The mainstream media for the most part has moved on. But there are a few more gleanings to be had, of perhaps the most interesting comes from the Daily Mirror, which labels al-Hilli an extremist on the grounds that he was against the war in Iraq, disapproved of the behaviour of Israel and had doubts over 9/11 – which makes a great deal of the population “extremist”. But the Mirror has the only mainstream mention I can find of the possibility that Mossad carried out the killings. Given Mr al-Hilli’s profession, the fact he is a Shia, the fact he had visited Iran, and the fact that Israel heas been assassinating scientists connected to Iran’s nuclear programme, this has to be a possibility. There are of course other possibilities, but to ignore that one is ludicrous.
Which leads me to the argument of Daily Mail crime reporter, Stephen Wright, that the French police should concentrate on the idea that this was a killing by a random Alpine madman or racist bigot. Perfectly possible, of course, and the anti-Muslim killings in Marseille might be as much a precedent as Mossad killings of scientists. But why the lone madman idea should be the preferred investigation, Mr Wright does not explain. What I did find interesting from a man who has visited many crime scenes are his repeated insinuations that the French authorities are not really trying very hard to find who the killers were, for example:
the crime scene would have been sealed off for a minimum of seven to ten days, to allow detailed forensic searches for DNA, fibres, tyre marks and shoe prints to take place.
Nearby bushes and vegetation would have been searched for any discarded food and cigarette butts left by the killer, not to mention the murder weapon.
But from what I saw at the end of last week, no such searches had taken place and potentially vital evidence could have been missed. House to house inquiries in the local area had yet to be completed and police had not made specific public appeals for information about the crime. No reward had been put up for information about the shootings.
Behind the scenes, what other short cuts have been taken? Have police seized data identifying all mobile phones being used in the vicinity of the murders that day?
The idea that the French authorities – who are quite as capable as any other of solving cases – are not really trying very hard is an interesting one.
Which leads me to this part of a remarkable article from the Daily Telegraph, which if true points us back towards a hit squad and discounts the ides that there was only one gun:
Claims that only one gun was used to kill everybody is likely to be disproved by full ballistics test results which are out in October.
While the 25 spent bullet cartridges found at the scene are all of the same kind, they could in fact have come from a number of weapons of the same make.
This throws up the possibility of a well-equipped, highly-trained gang circling the car and then opening fire.
Both children were left alive by the killers, who had clinically pumped bullets into everybody else, including five into Mr Mollier.
Zainab was found staggering around outside the car by Brett Martin, a British former RAF serviceman who cycled by moments after the attack, but he saw nobody except the schoolgirl.
Her sister, Zeena, was found unscathed and hiding in the car eight hours later.
Both sisters are now back in Britain, and are believed to have been reunited at a secret location near London.
There are of course a number of hit squad options, both governmental and private, which might well involve iraqi or Iranian interests – on both of which the mainstream media have been very happy to speculate while almost unanimously ignoring Israel.
But what interests me is why the Daily Telegraph choose, in the face of all the evidence, to minimise the horrific nature of the attack by stating that “Both children were left alive by the killers”? Zainab was not left alive by design, she was shot in the chest and her skull was stove in, which presumably was a pretty serious attempt to kill a seven year-old child. The other girl might very well have succeeded in hiding from the killers under her mother’s skirts, as she hid from the first rescuers, and then for eight hours from the police.
The Telegraph article claims to be informed by sources close to the investigation. So they believe it was a group of people, and feel motivated to absolve those people from child-killing. Now what could the Daily Telegraph be thinking?
Blue.
The girl swings it. (Vs that “air castle” pic).
That unusual hair colour…from that ethnic background !
It’s pretty much the same little girl.
And the “age vs uni dates” thing has also been a thing with me.
Especially after that much experience, he now needs another project ?
Add to that…after all that education (upto 1968), he went to Baghdad for a year to work !
Such a wery new skill set for the time….and you leave London for Iraq centro !
“A Thousand Clean” I don’t get.
“Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht” being “Ship breaking town”.
Ships, satellites, same names, relations/friends, The UAE, Iraqi.
Then we have Swiss Account.
That spells oil. But why the probably lie about SSTL ?
They have a good business. Why say he was working there ?
Another wee titbit. Stedman is “off the books” at Shtech now.
Completely removed. Not “closed” or “retired”.
Who would you request to do that ? Companies House UK ?
I found something.
Tax fraud, bribery and miney laundering through the Dubai subsidiary of Tidewater.
Bribery of Azerbajdjanian politicians and tax authorities.
Bribary of Nigerian port authorities.
In the middle of this: “Employee number 4”
He is called in that book “employee 4” but this is Saad al Hilli (the Dutch subsidiary of Tidewater Dubai)
Tidewater Inc.: Securities and Exchange Commission Litigation Complaint
by C. Ian Anderson
You can find this book in “google books” when you search for “Tidewater UAE”
This happend in 2003. Employee 4 was in trouble, was he?
That would be enough for 1000 reasons. As a matter of fact, “employee 4” is Saad al Hilli (the Dutch alter ego).
Another strange aside that fits in with BLUEBIRD’s findings.
I was looking at the pics of the Claygate house. and comparing them with Google Earth (you can view date stamps them there).
From 2003 to 2009 the house seems to have gone “tatty”.
Especially the placing of the larger “shed” in the rear.
The pictures from the MSM (from the rear) show various things.
They include what looks like a “renovation”.
Near the shed a possible old kitchen work surface.
Near the rear of the house, a bath tub.
Question. Had Sa’ad UK “retired” and making his “nest” ?
And does this fall inline with the Dutch Sa’ad leaving his Holland project on completion ?
19. Employee 4 was Tidewater’s Area Controller in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (“U.A.E.”) with local operating responsibilities to TMII from 2001 through May 2008. Employee 4 was responsible for the finance operations of the Company’s Dubai, Azerbaijan (until about November 2004) and India operations during that period.
20. Azerbaijan Agent is an entity with operations in Azerbaijan that the Company’s Baku office used for accounting and bookkeeping services. The Azerbaijan Agent provided the Company with the bank wire instructions to make the 2001, 2003 and 2005 payments to a bank account in Dubai that the Company knew, or was reckless in not knowing, would be passed to government officials in Azerbaijan.
21. Dubai Entity is a company affiliated or associated with the Azerbaijan Agent that maintained a bank account in Dubai, U.A.E. used to receive the 2001, 2003 and 2005 5 payments.
From
Case 2:10-cv-04180-HGB-ALC Document 7-1 Filed 11/18/10 Page 1 of 19 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA CASE NO.: __________________________________________ : SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. TIDEWATER INC., Defendant
Employee number 4 was Saad al Hilli (the Dutch character)
Blue…
That was for 160.000 USD.
Your kicker is the next bit.
“also authorized the reimbursement of approximately $1.6 million to its customs broker in Nigeria used, in whole or in part, to make improper payments to Nigerian Customs Services (“NCS”) employees to induce them to disregard certain regulatory requirements in Nigeria relating to the temporary importation of the Company’s vessels into Nigerian waters”.
Now that’s BIG.
And what if YOU could make something not appear…and “James” worked in a Sandpit ? That would be some team eh !
In the oil Ind…the below is a given !
“Theft detection is a more challenging task than leak detection as the thieves are often experienced and equipped with sophisticated equipment to avoid being identified. The size and duration of each theft is usually kept below the flow meter detection limit, making it impossible for flow balance based leak detection systems to work”
James
Did the Nigerians want more money after they read the SEC papers or did they realise that he got e.g. 1.6 mio. from tidewater but they got only e.g. 800.000? Would they ask him for the rest? And finally we have that Nigerian scammer trying to get money from his accounts …
I did laugh !
“Precision local expansion shaping process and apparatus for metal tubes of substantial length”
Who does that ?
Compagnie Europeenne du Zirconium Cezus !
The welders !
BLUE !
“And finally we have that Nigerian scammer” Oh Yeh !
And the welder ! See above !
James
That timing would also fit with your findings of the renovation:
Employee 4 was Tidewater’s Area Controller in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (“U.A.E.”) with local operating responsibilities to TMII from 2001 through May 2008.
So he was in the Netherlands and in Dubai from 2001-2008?
Perhaps Iqbal and Zainab were in Dubai all the time and therefore Iqbal wasnt seen too often in Claygate. And then they returned to claygate after renovating the house in 2009 when Zeena was born and when Zainab had to attend school? The timeline would fit.
When did his father die? When did Zaid leave the house? fits all pretty well.
I would not want to live in the same house with my brother, his wife and 2 babies/kids. What a nightmare.
Nick it …but you then have to ship it.
Then “export it” from somewhere rather crap, but that has an oil industy ! Like Nigeria !
All bases cover oddly enough.
Inc ole “55”. Bet they have a few chaps that can work in hostile areas !
Q 7.41 – re. the bulgarian bus bomb killing Israelis @ http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/05/australian-suspected-in-bulgaria-bus-bombing-that-killed-five-israelis-u-s-officials-say/
the question is were those australian and canadian passport holders hezbollah or mossad? The victims are not always a certain indicator of perpetrator. Or has hezbollah picked up mossad habits? Those 100 Israeli agents Lebanon cracked in 2010 – presumably they harvested a basket full of false ones. Did Hezbollah utilize the fake passports prepared and used by the Mossad agents? Canada/Australia keeps cropping up doesn’t it?
The timing fits very well BLUE.
And nothing in the MSM re the oil exec ?
Wonder if he’s in here.
That will be a “full house” !
P.S. My man has lots of oil. And lots of toys. And pays well.
The bloody stuff keeps getting more costly !
So then, approval would be easy.
Who is going to phone in DUIZENDSCHOON 503344 AL HENDRIK-IDO-AMBACHT , ZUID HOLLAND Telefoon: 078-6188616 and asking there to speak to Saad al Hilli? Or who is living nearby and knocking at the door of Affinity & Associates, asking them if Mr.al Hilli needs cheap laser printers?
Blue….
I need to go on a tour from my home country…as I do have itchy fingers…and fancy a wee “Hi there….can I but a satellite” ! Ha Ha Ha !
That’s “buy” not “but”
Belly laughing…as a hell of alot fits….and fingers on screen when laughing makes spelling a tad strange.
“But Mollier was a welder” … I bet he was !
Well spotted Marlin
27 Feb, 2013 – 7:36 pm. It was an interview so it’s possible either the journo or interviewer just got confused. Bit pathetic I know but the only other explanations tend towards the sinister don’t they? When people die/disappear in suspicious circumstances it appears it is the start not the end of the inexplicables.
The other point I intended to make re the bus bombing incident (and every other) is you also have to know who was on the bus, or thought to be on the bus for a true explanation to emerge. For example it could be a way of disposing of a target (a rogue asset for example) whilst throwing suspicion in quite the opposite direction.
Interesting News article.
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=114513:nigerian-navy-others-to-tackle-piracy-oil-theft&catid=1:national&Itemid=559
@James – You posted:-
“But why the probably lie about SSTL ?
They have a good business. Why say he was working there ?”
Answer – As background for the persona he was using last year.
Funnily enough I think he did actually have some access to SSTL.
The Dubai stuff is fascinating – but it didn’t get him killed – the dates are way out.
What got him killed was last years persona – you know the contractor working at SSTL (with access to secrets) who relaxes in the evenings by hitting the mid-east conflict forums.
Sounds like he was touting for business. Others thought so too.
Was he on agency business or for himself? Did he tout or was he bait? Was he just a scammer?
Somebody didn’t want to take the risk – see my last post.
Oil theft in Iraq.
But they slighly failed ! Oil everywhere !
And so common it is, they filmed it and posted it on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fET9BdJZnG8
I got you James
27 Feb, 2013 – 3:25 pm. I agree “Zionist” and “Jewish” are not directly transferable and that not all jews are zionists. However Israel describes itself as a “Jewish and Democratic State” so the terms cannot be extricated. There may be many Jews that adopt a critical humanitarian stance, but I think it is fairly incontrovertible that jews are overwhelmingly supportive of the continued existance of Israel and more controversially of its current policy to the Palestinians and other regional states. If they, and by extension the US were not, Israel would not be as it is. It is difficult to extricate religious belief from politics even in states that claim to be secular. Major religions tend to be co-terminous with geo-political areas and no doubt subtly (and not so subtly) influence institutions and culture. A similar dichotomy exists with our current obession with “Al-queda” doesn’t it?
@ In Parts
It is most likely that (my thoughts anyway) in regard to what has been uncovered during the months of thought and debate on here…
…and with the help of ruthless diggers.
Someone was involved in shipping nicked oil.
Now this is not such a complex operation…but shipping it is.
You need access to…well ship tracking.
The issue here is, you just can’t “shut off ship tracking”.
Well you can, IF other parties also use this ! And they do !
So you have a little go yourself (with friends).
Now you have your nicked oil…and your invisible ship…how the feck do you “import” it.
Hello “oil country with dodgy customs people you have whacked 1.6 million to”.
And hey presto, you light up your legal ship…with legal oil…and youre away !
There is clearly a bit more to it…but (and I have done this when I have had VVIP Self Loading Freight in tow…. you turn off your transponder. Squawk nada. Have a “friend or foe” ID by radio…and know where youre going.
Its not the done thing….but if you are in “crazy corner” somewhere…and “they” know your inbound and “talking” t’is always best that youre not pinging anything.
Tim
“Israel describes itself as a “Jewish and Democratic State”.
Yeh right !
I told a girl I met in a bar in Cyprus once I was “loyal and honest”.
Had a great weekend. But can’t remember her name now.
I agree James
27 Feb, 2013 – 11:17 am that some of the parallels are startling. A connection or just the way goons work world-wide?
BLUE.
FYI.
“In 2007 Ghaith Abul-Ahad reported in the UK’s Guardian that one tribe in Basra was paying US $250,000 a week to armed gunmen to secure the Basra Oil Terminal while they loaded tankers with unmetered cargoes of oil.”
Low risk/heavily armed. I would say that was a good job for a couple of ex 22 Sqd guys. Or a connected Iraqi.
Off-Topic
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2013/0227/Exclusive-Cyberattack-leaves-natural-gas-pipelines-vulnerable-to-sabotage
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/02/27/stuxnet-cyberwar-malware-older-than-thought/
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/02/27/special-report-surveillance-and-censorship-america/
More scare stories = -$$$ for taxpayers and +$$$ contracts for any company that’s made appropriate campaign contributions. It’s this season’s solar panel industry.
The “experts” that the media uses as its go-to sources include one that lists among his endless professional credentials “electrical contractor” and another who plays saxophone. No anesthesiologists or dentists this time.
They’re all equal to challenges set by young Chinese, Russian or Iranian troublemakers.
Oil for Food fraud is the answer.
Of course there was nicked oil and there were unregistered shipments from Iraq to Rotterdam.
“Employee number 4” (a code used by the SEC for Saad al Hilli) was sitting in Dubai and in Rotterdam, being responsible for the supervision and tracking of the oil vessels leaving Middle East destinations and arriving in Rottetdam. He was in the key position for oil fraud. He could either cover the fraud or uncovering that fraud. Many people, including Putin, Lord Galloway, French politicians and even the Vatican were dependent on his character and that he kept silent about what he knew.
Employee was a master of bribery and covert ops. There were more people killed who had tried to uncover names in that multi billion fraud.
Note that Saad was obviously unemployed from the beginning of 2012, searching for a new job. He knew a lot and employee number 4 was the master of bribary …
A little bit blackmailing here and a little bit there might have been successful in the past, until you begin to blackmail the wrong guys …
So he was the master of middle eastern oil shipments from the middle east to rotterdam, responsible for tracking the ships, following their routes via satellites, and confirming to the Dutch customs and government that everything was legally obtained and legally shipped.
And then, by using his uncles’ UN connections, employee number 4 still had the best connections to UN people and to Kofi Annan.
Employee number 4 was no friend of Saddam but he was a friend of money and bribery. He was not used by Saddam for the oil for food fraud but by the other side who did profit from oil for food fraud. He was used because he was the key person for hiding deliberate fraud shipments from customs in Rotterdam.
