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Switzerland
SWITZERLAND
1 August 1291 – Switzerland gained freedom from its former
mother country, the Holy Roman Empire. (Ancestry July August 2007).
1365 – Basel. Timeline of earthquakes.
6 Oct 1849 – A duel near Lausane Switzerland. Sergeant
Bochot the Socialist rep for Paris and
a Spanish officer for the regent of Isabell Segunda. London news UK.
1876 – The future of archives. In 1876 Switzerland changed
over from church registers to civil registration. Some church registers have
been microfilmed LDS. (Practical family history august 2009).
1890s – A Verdingkind or contract child in Switzerland. Sex
slavery and concubines, comfort women. (New York Times 11 Nov 2014).
12 Aug 1893 – Switzerland. Daily Telegraph. Papers Past NZ.
8 Feb 1919 – Berne Socialist conference. Colonist. Papers
Past NZ.
10 Feb 1919 – Berne Socialist conference. Colonist. Papers
Past NZ.
1930 – Lawyers, Sullivan and Cromwell was headed by John
Foster Dulles. Allen Dulles, future head of the CIA, was a partner. Bank for
the international settlements BIS, was set up in Switzerland in 1930, to
channel war reparations between the US and Germany. Gold looted by the Nazis in
Europe ended up in BIS vaults. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012
US).
13 March 1930 – Spies in Switzerland. The Manchester
Guardian 1901-1959 UK.
28 March 1930 – Italian spies in Switzerland 8 men expelled
consul position in question. The Manchester Guardian 1901-1958 UK.
July 1937 – Swiss sanitorium, after July 1937. Foreign
patients did not register and the records of the main sanitorium at Danos and
Leysin were destroyed. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).
1943 – Alexander Rado in Switzerland was part of the Red
Orchestra, a GRU spy network. It was broken up by Swiss police in 1943. (The hidden
hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).
May 1954 – Geneva peace conference sought a settlement to
the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Set up the Int control commission in Vietnam
observers. (GCHQ Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).
1955 – LDS President David McKay dedicated the Bern
Switzerland temple. (Presidents of the church LDS book).
18 February 1969 – Gunfire attack on El Al Airliner in
Zurich. One person was killed and four jailed. Three were freed after the 6
September 1970 attacks.
21 February 1970 – The Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine blew up a SwissAir Convair airliner, leaving Zurich for Tel Aviv,
killing 47 people.
20 June 1975 – Couple on trial for spying in Switzerland.
The Times London UK.
23 June 1975 – Swiss imprison East German spies for 7 years.
The Times London UK.
1976 – Banque de commerce et de placements BCP a BCCI
affiliate opened in Geneva.
1976 – One of the main BCCI operations in Europe was Banque
de Commerce et de placements, SA a joint venture in Switzerland. It was formed
in 1976 in partnership with other financial institutions including the Union
bank of Switzerland.
13 Sept 1982 – Juerg Heer the executive director of the
credit section of Zurich Rothschild bank, Transfers from Calvi’s Luxemberg
subsidiary to Gelli to corporate shell in Panama called Bell atrix. Loans of
$142 million. On 13 Sept 1982 Gelli was arrested in Switzerland. (The annals of
unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US).
1984 – Safety in numbers. The mysterious world of Swiss
banking. Nicholas Faith. London UK Hamish Hamilton.
1988 – Zuricher union bank in Zurich opened an account and
obtained a safe deposit box. Swiss banks safe deposit boxes. Banking secrecy
laws in Switzerland and the Canasta player investigation. (Traitors among us
©1999 SA Herrington).
1990 – Switzerland launders whiter. Book Worldcat database.
J Ziegler. West Germany. Money laundering from drug cartels.
29 Nov 1998 – Herald Journal. Prosecutors move against
Russian mafia in Switzerland. By Naomi Koppel. AP. Geneva..Trial of Russia
businessman Sergei Milhailov. Major Swiss.
