THE NAZIS OF MADRID in "Diario de un skin"

 

Nov 21 2004 . By Dan Evans In London And Gerard Couzens In Madrid

THESE are the astonishing pictures that bring fresh shame to Spanish football.

Real Madrid heroes Luis Figo and Raul smile for the camera while holding a scarf and flag of evil race-hate group the Ultras Surs.

The fanatics, who share their axe emblem with the international Hammerskin white supremacist movement, are feared even among the most extreme elements of Europe's soccer hooligans.

Its rabid followers are notorious for their sieg-heiling and swastika waving.

 

Yet despite their known fascist links, star players at the world-famous club - home to England superstars David Beckham and Michael Owen - have posed for pictures and granted interviews to the group's fanzine.

These shocking pictures are set to reignite the controversy after the appalling abuse of England's black players.

A Sunday Mirror investigation has revealed how:

Madrid-born Raul, the team captain and skipper of the national side, is the darling of the Ultras Surs and accepted a plaque as an accolade from its racist members.

The group receives free tickets for Real Madrid's matches and once had its own office at the Bernabeu stadium.

Ultras leader Jose Luis Ochaita was arrested in 1998 in Germany for waving Nazi flags and banned from matches for three years for attacking a referee in Spain.

Former fascist dictator General Franco is the Ultras' ideological leader.

Our revelations come as the Spanish FA belatedly apologised to Ashley Cole and Shaun Wright-Phillips over the monkey noises they endured in the match against Spain.

And they make a mockery of Spanish claims that racism has no part in their game, heaping pressure on national manager Luis Aragones to quit after he branded Arsenal star Thierry Henry a "black s**t" on live television last month.

Piara Power, director of Kick It Out, the anti-racism in football organisation, said: "We've known about the Ultras links to Real Madrid for a long time. During Wednesday's game I saw Spanish fascist flags being waved and 25 Ultras giving Nazi salutes."

The Ultras Surs' sinister agenda is demonstrated in the string of violent convictions of its second-in-command Alvaro Cardenas.

He was jailed for four years in 2003 after admitting attacking a policeman in 1999 with a butterfly knife because he mistook him for a "s****y South American".

Even Real Madrid's Brazilian legends Roberto Carlos and Ronaldo are singled out for racist chants and excluded from the Ultras Surs fanzine. White Real Madrid stars including Jose Maria Guti, Iker Casillas and Shaun Wright-Phillips's Manchester City team-mate Steve McManaman have all granted interviews to the fanzine in the last three years.

 

Until very recently the Ultras had their own office near gate 42 of the Bernabeu in which they kept pamphlets, drums, megaphones and flags bearing General Franco's shield and other neo-Nazi symbols.

After home matches they meet to organise "cacereias" - hunts of blacks, prostitutes, tramps, gays and supporters of other clubs. Among their favoured chants is: "Six million Jews to the gas chambers"

But despite the clear potential for damage to the reputation of the self-styled "world's greatest club" and the threat to its lucrative sponsorship deals, Real Madrid's stars have been keen to endorse the hooligans.

Ultras Surs' favourite player, Raul, was criticised for accepting a plaque from the group after a 2003 Champions League meeting with AC Milan. Attacked later by Madrid's immigration chief Tomas Vera for legitimising "a criminal, racist xenophobe", Raul's agent countered by calling for Vera to resign.

Until the election of Florentino Perez in 2000, generations of Real's presidents had courted the hooligans. In 1997 former president Ramon Mendoza said: "If I was 20 now, I would be an Ultras Surs."

And the predecessor to Perez, Lorenzo Sanz, used the racists to try to strong-arm his way to victory in 2000. The amazing insight into Real's hardcore fans was exposed in a 2003 book by Spanish journalist Antonio Salas who infíltrate them.

The Sunday Mirror

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Spanish journalist Antonio Salas sentenced to death in Venezuela

Venezuela, in October 2012. During the presidential election, Alberto Carias, aka El Chino, was interviewed by the newspaper "Contra Punto" of El Salvador. This controversial interview was later published in newspapers around the world.

Carias Tupamaros leader of the armed group, discussed the infiltration of Antonio Salas: "... infiltrated our organization and our activities recorded with a hidden camera, saying he was a journalist. We have put to death".

 



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The Evidence Against Chávez Mounts

By DOUGLAS FARAH. I have not had time to write much recently, but two recent events point to the increasingly overt ties between the Chávez government and international terrorist organizations.

