About me: Loretta Napoleoni is an Italian economist, author, journalist and political analyst. She is an expert on the financing of terrorism and is well known internationally for having calculated the size of the terror economy.
Loretta was born and raised in Rome, Italy. An active member of the feminist movement in the mid 1970s, she was a a Fulbright scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., and a Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics (LSE). She has an M.Phil. in Terrorism from LSE, a Master's in International Relations from SAIS, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rome.
Loretta's writing appears regularly in many journals and publications, including several European newspapers. She has worked as a foreign correspondent and columnist for several Italian financial papers. She was among the few people to interview the Red Brigades in Italy after three decades of silence.
Loretta has written novels, guide books in Italian and translated and edited books on terrorism. Her best-selling book Terror Incorporated Seven Stories Press was translated into 12 languages. Dossier Baghdad is a financial thriller set during the Gulf War. Her most recent book is Insurgent Iraq: Al-Zarqawi and the New Generation.
As an economist Loretta has worked for several banks and international organizations in Europe and the United States. In the early 1980s she worked at the National Bank of Hungary on the convertibility of the Hungarian forint that became the blue print for the convertibility of the ruble a decade later.
As well as lecturing regularly on the financing of terrorism, Loretta advises several governments on counter-terrorism. As Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, she brought heads of state from around the world together to create a new strategy for combating the financing of terror networks.
Loretta lives in London, England, and Whitefish, Montana, with her husband and children.
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What do you think of these newly discovered crime scene photos (viewed at Abu-Jamal-News.com)?
I have been personally contacting every mainstream media person I could find and still the only place that has published the actual photo is the national Black newspaper, The SF Bay View (click here).
This is just the latest episode in a long history of corporate media bias (and arguably racism) towards Mumia and other political prisoners.
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