Quote from Josh_B:
b]coincidence? it sure makes you think...
also look who testified before our congress and who is in charge of the new "democratic gov't" in Afghanistan, and who is building the new pipelines there..
..In 1998, Dick Cheney, now US vice-president but then chief executive of a major oil services company, remarked: "I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian." But the oil and gas there is worthless until it is moved. The only route which makes both political and economic sense is through Afghanistan....
...Unocal invited some of the leaders of the Taliban to Houston, where they were royally entertained. The company suggested paying these barbarians 15 cents for every thousand cubic feet of gas it pumped through the land they had conquered....
http://www.counterpunch.org/monbiot2.html
US supported Bin Laden and the Talibans for years,
and viewed them
as freedom fighters against the Russians
.As late as 1998 the US was paying the salary of
every single Taliban's
official in Afghanistan
.There is more oil and gas in the Caspian Sea area
than in Saudi Arabia,
but you need a pipeline through Afghanistan to get the
oil out.
UNOCAL, a giant American Oil conglomerate, wanted to
build a 1,000 mile
long pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Afghanistan
to the Arabian Sea
UNOCAL spent $10,000,000 on geological surveys
for pipeline
construction, and very nicely courted the Talibans for
their support in
allowing the construction to begin
.All of the leading Taliban officials were in Texas
negotiating with
UNOCAL
in 1998.
1998-1999 the Talibans changed its mind and threw
UNOCAL out of the
country and awarded the pipeline project to a company
from Argentina
.John Maresca, VP of UNOCAL testified before Congress
and said no pipeline
until the Talibans was gone and a more friendly
government was established
1999-2000 The Talibans became the most evil people
in the world.
Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was
told by senior American officials in mid-July (2000) that military
action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October (2000).
9/11 WTC disaster
Bush goes to war against Afghanistan even though
none of the hijackers
came from Afghanistan
Bush blamed Bin Laden but has never offered any
proof saying it's a
"secret".
Talibans offered to negotiate to turn over Bin Laden
if we showed them
some proof. We refused; we bombed
Bush said: "This is not about nation building. It's
about getting the
terrorists."
We have a new government in Afghanistan. The leader of that government formerly worked for
UNOCAL (Hamid Karrzai).
Bush appoints a special envoy to represent the US to
deal with that new
government, who formerly was the "chief consultant to
UNOCAL" (LakhdarIbrahimi).
The Bush family acquired their wealth through oil. George Bush Sr. (Father) works with the
"Carlysle Group" specializing
in huge oil investments around the world.
Condoleezza Rice worked for Chevron before gong to
Washington. Chevron named one of its newest "supertankers" after Condoleezza
Dick Cheney worked for the giant oil conglomerate
Haliburton before becoming VP of USA
Haliburton gave Cheney $34,000,000 as a farewell
gift when he left Haliburton. Haliburton is in the pipeline construction business.. guess who's building/servicing the new pipelines... The ones to the gulf so we can have access...
There is $6 Trillion dollars worth of oil in the
Caspian Sea area.
President Musharref (Pakistan), and Karrzai,
(Afghanistan - Unocal) announce agreement to build
proposed gas pipeline from Central Asia to
Pakistan via Afghanistan
It's the Oil, Stupid!"
(And all the while we were told it was about terrorism
and freedom)
Mr. Joseph Clifford contributed above article to Media
Monitors Network (MMN) from James Town, Rhode Island,
it seems oil/politics is usually part of the equation..
al-queda camps (at least most of them were destroyed) Osama biladin still at large?
Josh [/B]
