Linda: Recall that Sharples Corp. was involved in the atomic research in the Manhattan Project and that Pennwalt India Lmtd. originally from Pennsylvania is involved in centrifugal development that looks ever so suspiciously like a nuclear development cutout for India's atomic bomb program. We see now the Nobel Oil and Von Mohrenschildt-Sharples nexus of Quaker-Tolstoy-Old Believers coming full circle to haunt us still.
AMERICA�S WAR ON TERROR
Part III: Bin Laden May Have Small Nuclear Bombs13 October: US Vice President Dick Cheney told the American people that Al Qaida has been training terrorists to use chemical and biological weapons. He said this after the FBI denied finding links between the anthrax cases in the United States and terror.
Whatever they are told, most Americans now believe their country is in the grip of a bio-terror attack, perpetrated by the same groups that struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11.
Cheney referred to the manuals found for training people in the deployment of deadly substances. On October 6, DEBKAfile reported: �Any bioterrorists would have received their training in the dissemination of dangerous materials directly from Iraqi military intelligence experts. Iraq is the only country known to be actively developing such substances of mass murder.�
America�s news media believe they are being singled out of for targeting, since the three Florida victims worked for the same supermarket tabloid, the infected envelope reaching New York was addressed to NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw and a third suspect envelope was sent to a Microsoft office in Reno, Nevada.
This is very possible, for Bin Laden and his fundamentalists regard the US media as the foremost propagators of the American way of life and a pillar of democratic US government. While possessing the computer technology for disrupting publication and broadcasts, Al Qaeda evidently rates biological warfare far more effective as a weapon of fear against American society.Al Qaeda may also have crude chemical weapons, according to a senior US defense official, but it lacks the hi-tech means to deliver them. The substances he named are chlorine and phosgene poison gases, both World War I weapons, but he did not believe they had any more complex chemical weapons, such as sarin nerve gas. He also asserted that they would have to use primitive but �innovative� methods to attack people with them, such as crop dusters and hand sprayers.
The question of whether Bin Laden has a nuclear capability still remains to be officially addressed. According to the information disclosed in the latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly, it is very possible that he has.
In a special investigation,DEBKA-Net-Weekly learned from well-placed intelligence sources that the millionaire terror master did procure a supply of uranium-235 six months before his Al Qaeda suicides carried out their September 11 strikes in America. The uranium was delivered following an extraordinary deal between the most wanted terrorist in the world and one of the world�s most dangerous mobsters, a shadowy Ukrainian-born Jew called Semion Mogilevich, who rules over an arms-trafficking, money-laundering, drug-running, prostitution and graft empire.
Sources who spoke to DEBKA-Net-Weekly on condition of anonymity report that for a princely sum estimated at US$40 - 75 million, Bin Laden bought between 12 and 15 kilos of uranium-235, all of which came from Russia or some Central Asian Muslim republic.
If this is true, the master terrorist has enough fissionable material to build between 3 and 5 nuclear devices.
The Washington Post, August 20, 1999 pE01 Money Laundering Suspected; Russian Mob Said to Send Billions Through N.Y. Bank. (Financial) Sharon Walsh; Kathleen Day.
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A kingpin of Russian organized crime is believed to have cycled billions of dollars in illicit funds
through the Bank of New York in a massive money laundering scheme, according to U.S. officials.Semion Mogilevich, dubbed the "brainy don," is the leader of a ruthless Russian mob family known as the Red Mafia that is said to be behind the transfer of money through the bank, according to government sources.schemes to dump toxic waste from America in Russia, according to published reports.
The FBI and the U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York are leading one of the largest
money laundering investigations ever. Some experts estimate that hundreds of billions of dollars have been looted from the Russian economy in recent years and funneled through U.S. banks."The money was flowing fast and furious out of Russia through the Bank of New York, and there are a lot of indications it was dirty money to start with," a senior federal law enforcement official said.
Officials involved in the investigation, including the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve,
declined to comment on the case, which was disclosed in today's New York Times.Government sources did say that the Bank of New York, which has $67 billion in assets, contacted federal authorities about suspicious activities in various accounts, but only after the bank's records were subpoenaed by the U.S. attorney. No arrests have been made.
