November 2, 2001 (Web Today--) Along with a joint Swiss-American probe of oil giants Exxon Mobil, BP Amoco, and Phillips Petroleum, the Grand Jury is seeking suspected evidence that Giffen's firm, Mercator, was used as a go-between to funnel large cash payments to the President of Kazakhstan and some of his top aides.

Now, after the events of 9/11, the world is fixated on prosecuting a new war on terror and what evidence that was collected is gone forever in the raging furnace that was once Tower One. Were these tragic events, a mere coincidence, dumb luck--or are they representative of a dark and much more sinister connection?

Remember that it was President Clinton who set a questionable precedent for using the mighty force of the U.S. military air power at a critical moment in his own battle with a secret Grand Jury probe, some think to divert blistering public attention away from his own sordid sexual affair with the dark "irresistible" Monica.

If you begin to examine the oil connection, there is a lot more to hide than a casual tryst in the rich, far away oil fields of Kazakhstan, that may have a net collective productive value that exceeds one trillion U.S. dollars or more.

Just eleven months after Mann's article, The 'New Yorker Magazine' published the following information in a well-researched piece written by another seasoned writer, Semour M. Hersh. (July 9,2001 Pp.48-65).

Attacking the story from a different point of view, Mr. Hersh reports that in the fall of 1997, an international businessman named Farhat Tasbbah filed suit in London against three principal businessmen, the oil minister of Kazakhstan, and a subsidiary of the Mobil Corporation. The lawsuit alleges that the group developed a conspiracy to cheat Mr. Tabbah out of millions of dollars of commissions owed to him for assisting in a lucrative 10-year oil swap between Mobil Oil and the oil reserves of Kazakhstan.

Often, we would never hear about these secret corrupt international transactions, except for the thievery and slander that accompanies the crooks cheating one another.

Then giant Mobil moved to deny the charges and legally suppress all of Tabbah's affidavits and supporting documentation, the outraged Tabbah blew the whistle on the entire group. Mr. Tabbah flew to the U.S. and met with United States Customs Service and agents of the FBI, bringing with him several file drawers of damaging evidence supporting his claims.

This critical information was then moved to the World Trade Center Tower One and the rest is history.

Part of the bigger problem rests with J. Bryan Williams III, senior executive in charge of Mobil's overseas crude transactions. The FBI probe found credible evidence that Mobil had, in fact, engaged in lucrative oil swaps with Iran and other forbidden countries, breaking Federal Sanctions.

Williams, 58, quietly retired while Mobil went on to merge with Exxon and found it unnecessary to report the incident to its shareholders or the Securities and Exchange, for international violations of the law.

This case may also, in part, explain why the fugitive Marc Rich, who was indicted for exactly the same crimes, [trading oil contracts with outlaw nations], received a full pardon in the moments just prior to President Clinton leaving office. The Exxon Mobil merger was so big and so lucrative that nothing was going to be put in its path or stop it from going on to completion.

Mobil, during their own internal investigations, discovered an array of shady dealings with both Russia and Kazakhstan all during the mid-nineties. More than a billion dollars in bribes were paid to a variety of Russian companies for many unorthodox transactions, employing questionable accounting practices, and secret wire transactions. Quick profits were not the only
prize, but a long-range and determined strategic goal was to gain access to the rich oil reserves of Tengiz oil fields.

At the heart of much of this skullduggery was none other Prime Minister Viktor Chermomydin and the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayer. You may want to revisit a series of articles I posted with Web Today, titled the "Money Tree," in which I outlined the bilking of  one-third of a trillion dollars stolen from the IMF/U.S. in an effort to bring capitalism to Russia, a course of action pursued throughout the reign of the Clinton administration.

Clinton and Chermomydin were great friends--at the expense of the good old U.S. taxpayers, again. So what has changed? Not much really, just the names and places. Except this time we have crossed into a new threshold of violence and unmanaged greed with the so-called 'new war' on terrorism. A war that may have its unholy roots tied to the dark horrific 9/11 tradegy.

Dick Eastman, in a somewhat long diatribe, claims to have solved the real mystery behind the 9/11 attacks. The web site I pointed out to you will carry a complete account of his theory. Additional comments are also found on the site by Fritz Springmeyer whom, like so many others, has spent a great deal of time investigating international conspiracies.

In my next effort I will attempt to capsulize both arguments and comment on what I believe to be the possible merits, as well as the greater problems we are dealing with, in this untimely war on Global terrorism. May God continue to bless you and your loved ones in these stressful times.
 
 

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