1 Dec 1998 – Swiss put Russian mafia boss on trial. Peter
Capella. The Guardian 1959-2003 UK.
7 November 2001 – Raid of a villa in Campione. Youssef Nada, director of the Al-Taqwa bank of
Lugano, who had an active association with the Muslim Brotherhood for more than
50 years. He admitted to being one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s international
leaders. The raid was conducted by Swiss law enforcement at the request of the
US White House. A crackdown on terrorist finances in the aftermath of 9/11. US
Swiss investigators were looking into Al-Taqwa involvement in money laundering
and funding Islamic terrorist groups, like al-Qaeda, Hamas, Algerian GIA and
Tunisian Ennehdah. (Frontpage mag The Muslim Brotherhood project. Patrick Poole
11 May 2006).
3 June 2006 – Swiss sex industry is thriving. Prostitution
is legal in Switzerland and generates $2.65 billion annually. Sex slavery.
9 October 2006 – In Geneva the UN declares an end to a
security alert. There was a possible threat to the European HQ of the UN and
its agencies.
26 January 2007 – Dual strategy for countering forced
prostitution.( sex slavery), It was held
at the UEFA Euro in 2008. Federal office of police. Berne Fedpol.
7 December 2007 – Disappearances of newborn babies for
illegal adoption in Europe. Social health and family affairs committee Ms Ruth
Gaby Vermont Mangold. Trafficking in children. child sex slavery and child
pornography. Disappearance of newborn babies, children found begging in the
streets. Eastern Europe to western Europe.
2008 – The state owned Chinese oil company Sinopec spent
$7.2 billion to buy the Swiss oil field exploration company Addax petroleum,
which has reserves in Nigeria, Gabon and Iraq. (The shadow market Eric J Weiner
©2010).
2009 – KGB money laundering in Geneva and the credit suisse
bank. It was used to fund links to organised crime families in the Middle East,
terrorist groups. Money also went through Bulgarian intel, used to kill Soviet
dissidents in the west. (Secret wars ©2009 G Thomas US).
17 June 2009 – Switzerland Wikileaks Lord Aikins Adusai
Ghana Money laundering from Africa.
26 July 2010 – Swiss tackle Italian mafia on home soil.
Flarenetwork The Ndrangheti moved arms and drug trafficking in Switzerland and
laundering money.
19 December 2010 – Crime boss opens up about mob in
Switzerland Swissinfo drugs.
26 December 2010 – AFP Italian mafia spreads in
Switzerland. Switzerland is also being
used for drug trafficking on a large scale, and a hideout for mafia members
hunted by police.
2011 – St Moritz Switzerland Bilderberg meeting. Infowars
Alex Jones 26 Aug 2014. Steve Watson. The Austrian location of the 2015
Bilderberg meeting venue is owned by Swiss giant Liebher group.
18 May 2012 – Growing threat authorities brace for fight
against the mafia Swissinfo Mafia crime in Switzerland.
19 November 2012 – Brazillian sex traffickers target
Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence in Switzerland.
26 November 2012 – Former SNC LAVALIN executive was charged
in Switzerland. Report. Toronto Reuters Yahoo news. Money laundering in
Switzerland CBC news Canada. Riadh Ben Aissa was charged with fraud, corruption
and money laundering in Switzerland.
December 2012 – The Swiss coordination unit against the trafficking
of persons and smuggling of migrants KSMM Police department Switzerland.
5 December 2012 – Intelnews.org by Joseph Fitsanakis. A
Swiss intel employee stole millions of classified pages. Reuters.
16 December 2012 –
Money laundering public intel Money laundering banks fuel Mexican drug cartels.
16 July 2013 – Swiss bank leaker. Money is easy to hide.
Spiegel online Tax evaders HSBC Swiss bank whistleblower Herve Falciani. Money
laundering and drug cartels.
