Chapter 36
Since its founding, OPEC had controlled the world’s oil supply in almost every nation. Through the years, they had placed men in high offices in every major government around the globe to protect their interests. With oil wealth came power. And there was plenty of money to grease the sweaty palms and any politician in power that needed to be lubricated. Now, their stranglehold on the world was in danger. Roberts wasn’t playing ball, as did most former Presidents before him. Every year, US Presidents would give their “State of the Union” address and talk with much bravado about standing up to the oil cartels. They needed alternative energy, solar, wind, geothermal, and hydrogen fuel, but they did little or nothing about it, and when some terrorist group in some shithole of a country blow up a single oil well or pipeline anywhere in the world, gas prices soared. What most people didn’t realize, and few were fully aware of, was that powerful men controlled the world’s economy by controlling and manipulating oil prices.
Henry A. Kissinger, John D. Rockefeller's well-compensated, multi-purpose minion and long-time Council on Foreign Relations member, said: "Control the oil, and you can control entire Continents. Control food, and you control people."
Belgian author Michel Collon said: "If you want to rule the world, you need to control oil. All the oil Anywhere."
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The man in charge of running the resources of one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world sat behind his opulent 22-carat gold-trimmed Brazilian rosewood desk and read the report. With seventy-five percent of the government's revenues and ninety percent coming from oil exports, the country's wealth was solely dependent on black gold. Without it, the country's seven million foreign workers would vacate it and leave its citizens to fend for themselves. Nature would take its course, and its inhabitants would eventually return to the seventh century and heard camels again. But one man wasn't going to let that happen.
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Like Osama Bin Laden, Sheik Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al Ali wasn’t a member of the thousands of Arab men who made up the House of Saud. At first, he was far removed from the innermost circles of the Saudi Royal Family, but he slowly made his way in. Educated at Cambridge, Al Ali earned a Master of Science degree in economics and geology. Over the years, he finally worked his way up to the top spot of Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. From his youth, Al Ali had always been a devout Muslim who faithfully practiced the five pillars of Islam. But it wasn’t until he escaped death in a near-fatal light plane crash while surveying promising oil fields that he had serious doubts about his assurance in paradise. After he recovered, he met and studied with a radical Wahhabi Imam who changed his view of the world and his place in it.
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He knew that Allah had blessed the Arabs with oil, but he could never understand why the non-believers, especially the West and Israel, prospered if they were accursed by his god. It wasn’t until the Imam informed him that the world needed to become fully under the control of Islam, under a worldwide caliphate, that Al Ali fully understood Allah’s plan. But unlike Bin Laden, the Imam offered him a different path. Instead of Jihad, which Al Ali truly believed in, it would be a fundamental takeover of the world by a much more subtle means. There was a time when Islam could be spread by the sword, but that time was long gone. Now however, it needed to be a systematic takeover by other means, such as immigration and peaceful conversion. And that would take money, and his country could provide billions.
As Ali read the report, he became very concerned with President Roberts's new energy policies, and the report confirmed the rumors that he was secretly funding an alternative energy research facility in New Mexico. Years ago, he had raised his concerns about alternative energy to the Saudi Royal Family, but after listening to him politely, his concerns seemed to fall on deaf ears. That's when Ali decided to take matters into his own hands. He wasn't concerned about his country's appearance without needing oil. However, he was very concerned with what it would do to the spread of Islam. As the founder of "The Ishmael Group," the man felt he had no choice but to take action. He picked up his secure cell phone and called a man in Gaza City who shared the same vision.
Over the years, many new alternative energy discoveries had been made in many countries around the globe; most were either bought off by the “The Ishmael Group,” or many of the top research engineers just disappeared along with their discoveries and research notes. If they couldn’t be bought off, threats to family members usually worked. The man sitting behind the golden desk understood that men would do almost anything to protect their loved ones. If not, a well-paid special group of men would handle the dirty work for him.
President Roberts had become a huge threat to his vision of a new Islamic world order. Upon taking office on his first term, Roberts was discreetly briefed by the Prime Minister of Israel of the dark forces that would do anything to protect the oil status quo. Most of his predecessors had also been informed, yet they did little or nothing about it. Roberts then secretly set up a special team that recruited top research scientists from around the globe. This team recruited and moved scientists to a secret national research laboratory in New Mexico, a facility that was secured by the US Military. Roberts’s team was spending billions on research to find alternative energy resources, much to Al Ali’s displeasure.
