Counterterrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna will claim in a 2002 book that “in addition to successfully completing many missions, a significant number of planned bombings and assassinations [by al-Qaeda] have been thwarted. At least three to four dozen operations were detected and disrupted by government security and intelligence agencies or called off by al-Qaeda.” For instance, he cites a 1992 al-Qaeda plot to blow up a plane, which is called off when an operative involved in the plot is arrested. He also cites attempts to bomb US embassies in Albania, Bosnia, and Uganda, and a 2000 plot to assassinate King Abdullah II of Jordan. [Gunaratna, 2003, pp. 133] Gunaratna has had unusually good access to US intelligence information. One article calls him “something of an ad hoc adviser to US intelligence officials.” And he is the only private citizen believed to have access to some top secret transcripts of al-Qaeda prisoners interrogated after 9/11. [Bergen Record, 7/10/2003]

1992: Last Edition of Guide to Terrorist Passports for US Officials Published
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The CIA produces the last edition of its Redbook before 9/11. The Redbook is a manual written by the CIA for immigration officials; it helps the officials identify terrorists using telltale signs in their passports through commonalities among forged passports, travel cachets, and visas used by terrorists. The 1992 edition claims that more than “200 people carrying forged passports provided by terrorist groups have been identified before they could engage in terrorist acts.”
Types of Fraud - It focuses on five types of travel document fraud committed by terrorists: forgeries of some 35 national passports and the travel cachets of at least 45 countries; forged documents terrorists purchase from commercial vendors; stolen blank passports, which terrorists can fill in with biographical data of their choosing; information on genuine altered passports that have been photo-substituted or given an extended validity date; and genuine, unaltered passports, most likely procured with the knowledge of the issuing country or through a corrupt government official.
Reason for Discontinuance - The 9/11 Commission will say that the Redbook stops being published in 1992 due to “a lack of new exemplars,” but then add that there was plenty of “raw data” and a “rich trove of information on the travel tactics of terrorists” after this time. Citing an interview with an unnamed source, the commission will say that the CIA claimed it had no new data to analyze, as the FBI did not share what it gathered from its law enforcement investigations. However, the CIA did certainly obtain some new exemplars between 1992 and 9/11. For instance, it found some visa stamps, blank Egyptian birth certificates, and a forged passport in a June 1998 raid on extremists in Albania.
Significance of Non-Publication - The commission will also note that the information contained in the Redbook is directly relevant to al-Qaeda’s travel tactics before 9/11: “From the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center to the disruption of the millennium plot in December 1999, information suggested that al-Qaeda continued to employ all five methods of document fraud first noted in the Redbook years earlier, along with some new methods of their own.” The commission will also highlight how important the failure to take advantage of the information contained in the Redbook will be: “In practical terms, this meant the United States denied itself the ability to disrupt terrorist operations and prevent undetected terrorist entries by disrupting operatives’ ability to travel.” Several of the 9/11 hijackers will have anomalies in their passports (see November 2, 2007). [9/11 Commission, 8/21/2004, pp. 45-46, 61, 69, 102 pdf file] Islamist radicals linked to the WTC bombings and fighting in Bosnia will obtain a copy of the Redbook at some point in the next three years (see 1995 or Before).

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1993: Al-Zawahiri’s Brother Help Manage Mujaheddin in Bosnia Using Charity Cover
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Ayman al-Zawahiri, head of Islamic Jihad and Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, sends his brother Mohammed al-Zawahiri to the Balkans to help run the mujaheddin fighters in Bosnia. He is known as a logistics expert and is said to be the military commander of Islamic Jihad. Mohammed works in Bosnia, Croatia, and Albania under the cover of being an International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) official. He is said to make an extended stay in central Bosnia, where most of the mujaheddin are based, in 1993. He sets up an Islamic Jihad cell in Albania with over a dozen members to support the mujaheddin in Bosnia. [New Yorker, 9/9/2002; Schindler, 2007, pp. 123] Ayman also frequently visits Bosnia (see September 1992 and After) and by 1994 will move to Bulgaria to presumably work with Mohammed to manage operations in the Balkans region (see September 1994-1996).

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Die Firma wurde mit 20 Millionen $ Startkapital gegründet, 5 Millionen $ davon wurden von Yassin al-Qadi bereitgestellt, einem wohlhabenden saudischen Geschäftsmann mit guten Verbindungen welcher gerne mit seiner Vertrautheit mit Dick Cheney prahlte. Er hatte ebenfalls Verbindungen zu muslimischen Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen die verdächtigt werden, internationalen Terrorismus finanziert zu haben. Nach 9/11 wurde er von der US-Regierung offiziell zum “Special Designated Global Terrorist” erklärt und seine Konten wurden eingefroren. Zu dieser Zeit verneinten die Eigentümer und das Management von Ptech, dass al-Qadi in irgendeiner Weise an der Firma beteiligt war, mit Ausnahme seines Anteils am Startkapital, aber das FBI beharrt darauf dass in Wirklichkeit Al-Qadi weitere Millionen durch diverse Fonds und Investments in die Firma investiert hätte. Firmeninsider sagten gegenüber FBI-Beamten, dass sie 1999 nach Saudi Arabien flogen um Ptech-Investoren zu treffen und Al-Qadi wurde ihnen als einer der Eigentümer vorgestellt. Es wurde ebenfalls berichtet dass Hussein Ibrahim, Chefwissenschaftler bei Ptech, al-Quadis Vertreter bei Ptech war und dass al-Quadis Anwälte zugaben, dass al-Quadis Vertreter möglicherweise auch nach 9/11 noch im Vorstand saß.

