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Black Hand (Italian: Mano Nera) was a type of Italian extortion racket. Originally developed in the eighteenth century, Black Hand extortion was exported to the United States in the later nineteenth century with Italian immigrants. Black Hand was a method of extortion practiced by Italian immigrant gangsters of the Camorra and the Mafia ...
In historian Ahmad Qasim's writings of Ali al-Haddad, one of the organization's members, he said that he was close to two people, al-Nuqrashi and Ahmad Maher, the latter of whom was an assistant to Abdel Rahman Fahmy, founder and director of the Secret Service, and one of Ahmad Maher's roles was to recruit young men and join the Black Hand, which increased its activity by planning political ...
The Black Hand (Spanish: La Mano Negra) was a presumed secret, anarchist organization based in the Andalusian region of Spain and best known as the perpetrators of murders, arson, and crop fires in the early 1880s. [1]
By 1935, Black Hand had several hundred men - the figures differ from 200 to 800 - organised in cells of 5 men, and arranged military training for peasants. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] The cells were equipped with bombs and firearms, which they used to raid Jewish settlements and sabotage British-constructed rail lines. [ 6 ]
In Australia, the Black Hand Gang (Mano Negra) supposedly also operated in the NSW town of Griffith. The NLA Trove has scanned images from newspaper articles from the period when the Black Hand Gang in Australia supposedly operated. 121.223.51.164 05:35, 25 January 2014 (UTC) If you have sources, improve the article by editing it.
The Black Hand took over the terrorist actions [which?] of Narodna Odbrana and deliberately worked to obscure any distinctions between the two groups, trading on the prestige and network of the older organization. Black Hand members held important army and government positions. Crown Prince Alexander was an enthusiastic financial supporter. [19]
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Willie "Two-Knife" Altieri, also called Willie "Two Gun" Altieri, was an American gangster who served as the chief enforcer for Frankie Yale's Italian-American "Black-Hand" gang, one of the most powerful criminal organizations in 1920s New York City. He got his nickname after his preferred method of dispatching a victim.