Mafia
Balkan based organized crime activities gaining ground
By Ioannis Michaletos | The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board released its annual report 2010 detailing the global drug trends and almost all European heroin originates in Afghanistan and is smuggled in through Turkey and the Balkans or via Central Asia and Russia. In respect to the main heroin problem in Europe, it was... »
International Islamic Jihad: The first global terrorist movement in history
By Ioannis Michaletos 1. The spread of Jihad The past two decades a new form of terrorism has spread dynamically in a worldwide level. The USA was one of the first countries to alert itself since the late 80’s with this kind of asymmetrical warfare, but it wasn’t until 9/11 that the full strength of the... »
Balkan Death: The Albanian Narco-Mafia
By Marko Lopusina | The network among ethnic Albanian clans, maintained by ancient codes of cruel vendettas, spans the world and equally involves unknown local Albanian clansman as well as the Albanian nobility and the pretender to the throne Albania’s Kong Zog. Organized narcotic trafficking has been the dirtiest and the quickest business that makes... »
Notes & commentary on the current aspects of Balkan security
By Ioannis Michaletos | The Balkan Peninsula faces nowadays a mixture of problems, either economic, political, ethnic or societal ones. Two recent interviews by the writer are going to presented that deal with the issues of “Extremism, narcotics contraband, security and political developements”, all centered around the present day Balkan challenges. The Balkans have witnessed amongst other,... »
The attempted satelization of FYROM by Turkey
By Ioannis Michaletos | Turkey’s geopolitical objectives aim to control small countries such as FYROM that have been formerly dominated by the Turkish Islamic Ottoman Empire. “We write less than we say We say less than we know We know less than we can find out” (A modified version of David Snowden’s phrase concerning Knowledge Management) Turkey’s geopolitical... »
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