Afghanistan's opium problem will keep growing - Al Jazeera English

Afghanistan's opium problem will keep growing - Al Jazeera English

Nigeria research

Nigeria

3 Dec 1823 – Giovanni Belzoni from Italy died in Gwato Nigeria. He was looking for the city of Timbuktu in west Africa. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK)

1967-70 – The Biafra famine, Nigerian blockade. Wikipedia.

1967-70 – Oil rich Nigeria. Biafra seceded in 1967. A military crackdown and starving Biafrans. Lyndon Johnson and US Pres Nixon. In 1970 the Nigerian government crushed Biafra with a horrific human cost. (The blood telegram. Gary J Bass (c)2013 US).

1 Jan 1984 – A coup in Nigeria, the military was led by major gen Muhammad Buhari who seized power. Oil supplies. Umaru Dikko was outed. The government was charged with embezzling millions of $US in oil profits. Dikki fled and disappeared. Cash was put into Swiss bank accounts. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).

3 July 1984 – 30 June 1984 Umaru Dikko was in the UK. On 3 July 1984 a Nigerian army 707 fighter was at Stansted airport north of London UK. Umaru Dikki while he was in London was kidnapped, anesthetic and drugged. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).

Aug 2003-2006 – Charles Taylor was given political asylum in Nigeria by pres Olusegun Obasanjo.. The Calabar area of Nigeria in the south of the country. Diamond hill. Vast millions of dollars. 2005 funding elections in Sierra Leone. 2006 in Nigeria Charles Taylor was arrested in Chad and held in Freetown jail. (The shadow world. Andrew Feinstein. (c)2011 US)

25 March 2006 – Nigeria will end asylum for warlord. New York Times.

30 Nov 2012 – Three Nigerians and four Bulgarians were arrested in Bulgaria for cocaine trafficking. An international cocaine trafficking ring.

6 Jan 2015 – A Nigerian fugitive is wanted in Belgium for a human trafficking case. Buffalo news. Eaval Eguavoen age 45 from Nigeria. A 2005 conviction for human trafficking. 7 women. Sun Times.

20 June 2015 – A Nigerian was sentenced to 18 years jail for drug trafficking in New Zealand. Four Nigerians and one New Zealander were arrested for their part in a drug trafficking ring. Nigeria news.

16 Oct 2015 – Suicide bomb blasts at a mosque in Nigeria. About 30 people are dead. Two explosions. Group Boko Haram. BBC UK.

17 Oct 2015 – Northeast Nigeria is hit again by Boko Haram. In Maiduguri 34 people were killed in a suicide bombing. Times of India.

21 Oct 2015 – Nigeria's oil industry corruption. Nigerian pres Muhammadu Bushari said there are mind boggling levels of corruption in the oil industry. BBC UK.

23 Oct 2015 – The IMF is urging Nigeria to devalue its currency. Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producer. Lagos. Vanguard news. G+.

24 Oct 2015 – Suicide bombers killed 33 people and injured 111 in Yola, Maiduguri attacks. Boko haram terrorists in two bomb attacks. Vanguard.

1 Nov 2015 – Oil tycoon faces quiz over lost billions. Tens of billions of dollars are missing. Kola Aluko founder of London based Seven energy. Corruption. Aluko is a Swiss citizen. The Sunday Times. Danny Fortson.

18 Nov 2015 – A bomb blast at a market in north west Nigeria, Yola, killed 32 people. Reuters. Nigeria news.

18 Nov 2015 – 32 people were killed and 80 injured in Nigeria, in a market blast. Red cross. The explosion was in the north east Nigerian city of Yola. G+. RT. Reuters.

28 Nov 2015 – 21 people were killed in a Boko Haram suicide attack at a Shiite rally in Nigeria. Twitter. RT.

4 Dec 2015 – A $2 billion arms deal, fraud EFCC scam. Ikechukwu Nnochiri Omeiza Ajayi. Abnja crimes commission. $2 billion arms contract ONSA Nigerian armed forces. Several arrests have been made. Vanguard.

22 Dec 2015 – The UK is to give Nigeria military backing to fight Boko Haram. 300 UK troops next year. Islamic Boko Haram suicide attacks. Terrorism with links to ISIS. Bloomberg. Elisha Bala Gbogbo. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-21/u-k-to-increase-nigeria-military-backing-to-combat-boko-haram

Queens St Auckland, begging, poverty and solutions

Queens St Auckland, begging, poverty and solutions

Antony de Malmanche caught up in prison riot - World - NZ Herald News

Antony de Malmanche caught up in prison riot - World - NZ Herald News

Afghanistan research

AFGHANISTAN

4^th century – Two huge buddhas were carved in sandstone in the caves of Bamiyan. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

1507 – The Uzbeks rose to power in central Asia and made their capital in Herat western Afghanistan. (Afghanistan and cental Asia ©2002 Martin McCauley).

1841 – British national archives. Spy diplomat, captain Sir Alexander Burnes was murdered in Kabul in 1841. (The new spymasters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).

1851 – Sir John Kaye. The history of the war in Afghanistan London UK vol 1.

July 1880 – Ayub, brother of the Emir, defeated a British force and killed 1,000 men in the west of Afghanistan at Maiwand. (History today. Feb 2014 p31).

Aug 1880 – After an unsuccessful attempt to occupy Afghanistan, British forces withdrew. Abdur Rahman Khan became ruler. The prison population went from 1,500 in 1880 to 20,000 in 1896. He killed about 100,000 people during his reign. (History Today June 2014 UK).

1884 – The Russians advanced from Merv to Panjdem 20 miles from Herat. (History today. Feb 2014 p31).

May 1919 – The third Afghan war broke out in May 1919, with the Afghan army crossing the fronetier into Pakistan. The attack recaptured Bagh, charged Afghan army with bayonets. (Who do you think you are. May 2014 UK).

1920s – Pinterest. A Kuchi nomad woman carrying water. Cirque. Tumblr.

1926 – The third Afghan war in 1919 official account, government of India 1926.

9 June 1956 – 400 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

1965 – A Fletcher. Afghanistan, highway of conquest Cornell.

1 Jan 1965 – a leftist party called Khalq (masses), was set up under Nur Mohammad Taraki. In June 1967 a second leftist party called Parcham (banner or flag), was formed under Babrak Karmal.

1974 – Mohammed Niazi the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was jailed along with 200 of his associates. 50 others fled to Pakistan where they set up opposition movements. (Afghanistan ©2002 M Ewans).

1978 – Less than 200 tons of dried opium was produced in 1978 in Afghanistan, before the Soviet invasion. (Afghanistan (c)2002 M Ewans).

27 April 1978 – Leaders of the combined Khalq and Parcham leftist parties launched a coup. President Daoud Khan and his supporters were killed. The Democratic republic of Afghanistan DRA was set up. The Saur revolution was also Islamic.

5 Dec 1978 – Taraki went to Moscow and signed with Leonid Brezhnev a treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union. Soviet military advisers played a role in directing DRA military units in their war against the rebels in the countryside.

24 Dec 1979 – Soviet forces entered Afghanistan. Peshawar Pakistan was the HQ for the Afghan resistance to Soviet occupation. Mujahadeen. The Saudis matched the Americans dollar for dollar until the end of the war. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright (c)2006 US).

27 Dec 1979 – The ouster of the leftist peoples Democratic party of Afghanistan backed by Soviet special forces Spetnazy in Kabul. (NZ and the Soviet Union. AL Wilson ©2004).

28 Dec 1979 – The KGB on the war in Afghanistan, now the Russian archives. Thousands of Afghan villages and 4 million refugees. The death of one million Afghans in the war. The coffins of 15,000 Russian returning troops who were killed in Afghanistan. Secret funerals. A cemetery at Kuzminsky monastery, with no reference to Afghanistan. (The Mitrokhin archives. Christopher Andrew. Vasili Mitrokhin (c)1999-2000).

1980s – The Saudis gave several billion dollars in arms and economic aid for Afghanistan, against the Soviets Gorbachev. The CIA was funding Afghan Madrasses. in the 1980s. Saudi prince Bandar. (The shadow world. Andrew Feinstein (c)2011 US).

1980s – During the 1980s Afghan war against the Soviets. Saudi Arabia’s Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, organised transport to Afghanistan for militants, the Mujahadeen, from various Arab countries. He controlled Saudi charities, giving tens of millions to the Mujahadeen. Many of these charities were on the US list of terror sponsors. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

Feb 1984 – Sam Bamieh and Saudi prince Bandar met in Cannes France in Feb 1984. Shell companies to funnel money to Angola and Afghanistan. CIA William Casey. (The shadow world. Andrew Feinstein (c)2011 US).

26 June 1984 – bin Laden recorded that the Mujahadeen shot down four Soviet aircraft. (The looming tower. Larence Wright ©2006 US).

17 April 1987 – Osama bin Laden led 120 fighters to attack an Afghan government post near Khost. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

May 1988 – The Soviets began a staged withdrawl from Afghanistan, signalling an end to the war. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

15 May 1988 – The Soviets began withdrawl from Afghanistan. (This day in history. 15 May 2015).

1989 – There were more than one million Afghans dead. Six million refugees in Pakistan and Iran. The Soviets had 15,000 dead and 53,000 wounded. The Taliban moved in. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

15 Feb 1989 – General Boris V Gromov was commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan. He walked into Uzbekistan on 15 Feb 1989. The Soviets had lost 15,000 lives and 30,000 people were wounded. One to two million Afghanis died. 90% of them were civilians. A third of the people of Afghanistan were in refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

Aug 1996 – Bin Laden declared war on America from a cave in Afghanistan. US forces were still in Saudi Arabia, five years after the Gulf war. A Saudi in a cave in Tora Bora. Bin Laden became the most wanted man in FBI history. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

Sept 1996 - The Taliban were in the capital Kabul. There had been no census in Afghanistan since 1979. Mullah Omar and Sharia law, Islamic Koran. Al Qaeda was led by Osama bin Laden who arrived in Afghanistan in 1996 from Sudan. His associate was Ayman al Zawahiri. The destruction of the Bamiyan buddhas. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011)

28 Nov 1997 – Newsmag. Forces of the northern warlord Abdul Rashid Dostan found 30 mass graves of Taliban soldiers.

4 Feb 1998 – 4,500 people were killed in Takhar in a 6.1 earthquake. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

30 May 1998 – 6.8 earthquake. 4,000 people were killed in Takhar. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

1999 – The Afghan production of opium was about 4,500 tons, 75% of the world total. See Alain Cabrousse. Liberation 4 Oct 2001. (Jihad. Gilles Kepel (c)2002 UK).

2000 to 2006 – Afghan opium production went from 3,276 metric tonnes in 2000 to 185 tonnes in 2001. A record high of 6,610 metric tonnes in 2006.

March 2001 – The Taliban destroyed centuries old Buddhist figures, which were carved into the Baniyan of Afghanistan. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

11 Sept 2001 – The US obliterated Afghanistan, after the terrorist attack of 11 Sept 2001. 9/11. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

7 Oct 2001 – Unocal oil and gas pipeline through Afghanistan from Turkistan to Pakistan. Unocal oil and gas pipelines.

7 Oct 2001 – Invasion of Afghanistan by the US. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone (c)2012 US).

7 Oct 2001 – US invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert ops on the ground. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 7 Oct 2015)

15 Oct 2001 – Opium banks in Afghanistan. War on terror. John Zubruzyski. The Australian Canberra ACT. Opium farmers use an informal network of opium banks.

8-11 Nov 2001 – On 8 Nov 2001 bin Laden and al Zawahiri were in Kabul, then they went to Jalalabad on 10 Nov 2001. The place was full of refugees. On 11 Nov 2001 at an Islamic centre bin Laden gave a speech. Bin Laden handed out $100,000 and left the next day for Tora Bora. (The 9/11 war. Jason Burke ©2011)..

25 March 2002 – In the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan a 6.1 earthquake killed 1,000 people. USGS historic world earthquakes.

8 April 2002 – Mass graves in Afghanistan, bodies of 35 adults and children. Irish Times Dublin.

May 2002 – 13,000 foreign troops were in Afghanistan. Until summer 2002, food for the troops in Bagran Afghanistan, was cooked at US bases in Ramstein Germany. It was flown 4,000 miles, reheated and served. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

31 Aug 2003 – Billions of dollars in Saudi oil revenue. Time article. Book “Why America slept”. al Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah was captured by Americans in Afghanistan. He was Osama bin Laden’s number three man. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

5 April 2004 – Michael Chossudossky. The spoils of war. Afghanistan’s multibillion dollar heroin trade. Centre for research globalisation.

4 Aug 2007 – Matthew Lee. Another record poppy crop in Afghanistan. AP.

Sept 2007 – UN figures for Sept 2007. Afghanistan accounted for 95% of the world’s opium crops.

6 March 2008 – Afghan heroin production at new high. The Australian Canberra ACT.

27 March 2008 – Supplier under scrutiny on arms for Afghans. New York Times.

30 June 2008 – Slash the Taliban’s cash crops. Martin Chulov. The Australian Canberra ACT heroin.

13 July 2009 – Taos industries team wins Logcap IV task order in Afghanistan. Business wire.

10 August 2009 – Afghanistan’s narco war breaking the link between drug traffickers and insurgents. A report to the committee on foreign relations US Senate 111 Congress first sess ebook (Worldcat database).

31 Dec 2009 – A Jordanian doctor and secret agent, killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan. Humam al Balawi was a Palestinian Jordanian. (The new spymasters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).

2010 – Afghanistan a cultural and political history. Thomas Barfield. Google books.

2010 – American war machine, deep politics the CIA and global drug connection and the road to Afghanistan. Peter Dale Scott book Laham md Rowman Littlefield pub (Worldcat database).

2011 – The global Afghan opium trade, a threat assessment Hakan Demirbuken Hayder Mili Renee Le Cussan UN ebook Vienna Austria (Worldcat database).

2011 – The nexus international terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan. Frank Shanty ebook Santa Barbara Calif Praeger security int (Worldcat database).

2011 – Terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan. Frank Shanty ebook Santa Barbara California Prager. Worldcat database.

23 June 2011 – Barack Obama says 33,000 troops will leave next year. Afghan withdrawl. The Guardian UK.

25 June 2012 – Australian soldiers take aim at Afghan opium growers. Max Blenkin. The Mercury Hobart Tasmania. Afghan heroin goes to Australia and Russia.

Dec 2013 – Ancient Ghazni and the tomb of Biruni. Afghanistan explorer of the middle ages. Ghazni and the place of Biruni's tomb. The 13^th century manuscript of al-Biruni's navigations. (History today. Dec 2013 UK).

22 Oct 2014 – Inspector general, new opium highs, corruption in Afghanistan. US news and world report. Illegal drug trade, billions from the US.

14 Jan 2015 – ISIS has set up base in Afghanistan, less than 3 months after British troops left. Southern Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Rauf is recruiting fighters. Daily mail.

25 Jan 2015 – Dianne Feinstein said the rapid pull out of Afghanistan will help an al Qaeda resurgence. Pam Key. Breitbart.

30 Jan 2015 – Three Americans were killed in a shooting at Kabul airport. Three American contractors were killed in a shooting on a military site. The Express. New York Times.

27 Feb 2015 – More than 160 people have been killed in Afghanistan avalanches. Villages in north Afghanistan were burying more than 180 people killed in avalanches. The Indian. Stuff.co.nz.

12 May 2015 – A 6.9 earthquake in Afghanistan. About the same time as a 7.4 earthquake in Nepal. Both quakes were felt in India. Hindustan Times.

28 July 2015 – 21 people were killed in a gun battle in northern Afghanistan. Washington Post. New York Times. Kabul. The gun battle between rival warlords in the northern Baghlai province.

31 July 2015 – MOD says laws must change after UK Afghan detention policies ruled illegal. The Telegraph UK. Twitter.

6 Sept 2015 – Young school girls were attacked with gas and acid in Afghanistan. 30 girls were sent to hospital, it was the 4^th such incident in a week. Four female teachers and 26 students were hospitalised. School in Herat. (Gary Walton G+. The Big wobble).

9 Oct 2015 – Your Anon facts. Twitter. Earthquake 4.8 in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.

10 Oct 2015 – Fresh clashes erupt in Afghanistan's Kunduz. Security forces and the Tailban clash in Kunduz city. Xinhua.

16 Oct 2015 – CIA and west torture alleged. ACLU says the psychologists, James Elmer Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen.. Post 9/11 torture. Psychological torture. Stuff.co.nz.

16 Oct 2015 – Australia to join the US in keeping troops in Afghanistan. Sydney Morning Herald. David Wroe. The Taliban in Kunduz.

17 Oct 2015 – Russia putting guards in Tajikistan to fend of ISIS. Russian defence fight terrorism by putting guards on the border between Afganistan and Tajikistan. General Yuri Borisov. Before its news.

17 Oct 2015 – Putin warns of spillover from Afghan fighting. Astana Kabul. Putin says violence in Afghanistan could spill over into ex Soviet states. The Nation. NDTV.

17 Oct 2015 – US tanks attack the MSF hospital in Kunduz Afghanistan to destroy evidence. Twitter. RT.

17 Oct 2015 – US tanks attack the MSF hospital in Kunduz to destroy evidence. Twitter. Before its news.

20 Oct 2015 – The US puts Taliban leader on the terrorism list. Torek Agha. Taliban. The long war journal.

22 Oct 2015 – Russia eyes Afghanistan, again. Visits to Moscow by Afghan leaders and a NATO pullout of Afghanistan. Communities digital news.

18 Nov 2015 – A 4.3 earthquake in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Twitter. Earthquake reports.

2 Dec 2015 – NATO will keep 12,000 troops in Afghanistan through 2016. Belfast Telegraph.

5 Dec 2015 – A CIA paramilitary unit called the Khost protection force KPF, in eastern Afghanistan, civilian killings and torture called counter terrorism, mercenary killings. A new report. Taliban and al Qaeda terrroists. Press TV.

10 Dec 2015 – Dozens of people were killed during the weekend. A Taliban attack on Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan. Helmand province falls. The Globe and Mail.

12 Dec 2015 – Car bomb rips through Kabul. A terrorist attack close to the Spanish embassy. Taliban suicide attack. Jakarta Post. Reuters. CNN.

16 Dec 2015 – Taliban attacks in Afghanistan spike in 2015. ISIS growing stronger, Pentagon. RT. Reuters. https://www.rt.com/usa/326117-afghanistan-security-taliban-pentagon/

16 Dec 2015 – US military says al Qaeda is in Afghan east and north east. The long war journal. Bill Roggio. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/12/us-military-insists-al-qaeda-is-concentrated-in-afghan-east-and-northeast.php

17 Dec 2015 – The Long war journal. The US, Taliban and al Qaeda. Bill Roggio. Thomas Joscelyn. Ayman al Zawahiri al Qaeda leader. Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/12/us-continues-to-push-for-negotiations-with-taliban-despite-direct-ties-to-al-qaeda.php

18 Dec 2015 – Pentagon chief says the Afghan war is far from over. Ash Carter says 10,000 US troops will stay in Afghanistan through most of 2016. Corruption. Afghan pres Ashraf Ghani. VOA. Ayaz Gul in Islamabad. http://www.voanews.com/content/us-defense-secretary-makes-unannounced-stop-in-afghanistan/3108473.html

2024 – US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024. Daily Telegraph. 19 Aug 2011.

US military carried out anthrax & bubonic plague tests in S. Korea – probe — RT News

US military carried out anthrax & bubonic plague tests in S. Korea – probe — RT News

Hong Kong research

HONG KONG

1680s – Sex slavery, buying girls and women, drug smuggling, Triads in Hong Kong. Sun Yee On, sex slavery. Wo Shing Wo triads and extortion. Opposition to the Qing dynasty in the 1680s. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006).

1842-1898 – Hong Kong became a British colony in 1842, after China’s defeat in the first opium war. The British got Kowloon in 1860 and more in 1898 from China. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

1 Feb 1864 – Hong Kong. Otago Daily Times NZ. Papers Past.

5 Feb 1864 – Hong Kong. Daily Southern Cross NZ. Papers Past.

1894 – Plague struck Hong Kong. Colonial authorities used quarantine and charities. Bacteria was called Yersinia Pestis. (History Today. March 2013 UK).

18 Sept 1906 – A typhoon with tsunami killed about 10,000 people in Hong Kong. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 18 Sept 2015).

Early 1930s – Triads in Hong Kong. Opium wars in 1842. Gambling and sex slavery. There were eight main Triads in Hong Kong. Yee On, unions and corruption. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006).

7 Sept 1937 – Postcard from Hong Kong sent to Australia in 1937. Sent from the SS Manhin on 7 Sept 1937. Arrived five days ago, missed the typhoon by a few hours. Terrible disaster, wrecked ships eveywhere, dead Chinese. A 7,000 ton liner blows out to sea. Serious cholera outbreak. (Who do you think you are mag. April 2014 UK).

7 Sept 1937 – Hong Kong is full of refugees from Shanghai China. The typhoon, 30 miles off Hong Kong The typhooon and the .. China. One of the worst typhoons in Hong Kong's history, killing many thousansd of people. (Who do you think you are mag. April 2014 UK).

