Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Clan Warfare?

This morning, if you follow German news.....roughly 500 police were sent out to forty-three locations across the NW of Germany....on the trail of an Iraqi crime 'clan'.  What the cops say right now....this group was actively into weapon sales, drug trafficking, and smuggling.

The group?  Identified to the public as 'Al-Salam-313'.  The commentary suggests that thirty-four of them were brought in and detained to some degree.  The cities identified from the news piece?  Kohn, Essen, Bonn, Duisburg, and Krefeld. 

The two odd angles to this story?  First, they have some kind of relationship with the former guard of Saddam Hussein.  The second angle is that the cops say they in a turf battle of some type against Lebanese clan groups in the same region. 

Clan wars?  For roughly two years, German cops have hinted that the clans have gone into turbo-mode and developed beyond anything that they'd ever seen before. 

No comments: