Well Ed, they where interested in this one. Many had to be translated which took much time to find. There are many that I do not wish to discuss which involve Bin Lauden and other notable terrorists. The only thing I wish is I could spend my full time tracking down information on the den of theives and terrorists. Someone out there better be connecting the dots.
"Like Al-Kassar, Khashoggi owns a magnificent residence in Marbella, where a branch of Barclay's Bank is a frequent site of dubious dealings."
"Another acquaintance of Khashoggi is the Syrian dealer Monzer Al-Kassar,"
B>"TRANSLATED:Traffic of arms: another scandal of Al-Kassar The Syria dealer tried to sell arms to Osama Bin Laden, the Islamic terrorist more looked for by the U.S.A.. · And he would have used as screen the purchase of a gold mine in Tucumán"
ogd.org Monzer Al-Kassar, the Syrian drug trafficker accused of complicity in the terrorist bombing of a Pan Am Boeing jet over Lockerbie (Scotland) and in the hijacking of the Achille Lauro ocean liner was recently released from a Spanish jail. His release coincides with the capping of the career of Baltasar Garzon, the judge who had Al-Kassar arrested last year and who has now been named head of Spain's war on drugs. Meanwhile, Al-Kassar's fate has attracted the attention of justice officials in Geneva who are currently conducting several investigations into the laundering of drug money. Al-Kassar's release required a string of luck. First he managed to get his former partner and main accuser, Abu Merced, to deny the original allegations. Merced no longer says it was Al-Kassar who gave him the Sig Sauer pistol used in the 1984 Madrid shooting of Joseph Elias Awad, a Mossad agent left paralyzed by the incident. A second "lucky" development involved Ahmed Al Assadi, the Palestinian terrorist spending time in Italy's Vercelli prison for his role in the Achille Lauro hijacking, who has also changed his story and now refuses to go to Spain to formally identify Al-Kassar as the person who supplied weapons to the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) organization headed by Abu Abbas. It was PLF terrorists who hijacked the Achille Lauro on 7 October 1985, held 600 passengers hostage and killed a US citizen with Kalashnikovs reportedly supplied by Al-Kassar who, for that matter, shares a joint bank account with Abu Abbas at the Bilbao-Vizcay Bank (no. 4135). Meanwhile, another Al-Kassar accuser, Ismail Jalid, died after falling from the fifth floor of a building in Marbella, Spain, on 28 September 1992. the autopsy reported that he was in an alcoholic coma at the time. Finally, Al-Kassar managed to come up with the two billion pesetas (US $15 million) required for his release on bail pending trial. Al-Kassar faces eventual extradition to Argentina on charges of committing perjury when obtaining Argentinean nationality. Meanwhile, the investigation by the American newsweekly Time into Al-Kassar's role in placing a bomb-laden suitcase on Pan Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988 (resulting in 270 deaths) has not led to an indictment. Al-Kassar was thus free to return to the marble mansion in Marbella that he has owned for the past 17 years. As soon as Al-Kassar was arrested in Madrid on 3 June 1992, a Swiss prosecutor in Geneva, Laurent Kasper Ansermet, launched his own investigation and turned up some disturbing evidence. According to Ansermet, Al-Kassar is linked to organized crime via various bank accounts - some $5 million of assets have now been frozen. Al-Kassar is apparently part of a shady network which is being very closely studied, even though no indictments have been issued as yet. The network list includes the name of Joseph Saba, a Lebanese boss currently incarcerated in France and cited in the 1985 "Paccots affair" involving the largest heroin factory ever uncovered in Switzerland. Saba was also linked to the "Lebanese Connection" and to the adventures of the Magharian brothers, which resulted in the 1989 downfall of Swiss Minister of Justice and Police Elizabeth Kopp. Also on the list is Adnan Khashoggi, the famous Saudi weapons merchant who was arrested and extradited from Switzerland in 1989 only to be acquitted by a New York court. Like Al-Kassar, Khashoggi owns a magnificent residence in Marbella, where a branch of Barclay's Bank is a frequent site of dubious dealings. This web of contacts also includes Albert Shammah, a Frenchman who has been based in Geneva since 1977 and who heads a firm named Mazalcor. Italian justice officials initially suspected Shammah of involvement in a lire-laundering scheme on behalf of Turkish drug traffickers, but the case was later dismissed. Finally, there is a Swiss connection in the form of the Cultrera-Meninno scandal, which only leads back to Marbella, a beach resort for the "jet set" now emerging as the hub for every mafia connection in Spain. Felice Cultrera and Gianni Meninno are under investigation in Geneva for fraud and money laundering. They are also under investigation in Marbella by Judge Blanca Esther Diez, who has uncovered a group of attorneys and judges protecting them. Cultrera and Meninno, who are currently at large, set up corporate fronts in Gibraltar and then made a fortune by selling property that did not belong to them. Using forged documents, and protected by the Santapaola family of the Italian mafia, they sold the Marbella casino to Italian financier Gioachino del Din, as well as hotels and other real estate on the Costa del Sol. When Spanish police seized Cultrera's address book, they found not only the names of Al-Kassar and Khashoggi, but also that of Philippe Junot, ex-husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco. Junot's former lawyer, the Argentinean Alberto Mondino, has now become one of Al-Kassar's