator: " He has been my friend in good times and bad and I will never forget it. " The fund-raiser took place just before Monica Lewinsky's two-hour interview on ABC with Barbara Walters aired nationally. " President Clinton addresses a fundraising reception for Senator Robert Torricelli, D-NJ, right, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, Wednesday night " You can see the photo of Cllinton and Torricelli at KnowTheEnemy/ in the Birds of A Feather photo album at http://ph.KnowTheEnemy/photos SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/04/clinton.torricelli/ Shirley A. Cloyes married Joseph DioGuardi in June 1998 according to the material about her excerpted from below in which she is described as " Balkan Affairs Adviser " to the Albanian American Civic League,whose President is Joseph DioGuardi, which states that : " In 1983, she coauthored a book entitled To Work and To Love with German political theologian Dorothee Soelle and joined the staff of The Seabury Press as an editor. Following the closure of the house in 1984, she became marketing director and editorial consultant in Black and women's studies at Orbis Books. In 1986, she joined the staff of Lawrence Hill & Company, an offshoot of the breakup of Hill & Wang, as associate publisher. The press specialized in African American and African studies, the Middle East, women's studies, and controversial domestic and international political issues. When Larry Hill died in 1988, she took over the house and was its publisher until the end of 1995. Some of the noteworthy titles that she published are The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy, Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur, Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England, and the Caribbean by Jan Carew, My Friend, the Enemy by Uri Avnery, and M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America by H. Bruce Franklin. In 1995, she published Yugoslavia's Ethnic Nightmare, the first book on the causes and far-reaching consequences of the Balkan conflict written from the perspective of Bosnian Muslim, Croatian, Serbian, and Macedonian journalists who opposed the war inside the former Yugoslavia. That year she became the Balkan Affairs Adviser to the Albanian American Civic League. She has since written and lectured widely about the Albanian dimension of the Balkan conflict and made eight trips to the region. Cloyes proposed the first Congressional hearing on the Albanian dimension of the Balkan conflict. Following the hearing in February 1995, which included representatives from all the Albanian lands in the former Yugoslavia, she and Civic League President Joseph DioGuardi traveled with Yugoslav dissident Mihaljo Mihaljov to Macedonia at the invitation of Albanian leaders there to monitor the reopening of the Albanian-language University of Tetova. The Macedonian government attacked the university on the morning of their departure, killing a student, wounding hundreds, and jailing the professors. In September of that year, she traveled to Tirana with DioGuardi and Congressman Benjamin Gilman, chair of the House Committee on International Relations, to meet with then President Sali Berisha and to Istanbul to make the case for the the independence of Kosova at the National Press center and at the University of Marmara. Cloyes has testified before Congress at two historic turning points in the life of the Albanian nation. In July 1996, she testified on behalf of the State of Albania before the House Committee on International Relations and exposed the role of Nicholas Gage of the Panepirotic Federation and the Albanian Communists in attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government of Sali Berisha. In 1998, she testified in support of U.S. troop deployment in Kosova, following Bob Dole, Jean Kirkpatrick, and Henry Kissinger. In February 1998, after the Serbian army attacked Drenice, Cloyes worked with CNN to gain more complete coverage of the crisis in Kosova. In March, she and DioGuardi shifted the focus of a Congressional hearing with U.S. Balkan envoy Robert Gelbard from Bosnia to Kosova, and positioned the questions that forced Gelbard to retract his earlier depiction of the KLA as a " terrorist " organization. In August of that year, she published two major articles on U.S. foreign policy in the Balkans: " The Agony of Kosova " and " Presiding over Genocide: The Shame of the West. " Cloyes is the author of the Civic League's October 1999 public declaration, entitled " Resolving the Albanian National Question, " which examines the internal and external factors that stand in the way of creating a free and independent Kosova and bringing a just and lasting peace to the Balkans. With the start of the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia in March 1999, Cloyes and DioGuardi appeared separately and together on more than 50 radio and TV broadcasts. Since the war ended in June 1999, they have made three trips to Kosova to report back to Congress on postwar conditions. Cloyes and DioGuardi were married in June 1998. " SOURCE: http://aacl.com/shirley2.html If the name Assata Shakur in the bio of Mrs. Joseph DioGuardi above rang any bells with you it is likely that you recall that Assata Shakur is the alias of Joanne Chesimard. Recall that the bio of Mrs. Joseph DioGuardi above states that among " the noteworthy titles that she published " was " Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur " For those who may be unfamiliar with Joanne Chesimard a.k.a. Assata Shakur the article below may be helpful: " Trooper Executed By Female Militant New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster was murdered by JoAnne Chesimard. On May 2, 1973, New Jersey State Police Troopers James Harper and Werner Foerster were patrolling the New Jersey Turnpike in the East Brunswick area. They stopped a car with three occupants and began to question them. The female passenger, JoAnne Chesimard, was a member of the Black Liberation Army. She suddenly pulled out a semi-automatic pistol and opened fire. Trooper Foerster was struck twice in the chest and Trooper Harper was hit in the shoulder. Chesimard then picked up Trooper Foerster's service weapon and shot him twice in the head, execution style, while he lay in the road. Chesimard then picked up Trooper Foerster's service weapon and shot him twice in the head, execution style, while he lay in the road. Killer Escapes JoAnne Chesimard, a member of the Black Liberation Army and convicted murderer Chesimard was quickly captured, convicted and sentenced to life plus 26 to 33 years in prison—authorities wanted to make sure this dangerous woman would never roam the streets again. But despite their best efforts, Chesimard wasn't going to let the law stop her. On November 2, 1979, Chesimard escaped from prison with the help of a domestic terrorist group. In the early 1980's, she resurfaced in Cuba under the protection of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. The Fight For Justice Continues $1 million reward poster for Chesimard Two generations of New Jersey State Police detectives have been assigned to the fugitive investigation since Chesimard's escape. Authorities refuse to let Chesimard go without a fight—Chesimard has now been placed on all of the terrorist watch lists and there is a $1 million reward for information leading to her arrest. Authorities hope the reward will destabilize Chesimard's sense of security inside Cuba and lead to her capture, and subsequently, her return to New Jersey. " source: http://www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=31956 The terrorist group mentioned above: " the Black Liberation Army " was an offshoot of the original BLACK PANTHER PARTY. Arthur Turco associate Twyman Myers left the BLACK PANTHER PARTY to join " the Black Liberation Army " . If you have never heard of Twyman Myers it may be because he is dead. Myers was a young man when he left the BLACK PANTHER PARTY to join " the Black Liberation Army " . The article below mentions the late Twyman Myers " 30 Years in the Making—Justice at Last for Slain Officer In the early hours of 3 November 1971, a young Atlanta police officer by the name of Jimmy Greene was ambushed and killed as he sat in his patrol wagon eating his late-night supper. On 13 October 2003—some 32 years later— the man responsible was found guilty of his murder in Fulton County Superior Court. Freddie Hilton (51) was convicted of murder in the long-ago death of Jimmy Greene in a case prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Al Dixon, Senior Assistant District Attorney Michele McCutcheon, and Senior Assistant District Attorney Peggy Katz. Atlanta Police Detective Jimmy Rose and Senior Investigator M.C. Cox of the District Attorney's Office investigated the case. Judge Stephanie Manis will sentence Hilton on 10 November, and he faces a possible double life sentence in prison. At the time of the murder, Hilton was a member of an organization known as the " Black Liberation Army, " a militant group infamous for attacks on law enforcement officers in New York City and across the country. A handful of the group's members had come to Atlanta after breaking away from the Black Panther Party in the early 1970s. Hilton was among these. Officer Greene, engaged to be married and the father of one infant daughter, was sitting in his vehicle at a gas station at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Boulevard when he was approached by Hilton and his now-dead co- conspirator Twyman Meyers. Hilton shot Officer Greene three times at close range, stole his revolver and badge, and fled the scene. A witness saw Greene slumped over in the front seat and soon realized he had been shot. Greene died two hours later. Several other former BLA members testified at the trial that Hilton and Meyers returned to the group's residence where the pair bragged of the killing. Shortly after the incident, Atlanta police found a witness who said he heard Hilton confess to the killing, but then-District Attorney Lewis Slaton felt there was not enough evidence to bring formal charges. So the story ended there…or so it seemed. In early 2001, Detective Rose received a call from New York City Police Detective Chris Karolkowski who had come across Hilton as a suspect in a child molestation case and soon discovered that he had been the prime suspect in Greene's murder. Rose soon re-opened the case, and, with the help of Investigator Cox, a Grand Jury indicted Hilton for the murder in July of last year. (Incidentally, Rose and Cox received the National Association of Police Organizations' highest honor last year for their work on the case.) Hilton, who had changed his name to Kamau Sadiki and was now working in