The first, Chávez's help to bring the FARC in Colombia and the Spanish ETA together, I already discussed at some length here.

 New revelations are now being published about Chávez's direct (although repeatedly denied) ties to Hezbollah and other radical Islamist groups. A new book, El Palestino, by Spanish journalist Antonio Salas documents armed camps in Venezuela where the FARC, Hezbollah, ETA and others all train together.

 

In the book, which comes out later this week, the author says he posed as a Venezuelan Palestinian interested in jihad and ended up traveling around the world after fabricating a new identity. His employer, Antena 3 of Spain, has released some of the hidden camera video he shot to verify his experience.

According to the book's publicity, "It was in Venezuela that he received his baptism of fire. He found that just around the city of Caracas there are six terrorist training camps. There he learned to shoot every kind of weapon. His time there coincided with the training of members of the FARC, ETA and other groups."

 

There have long been reports of these camps from credible sources, but video and direct, publicly available documentation and first hand experience has not been. This is in keeping with Chávez's broader goals of creating an alliance of state and non-state actors to wage asymmetrical warfare against the United States. It is, quite likely, the worst of all worlds for the rest of Latin America, and beginnings of the solidifying joint venture that will eventually pose and existential threat to the United States.

 

Both Chávez, with the FARC, and Iran with its Hezbollah proxy, have the same goal in this endeavor. Each of the proxies has relevant experience and resources the other does not, and both have a long history of adaptation and co-learning from other terrorist groups, regardless of political/theological differences.

 

Chávez has also made no secret of his desire to spread armed revolution across Latin America to rid the continent of non-Bolivarian governments, or transform the governments to the Bolivarian way.

 

Hence his support, through the Movimiento Bolivariano Continental, (Continental Bolivarian Movement), to the FARC, the Tupac Amaro movement in Peru, the Mapuches and MIR in Chile, etc. etc.

This support is likely to increase as Chávez's internal situation deteriorates. With the highest homicide rate in the hemisphere, water and electrical rationing, inflation running at more than 30 percent and his popularity in a steady decline, he is likely to be desperate for anything that can give him a boost.

 

Iran, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador have enormous stakes in Chávez's survival, no matter what the cost. So one can expect the region to be roiled by something he cooks up to fabricate a crisis.

The U.S. response so far has been muted to Chávez and his lethal alliances. There are no good options for a response, but it is increasingly clear that the day of reckoning is drawing near.

 

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Douglas Farah is an award-winning investigative journalist, author of "Blood From Stones:The Secret Financial Network of Terror", and Senior Fellow in Financial Investigations and Transparency at the International Assessment and Strategy Center. He blogs on the Counterterrorism Blog and also at http://www.douglasfarah.com/.

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Book, Video Show Hizballah Training Near Caracas

Evidence of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez's Islamist terror connections continues to mount, writes veteran journalist Douglas Farah. He describes a new book, El Palestino, authored by Spanish journalist Antonio Salas, which says there are six terrorist training camps around Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. Groups training at the camps include the Colombian FARC, the Spanish Basque ETA organization, and Hizballah.

In the book (currently available in Spanish), Salas says he posed as a Venezuelan Palestinian interested in jihad and was able to travel around the world. His employer, the Spanish television network Antena 3, has released some of the hidden-camera video he took while working undercover with the terrorists.

For years, there have been reports about the existence of these camps, but Salas apparently is the first person to provide video and firsthand experience training in them. According to Antena 3, Salas joined a Venezuelan "faction" of Hizballah, where he met members of other terrorist organizations like Hamas and the FARC.

"This is in keeping with Chavez's broader goals of creating an alliance of state and non-state actors to wage assymetrical warfare against the United States," Farah wrote. "Both Chavez, with the FARC, and Iran, have the same goal in this endeavor. Each of the proxies has relevant experience and resources the other does not, and both have a history of adaption and co-learning from other terrorist groups, regardless of political/theological differences."

As living conditions in Venezuela continue to deteriorate, he added, Chavez may well seek to foment crises and support armed revolution in Latin America:

"With the highest homicide rate in the hemisphere, water and electrical rationing, inflation running at more than 30 percent and his popularity in a steady decline, he is likely to be desperate for anything that can give him a boost. Iran, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador have enormous stakes in Chavez's survival, no matter what the cost. So one can expect the region to be roiled by something he cooks up to fabricate a crisis."

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