More Abramoff-Kidan-Mafia-Al Qaeda Ties

[dutchdemocrat]

It has been documented that Adam Kidan, Abramoff's partner and a former Republican “fund-raiser,” was the co-owner and legal counsel of a Caribbean island hotel-casino with Rosario Spadaro, a well-known member of the Santapaola Crime family out of Messina, Italy who was arrested in Italy last May in a major investigation into international arms trafficking.

If Kidan was Sparado's legal man and part owner of Maho Resort - he's more than neck deep.

The Santapoala family is particularly infamous. Benedetto "Nitto" Santapoala, head of the family, was sentenced to life in prison in September for his role in the killing of Giovanni Falcone, Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor. Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards were killed in 1992 by a remotely controlled car bomb. The murders spurred a crackdown on the Mafia.

According to the report, Spadaro, who is from Santa de Riva, Messina, is seen as the Caribbean partner in a ring to illicitly finance real-estate speculations with “Cosa Nostra” Mafia money, reinvesting the profits abroad to buy casinos and finance other criminal transactions in casinos.

Hundreds of millions of dollars were allegedly sent all over the world in this way to built airports and harbours, invest in real estate and arms sales to the Middle East, Afghanistan, Latin America and North Africa as well. The centre of operations was Messina, where judges and police turned a blind eye.

The breakthrough reportedly came from phone and personal conversations recorded at the Prosecutor’s Office in Messina. The head of the operation is said to be businessman Salvatore Siracusano, now in prison, who is said to have business relations with Youssef Nada, identified as financier of Osama bin Laden by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

http://thedailyherald.com/news/daily/i01/spada01.html

Youssef Nada was designated by the UN’s Al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee for having provided funding to Al Qaeda and associated entities. There is a long line of UN resolutions which require all countries to “Freeze without delay the funds and other financial assets or economic resources of these individuals…and to ensure that neither these nor any other funds, financial asets or economic resources are made available directly or indirectly, for such person’s benefit, by their nationals or by any persons within their territory.”

Bush, Rather ironically considering the now-evident ties between the Republican money machine, Mafia and El Queda bankers, in a November 7, 2001, speech, singled out Nada's companies for funding al Qaeda.

Italian Documents translated

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.disarmo.org/rete/articles/art_11077.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522rosario%2Bspadaro%2522%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG

There's a lot strangeness in St. Maarten including some of the Shah's Money floating around with Hushang Ansari... who inked a deal with Kissinger for Iranian nuclear technology in the 70's - not to mention Seminole money scrubbing machines.

Carrying on and expanding on the work of Dan Hopsticker at http://www.madcowprod.com/

[texpatriot2004]

1. Is this family connected to SISMI in anyway? I think that's what it's

called...you know what I mean?

[dutchdemocrat]

5. Hmmm....

SISMI is Italy's version of the CIA. So who knows? The Mafia is well integrated into Italian society.

It would not surpise me... the P2 are fascists.

P2 was an extreme-right Italian secret society headed by a former Waffen SS officer named Licio Gelli, who routinely used blackmail and bribery to acquire power. SISMI officers loyal to P2 coagulated into a cell which received the jocular nickname "Super SISMI" or "Super S."

Although P2 was exposed in the 1980s, this tight-knit group within SISMI remains powerful, and Ledeen has never ceased to use them for his own purposes. The Niger forgeries trace back to this SISMI faction.

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2005/10/secret-world.html

[texpatriot2004]

7. I thought that SISMI helped with the forgeries...or was it something

else that they did with Ledeen was it? Gosh, I am so tired and I have read so much that I can't remember right now.

[dutchdemocrat]

2. Extensive background research here

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/10/326565.shtml

[leveymg]

3. There's also the Abramoff-Saudi banks-GOP connection.

All part of the same web. Goes back to the decision during WWII by Meyer Lansky to move the money of the Mafias (yes, plural mafias, and all it implies) into "legitimate" enterprises such as gambling, and to cozy up to the Republican Party.

As we all saw in "The Godfather" series and "Bugsy", the Mafias created Vegas to launder their money on the West Coast while they invested heavily in similar operations in Havana. After 1959, the Cuban-American mob fled to Miami, from which they later took over Florida politics.

The Saudi and Gulf states oil sheikhs bacame big-time international players after the oil price rises and nationalizations that followed the 1973-74 Mid-East War. The Arabs started pumping serious money into American politics after the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. Again, this went predominantly into GOP coffers.

Meyer and the other Dons, and the Saudis, chose the GOP because they thought the Republican Party was more "respectable", owned more judges, and had better business connections with big industrialists, and bankers than the Democrats. That was a smart business move, that's still paying off.

For more info specifically abour Ambramoff's role as a present-day spider at the center of the Saudi-GOP dirty money connection, see:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/17/122311/72

[dutchdemocrat]

4. Excellent... Thanks

Thanks for the link!

[leveymg]

6. Back to you. Hats off.

Are you writing from the Netherlands? Always thought that part of Europa was a rather good social model (despite having it's own share of problems).

[dutchdemocrat]

8. You Bet

From the North... Groningen - a thousand year old mercantile city chock full of students studying at the University of Groningen (EST 1601). Yes, we have our problems here, including a fundy government at the helm that is doing some serious slash and burn. Not to mention ethnic tension in the West (Amsterdam). But it's still a cool place with a lot of well educated, practical, tolerant people.

[leveymg]

9. I was taken in by a kind Dutch family when I was a kid.

My parents split up and I was living out in the street during High School. This was in the early 'seventies, which was a time of steep economic decline in the United States, particularly in the Northeast.

My hosts were hard-pressed economically. The father was a free-lance industrial designer. It was extremely generous of them to feed and house me along with their four kids. Rational and humane.

I am forever grateful, and feel a warm association with the Dutch.

[texpatriot2004]

10. The Dutch are good people.n.t