The bank confirmed today that it has been cooperating with the U.S. attorney's office in the
investigation. "There are no allegations of wrongdoing by the bank," a spokesman said. "There has been no loss of customer funds or the bank's own funds."The investigation is in its early stages and may take many months to complete, government sources said.
Money laundering is concealing the source of funds obtained from an illegal activity, such as drug sales or extortion, by moving the money through various bank accounts, often through wire transfers. This makes it difficult to determine whether the money came from legitimate activities.
As much as $500 billion in illicit funds are laundered through banks every year, and between $100
billion and $300 billion of that goes through U.S. banks, according to government estimates.Federal money laundering regulations require banks to report cash transactions of more than $10,000, or any "suspicious activity" such as multiple transactions just under $10,000 or unusually frequent transactions, to the Treasury Department.
The department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, which handles such reports, declined to comment yesterday on whether it had received any suspicious activity reports from the Bank of New York.
Two employees of the bank who have been mentioned in the investigation are now on leave pending the completion of the investigation, the bank's spokesman said.
The two are Natasha Gurfinkel Kagalovsky, a senior vice president of the bank's Russian division in New York, and Lucy Edwards, a vice president of the bank in London who works on Eastern
European accounts.Kagalovsky was born in Russia and has been in the United States for about 20 years. She is married to Konstantin Kagalovsky, who was Russia's representative to the International Monetary Fund from 1992 to 1995.
Edwards was also born in Russia and is currently married to a Russian, although she previously
married an American and became a U.S. citizen. Her current husband also worked at one time for the Bank of New York, sources said."Shame on the Bank of New York if they let the money go back and forth and didn't pick up on it,"said one government official. Still, he said, it might not be illegal.
To prove criminal were illicit but did nothing. In addition, only certain "specified unlawful activities" outside the United States come under the money laundering law, including bank fraud, wire fraud and other individual crimes. If the money came from prostitution, for example, it might not be covered.
Federal officials said they suspect that the money that flowed through Bank of New York
accounts--perhaps as much as $10 billion--streamed in from various activities and companies headed by Mogilevich to the bank and then went, at least partially, to companies such as YBM Magnex, a Philadelphia company. YBM, which was publicly traded on the Toronto stock exchange, told American investors it owned a factory in Hungary that made high-tech magnets."Not enough due diligence Kroll Associates, a private investigative agency. "If anyone had seen the Hungarian plant, they would have known they couldn't be making what they said they were."
YBM collapsed last year, and the company recently pleaded guilty in Philadelphia to charges of
securities fraud. Government sources said they suspect that YBM was essentially a money laundering front for Mogilevich.Last year, a congressional report criticized Citibank, the nation's second-largest retail bank, for
ignoring its own know-your-customer procedures from 1992 to 1994. The bank secretly transferred as much as $100 million in alleged drug money for the brother of a former Mexican president.Authorities are still investigating that case and the Senate may hold hearings on it this fall.
Staff writer Roberto Suro and researcher Richard Drezen contributed to this report.
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YBM Magnex International, Inc., recently announced acquisition of the rare earth permanent magnet facilities in Southport and Burscough, England that were operated by Philips REPM. Philips REPM was formerly a subsidiary of Philips Electronics. The facilities will now be operated under the name of Crumax Magnetics, Ltd., as a wholly owned subsidiary of YBM. The company will manufacture high energy permanent magnets and related products.
In addition, YBM is establishing a polymer bonded permanent magnet business in Newtown, Pennsylvania, which is currently under construction. The facility is scheduled to begin production of magnets and magnetic material this fall.
YBM Magnex, Inc. is accepting applications for various research engineering positions, including permanent magnet alloy development, magnet process development, polymer bonded magnet processing, magnet system design, application and manufacturing developments/factory automation.
For more information about the company or to apply for these positions, contact, YBM Magnex, Inc., 110 Terry Drive, Newtown, PA 18940 USA; www.thomasregister.com/ybm.
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