16-11-2011, 05:13 AM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov...sfeed=true
Germany shocked by secret service link to rightwing terror cell
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16-11-2011, 05:24 AM
I'm not. Not in the least.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her. “I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation. 
16-11-2011, 08:37 AM
What is not metioned in the Guardian article above is that the police also found in the remains of the burned house so called "legal illegal papers", which means false identity papers given out by a legal institution, like an intelligence agency, in this case the Verfassungsschutz of Thuringia.
This makes it very likely that these Neo-Nazis were in fact at some time working for and supported by the Verfassungsschutz. Source (in German): http://www.bild.de/news/inland/bundesamt....bild.html The state of shock someone is in depends on the previous knowledge this person has. But the anger gets larger, even if the media desperately try to classify this as mere incompetence and the missteps of a few persons acting on their own. The most relevant literature regarding what happened since September 11, 2001 is George Orwell's "1984".
18-11-2011, 02:37 AM
Bulletin No. 34, November 16 2011
The Mystery of Invisible Terrorists By Victor Grossman, Berlin "Ten murders traced to neo-Nazi terrorists!" More and more ugly facts splashed through the German media, with echoes around the world. Politicians from the "respectable" parties expressed shock and surprise. In 2007 a German policewoman had been shot to death and her colleague badly wounded. The murder weapon was now found in a partly burned-out building in the East German town of Zwickau. Nearby lay the corpses of two men, probably suicides, both guilty of a recent bank robbery and mostly likely of killing the policewoman. Nine retail merchants, eight of Turkish, one of Greek background had also been murdered as far back as 2000, often with the same weapon. The two men and a woman accomplice who has since given herself up to police belonged to a "National Socialist Underground" with a brutal Nazi program. Why did it take years to find the culprits? Another group member, arrested on November 12th in Hannover, was arrested in 2006 for mailing phony explosives - and then freed. Why was there no checkup on him? Was the group responsible for 14 bank robberies all over Germany, at least as far back as 1998, for a bombing in Cologne in 2004 which wounded 22 people in an immigrant neighborhood, and perhaps for other acts of violence, sometimes fatal, against people with immigrant origins? While the list of mysteries grew, one question kept recurring: what took the police so long? Some answers are breaking through the fog. It is no secret that the Nazi movement, both its legal component, the National Democratic Party (NPD) and its illegal thug element are riddled with secret agents of the "Constitution Protection Agency" ("VerfassungsschA¼tz"), the German FBI. Their number and because they themselves often wrote Nazi propaganda, even holding leadership positions, had stymied an attempt to outlaw the NPD in 2003. The court found that the indictment was partly based on texts written by the agents and stated that: "A governmental presence at the leadership level of a party renders its influence on decisions and activities inevitable." So it threw the case out. The winner was the NPD. Those agents are still in there, preventing new attempts to ban the organization, at least without risk of exposing, or having to withdraw, the agents. The government would not know what the Nazis planned if they were removed, it was asserted, while a second mishap in the courts would give the Nazis a big new propaganda advantage. Remaining legal not only guarantees the NPD large sums of badly-needed government money for election purposes, gives it the chance to elect legislators (now in two states and three Berlin boroughs), but gives it police protection for weekly, threateningly reminiscent anti-foreigner marches all around Germany, which feature fearsome- looking gangs of the thugs they are closely connected with. But now their murderous menace has dramatically come to light. A video film was found, using the jolly "pink panther" film and TV cartoon figure to boast of the crimes already committed and those to come. Once again: Did the Constitution Protectors, especially in Saxony and Thuringia, where these three had been hiding out, know nothing about them? Now an upsetting new fact has come to light. At the murder of one of the young Turkish merchants in his shop in 2006 an agent of the "protectors" from the West German state of Hesse was present, holding a heavy object in a paper bag, quite probably a gun. He was found and arrested. But 24 hours later he was freed. Some believe they saw the same man at some of the other murder sites. Who was he, why was he hired - and paid - by the forces of law and order in Hesse? New connections have also come to light about connections between the former chief of the Constitution Protectors in the state of Thuringia, an extremely right-wing historian, and a pro-Nazi who was paid as a secret agent while vice-president of one such fascist group. Leading politicians, with worried voices and furrowed foreheads, are