telecommunications in New York, was brought back to Atlanta to face trial. Aside from justice for Officer Greene, perhaps the most positive aspect of this painful incident was the re-uniting of Greene's long-estranged daughter Melody Adams (now 34) of North Carolina with aunts and uncles she had never known. Hearing about the trial in the news, Adams traveled to Atlanta to sit in on the trial and soon revealed her identity to other family members in attendance. A family long-separated by a brutal crime was now re-united. " SOURCE: http://www.fultonda.org/featuredarticle/30years.htm The Albanian Connection; As Italians Move Up, a New Group Does the Pizza and Pasta source: THE NEW YORK TIMES More information. April 3, 2001, Tuesday By DEXTER FILKINS (NYT); Metropolitan Desk Late Edition - Final, Section B, Page 1, Column 2, DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Americans becoming owners of Italian-American restaurants and pizza parlors in New York City and surrounding area; various reasons cited " Hillary Clinton has long masqueraded as a champion of women's rights, yet the Balkan Wars perpetrated by her husband Bill Clinton , far from helping the rights of women, actually harmed women. " Sex Slaves: Trafficking in human beings from Moldova to Italy …the West has helped to create the demand, by stationing tens of thousands of troops in the Balkans. Not all of these sex slaves' clients are soldiers and international workers, but their presence has greatly fuelled the demand for brothels in the Balkans. Certainly, the volume of trafficking, which picked up in the spring of 1999 as soon as Nato troops arrived in Macedonia in anticipation of military strikes against Yugoslavia [1], has greatly increased since the Kosovo war. Finally, the West has helped to create the link between the supply and the demand by supporting, in the Kosovo war, the very Albanian Mafia which now controls this market. The fact that there is so much reporting now on the matter of sex slaves may be an indication that the powers that be in the West are beginning to ditch those whom they portrayed during the spring of 1999 as passive and innocent victims…. It is clear that the Albanian Mafia controls prostitution in Italy, and that a very large number of prostitutes there are effectively slaves. Although not all the girls in Italy are from Moldova – many come from Nigeria and Albania – it has been affirmed by one of the leading authorities on prostitution that they are kept in captivity. " All the women currently on the streets (of Italy) are slaves. The proof is that the Nigerians, the Albanians, the Romanians and the women from Eastern European countries all have their passports taken away by their pimps. There is not one metre of street in which prostitution is not controlled by criminals, " according to Don Oreste Benzi, a priest in Verona who has founded a charity which works with prostitutes. Benzi goes on, " The Albanians operate in family clans, in `joint ventures' with the Mafia in Eastern Europe and Italy. No new pimp can start operating in Italy without paying a percentage to the person who already controls the territory. Any mistakes are punished by death. For the Albanians, vendetta is second nature: the concept of forgiveness does not exist. " [7] According to Benzi's charity, the Association of the Community of Pope John XXIII, 48% of the prostitutes in Italy are from Eastern Europe; 35%-40% are minors (from 12 to 18 years old); and 26% have been kidnapped and taken from their countries of origin by force.[8] source: http://www.bhhrg.org/CountryReport.asp?ReportID=160 & CountryID=16 Hillary Clinton has also masqueraded as someone concerned about Children's Rights. Once again, the Balkan Wars perpetrated by her husband Bill Clinton actually harmed children too. " Sexual exploitation of children An especially appalling aspect of the trade in human beings is the sexual exploitation of children. BHHRG representatives interviewed Mariana Petersel, the Director of Save the Children in Moldova, whose organisation has started to house and rehabilitate young women and girls who have been forced into sex slavery. The youngest victim with which they have dealt was nine years old. 260 victims of sex slavery have been housed and helped by Save the Children during 2000. They had been in various Balkans countries: Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Italy, and Greece. References for further reading: Trafficking in Migrants, http://www.iom.int/iom/Publications/trafficking_in_migrants.htm Pino Arlacchi, Schiavi, Il nuovo traffico di esseri umani, Rizzoli, Milan, May 1999 Don Oreste Benzi, Una nuovà schiavtù: la prostituzione coata, Paoline Editoriale Libri, 1999 Sandro Provvisionato, UKC: l'armata dell'ombra: l'esercito di liberazione del Kosovo. Una guerra tra mafia, politica e terrorismo, Gamberetti Editrice, Rome, 2000. [1] Giuseppe Rolli, Le schiave dei soldati di pace, Il Manifesto, 18th April 2000 [2] The Current Situation on Trafficking in Women in the Republic of Moldova, unpublished report by Ala Mîndîcanu, Member of the Moldovan Parliament. [3] Marion van Renterghem, Filles esclaves venues de l'Est, Le Monde, 1st December 2000 [4] Eastern Europe's Impoverished Girls Fall Prey to Sex Trade, Albanian Daily News, 5th October 2000 [5] Tino Oldani, Tirana? Come una Colombia sotto casa, Panorama, 1st July 1999 [6] Ibid. [7] Don Oreste Benzi, Le prostitute sono schiave: ecco la prova, http://www.mess-s- antonio.it/msahome/ita/riviste/rivnaz/a2000/Ott/Art/53%20Prost\ itute.htm [8] Presidente Ciampi, Ecco come fare per sconfiggere il racket della prostituzione, http://www.exodus.it/ASSOCIAZIONI/AP23/sempre/00ott/00ott03.html. [9] The Italian Finance Minister, Ottavanio del Turco, has also recently attacked the Mafia activities of the Montengrin president, Milo Djukanovi & #263;. See La Repubblica, 12th January 2001 source: http://www.bhhrg.org/CountryReport.asp?ReportID=160 & CountryID=16 Wednesday, 2 August, 2000, 12:58 GMT 13:58 UK Italy's sexual slave trade Many prostitutes in Italy come from Albania In the first of two special reports, the BBC's Brian Barron investigates Italy's clandestine trade in sexual slaves and the Albanian criminals behind the business. It is estimated that there could be more than 40,000 foreign prostitutes on the streets of Italy - and the numbers are increasing. The streetwalkers venture out every night after 10, on the edge of big cities like Rome. Each trip was awful but that was my choice. If I returned to Albania I was dead. Prostitute In the Eor district, they are Albanian or from other former communist countries. Most are controlled by Albanian mafia gangsters. A handful have travelled to Italy through their own efforts. One streetwalker whose identity must be kept secret recalls her particular journey. " I came by boat, " she says. " I was smuggled in. I had tried four times. It was a horrible trip. " " It was winter, cold and raining. It was a terrible risk. I saw dead people with my own eyes. " " Each trip was awful but that was my choice. If I returned to Albania I was dead. " " Dead or alive - this was my only choice. " Tarantelli: Women are held in slavery The former Italian MP, Carol Bebbe Tarantelli, says that the women are slaves. " They are brought here, " she says. " Their passports are destroyed often, usually as a matter of fact they are tortured to break their wills. " " They're moved around from place to place so they don't know where they are. They don't speak the language. " " They're terrified and they can't escape. They're held in slavery. " Poverty For many of the girls, the journey began in their Albanian homeland. In Durres, most people are out of work, surviving on remittances from relatives abroad, like the girls on the streets of Italy. In its poverty and human desperation it is typical of countless Albanian communities. Once Albania was an all-powerful communist police state. It is now a country beyond the rule of law. The police chief of Durres, Colonel Albert Pilo, is having a difficult time stamping out the smuggling of young girls. Durres: Lawlessness and poverty prevail " We have had some success against traffickers in prostitutes, " he says. " We've arrested at least three. But a big problem is what to do with the girls caught up in the system, especially if they come from outside Albania. " " The fact is we do not have any organisation for helping them. " " At times we've had to keep the girls in prison because there's nowhere for them to go. " Dramatic pictures, taken two years ago, show one of the speedboats of the Albanian mafia being intercepted by Italian security forces. An Albanian mafia speedboat with its human cargo heads for Italy It was trying to land a batch of illegal immigrants on Italy's Adriatic coast. Boxes of drugs were thrown overboard as the gangsters, travelling at 60 miles an hour, evaded the helicopters and ships trying to encircle them. On the coast at Lecce, the Italian Justice Ministry, working with a Catholic charity, has launched another kind of assault on the Albanian mafia. In one camp for illegal immigrants, Father Cesari helps run a witness protection programme for former prostitutes from Albania and Eastern Europe. Hope for some of the women in the witness protection programme " The choice of denouncing their pimps is an act of responsibility, " he says. " It's not an easy decision to make. So these girls must have the courage to do it. " To cut all ties with the past. By pointing the finger at those who abuse them there is the chance that some of the guilty will be brought to justice. " Eighty girls have collaborated. They have been rewarded with the right to remain in Italy and, when necessary, new identities. However, 500 declined because they were afraid of the godfathers. source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/862942.stm The notorious Mafioso Johnny Dio is described here. Actor Frank Pellegrino played Johnny DioGuardi in Martin Scorcese's 1990 film GOODFELLAS. Was Johnny DioGuardi a relative of Joe DioGuardi? We would like to know. If you know please post your materials and sources for them. Joseph J. DioGuardi was born in the Bronx, New York, on September 20th, 1940. Johnny DioGuardi was born in East Harlem on April 28th, 1914. Johnny Dio, a.k.a. Johnny DioGuardi was not Jewish by any stretch of the imagination. DioGuardi specialized, among other things, in victimizing Jews. DioGuardi victimized some Jews directly and victimized other Jews less directly, as they became unwitting customers. The article below notes that " A salesman for the company testified in 1969 that often the meat they delivered to retailers was " sometimes light green and sweaty and often was an atrocity to perpetrate on our