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Title: People smuggling network smashed
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BBC
URL Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4530970.stm
Published: Dec 17, 2005
Author: BBC
Post Date: 2005-12-17 22:29:27 by Zipporah
Keywords: smuggling, network, smashed
Views: 59
Comments: 4
Police have smashed an international people smuggling ring in an operation which also saw raids by police in UK, Italy, France, Greece and Turkey. They said the gang made millions of euros trafficking more than 5,000 people to Italy via Greece.
Police said they were mostly trafficked in boats or lorries.
The immigrants are said to have paid up to $15,000 (£8,500) for their passage, with around half of that for the France to Britain leg.
Police in Italy said the network was set up five years ago and run by an Iraqi Kurd, 30-year-old Ali Ako - nicknamed Arsalan - who made several million dollars.
"He managed the global strategy of the entire organisation from the [Italian] capital," they said.
"The immigrants and their families... were forced to pay huge sums to get to Europe, or, in rare cases, North America."
Three-year operation
Paris prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin told a news conference in the French capital that 53 people were arrested after the three-year investigation.
"It is one of the most important, if not the most important, operation dismantling clandestine immigration networks in France."
"The organisers ended up having a monopoly on the passage of the clandestine immigrants, of all nationalities, to Great Britain," said Denis Pajaud, of France's office fighting illegal immigration, OCRIEST.
French police said one of those arrested in the UK was the alleged mastermind of the ring.
Mr Marin said the man would be extradited to France by early January.
U.S. General Wesley Clark was featured on CNN commenting that that criminal slaughter of the innocents was "all about" preventing "ethnically pure" states," and promoting "multi-ethnic" states. This is what he said: "There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea, and we are trying to transition into the 21st century. We are going to do it with multi-ethnic states."
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Brzezinsky, former Security Advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter, has written that "[t]he world power-position of the USA could best be secured by the ethnic destabilization of Europe as a possible competitor. This multiracial Europe will consequently be too busied by these circumstances to concern itself with global politics. A certain player in this game would be the Turks, considering their sheer population force. Thirty percent of the Turks are under 15 years of age."
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So, this explains the recent riots in France....the PTB have as a goal the racially mixing of nation-states. If anyone cares to look, that very same thing is happening in America. Bush, and his insane illegal immigration policy, is actually a carefully crafted plan to reduce America to third world status. Yet, the only people with the balls to identify this for what it is are those on the extreme right. Maybe it's time to listen to them?
You xenophobe you.. :P Seriously though this is more than taking jobs for certain.. it's planned..otherwise the congress etc would do something about it.. and this latest immigration bill that was passed is a load of BS.. peel back a few layers and its obvious they're being purposefully deceitful.
#4. To: Zipporah (#2)
I totally agree, Zipporah. There is still Bush's so called "guest worker" plan and it is deceitful as hell!
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