now demanding a "total investigation"! No stone must be left unturned. Coalition party leaders, always opposed to a ban on the NPD, now, in dramatic tones, call for a reevaluation of the question. What hypocrisy! What would a true reevaluation reveal? Historical studies, known for decades but recently reinforced, supply countless facts on how former Nazis dominated police, secret police and intelligence- gathering institutions in the Federal Republic from the start. The police apparatus was built up by and with SS officers and Gestapo men with the bloodiest of hands. At least a thousand ex-Nazi judges and prosecutors dominated the courts, many of them guilty of death sentences against opponents of fascism. The same held true of the military general staff, the diplomatic corps and the political scene. It has recently been disclosed that until 1966, in Hesse, a quarter to a third of Christian Democratic deputies and 60 to 70 percent of their Free Democratic partners had been in the Nazi Party, some in high positions. In charge of personnel questions nationally was Adenauer buddy Hans Globke, in great measure responsible for the criminalization and easy identification of German Jews. Worst of all was the espionage apparatus directed against the Soviet bloc. Nazi spy General Reinhard Gehlen, first used by US intelligence after 1945 to build up its secret network, was then switched to the new West German government. A study by historian Martin A. Lee described how "Gehlen proceeded to enlist thousands of Gestapo, Wehrmacht, and SS veterans. Even the vilest of the vile - the senior bureaucrats who ran the central administrative apparatus of the Holocaust - were welcome in the `Gehlen Org,' as it was called, including Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's chief deputy. SS major Emil Augsburg and Gestapo captain Klaus Barbie, otherwise known as the "Butcher of Lyon," were among those who did double duty for Gehlen and U.S. intelligence (San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 7, 2001). Lee also quoted the Frankfurter Rundschau: "It seems that in the Gehlen headquarters one SS man paved the way for the next and Himmler's elite were having happy reunion ceremonies". Nearly all these men have died. But their disciples remained, and so did their inclinations. The Gehlen gang and their friends in top army and government offices used the Cold War to justify their return to strong positions. In the twenty-one years since Germany was unified the main device has been a constant stress on the "totalitarianism" theory: one nasty dictatorship in Germany was replaced, in the East, by another one, equally bad or, to judge by the amount of propaganda, really far worse. The constant attacks on the system in the GDR and anyone who can be linked with it as being as bad or worse than Nazis, and a similar denunciation of "both right-wing and left-wing terrorism", again stressing the latter, have permitted most politicians and Constitution Protectors to concentrate on attacking those on the left. This reflects fears that uncertain economic conditions, like a recession or worse, might cause Germans, especially in the East, to reflect that despite the bad features in the old German Democratic Republic, the limits on travel, far fewer high-quality consumer goods and the other pressures and defects, there were good features as well, like job security, women's rights, no financial burdens with child care, medical care or education. Maybe socialism.? Faced by fears of any such reflection (and possible growth of The Left), some leaders felt that Nazis, though not pleasant folk, are good to have around as a preferable, perhaps useful means of channeling dissatisfaction if things get rough. This was the same philosophy which led their grandfathers in politics and the economy to support Hitler. Is such a stand really possible in today's Germany? Luckily, neither the NPD nor other openly racist (usually anti-Muslim) parties win nearly as many votes as similar parties in many other countries - most dangerously in Hungary, Austria and possibly even France. And while there is always potential support among racists, nationalists and economically hopeless groups, wherever Nazis demonstrate there is almost always a rally of anti-fascists to stop and usually to outnumber them. "No Nazis in Our Town" is a simple but common statement. But while there are still many good exceptions, all too frequently it is the city governments or the courts which not only protect the Nazis but harass and often arrest their opponents. Last February, like every year, the Nazis wanted to misuse for their own purposes ceremonies in Dresden mourning those killed in the air raid of February 1945, largely to counterbalance recollections of the holocaust. 