attorneys. Also in the address book is the name of Marc Rich, a wealthy Hispanic-American businessman living in Switzerland and sought by the US Internal Revenue Service for tax evasion. Rich, too, has a villa in Marbella. Prosecutor Ansermet would like to know whether he can confiscate the frozen funds belonging to Al-Kassar in Switzerland, but neither Spanish judge Garzon, nor his colleague Carlos Bueren, has ever responded to Ansermet's legal query as to whether the Syrian's money is the fruit of drug trafficking. Ansermet would also like to coordinate his investigations into Cultrera and Meninno with the Spanish judge handling that affair, but has yet to receive a response from Spain. This silence may point to problems with the Spanish investigation, or to a lack of confidence in Genevan investigators. In which case the Swiss will have to go it alone (OGD correspondent in Switzerland). © The Geopolitical Drug Dispatch n° 23, September 1993
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TRANSLATED:Traffic of arms: another scandal of Al-Kassar The Syria dealer tried to sell arms to Osama Bin Laden, the Islamic terrorist more looked for by the U.S.A.. · And he would have used as screen the purchase of a gold mine in Tucumán
JUAN CARLOS ALGAÑARAZ. Madrid. Correspondent. Or sama Bin Laden, the looked for terrorist head more of the world, wants to buy arms in Spain and to conduct the operation it has contacted with Monzer To the Kassar, a personage who has had problems with justice of Argentina and Spain. Since intermediary Imperial Consolidated would have acted the British company and as cover works a millionaire contract to operate gold mines in Tucumán , Argentina. All this plot this being investigated by the secret services and the Spanish police in coordination with other western ones. These facts are denounced by the influential newspaper the World of Madrid that titles its edition of yesterday: "Bin Landen tries to buy arms in Spain through A the Kassar". In charge of the investigation this Red Alfonso, one of the directors of the Madrilenian newspaper and his more sent well-known special, that also is a success writer. The note remembers that Bin Laden is accused of some of the bloodiest attacks of the last years like the blast of the embassies of the United States in Kenya and Tanzania. The relations of Bin Laden with A the Kassar go back "to last September and in the middle of which it was outlined like a lucrative and spectacular gold business", it indicates the newspaper alluding to the mining operations of Tucumán. The newspaper identifies like source of the information "a South American who works stops To the Kassar", to that the newspaper alludes like "dealer of arms". Kassar advanced months ago "hundreds of thousands of dollars to a veteran and afflicted seeking Argentinean, who counted on 19 mining concessions in the zone of Tucumán, but lacked bottoms to put them in operation", says the newspaper. It adds the report that "in exchange for his modest financial aid, To the Kassar it had demanded and received a power that authorized it to negotiate with the deposits". But, the Argentinean who yielded the mining rights considers now that To the Kassar Imperial Consolidated would have signed a contract with the British company in which their economic rights are not recognized to him. Here a conflict arises that will have its judicial repercussions , according to informed a source to Bugler . The amount of the operation is millionaire in dollars stops To the Kassar, and the British industralists speak of a final investment that goes up to around the 400 million dollars . As far as the contract by gold, Lincoln Fraser, the president of Imperial Consolidated, explains that in the summer "a group of Argentine Indians approached who had rich mineral earth in the $andes and needed financing by value 40 million dollars for machinery". For that reason, he added, put in contact with A the Kassar "that had very good relations with Argentina". The history of the bonds between the Syrian and the British begins because To the Kassar, that lives in Marbella, it was in relation to the Greek industralist Eduard Stamatiov that acts like intermediary with the British company Imperial Consolidated, proprietor of 26 companies, specialist in investments off Shore, and owner of a bank in the Caribbean island of Granada, explains the World . The industralist David Marchant, publisher of the magazine Offshore Bussiness alludes to Imperial Consolidated like a company that attracts capitals by means of "amazing" interests. "the commission to launder money of the drug traffic or the businesses of sale of arms is of 25% and that gives for much", declares Marchant. Imperial Consolidated and To the Kassar signs a contract to operate the gold mines of Tucumán. "To the Argentine miner the Kassar is assigned to him to a small percentage of the part corresponding to A, that receives at that same moment four million dollars" , it says the newspaper. The conflict begins when To the Kassar demands, 7 of September the last, "powers in the new company". The British refuse indicating that they represent "very important personages" and had to maintain the control. According to the World "it was then when the name of the Saudi terrorist Bin Laden was pronounced", looked for by the U.S.A.. The assistant of A the Kassar, source of the information, "confesses to have received until a warlike bill of material". Apparently these arms would be destined to talibanes, the force of integrist Muslims supported by Pakistan whom they control most of Afghanistan, surrounded in a bloody civil war. Bin Laden is sheltered in zones controlled by talibanes. Raging Bull Advertisements Quote.com: Powerful tools for serious investors.
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