26 Aug 2014 – Mafia arrests. Swiss info. 16 members of Mafia
arrested in Thurgau.
27 Aug 2014 – Secret meeting Calabrian. The Independent.
Calabrian Ndrangheta gun and drug mafia. Swiss town of Fauenfeld north of
Zurich.
28 Aug 2014 – Extortion cocaine heroin. Mafia. The
Independent London. A gathering of Calabrian Ndrangheta gun and drug mafia, was
held in Swiss the town of Frauenfeld, north of Zurich.
10 Sept 2014 – Peru closer trade with Switzerland.
Freshplaza. Peru could become Switzerland’s new food provider. Demand for
Peru’s products.
UAE
UAE
BCCI’s drug money
laundering. The UAE and Hong Kong were major centres for heroin money. Banks in
the UAE catered for traffickers for the golden crescent countries of
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. Hong Kong banks received huge sums from
traffickers in the world’s leading opium producing regions, the golden triangle
of Burma, Thailand and Laos.
1966 – Sheikh Zayed bin
Sultan al-Nahyan became ruler of UAE, a British colony. Around this time Abedi
meets Zayed.
December 1971 - UAE gained
independence with Sheikh Zayed as President.
1972 – Abedi set up BCCI.
Its main backers were Sheikh Zayed and the Bank of America.
1973 – After the 1973 oil
shock, foreign and domestic banks opened hundreds of branches in UAE. Making it
one of the most overbanked countries in the world.
1973-75 – At the end of
1973, BCCI’s first full year of operation. It had 19 branches in five
countries, of these 8 were in the UAE and 4 in the UK. In 1975 BCCI had 64
branches in 13 countries, the UAE and UK had the lead with 19 branches each.
October 1973 – Egypt and
Syria attack Israel. The Yom Kippur war. UAE was the first of several Arab
countries to declare an embargo on oil exports to the US, as punishment for its
support of Israel. Over the next few months OPEC quadrupled oil prices.
25 November 1973 – KLM
airliner flying to New Delhi was hijacked to UAE, three hijackers surrendered,
their fate was unknown.
December 1976 – In Abu
Dhabi the UAE celebrated its 5th anniversary with a parade of mirage
fighters, missiles and armoured vehicles. While their ruler Sheikh Zayed
pledged support for the Palestinian cause and called for Arab solidarity
against Israel.
1978 – The UAE’s
ambassador to Washington Hamad al-Midfa tried to manage the press, with regards
to the takeover -- BCCI takeover of
Financial General. In 1978 Zafar Iqbal was head of BCCE the UAE affiliate of
BCCI in which Zayed held a controlling interest. Iqbal became BCCI chief
executive in 1990. BCCI takeover of Financial General was complete in 1982.
First American .
1979 – By 1979 the UAE had
430 bank branches or one for every 2,000 citizens. The highest ratio in the
world.
23 September 1983 – A Gulf
Air Boeing 737 from Karachi to Dubai crashed near Abu Dhabi airport killing all
passengers and crew. Was Abu Nidal behind the attack?
8 February 1984 – The
ambassador of UAE was shot dead in Paris France.
25 October 1984 – A
diplomat from the UAE was assassinated in Rome Italy.
20 September 1990 – BCCI
moved its HQ from London to UAE after refusing to release six month financial
statements.
9 September 1991 – Police
arrest Naqvi and several other BCCI officers at the banks main office in Abu
Dhabi UAE.
6 February 1995 – Gulf
economy BCCI deal buoys UAE stocks. Ahmad Mardini. Inter press service.
1998 – al-Qaeda accounts
in the Dubai Islamic bank in UAE were closed under pressure from the US.
8 December 2000 – The
pilot of flight 77 which crashed into the Pentagons southwest side is believed
to have been Hani Hanjour. Several hijackers including Hanjour and al Mihdhar
supplemented their finances with credit cards drawn on Saudi and UAE banks. The
FBI said that Hani Hanjour arrived in San Diego from Dubai on 8 December 2000
and left San Diego with al Hazmi for Arizona several days later. Hanjour was in
San Diego area with al Hazmi in December 2000. Hanjour was not identified by an
FBI informant who met with him. (the 9/11 investigations ©2004 S.Strasser
public affairs reports).
