[nw_arizona_granny]

I found this and it sticks in my mind, from 2002, and I have to wonder if the Mafia is the russian mafia?
granny

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Dubai-based mafia don claims responsibility

[ TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2002 06:01:58 PM ]


new delhi: a dubai-based criminal with links to pakistani intelligence has said his
outfit was responsible for tuesday's
shooting at the american center in calcutta and has threatened more attacks, an
indian home ministry official said. officials in
kolkata received a telephone call from farhan malik, who is based in dubai and linked
to the harkat-ul-jihad islami, a
pakistan-based islamic group fighting in jammu and kashmir. "he owned
responsibility and threatened that similar attacks
would take place by the group in delhi and gujarat," the home ministry official said.
the official said that malik in march 2000
was issued a pakistani passport "and was directed to establish a covert network in
india to carry out terrorist operations."
malik is allegedly involved in underworld crime and organized the kidnapping earlier
this year of a calcutta businessman for a
37.5 million-rupee ($780,000) ransom. the official said that in august 2001, malik
was put in contact with omer sheikh, a muslim
militant who was released in exchange for passengers of an indian airlines plane
hijacked in december 1999 to kandahar,
afghanistan. "sheikh is a british citizen who would come to india through pakistan. he
was involved in a series of terrorist
crimes," he said. foreign ministry spokeswoman nirupama rao said new delhi might
seek malik's extradition from the united
arab emirates. "we have an extradition treaty with the uae and we remain in touch
with the agencies involved with such
crimes in the uae on a realtime basis," she told reporters. "on this particular issue we
will be looking to investigate this crime
further and since the individual who has claimed responsibility for this heinous crime
is stationed in dubai obviously we will
be in consultation with the authorities there," she said. four policemen were killed
tuesday when gunmen sprayed bullets
indiscriminately at the american center on one of kolkata's main thoroughfares.
(agencies) related stories:

ib warned of attacks away from delhi

no fbi role in probe into american center attack: cm

kidnap group claims attack on american center: advani

no us citizen injured in american center attack

high alert sounded in capital

was gujarat rdx going to kolkata?

is the attack intended to disrupt r-day celebrations?
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[DAVEY CROCKETT]

I found this and it sticks in my mind, from 2002, and I have to wonder if the Mafia is the russian mafia?
granny
= = = = = = =HUGS TO YOU
Yes it is the Russian Mafia! You don't want me to go into my boring rant about the oligarchs of every nation/Russian mafia/fake Jews/new world order elites/puppet masters/mover and shakers of the world? LOL

After the cold war these crooks took over Russia economy. Putin is now offering them jobs in government to try and get some of the wealth back, yeah right they are just going to steal more.

They have conquered Russian so they moved over to Israel and you see the daily mess they are in.

I really think what is happening in Israel is going to happen in the US at some point.

I think this same bunch are the one's that are suppling and instructing the terrorist.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~This is my tin foil moment for the day~~~~~~~ LOL

This is an old article but good information I wonder if this reporter is still alive? Short list of deaths at end.

The Times (UK)
June 7, 2003
Russia's hired guns strike fear into elite
From Robin Shepherd in Moscow

JUST before 9.15am yesterday Igor Klimov called his wife from outside his central Moscow home because he had forgotten his glasses in his rush to get to work. Moments later Mrs Klimov opened the door to find her husband lying in a pool of blood. The 42-year-old head of Russia’s leading defence manufacturing companies had been shot dead by camouflaged contract killers using a silenced pistol. Two bullets in the chest made Mr Klimov the seventh prominent victim of Russia’s mafia hit squads in less than a month.

There are scores of contract killings of businessmen in Russia every year, but few ever result in convictions. The problem has become so serious that this week Russia’s nine leading businessmen’s organisations wrote to the Government demanding action.

“People taking an active position in life, whose efforts keep the nation going, are the most likely to die at the hands of hired killers,” they said in a joint letter. The group pledged funding to the state prosecutors office to help them to track down the killers.

The motive for Mr Klimov’s killing was, as ever in such cases, unclear. Since February he had been acting head of Almaz-Antei, a company that makes anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons and that was formed by the merging of more than 40 smaller companies last year. It was to have appointed a permanent chief executive officer on June 26 and Mr Klimov was a candidate. Police are also working on the theory that the attackers may have been after the kind of sensitive information that the head of an arms manufacturer, and former foreign intelligence officer, could be expected to have in his possession. Witnesses said there had been a struggle for Mr Klimov’s briefcase.

A police spokesman said: “We know that there were two men involved both in grey-and-white camouflage. One was blond-haired but balding and of medium build. The revolver with a silencer was found at the scene.”

Contract killings in Russia are now so common that experts can identify trends pinpointing the most likely time of day for an attack - the morning - and the most common location - near the victim’s home.

“In the morning your target has just woken up and is probably rushing out to work as is everybody else,” said Alexy Nicholayevich of the Russian Academy of Bodyguards.

“Secondly the home is one of those points a person will always return to. You can be sure to find him there. Sometimes they also get them in the evening when they’re returning home tired after a hard day’s work.”

Each killing strikes a blow at President Putin’s campaign to move away from the “Wild East” days of the 1990s when organised criminals fought for turf in major cities across Russia. Mr Putin’s efforts are aimed at more than simply cleaning up Russia’s image. Economists cite organised crime as a major barrier to the development of small and medium-sized businesses — the bulwark of a modern economy. If the standard practice of market competition is resolved by gunfire, they say, entrepreneurs will be reluctant to develop their businesses.

It is not merely a problem for the business community.

In April, Sergei Yushenkov, a senior figure in the opposition Liberal Russia Party, was gunned down outside his home in Moscow. Another Liberal Russia politician, Vladimir Golovlyov, was shot dead while walking his dog last August.

Killer month

May 14: Mikhail Sinelnikov, captain of St Petersburg Sea Port, shot outside his home in the city

May 25: Kostya Mogila (Kostya the Grave), head of St Petersburg Mafia, machine-gunned with two companions in his car in central Moscow

May 27: Sergei Pereverzev, furniture import boss, shot in Moscow hospital bed

May 28: Viktor Tarabanovsky, security chief at Reemtsma Russo-German tobacco factory, stabbed in the back outside his home in Volgograd

May 28: Farit Gazimov, Yukos oil terminal general director, shot outside his home in the Irkutsk region

June 3: Alfred Lerner, theatre and business centre director, shot outside his home in Moscow

June 6: Igor Trunov, head of Almaz Antey, shot outside his home in Moscow

http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/7214-12.cfm