I strongly recommend to read this full wikipedia article to understand the system and the connections. I will quote a bit.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil-for-Food_Programme
Investigations by Iraqi Governing Council
International accounting firm KPMG had been selected by the Iraqi Governing Council to investigate the al Mada claims, along with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. It was due to release its findings to the Iraqi Governing Council in May 2004. However, in June 2004, KPMG stopped working on the project because it was owed money by the IGC.[54]The US has been harshly critical of the KPMG probe led by associates of Ahmed Chalabi, accusing it of undermining the main probe established by Paul Bremer. That probe had been run by the head of Iraq’s independent Board of Supreme Audit, Ehsan Karim, with assistance from Ernst & Young. The Board of Supreme Audit is within the Iraqi Finance Ministry. In June 2004, Karim’s investigation agreed to share information with the Volcker panel. However, on 1 July 2004, Karim was killed by a bomb magnetically attached to his car. !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Claude Hankes-Drielsma, a British/Dutch national and long-time friend of Ahmed Chalabi, was appointed by the IGC to coordinate its investigation of the Oil-for-Food Programme. Drielsma testified in front of the US Congress (on 21 April 2004) that the KPMG investigation “is expected to demonstrate the clear link between those countries which were quite ready to support Saddam Hussein’s regime for their own financial benefit, at the expense of the Iraqi people, and those that opposed the strict application of sanctions and the overthrow of Saddam”. He also testified that Chalabi was in charge of the investigation for the IGC.In late May 2004, on the same day that Chalabi’s offices at the Iraqi National Congress were raided by coalition forces, Drielsma claimed that an individual or individuals hacked into his computer and deleted every file associated with his investigation. He also claimed that “a back-up databank” was also deleted.[56] When asked by Claudia Rosett if he had been physically threatened as well, Drielsma replied with “no comment”. Drielsma has also been an outspoken critic of the UN’s refusal to release any internal Oil-for-Food audit information to the IGC.
On 16 January 2007, the oil for food UN representative Benon Sevan was indicted by a Manhattan federal prosecutor for taking about $160,000 in bribes. Michael J. Garcia, the U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York, issued a warrant through Interpol for the arrest of Sevan at his home in Cyprus, as well as a warrant for Efraim “Fred” Nadler, a New York businessman who was indicted on charges of channelling the illegal payments to Sevan. Nadler’s whereabouts are unknown.
US Senate investigations
US Senator Norm Coleman called for Kofi Annan to resign over the scandal and held a number of hearings on the matter. The most spectacular of these hearings occurred after the subcommittee released a report that accused British Member of Parliament (MP) George Galloway, Russianpolitician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua of receiving oil allocations from Iraq in return for being political allies of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Galloway, in an unusual appearance of a British MP before a US Senate subcommittee, responded angrily to the allegations against him in a confrontational public hearing which drew much media attention in both America and Britain.[59] Galloway denied the allegations.
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Note: In 2008, shortly after the UN was accused for supporting the oil for food fraud and receiving bribery, employee number 4 did terminate his job in Dubai and Rotterdam and permanently moved to …. Claygate? As a contractor for Surrey Satellites? Maritime mapping and vessels tracking being his job? Would fit. Unemployed/jobless from Jan 2012 to present? Could fit.
Sir Claude Hankes Drielsma is an interesting charater, befriended with the top spies of MI6, the Royals and with Downing street as well.
Sir Claude, who was known as Claude Hankes Drielsma but now appears to have shortened his name, is the man who first drew the world’s attention to the corruption engulfing the United Nations oil for food scheme in Iraq. A former senior executive with Price Waterhouse in London, he led the Iraqi Governing Council inquiry into the affair.Other roles in a diverse career include chairman of the Council of St George’s House at Windsor Castle, which hosts consultations on a range of issues. He is a friend of Baroness Thatcher and Prince Philip. As well as an Oxfordshire estate, he has a flat in the Henry III tower at Windsor Castle.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008196/The-Swiss-suicide-clinic-1-3m-riddle-real-life-James-Bond.html
http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/apr/21/20040421-094319-1506r/?page=all
Ehsan Karim’s assassination:
A different (unusual) kind of Iraqi bomb killed Ehsan Karim, the head of the Finance Ministry’s audit board, Abdul-Rahman said. A magnetic device hidden under a car in Karim’s convoy exploded after 8 a.m. in the Yarmouk neighborhood in central Baghdad, the colonel said.Karim died of his wounds at a nearby hospital, a relative said. Two of his bodyguards also were killed; two bystanders were wounded.Karim, who was in his mid-50s, had worked in the Finance Ministry under both Saddam Hussein and the U.S.
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The oil for food fraudsters are killing all those who would become dangerous in terms of uncovering their fraud and their names. Who uses magnetic car bombs in Iraq?