18,000 anti-fascists gathered to prevent their march and their rally for the second year in a row and, with no violence, sent them home in helpless rage. But after most Nazis and anti-Nazis had left the city one group of "anti-fascist" youngsters, their faces covered and almost certainly led by provocateurs, as on past occasions -skirmished with the police. This is always meat for the mass media; it has been tried recently against Occupy groups. During the day thousands of cell-phones were hacked by the police. At night the skirmish was used to justify a brutal, fully illegal raid on The Left headquarters and to remove the legal immunity as legislators of the leaders of The Left in Saxony, Dresden's state, and neighboring Thuringia. They are to be brought to court for sponsoring "illegal blockades". Voting against them were the Christian Democrats, Free Democrats and neo- Nazi National Democratic Party, the NPD. Once again it was: "When in doubt support the far right." Until last week the media was full of angry articles about "right-wing terrorism and left-wing terrorism", with Angela Merkel joining the chorus. As ever, it was hinted, both were much the same but the latter were possibly worse, as proved by the burning of luxury cars in Berlin, presumably by "left-wing terrorists"? Even when an unemployed, very distressed young man with no political ties was caught in the act the chorus hardly let up. Now, with increasingly frightening details about genuine right-wing terror, strong indications that government spies were involved and the mysterious failure of Constitution Protectors to find the culprits in fifteen long years, they may decide to be just a little quieter, at least for a while. Protectors to find the culprits in fifteen long years, they may decide to be just a little quieter, at least for a while. http://lists.portside.org/cgi-bin/listse...6283.1111c
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her. “I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
05-07-2012, 07:13 PM
German secret service destroys files on neo-Nazi terrorist gang the National Socialist Underground
Vital information was shredded on the day it was due to be handed to federal prosecutors Tony Paterson Berlin Friday 29 June 2012 Germany's equivalent of MI5 has found itself at the centre of a deepening intelligence service scandal after it was confirmed yesterday that its agents had destroyed files containing vital information about a neo-Nazi terrorist gang hours before the material was due to be handed to federal prosecutors. The case concerns the National Socialist Underground, a neo-Nazi group responsible for Germany's worst acts of far-right violence since the Second World War. Its members murdered a policewoman, shot dead nine immigrants, mounted two bomb attacks and robbed 14 banks to finance their operations. Police discovered the bodies of the gang's two ringleaders, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt, in a burned-out caravan in eastern Germany last November. Investigators established that they had committed suicide after robbing a bank. A third member of the gang, Beate Zschäpe, was caught and arrested. She is still being questioned. Details of the scandal were leaked to the German news agency DPA yesterday, prompting German Interior Ministry officials to admit that domestic intelligence service agents, who had been keeping the gang under surveillance for more than a decade, had destroyed files containing information about the group. They revealed to a parliamentary inquiry that the agents had shredded the documents on November 11 the day they were due to be handed to Germany's Federal Prosecutor, who had taken over the investigation. Jörg Ziercke, the President of Germany's Federal Criminal Bureau, also admitted to the inquiry that his office "had failed" over the neo-Nazi investigation. The revelations increased suspicions that neo-Nazi cell members were in the pay of German intelligence. In the past, the organisation has made no secret of the fact that it uses secret service "moles" to infiltrate the country's far-right groups. However, keeping neo-Nazis on the secret service payroll would amount to active collaboration and imply that members of the intelligence service supported their criminal acts. The intelligence services have admitted to a parliamentary inquiry that both domestic intelligence and German military intelligence used so-called "moles" to infiltrate the neo-Nazi organisations frequented by NSU ringleaders Mundlos and Böhnhardt. Shocked German MPs yesterday insisted that the Interior Minister, Hans-Peter Friedrich, open a thorough investigation into the disclosures and bring those responsible to account. "The whole affair is intolerable and there must be consequences," said Eva Högl, a Social Democrat MP. Clemens Binniger, a conservative MP attending the inquiry, said the revelations made" all theories possible". The series of murders carried out by the National Socialist Underground began over a decade ago. The group singled out immigrant street vendors as their targets and specialised in shooting their victims at point-blank range in the head without warning. The killings were mostly carried out with a Czech-made Ceska pistol but remained unsolved for years. German police put them down to immigrant gang violence and did not suspect neo-Nazis were involved. After the discovery of the bodies of Mundlos and Böhnhardt last year, police found the Ceska murder weapon and soon established that the pair were behind the immigrant killings. Chancellor Angela Merkel described the murders as a "disgrace" for Germany. Ministers subsequently pledged to step up measures to combat the far right.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn "If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
05-07-2012, 08:45 PM
Ah yes.