customers. " " On November 14th, 1964, two NYPD detectives sat in a basement in Queens, New York, listening to a tape recording of the conversations coming out of a bug—a tiny wireless microphone and radio transmitter hidden in the office of Norman LoKietz, president of the Merkel Meat Company. They were listening to evidence that illustrated with chilling clarity that the Mafia controlled an industry that robbed the public of more than just its money. It was also stealing its health and safety. In the taped conversations, the name " Johnny Dio " kept cropping up. The cops knew who he was. Dio's photograph, with a cigarette dangling from one corner of a viscous snarl as he slugged a United Press photographer outside a Senate committee hearing room, appeared on front pages of newspapers all over the country, because it so perfectly matched the average person's preconception of what a Mafia thug should look like. As the police developed their investigation into the Merkel Meat Company and the links with Dio, aka Johnny Dioguardi, it became increasingly obvious that the Lucchese crime family was earning big money from its involvement in the movement of substandard and, at times actually rotten meat, that was being sold into the retail marketplace. Dioguardi was a master fixer and controller of locals and unions and, through this influence, was able to manipulate opportunities for himself and the Lucchese family in a wide range of areas. The Nassau DA William Cahn illustrated Dioguardi's association with one particular company that showed his ability to corrupt and control. In 1963, he joined Consumer Kosher Productions as a salesman on a salary of $250 a week. By 1966, he was earning $5000 per week, and in addition had taken over control of the business. He used this company as a vehicle to gain control of the low price kosher meat business. Essentially his method was to take over an organization, buy in supplies and create an extended line of credit, never pay his debtors, and when the business went bust, move on to the next one.A salesman for the company testified in 1969 that often the meat they delivered to retailers was " sometimes light green and sweaty and often was an atrocity to perpetrate on our customers. " Consumer Kosher Productions eventually went bankrupt, and Dioguardi shifted what remaining assets there were to another company called Tel Aviv. That company also went belly-up in due course and he then set up a firm called First National Kosher Provisions. And so it went on. Eventually the law caught up with him and he was indicted, and in 1967 was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $10,000. By this time, Dioguardi had been connected to the Lucchese family for over thirty years. Johnny Dio under arrest(AP) Johnny Dio was born in East Harlem on April 28th, 1914. He grew up on Forsythe Street in Little Italy where his father Dominick owned a bicycle shop there. By 1930, he was already at age fifteen an apprentice young hood. After a year and a half at Stuyvesant High School, he left to begin work. Through the influence of his uncle, James " Jimmy Doyle " Plumeri, a prize fighter, racketeer and upcoming soldier in the Gagliano family, he became a leg-breaker and budding extortionist working the Garment Center. He was also, as legend has it, one of the gangsters involved in the so called " Murder Inc. " group that worked out of Brownsville, East New York, in the 1930's carrying out murders….Darkly handsome—so dark that he was called " Blackie " as a young street punk—wearing $250 silk suits and a pleasant smile, well dressed, well barbered and well manicured, he was always careful to give the appearance of an urbane and successful businessman.In 1935, Thomas Dewey, the crusading New York DA, listed Dioguardi as among the most dangerous hoods in the city. And all this before he was twenty-one years old! In 1937 he got a three-to-five year sentence at Sing-Sing after being convicted with his uncle and several other mobsters for extortion and assault. They had been extracting $5000 from every trucker in the garment district, plus demanding a premium on every suit and coat made in the area.In 1944, he was indicted for operating an illegal still, but the charge was dismissed.In 1954, he was tried and convicted for failure to pay state income tax in connection with his continued shakedown of operators in the garment district. For that, he got sixty days.In November 1957, he went on trial with some Teamster officials for shaking down owners of stationery stores. After a four week trial, he was convicted and sentenced to two years in jail.By the time he was forty, he was a " made man " in the Gagliano family which was now referred to as the Lucchese family, operating as a capo, or crew chief, and he was a multi-millionaire. He was highly regarded in the family as a " ferocious earner " the highest accolade that can be bestowed on a member of organized crime, generating in excess of $100,000 each week. He was so rich, his standard Christmas present to his wife was a shoe box stuffed with $50,000 and a sweet little note such as " buy yourself some nice clothes, honey. " He lived in great style, wining and dining at the best hotels and restaurants in town, but always reserved Sundays to meet with family and friends, and prepare lunch or dinner. Like so many mobsters of Italian-American extraction, he was an excellent cook, and loved to entertain at his beautiful and lavish home in Freeport Avenue, Point Lookout, Long Island, which he had purchased for $75,000 in the early 1960's. His legitimate business fronts which contributed to his significant tax returns each year, included many highly profitable clothing factories, and also Jard Products at 260 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, which sold promotional items to commercial establishments. One of their major customers was the retail chain Waldbaums.His skill as a union manipulator was legendary in the Mob, and on one occasion, Thomas Lucchese arranged for him to travel to Los Angeles to help out an old friend, Jack Dragna, the boss of the L.A. Mafia family. The ILGWU was trying to drive out non-union, cheap Mexican labour from Dragna's factories, but Dioguardi's expertise secured waivers on every important stipulation set up and foiled the union's attempt.In the 1950's, Senate investigations named Dioguardi as one of the masterminds that manipulated the unions operating out of Idlewild, the vast 5,000 acre international airport that would one day be called Kennedy.When Jimmy Hoffa was making his play to become president of the giant Teamsters Union in 1957, he turned to an old friend, Johnny Dio for help. It wasn't clear whether or not the majority of the New York area locals supported Hoffa, and this was necessary to swing enough voters to support his control of the mid western region, secured through the Chicago Mob's help. The solution was to create more locals: enough to establish a majority. This was done by setting up " paper " locals—locals with few if any members—that could swing the balance in the New York voting.Dioguardi engineered the creation of seven new Teamster unions. The extra supply of delegates from these guaranteed Hoffa control of the New York delegation of the Teamsters convention. These seven locals were basically sham fronts, composed not of working people, but friends and relatives of Johnny Dio. Hoffa won the nomination.With hindsight it was probably the start of Hoffa's imbroglio with the Justice Department, resulting in his war with Robert Kennedy, his indictment, trial and imprisonment in 1967, release in 1971 and the events that led up to the fateful rendezvous on July 30th, 1975, at the Manchus Red Fox Restaurant in Detroit. He went there to meet up with three men. It was a rendezvous from which he never returned, vanishing off the face of the earth; murdered probably by Salvatore Briguglio, a man connected to the Genovese crime family. Hoffa became a ghostly testator who haunts the Teamsters trust to this day.John Dioguardi was undoubtedly one of the most powerful members of the Lucchese crime family. His influence was felt in many areas, particularly those relating to labor. He is remembered however, more than anything, for one especially terrible act.In the early hours of Thursday April 5th, 1956, a nationally known newspaper columnist and commentator on labor affairs called Victor Riesel made a radio broadcast in New York. The 41-year-old Riesel was a crusading journalist, specializing in investigating union corruption and Mob-influenced officials. Writing for the Daily Mirror, his column was syndicated in 193 newspapers. This night, he interviewed two workers from Local 138 of the International Operating Engineers Union out of Long Island. Run by father and son both called William DeKoning, they and their local were involved in shaking down contractors and were under investigation by Manhattan US attorneys.After the broadcast, Reisel and his secretary, Betty Nevins, went to Lindy's restaurant at Broadway and 51st Street for a late supper. At 3 a.m. as they were walking to Nevins' car, a man approached them and threw sulphuric acid into Riesel's face. Rushed to St. Clare's Hospital, surgeons were unable to save his eyesight. Victor Reisel A federal investigation established the attacker was a twenty-two- year-old hood and longshoreman called Abraham Tevi. He had been hired by one Joe Carlino and paid $1,175 to do the job. The money had apparently been put up by Dioguardi. As publicity mounted, Tevi became convinced that he had been grossly underpaid to carry out a piece of work on such an important person and demanded $50,000. What he got instead was two bullets in the head, and his body was found on July 28th, lying on Mulberry Street, in Manhattan's Little Italy district. Although some people were tried and convicted of the attack on Reisel, the two prime witnesses against Dioguardi, Gondolfo Miranti and Domenico Bondo, backed off, and all charges against Johnny Dio were dropped in May, 1957. The assault on Victor Reisel brought a lot of pressure down on Johnny Dio. The very action that was aimed at removing a source of irritation, resulted in far more damage to his activities that could possibly have occurred had the assault not taken place.Despite all the other criminal acts that he was involved in or convicted of, Dioguardi is still best known as " the man who blinded Victor Reisel. " That reputation more than anything else guaranteed that the police, FBI and the media would never stop hounding him, and as a result, he would eventually spend the rest of his prime years in prison for other crimes he committed.Dioguardi always on the lookout for new rackets, discovered the boom in fly-by-night stock