1941-45 – Oliver Lindsay. The battle for Hong Kong 1941-45. Hostage to fortune. Spellmount publishers ltd 2002.

25 Dec 1941 – Hong Kong fell to Japan. 1,816 British and other POWs on the “Lisbon maru” for shipment as slaves to Japan. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

10 July 1949 – Hong Kong cold war. Michael Davidson. The Observer UK.

July 1952 – The US communications intel based at the British. Send an extra 800 US force Sigint unit to Hong Kong to join the British and Australians. Hong Kong and intel gathering. (GCHQ Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).

1954 – Civil Air Transport CAT Taiwan, Tokyo and Hong Kong. (Air America. Christopher Robins (c)1979 UK).

7 June 1955 – Hong Kong local intel committee papers of the joint intel committee far east JOIC FE. The public attitude of the Chinese population in south east asia and Hong Kong in the event of war. Hong Kong the critical years 1945-49. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

1960s – Heroin refineries along the Thai, Burma border, most syndicates were dominated by Triads in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, with links to KMT, above the law corrupt police. (Merchants of madness. B Lintner. M Black ©2009 Thailand).

1960s – On 22 June 1971 in Vietnam heroin and US GIs. 1960s Hong Kong heroin labs, international syndicates Chinese. (Politics of heroin in southeast Asia. Alfred W McCoy).

Mid 1960s – Raw opium from the golden triangle was smuggled on Chinese fishing boats from the Thai coast to Hong Kong, where it was refined into heroin in labs in remote areas of Hong Kong. (Merchants of madness. B Lintner. M Black ©2009 Thailand).

April 1965 – John Pullman, Meyer Lansky’s courier and financier went to Hong Kong, drugs and gambling there. (Politics of heroin in southeast Asia. Alfred W McCoy).

18 Aug 1967 – Long term study, Shibuya BRL intel in Hong Kong in the era. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

1968 – Santos Trafficante visited Singapore, Hong Kong and south Vietnam in 1968. The Florida mafia boss and American troops in south Vietnam. An underworld narcotics stronghold. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Schiem (c)1988 US).

1968 – Florida mafia Frank Carmen Furci and US military clubs in Vietnam. Tampa mafia boss Santos Trafficante visited Furci in Hong Kong then went to Vietnam where he met with Corsican mafia about heroin. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Schiem (c)1988 US).

1968 – USA military in Vietnam 1965. Frank Carmen Furci, US mafia, went from Vietnam to Hong Kong in Aug 1967. 1968 Frank Furci in Hong Kong, Corsican syndicates in Saigon. Santo Trafficante visited Furci in Hong Kong in 1968 then Trafficante went to Saigon. Corsican gangsters there. (Politics of heroin in southeast Asia. Alfred W McCoy).

1969 – Mr Kaplan a journalist who worked for Truth newspaper Auckland, then worked for a Hong Kong paper. China Mail story. Josip Kumarich was murdered. Josip Kunnarich Air India flight arrived in Hong Kong 30 Oct 1969, he was detained by airport security and sent to Kowloon city police station. Taimahatan police station He was found dead in police custody, Lies corrupt the legal system.(Justice. Kevin Ryan ©1997 NZ).

1969 – Murder inquest into death of Josip Kumarich, his killers were members of the Hong Kong police. In Nov 1969 two of his brothers, Tony and Ivan, came from Yugoslavia, emigrated to NZ. 1968 Josip flew to Yugoslavia. Josip died in Hong Kong. Kai Tak airport died from al alleged heart attack. Flown back to NZ 5 Nov 1969. Kevin Ryan Hong Kong 11 Dec 1969. (Justice. Kevin Ryan ©1997 NZ).

1973 – Sparticus education. In 1973 Nugan and Michael Hand set up Nugan Hand bank. Nugan ran operations in Sydney where as Hand set up a branch in Hong Kong. Australia to access a money laundering facility for illegal transfers of Australian money to Hong Kong. John Simkin Sept 1997- June 2013.

1979 – BCCI’s biggest Asian outpost was Hong Kong. In 1979 BCCI had 50% of Hong Kong metropolitan bank. BCCI nearly got 100%. BCCI changed its name to Bank of Credit and Commerce Hong Kong ltd.

1982-97 – Corruption 14K, the Wo Shing Wo and Sun Yee On were all expanding across Asia. Building empires of gambling, sex slavery, extortion, drug trafficking, money laundering. Hong Kong and Macau bases. Triads brought into some of the casinos controlling high rollers that doubled as money laundering bases. Corrupt Hong Kong police. When Hong Kong returned to China in 1997 they went global. Vietnam and Australia launderers and drug runners. Operation Gordian. (p37 The Sting. Nick McKenzie ©2012 Aust).

7 April 1987 – Hong Kong airport, money laundering and drugs. Tax evasion and arms deals. Auckland NZ, Tony Molloy QC. The IRD and Winston Peters. Letter 7 April 1987 IRD by Denise Latimer. Allan May, a tax haven bank in the Channel islands, between the UK and France. Accountants in Hong Kong and London, NZ IRD.(The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

1989 – Citibank, fraud, investments and taxes. A secret company controlled via Hong Kong called Zorasong, horses from overseas. Zorasong, horses, offshore entities and tax havens. BNZ, European Pacific. Tax havens in 1989. The Cook islands, bank accounts, investment management services CI ltd. BNZ in the late 1908s. Hong Kong fraud office. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c) 1995 NZ).

1990s – Triads, heroin trafficking and sex slavery, money laundering and extortion. Triads in the Chinese community worldwide. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006).

1990-91 – General Khun Sa, warlord in Burma who controlled 80% of the regions opium trade. In 1990 he was indicted in the US on federal drugs charges but remained a fugitive. In Mid 1991 he had deposited about $300 million in BCCI. The accounts were fed from Taiwan and Hong Kong.

1991 – Hong Kong banks for drug and sex trafficking from Laos, Thailand, Burma aka Myanmar, and Cambodia. BCCI shut down in 1991. Sort of, except for UAE. (Nicholas Shaxson Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

August 1996 – President Hinckley visits Asian saints, and dedicated Hong Kong temple. Ensign p74 LDS Mormon.

1 July 1997 – At midnight the colony of Hong Kong was returned to China the end of UK 99 year lease. Intel moved to Australia. (GCHQ. Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).

1998 – Millions of shipments bypass customs from Hong Kong into China. Some shipments are not reported. Corruption, half of the customs officers in China are on Lai's payroll. Lai is the tip of a Chinese smuggling iceberg, Official trade data and the economics of smuggling. The paper trail left by smugglers. Lai Changxing went to Canada. (Economic gangsters. Raymond Fisman. Eduard Miguel (c)2008 US).

1999-2000 – July 1999 the Oriental Timber Company OTC majority owned by Hong Kong based Global Star holdings. Part of an Indonesian group of companies called Djan Djajanti. Weapons on ships owned by OTC. AK-47s arms trafficking in Dec 2000. Gus Kouwenhoven from Amsterdam exporting rice from south Asia in the 1970s and 1980s. (The shadow world. Andrew Feinstein (c)2011 US).

