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Hi Robert, thanks for the encouragement. Indeed, we should try to get the articles about the Sicilian Mafia Trials and the First and Second Mafia War done. I got carried away a bit by the aricle on the Sicilian Mafia Commission and trying to write articles about the Mafia bosses mentioned there. Good sources are Stille's Excellent Cadavers and Dickie's Cosa Nostra. Beware that the wars started before thet really started. The First Mafia War can be traced back to the war about the wholesale fruit and vegetable market when it was moved from the Zisa quarter to Acquasanta in 1955 (see under Michele Cavataio, and also under Ciaculli massacre for the backgrounds) and the functioning of the Commission. (For the First Mafia War, Servadio's Mafioso is a good source as well) The Second Mafia War goes back to at least 1978 (the murders of Giuseppe Di Cristina and Giuseppe Calderone and the removal of Gaetano Badalamenti which were the result of tensions in the Commission). I will try to get the Trial of the 114 right. I am also working on a Mafia timeline for the Sicilian Mafia, which might help. - Mafia Expert 22:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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