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Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:08 AM
Subject: Fw: Albanian mobsters 'new mafia' In this nanosecond world of 2005,
one wonders how it took 25 years for this bit of
ancient information to reach the desks of our global news
outlets. The truth is now consistently obscured by not just liars of the Republican and
Democratic ilk, but also by a majority of our talking heads. Poor Edward
R. Murrow........or should I say, 'Pinwheel'
Morrow?
FBI: Albanian mobsters 'new Mafia'From Justice Producer Terry Frieden
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 Posted: 10:06 PM EDT (0206 GMT) WASHINGTON
(CNN) -- Thousands of Albanians and others who fled the Balkans for the United
States in recent years have emerged as a serious organized crime problem,
threatening to displace La Cosa Nostra (LCN)
families as kingpins of U.S. crime, top FBI
officials said Wednesday.
The Albanian criminal enterprises, operating largely in New York and other
Eastern seaboard cities, represent a major challenge to federal agents because
of their propensity for violence and brutality, the officials said.
"They are a hardened group, operating with reckless abandon," said Chris
Swecker, the newly named FBI assistant
director for the Criminal Investigative Division.
Swecker and other officials said some
of the Albanians served as enforcers in the established Mafia families for
several years.
When the FBI dealt a major blow to the LCN families in recent years, the Albanians began to emerge, and
now are taking over turf once controlled by the traditional mob bosses.
Officials said ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro are included in the clans and crews that emerged in the
organized crime world.
FBI officials said Russian and many other organized crime groups operating
in the United States are much more sophisticated and less violent than the
Albanians.
Part of the Albanian emergence stems from the FBI's success in busting the LCN.
Operation Buttondown, the code name for
the FBI's campaign to crush the Mafia,
reduced the number of families operating in the United States from 24 to only
nine, the FBI officials said.
More than 100 leading members of LCN
and more than 600 associates were arrested in the crackdown on organized crime.
Although no terrorism connection has been
discovered, the FBI says it is closely watching to see whether
the militant Muslims in the emerging organized crime world demonstrate ties to
organizations suspected of involvement in terrorist financing. (ROFLMFSAO! WHAT A WHOPPER!)
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