2000 – Roderic Broadhurst Crime trends in Hong Kong university of Hong Kong.

2001 – Macau crime and the casino state. Leong Vengmei uni of Hong Kong pokfulan rd. (Worldcat database).

26 Nov 2001 – Hong Kong says Russian Mafia ring in Hong Kong. Macao vice trade. BBC UK.

26 Nov 2002 – Casinos pay huge taxes in Macao. Casino tycoon Stanley Ho runs 11 casinos in Macao. BBC UK.

2004 – Emerald group publishing. Journal of money laundering control. Macau casinos and organised crime. Angela Veng Mei Leong.

15 Jan 2005 - Hong Kong daily reports China’s crack down on border casinos. 68 casinos have shut, the dept has detained casino bosses and cut off phones. BBC UK.

24 Jan 2005 – Hong Kong crime down on 2003 but some drug seizures up. BBC UK.

3 April 2005 – Hong Kong Triads cut off Britons fingers. Attack on businessman by men wearing surgical masks has police shocked. Simon Perry. Sunday Telegraph UK. Crime by triads has gone up by 120% in the last year.

27 May 2005 – Hong Kong police drug trafficking. 100 million seized. BBC UK.

30 July 2005 – Drugs. BBC UK.

15 November 2005 – Ian McWalters The link between organised crime and corruption. A Hong Kong perspective. Int anti corruption conference.

2006 – Smuggling 1998 China and Hong Kong customs and shipping. 2006 underground tunnels linked Hong Kong to Shenzhen via the city sewer pipes through which goods are trafficked with China. (Economic gangsters. Raymond Fisman. Edward Miguel (c)208 US).

2006 – Chinese triads in the Chinese community worldwide. Opium, Tongs and Triads. The 14K triad originated in 1945. Gambling, sex slavery, smuggling, loans and extortion. Hong Kong and Macau casinos, corruption and heroin trafficking. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006).

2006 – Corruption still at top of study worldwide. Business and politics. $700 billion worth of goods went throuhgh Hong Kong ports each year. 24 million 40 foot containers went through Hoing Kong in 2006 alone. No one knows what is going through Hong Kong in those millions of containers. (Economic gangsters. Raymond Fisman. Edward Miguel (c)2008 US).

2006 – Macao the Chinese Las Vegas. Sceren network NY film library (Worldcat database).

2007 – A concise history of Hong Kong. John Mark Carroll. Chinese, British colonial. Google books.

2008 – Transporting goods through secret tunnels linking Hong Kong and China. Corrupt officials smuggling and trafficking. Chinese smugglers bypass the ports. Import export data. Customs officials earn money by looking the other way. Corrupt police and bribes. ((Economic gangsters. Raymond Fisman. Eduard Miguel (c)2008 US).

8 Jan 2008 – Sixty arrested in Hong Kong operation to combat Chinese drug trafficking. Heroin cocaine. BBC UK.

2009 – The politics of cross border crime in greater China, case studies of mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Lo Sonny shiu Hing ebook ME Sharpe (Worldcat database).

2010 – Macao and US China relations. Yufan Hao ebook Lanham Rowman Littlefield (Worldcat database).

2010 – Macao and Sino US relations. Yufan Hao ebook. Rowan Littlefield pub group (Worldcat database).

2010 – According to Hong Kong police the Triads date back to the 17^th century, when Manchurian invaders destroyed the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty. Queen Victoria headed a government run drug trafficking cartel, the opium trade. The British colonized Hong Kong, while millions of Chinese became addicted to opium. Drugs were exported under the Royal seal. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

1 Feb 2010 – Harrah seeks Crons Macau casino stake. Ceasars palace casino, one of eight in Las Vegas, US casino companies. The Age Melbourne.

1 Feb 2010 – Buyer interest in Packers Macau casino, gambling. Vanda Carson. The worlds biggest casino operator, Harrah entertainment. Meko Crown owns two casinos in Macau. Sydney Morning Herald.

March 2010 – Britains largest bank HSBC sent its CEO from London to Hong Kong in March 2010. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

31 March 2010 – Business insider Australia. Reuters and PBS unite to uncover organised crime in Macau casinos. Lauren Streib.

1 July 2011 – Papers hush hush about Chinese Communist party in Hong Kong. BBC UK.

27 January 2012 – Bribes, Chinese mob ties alleged at casino of Gingrich money man. Brian Ross, Mathew Mosk, Cindy Galli and Rhonda Schwartz. ABC news.

7 March 2012 – Mafia ties at Chinese casinos owned by US firms. Matthew Mosk. ABC news.

12 March 2012 – Asia Sentinel. Taking on the Macau casinos.

28 June 2012 – Macau triads attack investor at his casino. Keith Bralsher and Neil Gough. Hotel investor Ng Man-Sun. Int Herald Tribune.

6 July 2012 – 600 kilos of cocaine was seized, a container from Ecuador. Destined for China. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK)

1 Aug 2012 – Australia forum. Australia govt smashed Hong Kong drug ring. Mark Benson. Meth and heroin.

24 October 2012 – Insight Nevada struggles with dark side of Macau casinos by Joseph Menn. Reuters.

2013 – Google inc invests $300m in new Hong Kong data centre. Running by 2013 Asian internet use. (AP 8 December 2011).

7 February 2013 – Casinos took in MOP 30.7 billion in August. Macau casinos.

3 March 2013 – Court documents say dragon head, Lai Tong Sang laundered Triad cash in Canada. Triad leader from Macau laundered millions of dollars in Canada. Simon Kwok Chow a leader of the 14K triads in Vancouver with links to Macau. (by Dene Moore Canadian free press Vancouver).

12 June 2013 – Ketamine Hong Kong reaches out to addicts. The Gold Coast bulletin Southport QLD. Australia.

6 Aug 2013 – Police reveal rare method of trafficking cocaine into Hong Kong. Two men arrested 2kg cocaine seized Mong Kok.

7 September 2013 – Casinos in Asia. The rise of the low rollers. Macau, the worlds casino capital. Macau uses Hong Kong int airport.

9 September 2013 – SJm to buy shares in land to triple size of casino resort. By Vinicy Chan. Macau area.

11 September 2013 – Chinese ultra rich increase, some escape to Hong Kong. Tomohiro Ohsumi Bloomberg.

12 September 2013 – Siono Biopharm after CCTV bribes report. Hong Kong by Bloomberg news.

18 September 2013 – Hong Kong riddled with British spies, reports say. China real time report. The Wall street journal. blogs.wsj.com. Ta Kung Pao.

7 June 2014 – Smuggler spirited 89 out of China. Bribes, triads students to Hong Kong. Chris Buckley. Hong Kong underworld. Triads from China, political fighters after the Tianamen crackdown in 1996. New York Times.

30 June 2014 – Hong Kong must maintain vigilance against human trafficking. Trafficking of people for sex is a serious violation of their human rights, its dehumanising. South China Morning Post.

10 Aug 2014 – Human sex trafficking, a Japanese man in Hong Kong is a suspect, being investigated in a child monitoring. Application to track children. Bryan Harris. Mitsutoki Shigota aged 24. South China Morning Post. AAP.

4 Oct 2014 – Hong Kong police arrest triads. Times of Oman, Muscat.

4 Oct 2014 – Hong Kong police deny triads hired to attack protesters. Anadolu agency AA.

5 Oct 2014 – Hong Kong police arrest triads, protests, clashes. Manila Bulletin.

20 Oct 2014 – Hong Kong Triads blamed for stirring up latest violent clashes. Daily Telegraph UK.

22 Oct 2014 – Poor in politics. Leung comments. Authorities have a distrust of the public. Political system biased to the rich. Telegraph UK.

22 Oct 2014 – Hong Kong has too many poor people to allow direct elections, leader says. Hong Kong’s 7 million residents. Leung, the influence of the city’s poor in elections. Quartz.

8 Nov 2014 – Chinese corruption crackdown on Macau casinos. Macau’s global capital from casino’s globally $45 billion, 7 times that of Las Vegas. NPR.

26 Nov 2014 – Hong Kong police arrested 86 people as protest sites were cleared. Key protest sites in Mongkok. Fox news. Financial Times.

2 Dec 2014 – Some of the worst violence while protesters clash with police as they try and surround the government HQ. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 2 Dec 2015).

5 Dec 2014 – Bloomberg Business week. Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload can renegotiate $40 million in Hong Kong frozen. Lulu Yilun Chen in Hong Kong. Extradition from NZ to US on charges of racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud charges.

5 Dec 2014 – NZ Herald. Kiwi, New Zealander, held in Bali Indonesia for allegedly smuggling 1.7kg meth from Hong Kong. Anna Keask. Anthony Glen De Malmanche.

6 June 2015 – Firms in China seek shell companies in Hong kong. Want China Times. Chinese business seeking to buy shell companies in Hong Kong. Economic Wu Zhichao equities.

23 July 2015 – A bag with $NZ one million “missing” at Hong Kong airport. BBC UK.

23 July 2015 – A bag stuffed with $900k in cash was lost by Hong Kong airpoirt staff. 9News.co.au. A bag stuffed with about $1 million in Chinese yuan was lost by airport staff in Hong Kong, after falling out of a baggage trailer. Stuff.co.nz.

18 Dec 2015 - $9 million wordt of meth seized at New Zealand border, came from Hong Kong. 15 packets of meth. Dominion Post Wellington. Tom Hunt. http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/75261891/9-million-meth-haul-caught-before-reaching-wellington

Spain research

SPAIN

400 to 300 BC – Lady of Elx in Spain. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK).

197-146 BC – The Romans 7 years fighting in Spain, to prevent Carthaginians there. Spain was divided into two provinces in 197 BC. War in Spain and Cathage city was destroyed in 146 BC. Africa became a Roman province. (The Romans. (c)1949 RH Barrow UK).

0000 - Jesus Christ was born and lived.

1200 – Andalusia. The golden era of the Spanish city of Cordoba. Muslim world. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).

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).

1504 – Famine in Spain. Wikipedia.

20 Sept 1519 – Portugese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and crew went from Spain on five ships to find spice islands. (Today in history. Richmond Times Dispatch. 20 Sept 2014).

1543 – Simancas. A European archives repository was set up by Charles I of Spain. (Managing archives. Caoline Williams (c)2006 UK).

10 March 1624 – England declared war on Spain. (HistoryOrb.com).

17^th century – Archeologists. The body of Miguel de Cerventes was found, at the convent of the barefoot Trinstarens in Madrid Spain, lost since the 17th century. (Christian science monitor. 18 March 2015).

1711 – The National library of Spain was founded. (A history of info storage and retrieval. Foster Stockwell ©2001 US).

1713-1770 – In 1770 Charles II died heirless and the Spanish empire passed to Philip Anjo, grandson of Louis XIV of France, plunging Europe into 13 years of war. Thousands of people died on the battlefields of Europe. Philip V of Spain, by the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713. Charles II was the last Spanish King of pure Habsburg descent. (Royal babylon. Karl Shaw ©1999 US).

1724-1746 – In Jan 1724 the King of Spain abdicated to his 17 year old son Louis I. After 8 months Louis died of smallpox. King Philip II. On 9 July 1746 the Catholic majesty had a massive stroke and died. (Royal babylon. Karl Shaw ©1999 US).

1777 – Philip the Duke of Cabaria died of smallpox, after the King refuse to get him vaccinated. (Royal babylon. Karl Shaw ©1999 US).

Feb 1797 – Nelson, Spanish ships during the Battle of Capo St Vincent. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

18^th century – Irish emigrants living in Spain during the 18^th century. www.irishancestors.ie Irish society online. (Who do you think you are. May 2013 UK).

1811-1812 – Famine devastated Madrid and 2,000 people died. Wikipedia.

1868-1880 – The lost caves of Altamira, animal bones were found. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 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).

1885-86 – The Spanish King Alphonse XII died in 1885, 28 years old. When he died his wife was pregnant. Baby King Alphonse XIII was born in May 1886 under the regency of the Queen mother. (Royal babylon. Karl Shaw ©1999 US).

4 Dec 1892 – Francisco Franco Spanish general dictator birthday. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 4 Dec 2015).

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).

29 Sept 1898 – About Spanish funeral ceremonies. Otago Witness NZ. Papers past.

1914-19 – Pinterest. Spain gypsy dance by Kurt Hielscher. Flikr.

1918 – The Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 killed about 21 million people. Discovery update.

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).

25 Feb 1926 – Francisco Franco became the youngest General in Spain. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 25 Feb 2015).

1930s – Gustavo Duran, of Spanish descent, anti Franco forces in Spain in the 1930s. A Socialist agent of the Soviet Communists in the Spanish civil war. By 1946 he was an official in the Latin America section at the US State dept. (Blacklisted by history. Joe McCarthy. M Stanton Evans. (c)2007 US).

9 Dec 1931 – Spain became a republic. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 9 Dec 2015).

1936-1939 – 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).

1936-1939 – Unearthing Spanish mass graves. Skeletons, hidden mass graves. From the Spanish Fascist past and civil war. Estepan village. Spain in 2007, 5,700 bodies since 2000. Archeology. (news.com.au, 23 Dec 2014. Daniel Ochoa de Olza. AP).

13 May 1936 – The Quiroga government took office in Spain. (HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

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)

1937-39 – Spain in June 1937 the resistance of the Basques collapsed, things tipped towards the government. In 1938 the government of Spain was hungry, starving. Refugees flooded into France. They were gunned down by Italian airplanes. 1939 Franco entered Madrid. Half a million people in concentation camps. (The Observer years. George Orwell (c)2003 UK).

17 May 1937 – Juan Neprin suceeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier. (HistoryOrb.com).

11 Dec 1946 – Spain was suspended from the UN. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 11 Dec 2015).

1952 – Pinterest. Jacques Leonard and Rosario Amaya. Gypsy culture in Barcelona.

29 March 1954 – A 7.9 earthquake. USGS historic world earthquakes.

19 April 1956 – 12 people died and 20 people were injured in Granada. Timeline of earthquakes.

1960-62 – Trafficking of 300,000 babies from Spain by the Catholic church. Monsignor Bryan Walsh. False documents, orphanages and ruling elites.

