Article: The Sicilian Mafia: a state within the state.

Article: Murder in the Family Loyalty to kith and kin has never been part of the Mafia's code of conduct, says Alasdair Palmer Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia by John Dickie Hodder & Stoughton, pounds 20, 483 pp pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
The Sunday Telegraph London;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Borsellino, were blown to pieces by Mafia car bombs. The Mafia made a serious error in declaring war on the Italian...done after Falcone convicted over 100 members of the Mafia (although three quarters of those whom he accused were acquitted). In escalating the level of violence, the Mafia forced ...

Article: Cosa Nostra, continued.(Survey)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US);  July 7, 2001 ;     594 words ......ordinary Sicilians that the Mafia decided to keep its head...1992, the links between the Mafia and the Christian Democratic...sought to link him with the Mafia, and for his own alleged...acquittal in the second Mafia case. All leading anti-Mafia magistrates stress the links...exist-between ...

Article: `Mafia Woman' Now a Partner in Crime
Chicago Sun-Times;  May 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......repudiate the Mafia way of violence...themselves inside Cosa Nostra. By tradition...While traditional Mafia wives stayed...ever captured Cosa Nostra's reputed No...allegiance to Cosa Nostra. "They speak out so the Mafia will protect...

Article: FILM-ITALY: MAFIA FLICKS OUT OF TOUCH WITH COSA NOSTRA OF TODAY
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  July 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ......films on the mafia comes with a health warning -- the mafia may have gone off the news, but it is not gone yet. "The fact is that the mafia has not disappeared," says Enzo Ciconte, consultant for the Anti-Mafia Parliamentary Commission. "It is as active as ever...Ciconte says the strategy of ...

Article: Report: Sicilian Mafia Rebuilding
AP Online;  August 28, 2003 ;     378 words ......with investigators. Cosa Nostra, the report said...parliament's anti- Mafia commission, Roberto...since 1963, remains Cosa Nostra' s top boss and...cohesion of the Mafia. Investigators have...the impression the Mafia is still strong...ministry report said Cosa ...

Article: Painless Dissection of the mafia myth
The Sunday Herald;  February 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia by John Dickie (Hodder...struck me reading Cosa Nostra - it means "Our Thing...boomed, giving the mafia its first opportunity...the entire Sicilian mafia. Corleonesi declared...Falcone, the anti-mafia judge in 1992. It...the ...

Article: MAFIA WOMEN EMERGING SOME NO LONGER FOLLOW ANCIENT COSA NOSTRA CODE; OTHERS USE NEW AUTONOMY TO CARVE OUT BIGGER ROLE.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  May 5, 1996 ;     460 words ......women repudiate the Mafia way of violence...themselves inside Cosa Nostra. By tradition...While traditional Mafia wives stayed home...they ever captured Cosa Nostra's reputed No. 2...their allegiance to Cosa Nostra. ``They speak out so the Mafia will protect ...

Article: Sicilian business owners rebel against the Mafia
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  January 14, 2008 ;     648 words ......down to business, Cosa Nostra could always count...shaking the Sicilian Mafia to its centuries-o...the heart of the Mafia," said Palermo prosecutor...the fight to break Cosa Nostra's stranglehold on...ultimately could lead to Cosa Nostra's undoing. The ...

Article: ITALY: IMPRISONED MAFIA LEADER COLLABORATES WITH LEGAL SYSTEM
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  August 24, 1996 ;     541 words ......accusations against the mafia. After the arrest...Toto Riina, the Cosa Nostra's number one...Buscetta, the first Cosa Nostra leader to break the mafia's vow of silence...hard-hitting blow to Cosa Nostra, because they...Sicily's top mafia families. But...

Article: Cosy comfort for Cosa Nostra; The Mafia.(Comfort for Italy's Mafia)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US);  May 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Trapani, in the island's west, is particularly bad. Mafia families still keep a firm grip on their districts...survey there found that young people mainly blame the Mafia for high unemployment and cite the pizzo (extortion...and local knowledge provide a good idea of how local Mafia families are run. ...

Article: The sharp end. (two books on the mafia in Italy)
The Economist (US);  October 10, 1992 ;     448 words ......secret world of Cosa Nostra, as the Sicilian Mafia is known to its...outside looking in, Cosa Nostra sometimes seems...Another book on the Mafia, as yet untranslated...prominent in Cosa Nostra's administration...start of the Mafia war which raged...

Article: Is the mafia in retreat or in defeat? (Italy)
The Economist (US);  July 29, 1995 ;     700+ words ......a clear reverse for the Mafia. There are signs, indeed...Florence's chief prosecutor, that Cosa Nostra [as the Mafia is often called] is slipping...capital, Palermo, likens the Mafia to a medieval plague; Palermo...are turning against the Mafia--which, he says, amounts...island. As a ...

Article: Revamped Cosa Nostra back with a vengeance
Scotland on Sunday;  December 6, 1998 ;     700+ words ......for office on an anti- Mafia ticket, but that he lived...the reorganisation of Cosa Nostra. Giuffre has been on the...when he was charged with Mafia association. According...s evil empire, taking Cosa Nostra back to a policy of non-confrontati...to a understand if the Mafia is ...

Article: Split seems to be repaired in Sicilian Mafia, but Calabrian crime gangs are gaining power, Italian investigators say
AP Worldstream;  August 27, 2003 ;     568 words ......with investigators. Cosa Nostra, the report said...parliament's anti- Mafia commission, Roberto...Provenzano remains Cosa Nostra's top boss and has...cohesion of the Mafia. Investigators have...They have described Cosa Nostra as having been torn...the impression the ...