GLADIO. The following is from Searchlight, and there are photos there: Quote:Germany: Nazi terror and state collusion
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek." "They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon "Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
05-07-2012, 09:09 PM
BERLIN The head of Germany's domestic spy agency admitted Thursday that his office made mistakes that allowed a small neo-Nazi group to operate under the radar on a seven-year spree in which they are suspected of killing nine immigrants and a policewoman.
Heinz Fromm, who has already submitted his resignation over the case, told a special parliamentary commission there were serious shortcomings in the investigation. "This is a serious defeat for the German security services," said Fromm, who steps down at the end of this month. The National Socialist Underground is suspected of killing eight Turkish men and a Greek between 2000 and 2006 and a policewoman in 2007 in attacks across the country. For years, authorities suspected organized crime rather than racist violence. Fromm said information was not shared well enough between the state and federal offices of his agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. He also said the group's activities did not fit traditional patterns of right-wing violence, and his office failed to see their attacks for what they were. "Ten executions of unsuspecting and defenseless people over a period of seven years that is unprecedented," Fromm said, adding that he had decided to ask for early retirement to make way for a fresh view from the top. His successor has not yet been chosen. In the end, it was not top-level intelligence but simple police work that uncovered the group's existence. After a failed bank robbery in the central city of Eisenach in November, police tracked the group's suspected founders, Uwe Boehnhardt and Uwe Mundlos, to a mobile home, which was on fire when the authorities arrived. Both were found dead there in an apparent murder-suicide. A third alleged core member, Beate Zschaepe, turned herself in and remains in custody pending trial. Police found the slain policewoman's service weapon in the mobile home, then discovered a pistol used in the other victims' killings at a burned-out apartment used by the group and allegedly torched by Zschaepe. Investigators also found copies of a propaganda video featuring pictures of the victims and a cartoon image of the Pink Panther standing next to a placard proclaiming "Germany Tour, 9th Turk Shot." Zschaepe is accused of founding and being a member of a terrorist organization. She has kept silent on the case while prosecutors prepare formal charges. Last week, revelations that an official with the federal agency destroyed intelligence files shortly after the lid blew last November on the neo-Nazi group added to authorities' embarrassment about the case. Fromm said he had talked with those responsible but had not been able to determine why the decision was taken to destroy the files. "I have no convincing explanation to give," he told the parliamentary committee, which has been investigating the case. Ahead of Fromm, the committee questioned behind closed doors the official responsible for destroying the seven files. The files documented efforts to recruit informants in another far-right organization to which the alleged NSU members once belonged. Regardless of whether the files contained any useful information, their destruction prompted questions as to whether someone was attempting a cover-up. The official, identified only as "M," invoked his right to refuse to testify about why he destroyed the files, lawmakers said though he was willing to talk generally about the agency's file-keeping practices. The official was not involved with the operation the files referred to "and we have received no other indications that anything was deliberately supposed to be covered up," said Eva Hoegl, a panel member from the opposition Social Democrats. But she said that suspicion "could not be dispelled" since the official didn't address his motives. The committee already has determined that no members of the National Socialist Underground were among the agency's informants.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn "If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
05-07-2012, 09:12 PM
[URL="http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120705-43575.html"]Mystery deepens - did agent aid murder?