1960-1989 – 30,000 babies were stolen from their parents, trafficked by Catholics in Spain. The Malaga hospital in 1971, official documents were forged birth certificates. Victims were label crazy. San Ramos clinic in Madrid. DNA tests. (Mail online UK. Polly Dunbar. 16 Oct 2011).

1961 – Hugh Thomas. The Spanish civil war. New York Harper.

Aug 1962 – One of Kim Philby’s friends, Tomas Harris the art dealer recently died in a mysterious car accident in Spain. Flora Solomon Russian émigré to the UK. (Spycatcher. Peter Wright. ©1987 UK).

1969 – Doctors and Catholic priests trafficked stolen babies. Mike Elkan in Madrid and Barcelona Spain. Juan Moreno's son Juan Luis who was purchasef in 1969. DNA tests showed Juan Luis birth certificate was that of his adopted parents, but it was fake. Pinterest.

1971 – Pinterest. Joseph Koudelka. Gypsies in Spain. Rice cracker.

1973 – PM Carreo Blanco of Spain was assassinated.

1976 – The Spanish west. Time life books. New York. Worldcat database.

1976 – Ninos Robados. A scandal in the 1980's. Stolen babies during Franco's rule, lasted up to 1976. The Catholic church, hospitals and stolen babies from unwed mothers were sold. Zone-tele. Pinterest.

6 Aug 1977 – Fulgencio Batista went from Portugal to Spain . 14 years after leaving Cuba he died of a heart attack in the town of Mirabel aged 72. (The Havana mob. TJ English ©2007 UK)

29 July 1979 – Madrid baggage area explosion, 1 person was killed and 9 wounded.

1980 – Andrei Amalrik was born in 1938 and died in 1980. 42 years old. He was a Russian writer. He died in a car accident near Guadalajera Spain, in a crash with a truck. Wikipedia.

Dec 1980 – At a bar in Zarauz Spain, an attack killed four people..

May 1981 – Banco central Barcelona 200 hostages 1 person was wounded.

2 Dec 1981 – Spain requested membership of NATO. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 2 Dec 2015).

1983 – BCCI acquired Spain’s Banco de Descuento and renamed it Bank of Credit and Commerce SA Espanola.

1984 – The Cali cartel. Gilberto Rodriguez and Jorge Ochoa went to Spain in 1984. Ranch in Badajoz. Colombian trafficking in Europe. To launder money between Spanish and Panama banks and real estate. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

12 April 1984 – A restaurant near the US Air force base at Torrejon was bombed. 18 US servicemen were killed and 83 wounded.

2 August 1984 – Madras suitcase explosion 40 people were killed and 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 people were killed.

May 1987 – Australian mafia, 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).

13 May 1987 – Robert Trimbole died of heart failure in Spain. Italian Australian NSW Griffith mafia. Australian federal police were unable to find Trimbole in Spain, besides evidence in 1984. He died 3 years later. (Crims in grass castles. Keith Moor (c)2009 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.

29 Oct 1991 – Robert Maxwell was murdered in Spain. His yacht the Lady Ghislaine on 4-5 Nov 1991. Spanish autopsy. 10 Nov 1991. Robert Maxwell was found off an island. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas. (c)2008 UK).

6 Sept 1994 – Trafficking in Turkish heroin. Istanbul and Australia. In the early 1990s Pannunzi in Colombia. Jan 1994 Pannunzi in Medellin Colombia. On 6 Sept 1994 Madrid Spain banks and money laundering. The ACP Bank in Zagreb the Balkans. (Zero zero zero Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

July 1996-2014 – Adolfo Suarez, the 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.

Sept 1997 – Child sex tourism. In Czech, an Austrian man was jailed for abusing eight gypsy boys aged 11 to 13 years. Boys from eastern Europe. In Sept 1997 Spanish police arrested two men from Czech. Trafficking dozens of young Czech girls for sex into Madrid nightclubs. 100 girls were forced into these clubs. (The Guardian UK. 17 Dec 1997).

1 Oct 1998 – Spanish Socialist leader, Basques, Joaquin Almunia.

20 Nov 1998 – Spanish Socialist party. Spanish Socialist workers party. PSOE. Spanish Socialist party. BBC UK.

21 Nov 1998 – Spanish police arrest paedophiles in Valencia. BBC UK.

25 Nov 1998 – Spain government budget policy. Socialist party, Borrell. Socialist party Partido Soclista. AFX news UK.

12 March 1999 – Spanish Socialist leader, Lafontaine. Leader of Spain’s Socialist party Josep Borrell European Socialists. BBC UK.

29 March 1999 – Spanish police smash drugs ring, arrest 25 people. BBC UK

7 July 1999 – Spanish police arrest 54 people as drug rings smashed. Cocaine and heroin. BBC UK.

29 Sept 1999 – Basque city protests Socialist party offices. Socialist member party office damaged. BBC UK.

2000 – Vladimir Gusinsky a Russian media tycoon TV. 1999 Russian Duma, he was critical of Putin's Unity party. The 2000 presidential elections, arrested and he went to Spain. (The colder war. Martin Katusa (c)2015 US).

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.

10 Jan 2002 – Port Vigo in Calicia a container from Ecuador was searched. They found 1,698 kilos of cocaine in cans of tuna in olive oil. It was destined for the Conserva Nueva in Madrid Spain. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

13 April 2002 – Spanish police arrested Ahmed Brahim who is believed to be the chief financial officer of the al-Qaeda network.

23 Aug 2002 – Spain poised to seek the graves of Franco’s dead. Giles Trenlett. The Guardian UK.

3-4 June 2003 – Spain intercepted the trawler Alexandra off the Canary islands with 2,591 kilos of cocaine. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

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 – Terrorists exploded simultaneous bombs on Madrid’s rail network. Ripping trains and rocking the stations. 190 people were killed. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 11 March 2015).

11 March 2004 – 11 bombs explode on commuter trains at Madrid’s Atolaha station and two sub stations. Death toll of 191 people, about a third of those killed were migrants from 11 different countries. (The 9/11 war. Jason Burke ©2011).

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.

11 March 2004 – Rush hour trains 191 people were killed. Madris Atocha. Europe's worst Islamic terror attack. (Timeline of attacks on western Europe. Time. AP. 14 Nov 2015).

5 April 2004 – Italian police arrested drug trafficker mafia Roberto Pannunzi in Madrid Spain, with his son Alessandro and son in law Francesco Bumbaca, jailed in Italy. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

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. More terror arrests in Spain but still no evidence presented.

27 May 2005 – Police smash a paedophile ring. Madrid police broke up a paedophile ring, which was sexually abusing children. The Independent UK.

18 Oct 2006 – Passports were stolen from the Pakistani mission in Spain, concern they may go to terrorists.

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 – The national court in Spain convicted 5 Algerians on Islamic terrorism charges and sentenced them to 13 years each according to a sentence. The 3 judge panel acquitted a 6^th 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. CNN.

15 Feb 2007 – The presiding judge Javer Gomez Bermudez will be the judge in the Madrid train bombing trail with 29 defendants, due to start on 15 Feb. CNN. 10 Feb 2007.