promotions in the late 1960's. Stock would be acquired from a failing company for little or no money; the market would be rigged in the stock through a brokerage firm he operated called J.M. Kelsey & Co. then the shares would be sold at vastly inflated prices—leaving the investors to hold the bag when the fraud was eventually exposed. However fate and the law finally caught up with Johnny Dio and, in 1970, he, along with his immediate boss in the Lucchese crime family Carmine Tramunti, were indicted on fraud charges concerning stocks in two firms, Belmont Franchising Corp. and At-Your-Service-Leasing Co.He was tried and convicted in December 1973, and sentenced to a further prison sentence, concurrent to the one he was already serving at Danbury Prison in connection with one of his kosher meat company scams. Due for parole in August 1979, he died in a prison hospital the same year. Johnny Dio going to prison one last time Johnny Dioguardi was a good example of the consummate mafioso. He started young at fifteen and had a perfect introduction into the world of crime through the guidance and help of his uncle. He combined thuggery, cunning, guile and polish in an enviable mixture. He made the right kind of connections from an early age. Jimmy Hoffa for instance, was a boyhood friend, and Dioguardi used these contacts throughout his career as a means of levering his scams and extortion's into huge, money-spinning ventures for himself and his crime family. Like many criminals, he obviously had the brains and ability to have succeeded in legitimate business, had he been that way inclined. The highest earners in the Mob work longer hours than any Fortune Top 50 C.E.O.s. Even the lowest soldiers will routinely put in eighty hour weeks, seven days to keep on top of their scheming and scamming. When he died in a Pennsylvania prison hospital, his passing attracted no newspaper attention. All his wealth and power and almost fifty years of criminal depravity seemed to count for nothing at all. It was as though he had never existed. " source: http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/lucchese2/ 2.html " February 2001In The Money: Congressman James Traficant And His Campaign ContributorsBy James Ridgway de Szigethy Convicted associates of the Pittsburgh Mafia Family, Mafia- corrupted labor Unions and Middle Eastern political operatives are among those who have contributed to the past two re-election campaigns of Congressman James Traficant, an analysis of Federal Election Commission records reveals. These records, which are required filings under Federal Election law, reveal 219 donations by individuals and 212 donations by Unions and Political Action Committees. 47 of the personal contributions came from outside the State of Ohio, with 35 of those from the State of Virginia. 38 are from individuals that indicate a Middle Eastern background of the contributor. Among the contributors whose names would probably be recognized by most Youngstown residents are Ed Flask, Mark Colucci, David Sugar, Anthony Saadey, Russell Saadey, Jr., Sam Traficanti, and fireworks businessmen Bruce Zoldan and Gerald Bostocky. Among the contributors whose names would probably NOT be recognized by most Youngstown residents are Virginia residents Ali Asghar Abbaszadeh, Reza Bulochi, Massud Mirmohammaoi, Ramesh Sepehrrad, and Javad Vaziri, Samir Mohammad, Ammar Shafai, and Homayoun Nasser Sharif, Georgia resident Hossein Shamsai, Massachusetts residents Mahaz Nasseri and Hessein Sadeghpour, Kansas City's Sajadi Sacid, Maryland's Cyrus Samet and Mahmoud Tabassi, and San Diego's Mohammad Bigdeli. Russell Saadey Jr., a former investigator for the District Attorney's office in Youngstown, was indicted last December on charges he bribed Judges to fix Court cases. Ed Flask accepted a plea bargain last year in which he pleaded guilty to felony charges in regards to his rip-off of nearly $2 million while running the public water utility in Youngstown. Flask first received notoriety during the 1983 Federal bribery trial of then-Sheriff James Traficant, when it was revealed that Cleveland Mafia associate Charlie " The Crab " Carabbia had secretly tape recorded Traficant bragging about how he laundered through Flask's law office part of the $163,000 in bribe money he accepted from the Mafia. Those same tapes revealed that Carabbia was blackmailing Flask with " compromising photographs of Flask which would ensure his silence! " Just days later, Carabbia was abducted and murdered. B & T Express employee Sam Traficanti was present during some of the secret tape -recorded meetings between the Carabbia brothers and Sheriff-elect Traficant, but was not charged. Two of Traficanti's fellow employees at B & T Express also donated to Traficant's campaign records show. Traficanti is not related to Congressman Traficant. Last September, the Congressman's employee Anthony Traficanti was subpoenaed by the Federal Grand Jury in Cleveland. Congressman Traficant has also received campaign contributions from Youngstown resident Walter Terlecki. In recent months, Congressman Traficant has entered into the Congressional Record sworn affidavits by Michael " Beef " Terlecky, a former Mahoning County Deputy Sheriff who was convicted of taking bribes from the Mafia. Terlecky now claims that he was set up by some of the same authorities that are now involved in the investigation of Congressman Traficant, including two public figures who attended an anti-Mafia summit meeting recently in Palermo, Sicily. The Congressman has denied a request by the chairman of the Mahoning County Board of Elections who is seeking information the Congressman claims to have regarding Mafia bribes to the campaigns of elected officials in Youngstown. Terlecky also claims that it was he who found the infamous Carabbia tapes months before the FBI during an illegal search and seizure regarding an investigation into the murder of yet another Youngstown Mafia figure, Joe DeRose. However, conversations on the Carabbia tapes that include remarks made by Sam Traficanti clearly indicate that the tapes were recorded months later than Terlecky's claims, when Traficant had just been elected Sheriff. Congressman Traficant is also now claiming that an FBI agent in Youngstown was taking bribes from the Mafia 38 years ago in 1962. During the 1999 Federal bribery trial of Youngstown Sheriff Philip Chance fireworks distributor Bruce Zoldan testified that Chance shook him down for `tribute money' to Pittsburgh Mafia figure Lenny Strollo. Zoldan's first run- in with Chance was in 1983, when Sheriff Traficant and his Deputy Chance raided Zoldan's fireworks business two days before their busiest moneymaking period, the Fourth of July. Zoldan would also testify that the Gambino Family led by John Gotti extorted a huge sum of money from him in order to do business in New York. The murder of Mafia figure Joey Naples, who was among those who contributed to the $163,000 bribe to Traficant, is believed to be a result of the fight for control of the fireworks business. David Sugar pleaded guilty last year to Obstruction of Justice charges in regards to his attempts to conceal evidence from the Grand Jury in Cleveland investigating financial dealings between Sugar, his construction company, and Congressman Traficant. Sugar is expected to testify against Traficant at any future criminal proceedings, as is Traficant's former employee on his horse farm, Clarence Broad. In November of last year, Broad pleaded guilty to charges he tried to hire a hitman to murder a woman who was expected to give damaging testimony against Traficant before the Grand Jury in Cleveland. Criminal attorney Mark Colucci, who also is among those who have given money to Traficant's campaign, responded by alleging in Federal Court that Prosecutor Craig Morford had used coercion to force Broad to plead guilty. Judge Donald Nugent was not impressed with Colucci's unsubstantiated claims and threatened to cite Colucci for Contempt of Court. In 1998 and 2000 Traficant accepted donations from controversial activist James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute. Zogby was recently in the news last October, when his appointment as an Advisor to the Al Gore campaign sparked outrage worldwide among supporters of Israel. The Jerusalem Post quoted terrorism expert Steven Emerson: " Zogby has not only made comments that are incendiary but he has also made comments that are anti-Semitic! " " (Zogby has) openly supported the Hizbullah! " Emerson is renown for his investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in December, 1988, killing 270 people, including 35 Syracuse University students. On June 29, 1993, Senator John McCain entered into the Congressional Record a public challenge to the FBI and the Justice Department to share information on the People's Mujahidin Organization of Iran, a suspected terrorist organization that was involved in a clandestine effort to influence public policy through an organized campaign of directing contributions to the campaigns of selected members of Congress. Said the Senator: " Given the charges made in a previous FBI report that the PMOI has a history of terrorism, an anti-Western ideology, and ties to the regime of Saddam Hussein, this should be a matter of concern to all Members. " In 1997 The Iran Report, a publication of the Middle East Data Project, identified four members of Congress as recipients of campaign donations from alleged associates of the PMOI. Those four were Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, Gary Ackerman of New York, Dan Burton of Indiana and James Traficant of Ohio. To date, none of these individuals have been charged with making illegal campaign contributions. However, Senator Torricelli is currently in the news defending himself against a Chinese fundraiser named David Chang, who has pleaded guilty to illegally contributing $53,000 to Torricelli's 1996 campaign. Numerous recent Media reports show that the Feds are now nearing the conclusion of an investigation that began with reports of impropriety regarding contributions to Torricelli's 1996 campaign. Congressman Traficant has developed a huge following in the Arab and Muslim countries in the Middle East because of his passionate public support for accused terrorists Abdel Basset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, indicted for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, and former auto worker John Demjanjuk, who was placed on trial in Israel on charges he was " Ivan the Terrible, " a Nazi concentration camp guard responsible for the murders of thousands of Jews during World War II. Demjanjuk was convicted and sentenced to death, although the Israeli Supreme Court later reversed his conviction. Congressman