Suspect II
Hah, it's worse than that. There are news-tickers on this website. It looks like you can click links to news stories and read the story. Not so. All links lead to the same page:
http://tarjim.sakhr.com/sakhr/vip/register.asp
So, I go to the Sakhr mainpage. Innocent enough. What are these guys about? Let's take a look at the corporate site. Here's where things get a little interesting. If you check out their company profile, you start to learn some things about the attitudes of this company.
So, I see there's a SakhrUSA. Just to see who's involved in the company, I look up the first non-American name I come to: Saad El-Fishawy. Wow, this dude is a heavy hitter. I also find that the parent company of Sahkr is a company called al-Alamiah Group.
Saad El-Fishawy helped found the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development in 1963. The fund looks legitimate, but there's billions of American dollars flowing through it to middle-eastern companies and governments, and 1963 was the second time the arab countries got pounded by Israel.
El-Fishawy has worked for Blue Water Capital, L.L.C., the World Bank, and now works for G. William Miller & Co. , Inc., which at the time of this posting was listed as "This domain name expired on 09/18/2006 and is pending renewal or deletion." by Network Solutions. Odd.
Well, it turns out William Miller is dead. You can view his obituary in the Washington Post. This guy had an interesting background as a former Federal Reserve Chairman and had a hand in 1970's policies and politics. He was a Democrat, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything nefarious. Perhaps gwilliammiller.com was directly administered by Mr. Miller and the website died with its owner.
In any event, Blue Water was apparently run by William Miller, too. What I have is about 2 hours worth of work on the internet. I don't believe it costs $1000 U.S. Dollars to translate 1M worth of Arabic text. There are many free on-line translators, and even the ones for which you must pay are in the range of $150.
Something seems amiss.
http://tarjim.sakhr.com/sakhr/vip/register.asp
So, I go to the Sakhr mainpage. Innocent enough. What are these guys about? Let's take a look at the corporate site. Here's where things get a little interesting. If you check out their company profile, you start to learn some things about the attitudes of this company.
So, I see there's a SakhrUSA. Just to see who's involved in the company, I look up the first non-American name I come to: Saad El-Fishawy. Wow, this dude is a heavy hitter. I also find that the parent company of Sahkr is a company called al-Alamiah Group.
Saad El-Fishawy helped found the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development in 1963. The fund looks legitimate, but there's billions of American dollars flowing through it to middle-eastern companies and governments, and 1963 was the second time the arab countries got pounded by Israel.
El-Fishawy has worked for Blue Water Capital, L.L.C., the World Bank, and now works for G. William Miller & Co. , Inc., which at the time of this posting was listed as "This domain name expired on 09/18/2006 and is pending renewal or deletion." by Network Solutions. Odd.
Well, it turns out William Miller is dead. You can view his obituary in the Washington Post. This guy had an interesting background as a former Federal Reserve Chairman and had a hand in 1970's policies and politics. He was a Democrat, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything nefarious. Perhaps gwilliammiller.com was directly administered by Mr. Miller and the website died with its owner.
In any event, Blue Water was apparently run by William Miller, too. What I have is about 2 hours worth of work on the internet. I don't believe it costs $1000 U.S. Dollars to translate 1M worth of Arabic text. There are many free on-line translators, and even the ones for which you must pay are in the range of $150.
Something seems amiss.
posted by Jaycen Rigger at 9:21 PM
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