15 Jan 2008 – Spanish paedophile links to Madeleine McCann. Madeleine McCann was abducted to order by a paedophile ring in a tourist area in Spain. Daily Record Glasgow Scotland.

2009 – Nearly half of all the cocaine seized in 2009 was headed for Spain. Getting cocaine into Europe. Drugs seized on the way to Spain. (Zero zeo zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

15 May 2009 – The cocaine in Spain falls freely in Madrid. Paul Bibby AFP. Sydney Morning Herald.

2010 – Mafia in sex trafficking run 4,000 brothels in Spain earning 18 billion Euros a year. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

March 2010 – Spanish police arrested three men over a botnet called Mariposa, Spanish for butterfly. (We are Anonymous. Parmy Olson ©2012 UK).

13 May 2010 – 200 mass graves unearthed in Spain. Global Info Network New York.

16 Oct 2011 - 300,000 babies were stolen from their parents and sold for adoption. 50 year scandal of baby trafficking by the Catholic church in Spain. Mail online UK.

18 Oct 2011 – Spain’s stolen babies and the families who lived a lie. BBC UK.

27 Oct 2011 – Coffee and the port of Barcelona Spain. The civil guard seized drugs, 625 kilos of cocaine was found hidden in a container of coffee. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

7 April 2012 – Catholic babies adoption scandal. Lara Trace. 28 March 2012 Spain.

10 Aug 2012 – Spain arrested 4 people, Mexicans in Madrid Spain. Cocaine shipped through the Spanish ports. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

17 Oct 2012 – Spanish operation Interpol. Money laundering. Madrid 80 people were arrested. 10 million Euros was seized and a network of Chinese organised money laundering and fraud called “Operation Emperader”.120 raids.

26 Jan 2013 – Russian money laundering in Spain. A Russian crime ring 56 million Euros laundering, a mafia network. Euronews.

11 Sept 2013 – A Spanish forensic team finds eight Saharawi bodies in mass graves. Sandblast. Two of them children.

15 Sept 2013 – Spain arrests 4 Hells angels in a large cocaine bust. Madrid. Sailed from Colombia with cocaine. NZ Herald. AP.

2014 – Alex Angulo was born in 1916 and died in 2014 age 61. He was a Spanish actor. He died in a car accident, Fuenmayer La Rioja Spain. Wikipedia.

7 June 2014 – Catholic mass graves of 350,000 missing chldren found in Ireland, Spain and Canada. Judy Byington. Child mass graves linked to the Catholic church. 32 child mass graves in Canada, Catholic residenial schools. Paedophiles.

8 July 2014 – Pope Francis was being prosecuted by the International common law court of justice ICLCJ in Bruseels Belgium, for trafficking 30,000 children of political prisoners through Vatican Catholic charities from Argentina’s dirty war. Orphans found in mass graves in Spain.

8 July 2014 – Catholic mass grave sites with 350,800 missing children. Ireland, Spain and Canada. The 1980’s Franklin cover up scandal, child sex ring in the US, was just the tip of the iceberg. Satanist elites mass murder and abuse of children. The 34^th child mass grave site liked to the Catholic church. Above Top Secret.

29 July 2014 – Shell company business Fraud. Lionel Messi shell companies to avoid paying tax in Spain.

4 Aug 2014 – Stolen vehicle trafficking. Algeciras. Trafficking of stolen vehicles in Spain. Interpol.

23 Sept 2014 – Spanish lawmaker. Russian mafia case. RAPOSI. Moscow. Catalonia. Andrei Petrov.

3 Oct 2014 – Madeleine McCann disappearance. Might be in Spain. Former solder and prison worker David Fullman contacted UK detectives about a sighting in Spain. Express UK.

8 Oct 2014 – Spanish police detain 54 in paedophile ring. Arrested members of a paedophile ring, child porn file shares on P2P. Euro weekly news.

27 Oct 2014 – Spain has arrested 51 top figures in an anti corruption swoop. A network of corruption. The Guardian UK.

27 Oct 2014 – Ten corruption cases in Spain. Corruption. Spain arrested 51 top figures in an anti corruption swoop. The network of corruption. The local.es.

28 Oct 2014 – Poverty and education, a lost decade for Spain’s children. PorCamsa 2.7 million Spanish children live in poverty and social exclusion. The Guardian UK blog.

28 Oct 2014 – Spain police arrest mafia trafficking cocaine. 420 kilograms of cocaine from Latin America into Europe. RIA Novosti.

3 Nov 2014 – Spain police arrested 19 people trafficking women. Smuggling Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussian women into Spain. BBC UK.

4 Nov 2014 – Corrupt Spanish politics. 2,000 Politicians investigated for corruption, including the mayor of Lore. The Guardian UK.

7 Nov 2014 – Socialist who earns $45k pounds a year. Spain, a new left political party is first in the polls, huge problems for the EU. The Mirror UK.

12 Nov 2014 – 26 arrests in corruption crackdown. Spanish judge Mercedes Alayo. $185 million in public funds by Andalusivo Socialist group. The local

25 Jan 2015 – Ceuta, police arrest suspected Jihadists in Spain’s north African area. Interior minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz. The Guardian UK.

27 Jan 2015 – A Greek fighter jet crashed in Spain killing 10 people. 8 French people were among the 10 killed. A Greek fighter jet crashed during take off. The F16 jet lost power at Los Llanos air base in Albaceta Spain. BBC UK.

6 Feb 2015 – Justice for Fairy. A dog stolen from her owner, viciously raped and left paralysed, dumped in the street to die in Spain. Care2 petitions.

27 Feb 2015 – Poachers beheaded 100 deer and scattered their heads across Spanish woodlands, after the animals were trapped and hungry. Care2 news.

12 June 2015 – Spain changes laws for citizenship and descendants of expelled Jews. The Guardian UK.

18 June 2015 – Spanish police search for missing woman. Tourist missing Caminode Santi. New York Times.

29 July 2015 – Dimitni Galanis. Podemos mayor saved 70 families from eviction. Twitter.

30 July 2015 – Before its news. Twitter. Bionic exo-skeletons for disabled children crowdfunded in Spain.

7 Sept 2015 – Hailstorm kills 300 couples of flamingos in Spain. Many more were injured. Albacete Petrola lagoon. Storm, rain and hail in the Province of Albacete. (Gary Walton G+. The big wobble).

12 Oct 2015 – Spain arrested 89 people in a human trafficking ring. 89 Chinese and Pakistani citizens were members of the ring. Fox Latino news AP.

12 Dec 2015 – Spain detains a British drug trafficker with Mafia links. Drugs and Italy. Europe's cocaine trade from Calabria. Robert Dawes age 44 drug trafficking, money laundering and murder. Yahoo news. The Guardian Nigeria. Daily mail.

12 Dec 2015 – Car bomb rips through Kabul Afghanistan. A terrorist attack close to the Spanish embassy. Taliban suicide atacks. Jakarta Post. Reuters. CNN.

17 Dec 2015 – Corruption dominates in lead up to Spanish elections. Guy Hedgecoe. The Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/corruption-dominates-lead-up-to-spanish-election-1.2468905