Traficant then flew to Israel to personally escort the accused murderer back to the United States. In the case of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, Traficant first went public in this matter at a press conference in 1989, at which he claimed that the bombing was the result of a joint Syrian/CIA operation. ABC News London correspondent Pierre Salinger then picked up the story, utilizing Traficant, government informant Lester Coleman, and private investigator Juval Aviv as his sources. Coleman later pleaded guilty to Perjury charges and admitted his Pan Am/CIA story was a hoax. Juval Aviv was placed on trial in 1996 in Manhattan on Federal fraud charges unrelated to the Pan Am case. He was acquitted. Upon Aviv's indictment Congressman Traficant found a replacement in Boris de Korczak as his lead researcher in his quest to prove his Pan Am 103 theory. Boris is best known for the lawsuit he filed in 1996 against the CIA in which he claimed he had been recruited by the CIA as a double agent against the KGB, that his `cover' had been blown by a drunken U. S. official which resulted in a shoot-out with the KGB during a car chase through the streets of Copenhagen, and that his CIA case Officer extorted from him a bribe of Russian Medieval icons worth $300,000 in exchange for the promise of help in obtaining the pension he claimed was owed him. Boris claims he turned over the bribe, only to be shot in the kidney 4 months later by an unknown assailant armed with a pellet gun. The CIA denied Boris' claims he was owed monetary compensation and also denied any of its employees shot Boris with a pellet gun. Boris' lawsuit was dismissed and the decision was upheld on Appeal. Despite the efforts of Traficant and his associates to prove their conspiracy theory, Abdel Basset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi was recently convicted as the terrorist who planted the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103. Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah was acquitted. In addition to receiving campaign money from convicted Mafia figures and Middle Eastern political operatives, FEC documents also detail contributions made to Traficant's campaign from Unions that have been involved in corruption scandals in recent years. Those Unions include the American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees, the Communications Workers of America, the Transport Workers Union, and the UFCW. Traficant has also received donations from the Italian-American Democratic Leadership Council, the Al Gore for President campaign, and the National Education Association Fund for Children and Public Education. Ironic is the $12,000 donated to Traficant by the Association of Trial Lawyers, as Traficant is one of the few people without a law degree to have ever beaten a Federal racketeering trial by acting as his own attorney. When Sheriff Traficant was arrested by the FBI in 1982, he signed a confession after agents played for him excerpts from the Carabbia tapes. Traficant then hired one of the best attorneys in the business, Carmen Policy, Ed Flask's partner, who is today the President of the Cleveland Browns professional football team. However, after Traficant went public with charges that just about every public official in Youngstown was involved with the Mafia, Policy dumped Traficant as his client. Traficant then made a bold – and some would say insane – decision to renounce his confession and stand trial, acting as his own attorney. Traficant explained to the jury that he only accepted the Mafia bribe money so he would know whom to arrest for corruption once elected Sheriff. After four days of deliberations, the jury returned a verdict that stunned the Prosecutors and journalists that covered the trial; Not Guilty. Traficant then turned the publicity over his acquittal to his advantage and was elected to Congress in 1984. However, three years later he was again in Court, facing civil charges that he owed taxes on the $163,000 in Mafia bribes. Representing him was attorney George Alexander, who has since been convicted of racketeering with the Mafia. As in the O. J. Simpson case, Traficant was convicted in his civil trial and ordered to pay back taxes, fines, and interest. For many months now, Traficant has been predicting during public appearances that he expects to be indicted - again - by the Federal authorities in Cleveland who have to date convicted over 70 public officials, many of whom are associates of the Pittsburgh Mafia Family. James Ridgway de Szigethy can be reached at JAMESDE. source: http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_121.html http://www.tenc.net/analysis/whyis.htm To receive articles from Emperor's Clothes, at http://tenc.net/MailList/index.php Why is Joe DioGuardi so happy? by Jared Israel [27 February 2000] Here's John McCain at a campaign rally with Joseph DioGuardi, a former Congressman and head of the Albanian political action committee which raised huge amounts for American politicians (for instance, Bob Dole) who in turn have supported the on-going attacks on Serbia. Notice the scarf DioGuardi is wearing. That double-headed eagle was the insignia of the World War II Nazi Skanderbeg SS division. (See document on left; click to enlarge.) Among other achievements, this Nazi outfit massacred Kosovo's Jews in the streets of Pristina and shipped the survivors to the Bergen- Belsen and Treblinka death camps. Why is McCain holding Presidential campaign rallies with this man who proudly sports a Nazi emblem? And why is DioGuardi so happy? www.tenc.net/yugo.htm Emperor's Clothes articles dealing with media misinformation and the breakup of Yugoslavia " MONEY FROM THE AMERICAN MUSLIM ALLIANCE it is no wonder that the American Muslim Alliance chapter in Massachusetts held what it called a " successful fundraiser " for First Lady Hillary Clinton at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston on June 13, 2000. AMA Massachusetts Chair Tahir Ali said afterwards, " We are attempting to send an important message to all AMA chapters: we must support all who have [Muslim] interests at heart, regardless of what part of the country they are running in. " EMERSON'S TESTIMONY According to Steve Emerson, a well-known investigative journalist specializing in militant Islamic organizations, the AMA's leaders " have sanctioned terrorism, published anti-Semitic statements, and repeatedly hosted conferences that were forums for denunciations of Jews and exhortations to wage jihad. " Faced with pressure on the matter, Mrs. Clinton announced on Oct. 25th that she was returning the $50,000 in campaign contributions raised for her by the AMA. She failed to give a credible explanation as to why it took her more than four months from June 13th until October 25th until she saw it necessary to return the money. Mr. Emerson, in a recent Wall Street Journal article, noted: " As first lady, Mrs. Clinton began in 1996 an outreach program to Muslim leaders in the U.S. With America's Muslim population at some six million and growing, an effort to include the community's leaders in the mainstream of American politics is unquestionably a worthy undertaking. But curiously, nearly all of the leaders with whom Mrs. Clinton elected to meet came from Islamic fundamentalist organizations. A review of the statements, publications and conferences of the groups Mrs. Clinton embraced shows unambiguously that they have long advocated or justified violence. By meeting with these groups, the first lady lent them legitimacy as " mainstream " and " moderate " . " But this should not be unexpected, considering Mrs. Clinton's past radical affiliations. During the 1980's, ultra-liberal lawyer Hillary Rodham- Clinton served on the board of the New World Foundation, which funneled money to the Palestine Liberation Organization, at a time when the PLO was officially recognized by the United States as a terrorist organization. Similarly, in February 1996, Hillary hosted a reception at the White House for leaders of Hamas-supporting groups such as the American Muslim Council and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. And in January, 1998, Hillary hosted another White House reception honoring Muslim leaders and the Muslim Public Affairs Council who defended militant Islamic fundamentalism and also supported radical Islamic groups. THE REAL HILLARY This, then, is the real Hillary Rodham-Clinton. An ambitious woman willing to utter any banal cliche on behalf of " Israel's security " to placate unaware New York Jewish voters, but one whose pre-Senate race record on Israel is appalling. It's a record of supporting the terrorist PLO, even before the 1993 signing of the first Oslo Agreement on the White House lawn, of ignoring blatant calumny heaped on Israel by Suha Arafat, of supporting the creation of a Palestinian PLO State, of hosting and legitimizing extremist Islamic groups in the United States. Most recently, it included taking campaign contributions from these very same evil, anti-Semitic organizations - until being caught with her hand in the extremist Islamic cookie jar. This is the very same Hillary Rodham- Clinton who now claims to be Israel's friend. " SOURCE: http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillarSy.htm You can see actual photos of arafat's uncle,Haj Mohammad Amin al- Husseini,the grand mufti of Jerusalem, and others : Kofi and Nasrallah, boss of Hezbollah AFAFAT'S UNCLE THE MUFTI WITH ISLAMIC NAZIS ARAFAT'S UNCLE THE MUFTI WITH FELLOW NAZIS ARAFAT'S UNCLE THE MUFTI WITH MOSLEM SS The Mufti and Hitler Himmler with a Moslem SS Division Joe Dioguardi Hillary Clinton Kissing Arafat's Wife at KnowTheEnemy/ http://ph.KnowTheEnemy/photos Hillary Clinton Kissing Arafat's Wife may also be seen at: http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillarSy.htm arafat's uncle,Haj Mohammad Amin al-Husseini,the grand mufti of Jerusalem raised three Moslem nazi SS divisions for Hitler during World War Two. Two of those Moslem SS divisions were Bosnian, the third was Albanian. The Albanian Moslem SS Division was called the SS Division from which would spring the notorious so-called " KLA " Kosovo Liberation Army, a.k.a. UCK in Albanian. The children and grandchildren of the Albanian Moslem SS Division became the so-called " KLA " . The item below gives some more background: Dear Messrs. Hogan & Sacre et al, at the Australian `Sixty Minutes' program: Sir, I am an expatriate Jewish American currently residing in Perth, WA, Australia. I just viewed your tribute to the late Mr. Richard Carleton last night. For your information, my mother lost virtually her ENTIRE family to the Nazis in World War 2. It is very sad and depressing for me personally that Mr. Carleton