by Jim Wilson
Like many very bad crimes, some details go undiscovered. These details die with the victims. His father considered the priest, Demur, a good man. He contacted him for a discussion about a new foundation that he envisioned. Conversion brought Paul Sr. joy that went beyond religion and he compared the differences between the lives of young Muslims and Christians. Could he offer an option to the future generations of French Muslims? Paul Sr. invited Demur to the apartment to help him develop a plan that would only be minimally offensive to the Islamic faith. They were going to try to discover a gentle pathway, needed to help these floundering young people.
When Demur thought of what a billion Euros could do, it made the humble priest’s mind spin. Prior to the appointed meeting with Paul Green, Demur felt that his suit was getting shabby. He made a shopping trip to downtown Paris, and purchased a new suit and collar for the meeting. On his way back to the parish, his quiet inter voice had objected to the waste. Returning the suit the next morning quieted the voice, but he kept the new collar. The long black chauffeured Mercedes arrived at the parish church and Demur was waiting for the meeting. The driver did not have enough time to open the rear door for the priest. The far side of the back seat held Paul Green and they greeted each other as Demur quickly entered. Two days earlier, the priest had ridden in such a car to bury an older member of his church. The uncomfortable feeling of pretentiousness was the same. The chauffeur delivered them to the apartment building.
Paul Junior waited for his father to arrive for two hours. He heard the footsteps of his father as he approached the entrance. Junior took a short breath as his father opened the door to the central room. Walking behind his father was the priest, Demur. Two men at one time required a change of plans. Demur and his father entered the apartment. Paul Junior knew the time required to insert the knife deep into the chest or back and retract the knife. His father was much larger than the priest. Therefore, he was his first target. Paul Junior hid the knife behind his back, and as his father greeted him, he plunged the knife into his chest. Like his mother, the single wound was not enough. He needed to slash his father’s throat, but the little priest delayed him.
Paul Senior was still standing. The priest was a small man and in his entire life, he had never raised his hand in violence. At first, he thought Paul Green was having a heart attack and that caused him to move the way he did. Then he saw the knife, “It is patricide!” He yelled. Demur knew that he must do something, and the small man decided that he would take the knife from Paul Junior. With no other plan and driven by seeing the crime, he rushed the murderous son. Paul Junior playfully poked the tip of the knife forward towards the priest. It penetrated his right forearm, but Demur twisted free of the blade. The priest felt no pain. With both hands, he grabbed the wrist of the arm holding the knife.
With his last breath of life in his body, Paul Senior was able to move forward and grab his son’s other arm. Together they had the knife under control for a few seconds, but their forward momentum caused Paul Junior to fall backwards. As they hit the floor, the knife stopped moving when it collided with the marble floor and the blade of the knife was straight up, but the priest continued downward. The blade penetrated deep into Demur’s heart. His father’s dead body was heavy, but Paul Junior rolled from under the two bodies that covered him and stood. Both of his victims were lifeless, but an additional slash to both throats ended the event. Paul Junior carefully washed the knife, showered and changed clothing. As instructed, he placed everything into a suitcase. He drove to a small airport south of Paris. His mullah and two lawyers were waiting for him, but no one spoke. The mullah took the suitcase, and examined the contents. He removed the knife, and placed it into it sheathe on his belt. Junior and the mullah took a short walk to an incinerator. The mullah handed the suitcase to the man stoking the fire. The three of them watched as it disappeared into a blue flame. Junior, the mullah, and the two lawyers boarded a private plane and flew to Chad, Africa. During his trip to the safety of a mosque in Chad, Junior changed his name to Mohammad Gresera ll.
The French government was pressuring the government of Chad to deport Mohammad to France. Chad was vulnerable to the pressure. The mullah knew of a village that was for sale in Muzuk, Libya. Mohammad paid the Libyan government three hundred million Euros for the entire village. With the purchase came the agreement that Mohammad Gresera II had the protection that he needed. Mohammad moved to a great home in Muzuk, and the mullah lived in the safety of Tehran, Iran.
His mullah was an Iranian, chased from Iran by the Shah. Iranian Shiite religious leaders gained their titles from their education in the Qur’an. The mullah was an educated cleric, but what he needed was power. After the death of Paul Junior’s family, the will of Dr. Green stipulated the estate would first go to his wife. If she was not living the estate would be equally be divided by the surviving children, and Paul Jr. was his only living offspring. A simple trust controlled the event. The estate was worth twenty billion. A new trust written by the mullah’s two lawyers transferred five billion to Mullah Meslem Ali. The trust stipulated that if Mohammad Gresera ll were to die, the mullah would then inherit the rest of the Green estate.
The mullah’s first edict was to change his title to ayatollah. There were only twelve Iranian religious leaders considered more senior than Meslem Ali was. The new ayatollah wrote and delivered a personal check for one million Euros to each of them. They appreciated the new ayatollah, delivered numerous sermons praising their generous benefactor, and there were no objections to the new Ayatollah.