Ibrahim selbst ist ein ehemaliger Präsident von BMI, einer in New-Jersey gelegenen Immobilieninvestmentfirma, die auch eine der Startinvestoren von Ptech war und Finanzmittel für Ptechs Gründungskapital bereitstellte. Ptech mietete Büroraum und Computer-Ausrüstung von BMI und BMI teilte sich Büroraum mit “Kadi International”, besessen und gesteuert von niemand geringerem als Ptechs Lieblingsinvestoren und “Specially Designated Global Terrorist”, Yassin al-Qadi. 2003 sagte der Chefterrorfahnder Richard Clarke:

“BMI gibt sich öffentlich als Finanzdienstleister für Muslime in den USA aus, doch die Investorenliste zeigt die Möglichkeit, dass diese Fassade nur dazu diente, Terrorunterstützung zu tarnen.”

Suheil Laheir war Chefarchitekt von Ptech. Wenn er gerade keine Software programmierte, die Ptech detailierte Analysen der Operationsstrukturen der schützenswertesten Behörden der US-Regierung zur Verfügung stellt, schrieb er Artikel welche den heiligen Krieg des Islams (den Dschihad) preisen. Er zitierte auch Abdullah Azzam, Osama Bin Laden’s Mentor und Kopf von Maktab al-Khidamat, einem Vorläufer von Al-Kaida.

Dass einer solch ungewöhnlichen Aufstellung von Personen Zugang zu einigen der heikelsten Behörden in der US-Regierung gewährt wurde, ist erschreckend genug. Dass sie Software hatten, die ihnen erlaubte jeden Prozess und jede Operation dieser Behörden zu kartographieren, zu analysieren und darauf zuzugreifen, mit der Absicht Schwachstellen zu finden, ist genauso erschreckend. Am beunruhigensten aber ist die Verbindung zwischen Ptech und jenen Behörden die in ihrer Plicht versagten, die Amerikanische Bevölkerung am 11. September 2001 zu schützen.

Ptech und 9/11: Der Keller der FAA

http://infokrieg.tv/wordpress/?p=747

Albania pledged to increase its contribution of troops to Afghanistan, froze bank accounts related to money laundering and terrorist financing, and aggressively worked with the United States and other countries to combat terrorism. Albania made progress in identifying vulnerabilities at land and sea borders, but the government and police forces continued to face challenges to enforce border security fully and to combat organized crime and corruption.

On January 14, 2008, the criminal trial began against Hamzeh Abu Rayyan, the suspected administrator for UNSCR 1267 Committee-designated terrorist financier Yassin al-Kadi, who is charged with hiding funds used to finance terrorism. This marked the first-ever criminal terrorist finance-related trial in Albania. The trial continued throughout 2009. A civil suit filed by al-Kadi to release his assets from seizure was dismissed and refiled several times. It was later reviewed by higher courts on matters of jurisdiction and statute of limitations. After being dismissed in June, it was filed again and is now pending trial in Tirana District Court. In addition, al-Kadi’s company, Loxhall, filed a lawsuit in April. It aimed to annul the Council of Ministers’ decision, as well as the two orders of the Ministry of Finance related to the administration of seized terrorism assets. This lawsuit was rejected in October, and is now pending appeal.

On October 12, a local imam, Artan Kristo, was arrested in Durrës. Kristo, also known as Muhamed Abdullah, was accused of “publicly inciting and propagating terrorist acts” for allegedly calling for jihad in the AlbSelafi.net online forum. Previously, Kristo was named as a suspect in the murder of the Secretary General of the Albanian Muslim Community, Salih Tivari, in January of 2003. The Durrës court decided to detain Kristo pending trial.

As of October, the Ministry of Finance stated it maintained asset freezes against six individuals and 14 foundations and companies on the UNSCR 1267 list. No new assets were frozen this year under Albania’s Terrorist Financing Freeze law. Despite this, the effectiveness of the government’s counterterrorist financing effort was undermined by a lack of data-processing infrastructure and an inadequate capability to track and manage cases properly. [URL=http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2009/140885.htm](for more information click here)[/URL]

17/06/2010

TIRANA, Albania — The government has declared two groups, Islamic Jihad and al-Qaeda, illegal in Albania. During a meeting Wednesday (June 16th), the cabinet also announced a list of 62 businessmen and nine commercial companies believed to be connected with al-Qaeda and the Taleban, groups that the UN considers sponsors of terrorism. Entities and individuals related to these organisations will now be subject to asset confiscation if found in Albania. (Gazeta Shqiptare, Balkan Web - 17/06/10)

http://balkaninfo.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/die-albanische-mafia-und-arta-dade-im-zwiespalt-mit-doris-pack/

Deutsche Diplomaten versorgten diese Mafiösen Gruppen um den Zirkel von Fatos Nano, mit Tausenden von Geschäfts Visas, inklusive für Terroristen, denn der Drogen Absatz, musste als Wirtschafts Wachstum dann in Deutschland als Erfolg verkauft werden. Man muss ja nur in den Web ARchiven des Lobby Vereines DAW nachlesen, wie gezielt mit hoher krimineller Energie der DAW mit HIlfe von Deutschen Ministern gefälschte Informationen über Albanien verbreiteten. Bis heute verbreitet der DAW, gezielt falsche Informationen, welche konträr zu allen EU- FBI- UN- Interpol Berichten steht. Dafür erhält der DAW auch noch Gelder aus der Entwicklungshilfe, um Leute mit Parteibuch und ohne Arbeit in Deutschland mit Geld zu versorgen.