has passed away without being able to rectify his extremely biased and misinformed portrayal & demonization of the Israelis & Serbs vis-a- vis the conflicts in the Middle East & Balkans while he was still alive. Sir, why do you never mention the fact that the people who the Serbs and Israeli Jews are fighting to this very day are unrepentent mass murdering Nazis & Islamist terrorists who were publicly committed to Genocide of the Serbs & Jews BEFORE the " official " outbreak of war in their respective countries ? Why is their no mention of the heinous crimes of the Bosnian Islamist Nazi warlord, Mr. Naser Oric, from April 1992 to August 1995 in and around villages adjoining Srebrenica & Gorazde? Mr. Oric received his specific instructions for these slaughters from Alija Izetbegovic - according to testimony under oath, by French UN general, Phillipe Morillon, at the ICTY Hague " war crimes tribunal " . Mr. Oric's barbaric murders of Serbian women & children were rigorously documented in several UN reports and even PHOTGRAPHED & VIDEOTAPED by himself and shown to US & Canadian reporters while he LAUGHED as he watched his videos!! (see below links ). This monster cold bloodedly murdered - using the most hideously brutal methods over 3,870 innocent elderly Serbian men, women and even babies and children under 5 years of age, mostly by cutting throats and beheading, often preceded by the most horrific tortures including cutting off of limbs, lips, noses, ears, breasts, genitalia, burning of skin and gang rape. Yet you and your colleagues at Sixty Minutes have consistently FAILED to mention any of it in over 14 years of reporting. Why? Similar crimes were perpetrated by the Croatian Ustasha Nazis against Serbs in Croatia from late 1990 onwards - soon after Mr. Franjo Tudjman came to power - and in the Serbian Krajina province which was cleansed of 275,000 to 350,000 Serbs by Messrs Franjo Tudjman, Ante Gotovina & Agim Ceku from August to November 1995 in the Clinton administration-backed massive ethnic cleansing operation known as " Operation Storm " : the total number of Serbs cleansed from Croatia & the Krajina province being close to 600,000 from late 1990 to November 1995 with total Serbian CIVILIANS murdered estimated at 14,000 to 20,000 by independent Western observers (see the links below). Why is this never mentioned in any of your reports over the last 11 years? Sir, were you aware that both Mr. Franjo Tudjman and Mr.Alija Izetbegovic are on record as saying & writing words to the effect that there can be NO peace or co-existence with the Serbs and Jews and that the Serbs should get the hell out of Bosnia, Croatia/Krajina or else be killed? Did you know similar statements were publicly made by Messrs. Agim Ceku, Ramush Haradinaj and Hashim Thaci concerning the Serbs and Jews in Kosovo: that they should leave or else be slaughtered? Were you aware that both Messrs Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic in the early 1990's BEFORE the outbreak of war in ex-Yugoslavia PUBLICLY admitted to their admiration of World War 2 Nazi leaders Adolph Hitler, Ante Pavelic and Haj Amin Al-Husseini and their Nazi genocidal policies with regards to the Serbs & Jews? Were you aware that the late Alija Izetbegovic was an auxiliary in the Bosnian Muslim Nazi SS " Handzar " [ " Dagger " or " Scimitar " ] division, and a member of the " Young Muslims " organization in Bosnia in early 1943 - said organization serving as a recruiting tool for this 20,000 strong Muslim Nazi SS division? Were you aware that there is absolutely no public record in the Western media of the late Franjo Tudjman's war time activities prior to his joining Tito's partisans in 1944? Sir, were you aware that the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat was a close associate of the WW2 Islamist Arabic Nazi leader, and friend of Adolf Hitler, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al-Husseini? Were you aware that the leaders of the KLA, Messrs Agim Ceku,Ramush Haradinaj & Hashim Thaci, derive their ideology & guiding principles from the racist Nazi " Greater Albania " proponents of the WW2 Albanian " Skanderbeg " Nazi SS division and the " Greater Albania " adherents of the exceedingly brutal and repressive Stalinist-Maoist totalitarian dictatorship of the late Enver Hoxha in Albania? Were you aware that the alleged Jenin " massacre " of Arab civilians in 2002 by Israeli IDF forces was a deliberate HOAX disseminated by Western NATO governments & the corporate media ? (See http://www.hirhome.com/yugo/ranta.htm ) Were you aware that the so-called " Deir Yassin massacre of Arab civilians " in 1948 is also a brazen LIE by pro-PLO supporters? (See http://www.hirhome.com/israel/deir-yassin.htm) It is utterly INCONCEIVABLE that you and your team at Sixty Minutes were not aware of all the above, so the obvious question is: why you have so far failed to mention -in the last 16 years of your program's telecasts any of the above - and why you have failed to report on the barbaric & heinous crimes of the Nazi/Islamo-Fascist al Qaeda- linked mass murdering Balkan war criminals : Messrs. Naser Oric (see photos & videos of his crimes below), Hashim Thaci, Ramush Haradinaj, Agim Ceku, Tomislav Mercep,Dobrosav Paraga, the late Croatian Nazi Holocaust denier, Adolf Hitler & Ante Pavelic admirer: Mr.Franjo Tudjman, as well as the Iranian-backed Islamist fundamentalist terrorist, the late Mr. Alija Izetbegovic? Could it be because all of the above were supported by Arabic/Islamic countries with large reserves of oil and thus backed by the United States administration of Bill Clinton & NATO/EU governments? See the Western government & media suppressed official United Nations documents: A/48/177, S/25835 and A/47/813, S/24991 describing the hideous murders and rapes of Serbian civilians in and around Srebrenica and other Bosnian towns - available at: http://emperors-clothes.com/sreb/mem.htm http://www.srebrenica-report.com/docs/UN-1993-1.pdf The UN document A/47/813, S/24991 on rape by Bosnian Muslim & Croat forces in Bosnia in 1992 can be read at: http://www.srpska-mreza.com/Bosnia/rapes/raped-serbs.html. Isn't it just a little strange that the above reports have NEVER been mentioned - even once - in the Western corporate media or by Western governments for the last 13 years? Sir, I also wish to ask why you never point out that the Palestinian Arabs are led by people whose ideology comes from the Hassan Al-Banna led Islamist-Nazi " Muslim Brotherhood " organization whose ultimate goal is GENOCIDE of the Jewish people? Why the PLO's Fatah organization ideology comes from the same source and was really led and mentored by Adolf Hitler's close friend, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al-Husseini, up until his death in 1974? See: http://www.hirhome.com/israel/pal_mov.htm http://www.hirhome.com/israel/deir-yassin.htm http://emperors-clothes.com/makara/aramilo.htm http://www.hsje.org/muslim_brotherhood.htm http://www.conceptwizard.com/info.html http://nato-media-lies-exposed.blogspot.com/2006/05/why-does-sixty- minutes-sbs-c\ over-up.html Tetovo and Greater Albania : Tetovo During World War II, 1941-1944 by Carl Savich Tetovo during World War II, 1941-1944: Introduction The practical implementation of the Greater Albania ideology was achieved during World War II when Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini established a German/Italian sponsored Albanian state which incorporated Western Macedonia, Illirida, Kosovo-Metohija, Kosova, and southern Montenegro . Hitler and Mussolini set the historical and political precedent for the creation of Greater Albania which existed from 1941 to 1944. The Orthodox Slavic populations, the Roma and Jewish populations were to be exterminated and deported. Albanian was made the official language in Kosovo, Western Macedonia, and southern Montenegro . The Albanian Lek was introduced as the official currency. The Albanian national flag, a double-headed black eagle on a red background, was raised in the occupied areas. Hitler and Mussolini had achieved a Greater or Ethnic Albania . The UCK, the so-called Albanian Liberation Army, known also by the acronyms the NLA/KLA/ANA/KPC/LAPMB, seeks to re-establish and to re-create the Greater Albania first created by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The agenda, the goals, and the objectives of the UCK are identical to those of the ideologues of Greater Albania during World War II who created a Greater Albania in Western Macedonia, Kosovo-Metohija, and southern Montenegro . Western Macedonia and the city of Tetovo are integral and inseparable components or parts of the Greater Albania ideology. Greater Albania would be incomplete without Western Macedonia .. What is being witnessed in Kosovo and in Macedonia today is a repeat or replay of what occurred during World War II, when Hitler and Mussolini established Greater Albania. Albanian Nazi's were specially brutal to the Serb Orthodox clergy. Here an Albanian is murdering an Orthodox priest in Devic in World War 2. Tetovo during World War II: Italian Occupation, 1941-1943 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini established Greater Albania in 1941 following the occupation and dismemberment of Yugoslavia . On April 6, 1941, Germany and allies Italy , Albania , Hungary , and Bulgaria invaded Yugoslavia in Operation Punishment. Yugoslavia was subsequently occupied and dismembered. Hitler and Mussolini then sponsored a Greater Albanian state which included territory from Western Macedonia, Kosovo-Metohija, and southern Montenegro . Tetovo became a part of Albania . The borders of Albania were enlarged to include not only Tetovo or Tetova in Albanian, but all of Western Macedonia (Illirida), Kosovo-Metohija, and regions of Montenegro . Present-day Macedonia (FYROM) was divided between Albania and Bulgaria . Tetovo was in the Italian zone of occupation until September 3,1943, when Italy surrendered and Germany re-occupied Macedonia . Ethnic Albanians in Macedonia formed the National Albanian Committee to advance the Greater Albania movement and agenda. The Balli Kombetar (BK, National Union) was formed by Midhat Frasheri and Ali Klissura to advance the Greater Albania ideology or cause. The Slavic Orthodox populations were targeted for deportation or murder. The Jews and Roma were similarly to be deported or killed. Hitler and Mussolini had given the ethnic Albanians Greater Albania. In August, 1941, the Italian occupation forces in Tetovo established a prison for prisoners of war. The Italian occupation authorities gave the civil authority and administration to the Albanian population. All Albanian-inhabited territories, Western Macedonia, Illirida, Kosovo-Metohija, Kosova, and