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Paris, France is a lovely city, but Chief Inspector Rene Gualt spent much of his time outside of the attractive areas. An exceptional murder case that he worked was in the most beautiful part of Paris. Normally, time and accomplices would help solve the hardest cases. Three years had passed, and the Chief Inspector knew who committed the crime and why five people were murdered. The case was cold, but he knew the murderer was Paul Green Junior, now known as Mohammad Gresera ll. He could not bring Junior to justice. He was living somewhere in Africa and with the help of the ayatollah, had found a way to control his dead father’s fortune.
Gualt followed the paperwork created by Junior. Shortly after the murder of his parents and his two older sisters, a team of lawyers created a trust. The trust transferred the family’s billions to the surviving son, Paul Green Jr. Within the two months following the crime, lawyers liquidated the family’s French businesses, investments, and sold the Green apartment. France law allows three months to complete the estate transfer process. The rapid movement of the estate to Chad bypassed the payment of all French taxes.
Gualt requested and received an arrest warrant for Paul Junior based upon the avoidance of inheritance taxes, but Chad would not honor the request. The DGSE or Directorate General for External Security, the equivalent of the American CIA, placed him in Chad or Libya. Tax evasion is not a crime that DGSE can legally prosecute, but the DGSE moves in dark circles. They placed Paul Green Jr.’s crimes of murder and tax avoidance into a file called ‘unusual events’. The Chief Inspector was a close friend of the assistant to the director of the DGSE. Gualt was given assurance that if there was a way, Junior would be returned to Paris.
The Inspector knew Junior’s history with the law and that he was a problem child for his father and mother. In his early teens, he became involved in drugs and on three occasions was arrested for possession. The French police handled him carefully because of his wealthy father, but at fourteen, he was in a deadly knife fight with another boy. The death of the boy was not by a single wound, but by several small slashes administered before and after death. The senior Green had his lawyers pay off the victim’s family. Paul Sr. needed to find a way to calm his son’s behavior. A relative recommended a special school in Saudi Arabia. The police agreed to the option and filed the crime as self-defense. The Inspector believed Paul Sr.’s lawyers never informed him of the serious nature of the crime.
It appeared tha
t Paul Green Jr. had cleaned up his life, but at a very high price for his family. A mullah brought him to Islam and the Chief Inspector believed that together, Junior and the mullah plotted the murder of the Green family. Shortly after the murders, the mullah that led the boy to Islam became the Ayatollah Meslem Ali. The DGSE informed Gualt that the ayatollah ran a dangerous terrorist organization with the wealth of the dead Green family. The ayatollah kept Junior safe, and Junior funded the ayatollah with blood money. Chief Inspector Rene Gualt would retire in a few years and wished he could put both of them into a strong French prison before it happened.
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Mohammad soon was comfortable in his great home in Muzuk, Libya. The ayatollah used an African named Henry to handle his charities Henry lived in Aozou, Chad, Africa. Mohammad was told to fly to Aozou and met with Henry. They became instant friends and this was the only place Mohammad could safely visit. He would ride in his helicopter to Henry’s great house, and meet with his friend, drink fine French wine, and talk for hours. Henry was an educated man. He earned a Master’s in Business Administration from Columbia University in New York City, and then received a Doctorate of International Law from Cambridge University in England. He was a thirty-four year old African, and was slightly taller than Mohammad. Henry’s face was smooth and slender. His hair was short and he wore a thin black mustache. In public, he was always well dressed, and wore tailored black suits, white shirt, and no tie.
Chad had a large Christian population. You could tell the Christians by the way their women dressed. Even from the helicopter, you could see uncovered skin. On his trips to visit Henry, Mohammad watched them from the open door of his low flying helicopter. He enjoyed firing the machine gun of his French Cougar Helicopter gun ship, but he would normally aim at birds or gazelles. On one of his trips to see Henry, he saw a group of Christian woman. He moved his site from a large gazelle to the women and opened fire, and then he made his pilot reverse direction and reviewed the outcome. Three of the women were lying motionless and the others were running in all directions. “Where there was one there are many. Maybe I can remove all of the Christians from Chad.” He said aloud.
The ayatollah told Mohammad that he saw him in a dream as an African prince. Mohammad resented the fact that the government of Chad had asked him to leave. The ayatollah told him that someday he would rule Chad. It would be part of the new African Iran. When I am Chad’s Prince, there would be no Christians, he thought. He understood the importance of dreams, because he had the ability to have dreams even when he was awake. His dreams were very real, could occur at any time, and they gave him directions. When he was young, he had trouble separating his dream world from reality, but as he matured, he discovered that he was aware of his body only in reality. He arrived in Chad and his helicopter landed near Henry’s great house. They greeted each other, and Mohammad could not hold back the news of his attack on the Christian women.
Henry was always gentle when giving directions to Mohammad. The story of the killing of the Christian woman bothered him. He considered it spoiling your nest. Henry had no problem with death and destruction, but he felt that there must be some reason behind it. Before he delivered a lecture, he talked to the helicopter pilot to confirm the act. The pilot had no knowledge of the event. Henry knew that occasionally Mohammad had visions, but visions could lead to action, therefore, he carefully explained to Mohammad the problem of killing local Chad women.
