Who Is Planning World Soccer Terror?
by
Claudio Celani
A
potential major terrorist attack in the context of the World Soccer
Championship in Germany for months has been the primary issue of concern
of German and European police authorities. As the June 9 opening day of
the games nears, a new factor has been added to the conventional
scenarios: the announced mobilization of neo-Nazi hooligans in support of
Iran, as Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made it known that he would
like to be present at the games played by his national team.
The
introduction of the Iran element makes it obvious for every serious
political strategist, that what we are dealing with here, has to do with
strategies for world government being cooked up, not in basement hideouts
of deranged soccer hooligans, but in sky-high offices in Washington and
London. In fact, whereas police forces in Germany are looking for
potential terrorist threats at ground level, they should raise their eyes
to those who, in this moment, would want a major terrorist incident, for
the purpose of building a world dictatorship.
The
intersection of two events, the World Cup championship and the arrival in
mid-June of the one French and three U.S. naval carrier groups in the
Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf, near Iran, provide the muscle for
attempting a global coup by the Cheney crowd.
Neo-Nazi
Mobilization
The
World Cup Soccer tournament will last from June 9 to July 9, during which
period there will be 62 matches in 14 German cities, culminating with the
finals game in Berlin. This is perhaps the largest sports event in the
world, which takes place every fourth year. It is calculated that millions
of fans will travel to Germany, whereas 2 billion will watch it on TV
throughout the world.
Although hooligan violence has become a rather "routine" matter on
those occasions in which British, Dutch, German, Italian, Polish, and
other radical fan groups come together in a competing national context,
this time, a new dimension was added: The Iranian President announced
plans to travel to Germany to watch the games involving the national team.
This has offered the pretext to neo-Nazi groupings to announce
demonstrations and marches in support of "our friend," the "anti-Semitic"
Ahmadinejad. A demonstration has been announced for June 17 in Frankfurt,
when Iran will play Portugal. In Leipzig, the right-wing NPD (National
Democratic Party) will activate itself for the Iran-Angola match, and in
Nuremberg for the Iran-Mexico game.
The NPD
mobilization involves not only Iran: A march in Gelsenkirchen has been
announced for June 10, to follow the match involving Poland. Polish
hooligans are notoriously among the most violent on the soccer scene. The
police have prohibited the demonstration.
The
Italians have announced a new organization, called "Ultras Italia," which
popped up first in 2002, and collects hooligans from the most active,
neo-Nazi-dominated fan groupings throughout the country. Italian hooligans
have announced special effects for the Italy-U.S.A match, on June 17, in
Kaiserslautern.
The
picture will be filled out by the other main actors on the scene: 20,000
British hooligans will arrive in Frankfurt June 10 for the
England-Paraguay match, for which only 10,000 have tickets. Also, the
Dutch hooligans, with Nazi-like orange helmets, the national color, are
expected.
Although there will be plenty of opportunity for "spontaneous"
violence, actions have seemingly been planned by the groups, in a secret
meeting in mid-March, at Hitler's birthplace, the town of Braunau, in
Austria.
`Secret'
Planning Meeting
According to a report published by Italian journalist Paolo
Berizzi, in La Repubblica of March 20, about 70 members of
neo-Nazi-dominated hooligan organizations met in Braunau to plan violent
actions during the World Cup tournament in Germany. "Thus we will set the
World Cup on fire," was the headline of the report, quoting from a
document, reportedly signed by the participants, which sets the target of
disrupting public order through actions aimed against Islamic and other
representatives from "the South of the world."
How
does it happen that a journalist is invited to a secret meeting to plan
terrorist actions? Journalist Berizzi claims he infiltrated the meeting as
a member of the Italian hooligan scene. Whatever the truth is, public
media attention is useful to the string-pullers, if their aim is to pull
off something sensational, and to blame it on Iran, furthering the
strategic aims mentioned earlier. In any case, the meeting was confirmed
by German intelligence, according to a report in Tageszeitung
March 30.
Now,
let's look at this from a higher standpoint: Hooligan organizations are
controlled by neo-Nazi groupings, which belong to an umbrella
organization, the "European National Front," begun in Spain in November
2002, under the joint initiative of the old Franco-era Minister Blas Piñar
and Italian neo-fascist leader Roberto Fiore. The formation of the ENF was
completed in 2004, and includes, among others: Blas Piñar's Frente
Español, Fiore's Forza Nuova, the French Renouveau Français, the German
NPD, and the Polish Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski (NOP, National Rebirth of
Poland).