southern Montenegro , were integrated completely into Albania proper. Albanian language schools, an Albanian press, an Albanian radio network were established and an Albanian governmental and political administration was created. Vulnetara, an Albanian paramilitary formation, was organized. Albanian police units were established by the Italian occupation force. Albanian became the official language as Western Macedonia or Illirida became a part of Albania . The Albanian national flag, the double-headed black eagle on a red background, was raised in Tetovo and other cities and towns in Western Macedonia . The Albanian Lek was introduced as the official currency. Tetovo, Gostivar, Struga, Debar, and Kichevo were the key municipalities and districts in Western Macedonia incorporated into Albania , a Greater Albania. Eastern Macedonia was occupied by Bulgarian military forces. Macedonia was divided between Albania and Bulgaria . Hitler and Mussolini sought to delineate the borders between Greater Albania and Greater Bulgaria. The Albanians and their Italian sponsors wanted to enlarge the borders of Albania eastward encroaching on Bulgarian occupied territory. The Bulgarians sought to expand westward. On April 20 and 21, 1941, the German foreign minister, Joachim Ribbentrop, and the Italian foreign minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, met in Vienna to discuss the Bulgarian occupation zone and the enlargement of the borders of Greater Albania eastward. Ribbentrop emphasized the importance of the mines in Kosovo-Metohija and Macedonia that were vital to the strategic interests of Germany . The German and Italian supreme commands reached an agreement on the final demarcation line in Macedonia . Hitler approved the agreement on April 25. The agreement was tentative, however, and was not a final, complete agreement on demarcation lines. The agreement was abandoned later as Italy and Bulgaria could not agree on a border between their two occupation zones in Macedonia and Kosovo-Metohija. Later in 1941, the two sides were able to reach an understanding on where the border should be. The Italian occupation forces appointed Albanian Dzaferi Sulejmani the president of the Tetovo district. The vice-president was Albanian Munir Tevshana who had come from Albania . Later, Zejnel Starova and Shaib Kamberi replaced him. Kamberi worked for the Italian intelligence service. Selim Shaipi was the representative for Tetovo and was the leader of the Albanian youth movement. Shaipi was also a representative of the Second League of Prizren and was the president of the Third Balli Kombetar Committee. Shaipi fled with the German Army when Tetovo was evacuated in 1944. Husein Derala was made the commander of the gendarmes units in Tetovo by the Italian occupation forces. Albanian troops in the 21st Waffen Gebirgs Division der SS " Skanderbeg " , 1944. The Albanian administration targeted the Orthodox, Slavic populations for elimination, disenfranchisement, de-recognition, and expulsion. Feyzi Alizoti called for the extermination and deportation of non-Muslims. The Greater Albania ideology was anti-Orthodox, anti-Slavic in nature, and atrocities, deportations, and murders were committed against the Slavic, Orthodox populations. Josip Kovac, a Slovenian who was placed in charge of the Tetovo hospital by the Axis forces, described the anti-Orthodox, anti-Christian, anti-Slavic activity of Alizoti as follows: " There were exceptionally hard times in the annexed areas of Western Macedonia and Kosovo-Metohija when Fejzi Alizoti, the High Commissioner, visited. He gave a speech in Tetovo that demanded the annihilation of the non-Muslim communities. Publicly and openly he stated that there will be no peace until the last foreigner---Orthodox Christians---leaves his territory and settles across the border and only ethnic Albanians are left behind. Following his visit, the situation deteriorated and became unbearable for all non-Muslims. " The Italian military intelligence service, OVRA, formed an independent battalion in occupied Tetovo. The battalion was named ìLjubotenî, a special unit made up of ethnic Albanians in the Tetovo region. This Italian-created Albanian Axis unit was to uncover, question, and annihilate any resistance to the occupation. After the surrender of Italy in 1943, the German forces retained this Albanian formation allowing the unit to keep their Italian-issued uniforms and weapons. Members of the Balli Kombetar later joined the Ljuboten battalion. At the end of 1943, the Ljuboten unit was engaged in the attack on Kichevo in Macedonia . The Italian occupation of Western Macedonia allowed the Albanian population to create an ethnic Albanian-ruled region. Albanian police and paramilitary units were formed as a proxy army by the Italian forces. The civil administration was entrusted by the Italians to Albanian leaders. Albanian became the official language;the civil and police administration was taken over by ethnic Albanians; Albanian schools, newspapers, and radio stations were established. Tetovo became Tetova, an Albanian Muslim city in the newly-expanded Albanian state. Early History From the 14th century, Tetovo has been an Orthodox Slavic settlement founded around the Orthodox Church of Sveta Bogorodica (Saint Mother of God) near the mountain source of the Pena river in the Polog valley. Sveta Bogorodica was built in the 13th century when Tetovo began to be regarded as a major Orthodox Church center. Tetovo was the first center of the Orthodox episcopate. The oldest settlement in Tetovo is the region around the Sveta Bogorodica Orthodox Church. The modern city of Tetovo grew from this small medieval Orthodox Slavic settlement of Htetovo with the building and construction of houses around the Orthodox Church. The Ottoman Turkish Muslim Empire invaded and occupied present-day Macedonia beginning in the 14th century. The Muslim Turks began settling and colonizing Macedonia with Turkish settlers. The Ottoman Turks began the Turkification and Islamicization of Macedonia. The Ottoman Turks altered the Orthodox Slavic nature of Tetovo, which in Turkish was renamed Kalkandele. The Ottoman Turks began settling the level lowlands of Tetovo. The Colored or Painted Mosque (Aladzha or Sharena Dzamija), also known as the Pasha Mosque, was built in 1459 by the Ottoman Turks. The earlier Slavic Orthodox population concentration in Tetovo was on the high ground and on the foothills of the Shar Planina or Mountain range. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the city began to expand greatly. The city was divided into the Orthodox Slavic quarter and the Muslim Turkish quarter. The Orthodox Slavic quarter or section was on the left side, on the Pena River , made up of the Potok, Dva Bresta, Koltuk, Sveti Nikola, Dol, Pevchina, and Dolno regions. The Turkish Muslim quarter or section included the following regions: The Colored Mosque (Sharena Dzamija) region, Banja, Gorna Charshija, Gamgan, and Saat. After World War II, the ethnic mosaic of the city changed with the displacement of the Serbian Orthodox and Turkish Muslim populations. The city then acquired its present ethnic configuration of Macedonian Orthodox Slavs and Muslim Albanians. Different city subdivisions emerged. New settlements and districts were formed such as Przhova Bavcha, Tabakaana, Gazaana, the Teteks textile plant district, and the Boulevard ìBoris Kidricî. In the town of Leshok , which had been known as Legen Grad, in the Tetovo municipality, is located the Leshok Monastery which includes the Orthodox Church of the Holy Virgin built in 1326 and the Sveti Athanasius Orthodox Church built in 1924. The tomb of the Orthodox scholar Kiril Pejchinovic lies in the Leshok Monastery. The Church has three layers of frescoes: The lower layer was built in 1326, the middle layer was built in the 17th century, and the top layer was built in 1879. The Leshok Monastery symbolizes the Orthodox and Slavic presence in the region. The UCK separatists deliberately mined and demolished the Monastery in August, 2001, to eradicate and cleanse the Orthodox Slavic influence. Cultural cleansing is followed by the ethnic cleansing of the Orthodox Slavic population. The UCK has ethnically cleansed or driven out much of the non-Albanian population from the Tetovo district. " " HILLARY RUSHED TO SUPPORT PALESTINIAN STATE And Hillary Rodham-Clinton? Well, in May 1998, she told a youth conference on Middle East peace in Villars, Switzerland, that she supports the eventual creation of an independent Palestinian state. Her spokesperson, Marsha Berry told reporters: " " These remarks are her own personal view. " Then, in November 1999, while on a purported State visit to the Middle East, she publicly appeared with Yasser Arafat's wife Suha. With Hillary at her side, Suha Arafat made the deliberately false allegation that " Our [Palestinian] people have been submitted to the daily and intensive use of poisonous gas by the Israeli forces, which has led to an increase in cancer cases among women and children. " Mrs. Arafat also accused Israel of contaminating much of the water sources used by Palestinians with " chemical materials " and poisoning Palestinian women and children with toxic gases. Instead of reacting with outrage, Hillary Clinton sat by silently - and gave her a hug and a kiss when she finished speaking. Later, many hours after the event, and only after a media furor put her on the spot for what many view as a bit more than a mere political " faux pas " , Mrs. Clinton called on " all sides " to refrain from " inflammatory rhetoric and baseless accusations " - including Israel, whose leaders made no such accusations. Glossing over this remarkably repugnant affair, Mrs. Clinton has yet to specifically contradict and denounce the monstrous lies uttered by Yasser Arafat's wife in her presence. " SOURCE: http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillarSy.htm the following item is excerpted from: More Than Sex: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton Revealed by Arkansas State Trooper NewsMax.com September 14, 1999 Washington - An Arkansas State Trooper who once guarded Bill Clinton has revealed startling new information about Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Trooper Larry Patterson, a recently retired 32-year veteran of the state police, had been the most senior member of the elite Governor's Security Detail during the period Bill Clinton served as Governor. During that time, Patterson became privy to Bill and Hillary Clinton's most closely guarded secrets. Patterson told his story exclusively to NewsMax.com and Internet Vortex. NewsMax.com has published More than Sex: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton Revealed — a