Both men wore pistols on their right hips. Henry felt confident with their relationship, but knew he was dealing with a tame lion. Mohammad and Henry had completed their business agreement without paperwork. Henry faithfully managed Mohammad’s money, received one million Euros per year as a salary, and an additional million to build a retirement fund. Within one week of their agreement, Henry had moved the entire estate into safe investments. Once the investments were under control, he moved two billion Euros into Mohammad’s charity account and two billion into Mohammad’s living expense account.
Henry thought, Mohammad’s father purchased investments and managed them with a team of workers. Mohammad has no experience handling money. He is not a well-educated European. His life has always been one of privilege, but his father earned and paid for the privilege. He knows how to spend wealth, but not how to keep or build it. He needs me to invest his fortune, manage his charities, and I must remember that he gives me my privilege.
Four years earlier, at the ayatollah’s request, Henry arranged for an attack on the soil of America. A charity was established and Ali, still a mullah, raised funds for the operation. Mohammad gave Henry instructions on the purpose of his charities. “I have a vision of the future. The ayatollah gave me this vision. We will encourage Muslim and Christian wars in northern Africa, and when the people are tired of war, the ayatollah and I will offer them peace by uniting them into a new Iran. I will be the prince of the new Iran.”
Henry was an educated man, and he felt that all things were possible with enough money. He answered Mohammad, “It will not be easy, and it will take time. The day will come, and I will deliver northern Africa to you. From this day I will address you as Prince, so that you can become accustomed to the title.” With his response, he knew the plan for investing. He would disrupt an area by encouraging conflicts between Muslims and Christians, and if there were no Christians, he would cause conflicts between Muslims. At the worst part of the conflict, when everyone was leaving the area, he would buy all of the valuable local commodities at rock bottom prices. Henry thought, I should concentrate on acquiring oil properties.
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Henry was a visionary, and quickly formed a plan to take over the largest operational oil field in northern Nigeria ‘disputed lands’. For his first investment, he hired two groups to fund and direct both sides of a dispute between two tribes. The tribes had been fighting off and on for hundreds of years. The reason for the war had long been forgotten, but one tribe was now outraged that the other tribe had been hired exclusively by the manager of the oil company. With the help of Henry’s two groups, it took only three months for the conflict to escalate to the point that the oil field was too dangerous to operate. During the final battle, one tribe with rifles and machetes attacked the tribe that worked in the oil field. The workers were outnumbered three to one, and when the attack was completed, the bodies of the oil workers littered the sticky dirt between the oilrigs.
Henry legally purchased the wells from the foreigners that owned them. He then stopped funding both sides of the conflict. His two groups encouraged peace between the tribes and hired the men from both tribes at fair wages to service the wells. They were happy to make a good living and worked together side by side. When Henry reviewed the success of his first investment, he called the Prince to give him the good news. The ayatollah was with the Prince at his home in Muzuk and complemented Henry. “I congratulate you on your success, and encourage you to repeat the process.”
The ayatollah added a demand. On instructions of the ayatollah, Henry paid a terror cell in Paris that liked to kill Americans. Henry wanted to warn the Prince that the Americans were more dangerous than the Christian women in Chad were. He wanted the Prince to work for his kingdom in Africa and stay out of conflicts with America. But, the ayatollah told Henry and the Prince, “Muslims wounded Satan’s den in 2001 and from that attack America has started two wars. The Americans are now tired of war. I monitor the American news, and they reveal their war weariness every day. America will never strike the Prince. It would mean war with Libya. Prince, begin your attack on America. It must be grander than mine.” The Prince answered the ayatollah, “I will work with Henry and we will deliver destruction that will be remembered for a thousand years.”
Henry bowed his head and added, “It will be done.”
The dangerous work to do at hand
Forms the plan to start a war
With enemies vast as grains of sand
One is gone forevermore
Chapter 6
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nbsp; Mac Dill AFB, Tampa, Florida was a wonderful site from the G5. Bill never tired of viewing the Gulf of Mexico and all the lights that gave off a golden glow. The beautiful Skyway Bridge was to the left as the G5 made a sweeping counter clockwise turn over Bradenton Florida. The long causeways that connected Tampa to St. Petersburg and Clearwater were now visible to the north. It was a perfect landing. The G5 taxied to the number two hangar. The General, the CIA agent, and the Major were waiting there.
The General started the conversation as they walked to the meeting room. “Only the AP printed a news piece about Dhuudo, Somalia, a place reporters are not willing to go. There was a story about the usual tribal warfare. Northern Somalia rebels took credit for attacking the Majerteen tribe. Best reports suggest the Majerteen tribe was completely destroyed.”
Then the CIA agent took over. “We leaked, that according to satellite images, the mosque suffered an internal and most likely accidental explosion from gun powder. We neither confirmed nor denied the fact that they were manufacturing ammunition and weapons deep under the mosque.”