September 2001 – Pakistani
UAE based, Saudi born Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi (alias Mustafa Ahmed) coordinated finances for the 9/11
attacks.
22 September 2001 – UAE
severs diplomatic ties with the ruling Taliban movement in Afghanistan.
2004 – HBO documentary
about enslaved child camel jockeys in Dubai. They are malnourished boys, beaten and sodomized. (A crime so monstrous. E Benjamin Skinner
©2008 UK).
19 September 2006 –
Crackdown to stop illegal immigrants entering UAE from Oman. Al-Hilli
checkpoints security.
10 November 2006 –
According to Italian police the accused Pakistanis smuggled huge sums of money
to different countries. With the help of Indians based in UAE the accused
smuggled illegal drugs into Europe via Turkey. Their group comprised Albanians
who are also wanted. The Pakistani embassy in Italy asked Italian officials to provide
details of arrested Pakistanis.
2009 – UAE, soldiers and
laws for sex trafficking of women from Asia, into brothels in Dubai, and
Uzbekistan in 2009. Sex trafficking in UAE. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010
UK).
20 May 2009 – Ros Lehtinan
Iieana. Ros Lehtinen comments on the signing of UAE nuclear agreement. House
committee on foreign affairs.
30 Nov 2009 – Haseeb
Haider. UAE offers more funds to banks.
Khaleej times. (The shadow market. Eric J Weiner ©2010).
2011 – Gridlock, labour,
migration and human trafficking in Dubai. Pardis Mahdavi. ebook Sanford
California uni press Worldcat database.
23 October 2012 – Iran may
be using Dubai UAE to hide all the gold its trading with Turkey. Joshua
Berlinger Business insider.
22 May 2013 – Woman sentenced
to 15 years in Dubai jail for trying to smuggle drugs. Gulf news UAE.
28 June 2014 – Abu Dhabi
stops three attempts to smuggle cocaine heroin into UAE. 7 days.
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Monday, November 3, 2014
Spain
SPAIN
1474 – Juan Ponce de Leon was born to a noble family in
Spain. In his teens he fought against the Moors in Grenada. (History Today.
April 2013 UK).
20 Sept 1519 – Today in History. 20 Sept 2014. Richmond
Times Dispatch. Portugese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and crew went from Spain
on 5 ships to find spice islands.
Feb 1797 – Nelson, Spanish ships during the Battle of Capo
St Vincent. (History Today. April 2013 UK).
1874-1931 – In Spain a large socialist movement emerged. The
trade union tried to gain power. There was not an honest election from
1874-1931. Socialism was lead by Caballero a Madrid plasterer. (The momentous
years. Priestly and Betts ©1961).
1898 – From 1898 after the loss of Spanish colonies,
strikes, executions and assassinations increased. Socialism was a problem. (The
momentous years ©1961 Priestly and Betts).
19 April 1919 – Rioting in Madrid. NZ Herald. Papers Past
NZ.
Sept 1923 – Spain’s military regime was led by General Primo
de Rivera who seized power. (M16 SIS Keith Jeffery ©crown 2010 UK).
1936-39 – Spanish civil war. July 1936, Francisco Franco,
3,000 American volunteers went to Spain to battle the Fascists. 450 men formed
the Abraham Lincoln brigade, which suffered 120 dead and 175 wounded. Fighting
continued for three years. Spring 1939, killing 100,000 troops and 5,000
foreign volunteers. (The untold story
of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).
July 1936 – The Spanish civil war began. (Arms bazaar ©1977
Sampson).