two-hour audio cassette tape of Christopher Ruddy's interview with Trooper Larry Patterson. In More than Sex Patterson makes bombshell revelations, some of which have never been disclosed before: Organized Crime. The press has ignored reporting of this critical issue, but Patterson says Clinton had a close relationship with the head of the Dixie Mafia—Arkansas' homegrown organized crime family that has grown in recent years through drug trafficking. Patterson said Clinton regularly received gifts from the reputed mob boss. Ethnic Slurs about Jews. Both Hillary and Bill Clinton frequently used slurs during heated arguments with each other, Patterson said. Among the epithets they frequently hurled at each other were anti-Semitic slurs such as `mother f---in' Jew' or `Jew bastard'. Patterson said such references were heard frequently during the years he served the Clintons. Patterson said Clinton loved telling ethnic jokes and frequently told jokes that were anti-Semitic. The use of the " N " word. Patterson said Bill Clinton would use the word " nigger " — the " N " word — when he was angry with African-American opponents. He recalls the use of the word in describing a black, Arkansas activist who was critical of Clinton. Patterson said Clinton also used the " N " word during the 1992 campaign Hitler and Mein Kampf. Bill Clinton, Patterson said, spoke admiringly of Hitler and was fascinated by his book Mein Kampf. source: http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/9/13/220611 Jerusalem, November 10, 1999 Fooling the Jews WOMEN IN GREEN, among whose members there are many voters from New York who have dual citizenship, will protest against the visit of Hillary Clinton. We will be outside the Tel Aviv Museum, Shaul HaMelech Boulevard and Weizman Street in Tel Aviv, at 19:15 to voice our opposition to this " new " and dubious friend of Israel. Hillary Clinton is one smart lady. She wants to be President. Therefore, she will say anything to any particular Group that will lend itself to obtaining that set objective. She strategically chose the upcoming Senatorial race in New York as the first stepping stone towards reaching her presidential goal. However, New York has an important Jewish vote and that is a hurdle that she must leap over and " handle " . The difficulty for Hillary is that she has never been a friend of Israel. She has publicly come out for a Palestinian State, which as a sophisticated and smart lady she knows would threaten Israel's very existence. She very well knows that hatred of Jews and Israel even now is an essential part of Arafat's educational system; moreover, Arafat's hate propaganda in his Media includes praise of the bomb makers who specialize in blowing up Israel's buses. Yet she has never leveled one word of criticism against Arafat in that or any other regard, or for that matter against any Arab. Her Arab guest list at the White House has included American Arab leaders who are sympathetic to and support terrorist Hamas. She could find nothing about Israel to publicly admire throughout the many years that she has been in the White House. But to garner the Jewish vote in New York she has to appear to tone down her bias in favor of the Arabs, and make some Jewish " gestures " . She now lets out of the family closet the inconsequential news that her grandmother's second husband was a Jew. And of course for these New York voters, she is making the proscribed visit to Israel. After all these years she suddenly awakened to recognize the status of Jerusalem; she recently told the Jews that Jerusalem is Israel's eternal capital; however, she is not in favor of moving the U.S. Embassy to that capital. In that she is consistent with her husband who broke his previous campaign promise to move it. Her track record insures that she too will not keep whatever promises she makes to the Jews in order to get into the Senate. If elected, she would be the most pro-Arab Senator New York has ever had. Unmasked, Hillary Clinton has proven herself again and again to have little sympathy and understanding for Israel and the Jewish People. Don't be fooled by the Jewish " appointees " of her husband. Albright, Berger and the like are Jews in name only, who lack loyalty to the Jewish People. Nor should you be " taken in " by her deceptive sweet talk. Hillary's visit to Israel is just part and parcel of her New York campaign. Ruth and Nadia Matar source: http://www.womeningreen.org/saynov99.htm note re the piece above from Ruth and Nadia Matar of Women in Green http://www.womeningreen.org/ Madeline Albright actually APOLOGIZED to Bill Clinton for not knowing that 3 out of 4 of her grandparents were Jewish. Her family had converted to Roman Catholicism, the faith Albright was raised in. Another convert who left Judaism himself was Defense Secretary Cohen. Reportedly upset that he could not go through the Jewish Bar Mitzvah ceremony, which marks adulthood at age 13, unless he converted to Judaism, as Judaism is matrilineal, and Cohen's mother was not Jewish, Cohen decided to leave Judaism altogether. As Clinton's defense secretary he would provide arms to Egypt. Billions In U.S. Arms To Egypt CAIRO, Egypt March 3rd, 1999 QUOTE " We are, of course, eager to be of assistance. " Defense Secretary William Cohen (CBS) The United States on Thursday proposed to sell Egypt $3.2 billion worth of new American weapons, including 24 F-16 fighter jets, 200 M-1A1 tanks and 32 Patriot missiles. U.S. Defence Secretary William Cohen announced the proposition, which is likely to be approved by Congress, after separate talks with President Hosni Mubarak and Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi in Cairo. It was the latest of several arms offers by Cohen to U.S. Arab allies on a nine-nation trip to the Gulf and Middle East. The 24 F-16 fighters, made by Lockheed Martin, would cost $1.2 billion and would increase a force of 196 F-16s already in Egypt's airforce. The battery of Patriot-3 missiles, which would cost $1.3 billion, consists of eight firing units, each containing four missiles, made by Raytheon. The 200 tanks, costing nearly $700 million, would be assembled in Egypt and add to 555 such tanks it already has. Cohen told reporters traveling with him that Egypt would " feel insulted " if its request for the weapons were denied and might then turn to other arms suppliers. " If they were to make a request to the United States and we were to say, `I'm sorry, we are not going to provide you with any modernized equipment,' I think they would take that as an insult, " Cohen said. " There are many potential (arms) suppliers—Russian, Chinese, French, British and others—that seek to fulfill their requests. I think that they would look very skeptically upon our friendship and very strong partnership if we were to say `I'm sorry, we have made a decision that is superior to your decision. You don't need this and you shouldn't have it'. " Cohen said the United States believed that a strong military relationship supported a strong political and diplomatic relationship that builds peace and stability in the region. Egypt, one of Washington's strongest allies in the Arab world, would receive the " Block 40 " model of the F-16, the most advanced version of the world's most popular attack jet. Cohen said Egypt would pay for the arms from the $1.2 billion a year it gets in U.S. military aid. The Pentagon approved the sales in principle but no deal has been signed. The United States has in the past sold Cairo a wide range of weaponry, including surplus naval destroyers. Cohen, who flew later to Israel for talks on regional security issues on the final stop of a busy trip, earlier offered " AMRAAM " advanced medium- range air-to-air missiles to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The United Arab Emirates is currently planning to buy 80 of the earlier " Block 60 " F-16s for $6 billion and a package of AMRAAM and other air-to- air missiles for another $2 billion. At an earlier news conference in Cairo, Cohen denied that the U.S. was fuelling an arms race in the Middle East, but said Washington remained ready to help its allies in the region in response to legitimate requests for military modernization. " We are, of course, eager to be of assistance, " he said. Officials said after the announcement that the exact purchase prices and the timing of delivery are still being worked out. source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/03/11/world/main38379.shtml BLACK LIBERATION ARMY Aliases: Afro-American Liberation Army Base of Operation: United States Founding Philosophy: The Black Liberation Army was a militant splinter group of the Black Panther Party. Breaking away from the Black Panthers in the late 1960s, the stated philosophy of the BLA was to " take up arms for the liberation and self-determination of black people in the United States. " In the 1970s the BLA was responsible for numerous domestic criminal acts, including bank and armored car robberies. In one of their more famous exploits, members of the BLA freed fellow BLA member Joanne Chesimard from prison where she was serving a life sentence for the murder of a state trooper. Chesimard fled to Cuba, where she is still living, and the US government has offered a reward of $1 million dollars for her capture. Members of the BLA were also charged in various terrorist plots including a plan to firebomb department stores in New York. In 1981, four members of the BLA were convicted for various charges including murder and armed robbery in a failed heist of a Brinks armored car, which left one guard and two police officers dead. On March 25, 1984, a man claiming to be " Lieutenant Spartacus " of the " Black Liberation Army, " hijacked a Piedmont airlines jet with 58 passengers on board. The plane flew to Cuba where " Lieutenant Spartacus " found asylum. SOURCE: http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=3708 excerpted from: " Hillary Clinton and " The Third Way " How America's First Lady of the Left Has Bamboozled Liberals and Conservatives Alike By David Horowitz FrontPageMagazine.com | June 22, 2000 My subject is Hillary Clinton in her role as America's foremost leftist..... It is this same idea that is found in the Social Gospel which impressed the youthful Hillary Clinton at the United Methodist Church in Park Ridge, Illinois. She later encountered the same idea in the New Left at Yale and in the Venceremos Brigade in Communist Cuba... " David Horowitz is the author of numerous books including an autobiography, Radical Son, which has been described as " the first great autobiography of his generation, " and which chronicles his odyssey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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