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| Afghanistan |
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| Reagan
legacy lingers in Afghanistan, Pakistan |
| The
state of Afghanistan has actually been destroyed, and the blame
for it lies, to an indeterminate extent, on Reagan's thoughtless
but enthusiastic support of the Afghan jihad throughout the
1980s. |
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| Central
Asian oil, Enron, Afghan pipelines-Timeline |
Project:
Complete 911 Timeline
Compiled
by Paul Thompson |
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| Turkmenistan
- Afghanistan - Pakistan Pipeline-Map |
| Map
of Proposed Pipiline |
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| A
TIMELINE OF OIL AND VIOLENCE |
| Many
Article links |
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| US
OUT OF AFGHANISTAN |
| There
is another good practical reason the US is invading Central
Asia: control of oil. Whether it's Unocal's pipeline project,
or some other elaborate scheme cooked up by the Carlyle Group
makes no matter--Afghanistan has the misfortune to lie between
the last big oil reserve on the planet (Turkmenistan) and the
sea. |
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| The
World Oil Market |
| Very
In-Depth Info on Oil Market |
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| Unocal
and the Afghanistan pipeline |
| After
the fall of the Soviet Union, Argentine oil company Bridas,
led by its ambitious chairman, Carlos Bulgheroni, became the
first company to exploit the oil fields of Turkmenistan and
propose a pipeline through neighboring Afghanistan. A powerful
US-backed consortium intent on building its own pipeline through
the same Afghan corridor would oppose Bridas' project. |
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| America,
oil and Afghanistan |
| IT
HAS finally happened. American imperialism has begun its unilateral
war against Afghanistan. Ominously, it has formally notified
the U.N. Security Council that the military operations would
expand beyond Afghanistan. Other countries would be targeted.
It is a greater tragedy that this ``war against terrorism''
will consume innocent lives in gruesome proportions. Is all
this being done really to exterminate terrorism? |
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| America's
Pipe Dream |
| The
invasion of Afghanistan is certainly a campaign against terrorism,
but it may also be a late colonial adventure. British ministers
have warned MPs that opposing the war is the moral equivalent
of appeasing Hitler, but in some respects our moral choices
are closer to those of 1956 than those of 1938. Afghanistan
is as indispensable to the regional control and transport of
oil in central Asia as Egypt was in the Middle East. |
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| The
Pipeline Debate |
| The
Caspian Sea shelf is considered one of the largest sources of
petroleum outside the Persian Gulf and Russia. |
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| Bush
League |
| Pakistan’s
chief spy Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmad "was in the U.S. when
the attacks occurred." He arrived in the U.S. on Sept.
4, a full week before the attacks. He had meetings at the State
Department after the attacks on the World Trade Center. But
he also had "a regular visit of consultations" with
his U.S. counterparts at the CIA and the Pentagon during the
week prior to Sept. 11. |
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| The
Geopolitics of Oil in Central Asia |
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essence of this new geopolitical game in Central Asia is twofold:
first, control of production of the oil and gas, and second,
control of the pipelines which will transfer the oil to the
Western markets. |
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Shared
Challenges, Shared Rewards, Shared Destiny:
A Chevron Perspective on Investing In Kazakhstan |
Speech
by
Richard H. Matzke
President of Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc. |
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| U.S.
Taliban Policy influenced by Oil |
| A
new book by two French intelligence analysts claims that at
the behest of U.S. oil companies, the Bush administration initially
blocked FBI investigations into terrorism, while it bargained
with the Taliban for the delivery of Osama bin Laden in exchange
for political recognition and economic aid. |
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| For
Security Oppose The Bombing |
| In
the words of the now vice president of the United States, Dick
Cheney, "I cannot think of a time when we have had a region
emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as
the Caspian". That was in 1998, when Cheney was in the
oil business not in government. In the mid 90ies there were
efforts on the part of American energy corporations, most notably
Unocal, to build oil and gas pipelines through Afghanistan to
feed the South Asian market. These efforts were supposedly given
up, either because of instability in Afghanistan (if we can
believe Unocal) or because of a campaign against their negotiations
with the Taliban regime (if we can believe Unocal's opponents).
It was reported in the business press last year that their attempts
were still alive. |
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| TESTIMONY
BY JOHN J. MARESCA VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UNOCAL
CORPORATION TO HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE
ON ASIA AND THE PACIFIC |
| The
need for U.S. support for international and regional efforts
to achieve balanced and lasting political settlements within
Russia, other newly independent states and in Afghanistan. |
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| New
Book Details Bush/Big Oil Negotiations With Taliban BEFORE WTC |
| Bush-Cheney/Big
Oil and Afghanistan's Taliban negotiated for MONTHS over running
a Caspian Sea oil pipeline through Afghanistan. Talks began
in February and continued right on until only one MONTH before
New York City's World Trade Center towers were demolished. |
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| Rocca
Meets Taliban Representative in Islamabad |
| On
August 2, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Christina
Rocca met in Islamabad with a representative of Afghanistan's
Taliban regime, which the United States does not recognize. |
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| The
Mysteries of 9/11 |
| "On
the morning of Sept. 11, Goss and [Bob Graham (D-Fla)] were
having breakfast with a Pakistani general named Mahmud Ahmed
[sic] the soon-to-be sacked head of Pakistan's intelligence
service. Ahmed ran a spy agency notoriously close to Osama bin
Laden and the Taliban...the discussion that morning touched
on Taliban links to terrorism, but Goss says his greatest worry
was the dispute in Kashmir" |
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Summary
Of A Symposium On The National Security Dimensions
Of The Emerging Crisis In The Caspian Basin |
| The
Caspian Sea is believed to rank third in the world in terms
of undiscovered hydrocarbon resources (including both oil and
gas) and second in terms of undiscovered oil. Some estimates
of the region's resource potential put the Caspian Sea in close
competition with the Middle East. The Caspian region could eventually
replace Norway as the fifth largest oil producer in the world. |
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| Afghan
pipeline given go-ahead |
| 30
May, 2002-The leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan
have agreed to construct a $2bn pipeline to bring gas from Central
Asia to the sub-continent. |
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| THE
COUNTER-TERRORIST |
| The
legend of John P. O'Neill, who lost his life at the World Trade
Center on September 11th, begins with a story by Richard A.
Clarke, the national coördinator for counter-terrorism
in the White House from the first Bush Administration until
last year. |
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