[/URL] Published: 5 Jul 12 10:44 CET Updated: 5 Jul 12 12:20 CET A German intelligence agent was suspected of being involved in one of the immigrant murders attributed to the neo-Nazi terrorist group, a newspaper has claimed. All attempts to figure out his story have failed. The agent, named only as Andreas T., was in the internet cafe when the last victim of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) was shot yet investigators have been unable to work out if he was involved. Weekly paper Die Zeit says police suspected at the time he was involved in the murder of Halit Yozgat, a Kassel internet café worker, on April 6, 2006, but that the investigation was obstructed by the Hesse Office for the Protection of the Constitution - the state's intelligence agency. Andreas T. was in the café at the time of the murder and police later found three guns, shotgun shells, and a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in his various homes. Die Zeit reports that one Hesse investigator believed at the time that "a Hessian intelligence agent could have shot the young Yozgat." Andreas T. was subsequently "intensively interrogated" and was "constantly caught contradicting himself." It was previously known that Andreas T. was in the internet café at the time of the murder. He claimed that Yozgat was shot behind his counter while he was in the back room, and that had he left the café without noticing anything untoward. Investigators were reportedly puzzled by how Andreas T., who is over 6 feet 2 inches tall, could have overlooked the body and the blood on the counter. Die Zeit also said that on the day of the killing Andreas T. held several phone calls with a far-right informant who had contact with the NSU's network of sympathizers and helpers. Andreas T.'s employer, the Hesse state intelligence agency, also reportedly obstructed the police investigation by failing to provide any information. He now works at the headquarters of the state government in Kassel, the paper said. The latest revelations come after German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich promised a wholesale reform of Germany's security services following the botched investigations into the NSU murders. These led on Monday to the resignation of Heinz Fromm, president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), after 12 years in charge. The Die Zeit article was written by Stefan Aust, former editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel, best known for "The Baader Meinhof Complex," his history of the left-wing terrorist organization the RAF.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn "If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
27-07-2012, 04:16 PM
German intelligence chief Heinz Fromm quits over murders![[Image: _61305094_015229975-1.jpg]](http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61305000/jpg/_61305094_015229975-1.jpg) Mr Fromm took the helm of the agency in 2000 - the year the murders beganContinue reading the main story Related StoriesThe head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency, Heinz Fromm, has resigned after a series of blunders in an investigation into a neo-Nazi cell. The group is believed to have killed at least 10 people, most of them Turkish immigrants, over a seven-year period and then evaded capture. A woman, Beate Zschaepe, is awaiting trial over the murders. Mr Fromm's agency came under fresh fire last week when it emerged it shredded key documents relating to the case. The 63-year-old has headed the Office for the Protection of the Constitution since 2000, the year the murders began. He announced his decision to take early retirement to Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich. Mr Friedrich said Mr Fromm had been "surprised and distressed about the mistakes by employees in his authority". "He is, like me, deeply worried about the resulting loss of confidence in the domestic intelligence agency," the minister said. 'Disgrace'The failure of the German security services to halt the string of murders seemingly carried out by the trio who called themselves the National Socialist Underground shocked the German public when it emerged last December. ![[Image: _56793724_013332350-1.jpg]](http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/56793000/jpg/_56793724_013332350-1.jpg) The neo-Nazi group, which has been dubbed the Zwickau cell, operated undetected for 11 yearsThe case only surfaced when two of the three were found dead in an apparent suicide pact and Beate Zschaepe blew up her rented flat in the east German city of Zwickau and then handed herself in to police. In February, German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the case as "a disgrace". She appealed for forgiveness from the families of the victims - eight businessmen of Turkish origin, one businessman of Greek origin and one German policewoman. The group also injured more than 20 people in two bomb attacks on people of Turkish origin, as well as carrying out over a dozen bank robberies. Authorities including the police have admitted making critical mistakes in investigating the case, and have vowed to improve regional and national intelligence co-operation. Last week it emerged at an intelligence oversight committee that an agency official had shredded key documents about the activities of far-right informers, just one day after it was revealed that the cell was involved in the murders. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18674873
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her. “I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
27-07-2012, 06:41 PM
Quote:The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency, Heinz Fromm, has resigned after a series of blunders in an investigation into a neo-Nazi cell. :flypig: :finger: :piethrow: About as credible as PM Cameron declaring "We're all in this together".
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek." "They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon "Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war |
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