Originally Posted By: Five_Felonies
not too sure about specifics, but there are criminals of pakistani decent in and around northern nj, and i assume nyc as well. in and around detroit, there is the chaldean mafia, which i believe is of iraqi, and more specificly, kurdish decent although i'm not too sure. i know i remember hearing they had some connections with the detroit lcn, at least in relation to some gambling.


The Chaldean mafia are ethnic Assyrians ( of Assyro-Chaldean faith) from Iraq. Assyrians are somewhat the 'Native Americans of Iraq'. I don't know if they are highly active in the USA but the Assyrian criminal bands in Sweden for instance don't play around. A large part of the organized criminal activities and gangland killings over there can be contributed to them and some Albanian and Yugoslav groups.