Azure9920 wrote:Question:
Who do you believe has more knowledge of the situation in Milan, the BBC, or the Italian police?
i take this comment as proof of your biased stance towards me based on past encounters/arguments. perhaps you failed to realize that the source i brought in, which you did not bother to even open because of your stubborn attitude towards anything i say, was a funded research project in which the three main researchers cooperated with dozens of enforcement agencies and officials around europe, including italian agencies. i would also like to remind you that the only source you have to even base a counter-argument against me doesn't even hold up water as it does not prove my officially-backed theory on albanian criminal clans being the strongest in the milanese territory in italy. it merely states n'drangheta is not interested in controlling the milanese territory. however, if even that is true, it does not prove me wrong or even have a case against my claim of albanian criminal clans being the most powerful figures in milan because it doesn't go against it. if anything, it supports what i said.
http://www.saferworld.org.uk/images/pub ... 0crime.pdf
Acknowledgements
Saferworld is grateful to the British Government for funding this project. The authors
would like to thank Malcolm Chalmers and Paddy Rawlinson for their valuable advice
and contributions to this paper. Thanks also go to Maria Morell for her assistance with
the initial research.
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EDU Europol Drugs Unit
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FATF Financial Action Task Force (OECD)
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