The
control of these organizations over radical hooligan teams is well
documented. In the case of Forza Nuova, the fan clubs of both soccer
clubs, Roma and Lazio, are organized in a network of radical right-wing
groups, controlled by the "Black Thing" (La Cosa Nera), the new
neo-fascist cartel formed by Roberto Fiore, Alessandra Mussolini, Adriano
Tilgher, and Luca Romagnoli.
As
EIR has previously reported, Roberto Fiore is a veteran of the
Strategy of Tension, as he was leader of an organization called Terza
Posizione, considered to be the political arm of the terrorist NAR (Nuclei
Armati Rivoluzionari), responsible for several terrorist acts, including
the 1980 Bologna train-station massacre.
Forza
Nuova controls the Curva (soccer fan clubs) through a sub-organization
called Base Autonoma, whose leaders have made a career in Forza Nuova. The
leader of Base Autonoma is Fiore's brother-in-law, Giuliano Castellino. In
turn, Base Autonoma moves through soccer-fan organizations, such as
Tradizione e Distinzione (Rome) and Banda de Noantri (Lazio). Across such
fan groups, an extremely violent wing has emerged, which has targetted
especially the police. This wing is backed by a sort of legal support
organization led by Prof. Paolo Signorelli, another figure familiar from
the years of right-wing terrorism. Signorelli, now in his sixties, was
indicted, and then acquitted, for his role as chief ideologue of the
terrorist organization Ordine Nuovo.
Using a
recent police law, which, in case of soccer riots, expands the in
flagrante limit to 36 hours, police arrested the three Curva leaders
who forced the interruption of the derby: Stefano Carriero; a neo-fascist
member of Tradizione e Distinzione, Stefano Sordini, another neo-fascist
leader of the Giovinezza group; and Roberto Morelli, from the AS Roma
Ultras.
The
next day, the three received a visit from Alessandra Mussolini, the
granddaughter of the Duce, who pleaded their "innocence." And as
soon as they appeared before the judge, they were freed." (For more
information on this topic, see, "The Synarchist Resurgence Behind the
Madrid Train Bombing of March 11, 2004," issued by LaRouche in 2004,
available from EIR.)
As with
the Italian scene, Polish hooligans are dominated by the NOP. And when, in
reporting on the Braunau meeting, journalist Berizzi described the Spanish
representativea member of the SUR (The Francoist Fans of Real Madrid)one
is reminded that one of the suspected "Islamic terrorists" arrested in the
case of the Madrid bombing attacks, Mohammed Bekkali, was a fanatical
partisan of the Real Madrid soccer club.
The
String-Pullers
In the
meantime, this author has learned that prosecutors in Rome are conducting
an investigation using material published by EIR before and after
the Madrid bombing attack, March 11, 2004. It consists of warnings issued
in 2003 by Lyndon LaRouche against the possibility of a 9/11-like
atrocity, in which one possible source would be "defined by the cover
recently assembled under Spain's leading fascist figure, Blas Piñar.
Assess the potential for a relevant type of 9/11-like attack on the U.S.
which would be traceable to Blas Piñar, as 9/11 was traced to
Arabs."
"The
most significant aspect," LaRouche continued, "of the new international
regroupment under the former Franco official Blas Piñar is that it is
muscular, but of an intrinsically mayfly kind of political-operational
potential. It is composed, inclusively, and significantly, of small but
muscular groups representing a continuation of those which were used as
cover for international terrorist operations in 1970s Europe.
. . . Muscular mayfly associations of international Synarchist
profiles are, by their very existence, among the most likely sources of
international terrorist actions; otherwise, they, like mayflies, die
soon."
With
"Synarchism," LaRouche means a specific historical phenomenon, identifying
a nexus of financial and political interests that promoted fascist and
Nazi regimes in Europe, including the Franco regime in Spain and the
Codreanu government in Romania. Historically, these interests are
associated with the Banque Worms in France, and the Lazard financial
group. It is possible to draw a line of continuity, from the standpoint of
policiesand in some cases, of personnelfrom the 1930s synarchist
networks to the present. Today, the Synarchists are represented by people
like Dick Cheney and, at a higher level, George Shultz and Felix Rohatyn
in the United States.
How do
we deal with the terrorist threat? LaRouche asked in the 2003 paper. "Use
intelligent political methods; expose the Synarchist International. Let
people learn from the 1920-1945 wars in Europe, and Nazi subversion of
South and Central America, how President Franklin Roosevelt and his
leadership dealt politically with such threats. Expose Synarchism for what
it actually is. Strip it of toleration by governments and churches, and
send quietly waiting counterintelligence ambushes into position, to catch
them if they try to move in relevant directions."
Those
guidelines are the more valid today, if we want to stop Cheney's plans for
world dictatorship. |
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