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Baghdad's Russian Mafia "mayor". (Insider Report).(Mohammed Mohsen al-Zubaidi)
On April 20th, an Iraqi opposition leader named Mohammed Mohsen al-Zubaidi, a close associate of U.S.-backed Iraqi exile leader Ahmed Chalabi, proclaimed himself "mayor" of Baghdad and announced the creation of a municipal government. "We have met with lawmen to create laws, and to open the courts so that life can begin to take on legitimacy," declared al-Zubaidi at a press conference. "I was chosen by tribal leaders and educated people, the doctors of the city and other prominent figures," he insisted. "We are not a transitional government. We are an executive committee to run Baghdad." U.S. occupation forces arrested the self-professed mayor on April 27th.
At the top of al-Zubaidi's agenda was to purge Iraq's government of anybody accused of having ties to Saddam's Ba'ath Party regime. General Jawdat al-Obeidi, identified as al-Zubaidi's "deputy' announced the discovery of a cache of incriminating documents, including "lists of terrorist networks, intelligence elements, officers responsible for killing innocent people all over the world, assassination attempts, lists of their payments and bank accounts to finance those ...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek Liu, Melinda May 5, 2003 700+ words
...with aides. The boss is Muhammad Mohsen Zubaidi, a former Iraqi exile who slipped back...power broker in Baghdad. One member of Zubaidi's throng last week was a new assistant...bodyguards of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein. Zubaidi's freshly printed stationery states...
- NEWSWEEK: Former Iraqi Exile Muhammad Mohsen Zubaidi Arranged for Rep. at OPEC...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 27, 2003 700+ words
...Since he's been back, Muhammad Mohsen Zubaidi is loving the limelight -- helping to...been dubbed the "mayor of Baghdad." "Zubaidi's got to be the world's only so...officials learned from television reports that Zubaidi had begun politicking in Baghdad. Chalabi...
- Another Saddam lawyer killed; defense team likely to withdraw.(Adil al-Zubaidi)
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Sly, Liz November 8, 2005 700+ words
...can proceed in the current climate of violence. Adil al-Zubaidi, who was defending former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan...attack in the Hay al-Adil neighborhood of Baghdad. Al-Zubaidi is the second lawyer in the defense team to be slain in the...
- Police concerned Russian 'mafia' infiltrating government
- Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post Bill Hutman March 8, 1996 700+ words
...finalizing a chart on the country's Russian mafia. The chart has far-reaching implications...mapping out the major players in the Russian mafia's operations here, and their bosses...to describe the development of the Russian mafia in Israel in the paper. Just how large...
- Russian Mafia in America: Immigration, Culture and Crime.(Review) (book review)
- Magazine article from: Demokratizatsiya VORONIN, YURI A. September 22, 2000 700+ words
Russian Mafia in America: Immigration, Culture...Press, 1998. 303 pp. $35.00. Russian Mafia in America, the definitive work on...governments have actively pursued the "Russian Mafia," and there is little evidence of...
- Russian Mafia ecstasy pills heading for clubs.
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) Miles, Lucy April 9, 2000 700+ words
...the normal price and produced by the Russian Mafia could be destined for the Midlands...there is an explosion in the amount of Russian Mafia-controlled drugs being made. 'Gang...that British criminals deal with the Russian Mafia in cigarettes and counterfeit goods...
- Russian mafia: A frightening new phenomena of post-Cold War Europe. (Originated...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Demick, Barbara October 19, 1993 700+ words
...Soviet Union. Here, it is called the Russian mafia. The Russians simply call it ``Organizatsiya...officer in Bonn, believes that the Russian mafia could eventually eclipse the Italian...enforcement officials say, because the Russian mafia is not well-organized. In August...
- Russian mafia reportedly threatens Monaco.
- News wire article from: United Press International February 11, 2000 700+ words
...suspected he was the victim of the Russian mafia. It was later revealed that his death...who confessed and had no links to the Russian mafia. But Edmond Safra, the slain financier...into clean. The Times report says the Russian mafia has "cast a shadow over what may be...