18 July 1936-1939 – The Spanish civil war. The military coup
of July 1936, led to open violence. Conflict erupted on 18 July 1936. (History
Today. April 2013 UK)
19 April 1956 – 12 people died 20 injured Granada. Timeline
of earthquakes.
1961 – Hugh Thomas. The Spanish civil war. New York Harper.
1973 – PM Carreo Blanco of Spain was assassinated.
1976 – The Spanish west. Time life books. New York. Worldcat
database.
29 July 1979 – Madrid baggage area explosion, 1 killed and 9
wounded.
Dec 1980 – bar in Zarauz Spain attack 4 killed.
May 1981 – Banco central Barcelona 200 hostages 1 wounded.
1983 – BCCI acquired Spain’s Banco de Descuento and renames
it Bank of Credit and Commerce SA Espanola.
12 April 1984 – A restaurant near US Air force base at
Torrejon was bombed. 18 US servicemen were killed and 83 wounded.
2 August 1984 – Madras suitcase explosion 40 killed 19
wounded.
31 March 1985 – Vladimir Alexandrov, Soviet scientist
nuclear winter conference Madrid Spain disappeared. (The anals of unsolved
crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US)
6 Feb 1986 – Adm Christobal Colon Spain assassination MG
Gren 2 killed.
May 1987 – Bob Trimbole died in Spain. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond
Shepherd ©2010 Australia).
May 1987 – Bob Trimbole died of a heart attack aged 55. His
body returned to Sydney Australia. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010
Australia).
26 Dec 1987 – A US servicemen’s bar was attacked by Catalan
separatists. They bombed a Barcelona bar frequented by US servicemen, resulting
in the death of one US citizen.
July 1996-2014 – Adolfo Suarez, PM of Spain, died on 23 March
2014 aged 81. He was appointed in July 1976 aged 43. (The Economist. March
April 2014).
20 July 1996 – ETA bombing. A bomb exploded at Tarragona
international airport in Reus Spain wounding 35 people including British and
Irish tourists. The Basque fatherland and liberty ETA group was suspected.
1 Oct 1998 – Spanish Socialist leader, Basques, Joaquin
Almunia.
20 Nov 1998 – Spanish Socialist party. BBC London UK.
Spanish Socialist workers party. PSOE. Spanish Socialist party.
25 Nov 1998 – Spain government budget policy. Socialist
party, Borrell. AFX news London UK. Socialist party Partido Soclista.
12 March 1999 – Spanish Socialist leader, Lafontaine. BBC
London UK. Leader of Spain’s Socialist party Josep Borrell European Socialists.
29 March 1999 – Spanish police smash drugs ring, arrest 25.
BBC London.
7 July 1999 – Spanish police arrest 54 as drug rings
smashed. BBC London. Cocaine and heroin.
29 Sept 1999 – Basque city protests Socialist party offices.
BBC London UK. Socialist member party office damaged.
27 Jan 2000 – Unidentified people set fire to a citroen car
dealership in Iturreta causing damage to the building and destroying 12
vehicles. The attack bore the hallmark of Basque fatherland and liberty ETA.
9 March 2001 – ETA bombing, two police were killed by the
explosion of a car bomb in Hernani Spain.
10 July 2001 – Mohamed Atta met Ramzi bin al-Shibh in Spain
along with a number of other Arab men. Bin al-Shibh may also have been at the
January 2000 Malaysian meeting.
13 April 2002 – Spanish police arrest Ahmed Brahim who is
believed to be the chief financial officer of al-Qaeda network.
2004 – Madrid train bombings by al Qaeda, killing 191
people. Lots of people protested. (Putin’s labyrinth. Steve Levine ©2008 2009
US)
11 March 2004 – A coordinated series of 10 explosions aboard
four packed commuter trains in Madrid killed 191 people and injured more than
1,500 others. The attacks were carried out by terrorists boarding the system at
outlying stations, deploying their device laden packages in trains and exiting
before the predetermined time of detonation.
19 Oct 2004 – More terror arrests in Spain but still no
evidence presented.
18 Oct 2006 – Passports stolen from the Pakistani mission in
Spain, concern they may go to extremists.
19 Oct 2004 – Arrests foil Spain court attack, police
arrested 7 suspected Islamic militants in raids across Spain, to foil a planned
bomb attack on the high court.
7 Nov 2006 – Operation Suez, on 7 Nov 2006 agents from the
Spanish national police in Madrid arrested 4 men because of their involvement
in a document falsification ring, providing document cover to either Spain and
other European countries. The ring had
been operating for at least 2 years. One of the detainees, Nasreddive Bousbaa,
an Algerian, had been jailed for having contact with the organisers of the
terrorism attacks in Madrid, but was later released in Feb 2005. (Jamestown vol
3 issue 45, 21 Nov 2006, Kathryn Haahs).
Feb 2007 – 29 Islamists involved in the 11 March 2003 terror
attacks in Madrid trials began in Feb 2007. (Jamestown vol 3 issue 45. 21 Nov
2006 Kathryn Haahr).
10 Feb 2007 – CNN The national count in Spain convicted 5
Algerians on Islamic terrorism charges and sentenced them to 13 years each
according to a sentence. The 3 judges panel acquitted a 6th Algerian
man. The court convicted the 5 men for membership in a terrorist organisation
and for document forgery for terrorist purposes. The court acquitted the 5 men
on charges of conspiracy to carry out a terrorist attack and possession of
explosives. One of the men, Mohamed Tahraoui aged 24 had been charged in an
alleged plot on the military base Rotz where US and Spanish troops are based.
Near the strait of Gibraltar, that charge was not proven in court. 16 Islamists
were arrested in Jan 2003 near Barcelona and rearrested in 2004.
15 Feb 2007 – CNN 10 Feb 2007. The presiding judge Javer
Gomez Bermudez will be the judge in the Madrid train bombing trail with 29
defendants, due to start 15 Feb.,
15 May 2009 – The cocaine in Spain falls freely in Madrid.
Paul Bibby AFP Sydney Morning Herald NSW.
2010 – Mafias in sex trafficking run 4,000 brothels in Spain
earning 18 billion Euros a year. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).
18 Oct 2011 – BBC. Spain’s stolen babies and the families
who lived a lie.
15 Sept 2013 – Spain arrests 4 Hells angels in a large
cocaine bust. NZ Herald Madrid AP. Sailed from Colombia with cocaine.
23 Sept 2014 – Spanish lawmaker. Russian mafia case. RAPOSI.
Moscow. Catalonia. Andrei Petrov.
3 Oct 2014 – Madeleine McCann disappearance. Might be in
Spain. Express UK. Former solder and prison worker David Fullman contacted UK
detectives about a sighting in Spain.
8 Oct 2014 – Spanish police detain 54 in paedophile ring.
Euro Weekly news. Arrested members of a paedophile ring, child porn file shares
on P2P.
27 Oct 2014 – Spain has arrested 51 top figures in an anti
corruption swoop. The Guardian UK. A network of corruption.
27 Oct 2014 – Ten corruption cases in Spain. The local.es.
Corruption. Spain arrested 51 top figures in an anti corruption swoop. The
network of corruption.
28 Oct 2014 – Poverty and education, a lost decade for
Spain’s children. The Guardian blog. PorCamsa 2.7 million Spanish children live
in poverty and social exclusion.
28 Oct 2014 – Spain police arrest mafia trafficking cocaine.
RIA Novosti. 420 kilograms of cocaine from Latin America into Europe.
3 Nov 2014 – Spain police arrested 19 people trafficking
women. BBC news. Smuggling Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussian women into Spain.
4 Nov 2014 – Corrupt Spanish politics. The Guardian UK.
2,000 Politicians investigated for corruption, including the mayor of Lore.
Friday, October 31, 2014
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