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Yes, I believe this is what I was referring to in the previous Blog.
11.1.06
The problem is...
The Taliban were not providing suffient stability and pulled out of Centgas. The united states became hostile with the Taliban and in July 2001 The US threatened to lay out their pipeline in bombs; By July 2001, the national guard was called into drill and all activities were suspendended for several weeks pending mobilization September 14.
Meanwhile all incoming intelligence, reports and threats regarding attacks on September 11th were confiscated and negated by the FBI.
So October 10, US had blasted enough of Afghanistan to lay the pipeline for the Unocal project.
But in March 2002, Bush decided he wasn't concerned about Osama Bin laden anymore, he was very worried about Iraq, and that he needed to topple Sadaam in his war for oil, er, um War on terror.
Backtracking to 1998, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Perle wrote to Clinton urging him to adopt a Strategy aimed at "the removal of Sadaam Hussein's regime from power"
In 2000, a publication "Project for the New American Century" was aimed at toppling Sadaam Hussein's regime...
ANY QUESTIONS?
Meanwhile all incoming intelligence, reports and threats regarding attacks on September 11th were confiscated and negated by the FBI.
So October 10, US had blasted enough of Afghanistan to lay the pipeline for the Unocal project.
But in March 2002, Bush decided he wasn't concerned about Osama Bin laden anymore, he was very worried about Iraq, and that he needed to topple Sadaam in his war for oil, er, um War on terror.
Backtracking to 1998, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Perle wrote to Clinton urging him to adopt a Strategy aimed at "the removal of Sadaam Hussein's regime from power"
In 2000, a publication "Project for the New American Century" was aimed at toppling Sadaam Hussein's regime...
ANY QUESTIONS?
Afghanistan, the CIA, bin Laden, and the Taliban
Afghanistan, the CIA, bin Laden, and the Taliban
A good old fashioned history lesson;
[U.S.] policies in Afghanistan a decade and more ago helped to create both Osama bin Laden and the fundamentalist Taliban regime that shelters him." An examination of this history will reveal the extent to which U.S. foreign policy is based on hypocrisy, realpolitik, and the short-term pursuit of narrow interests. (OIL)
1979: The Russian invasion in December was the signal for U.S. support to the Afghan rebels to increase dramatically.
By February 1980, the Washington Post reported that the mujahideen was receiving arms coming from the U.S. government.
When Ronald Reagan became president in 1981, he found the Democratic-controlled Congress eager to increase spending on the Afghan war.
In March 1985, the Reagan administration issued National Security Decision Directive 166,29 a secret plan to escalate covert action in Afghanistan dramatically.
Beginning in 1985, the CIA supplied mujahideen rebels with extensive satellite reconnaissance data of Soviet targets on the Afghan battlefield, plans for military operations based on the satellite intelligence, intercepts of Soviet communications, secret communications networks for the rebels, delayed timing devices for tons of C-4 plastic explosives for urban sabotage, and sophisticated guerrilla attacks, long-range sniper rifles, a targeting device for mortars that was linked to a U.S. Navy satellite, wire-guided anti-tank missiles, and other equipment.
Between 1986 and 1989, the mujahideen were also provided with more than 1,000 state-of-the-art, shoulder-fired Stinger antiaircraft missiles.
By 1987, the annual supply of arms had reached 65,000 tons, and a "ceaseless stream" of CIA and Pentagon officials were
visiting Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) headquarters in Rawalpindi and helping to plan mujahideen operations:
CIA operations officers helped Pakistani trainers establish schools for the mujahideen in secure communications, guerrilla warfare, urban sabotage and heavy weapons.
Bin Laden and the Arab-Afghans
As well as training and recruiting Afghan nationals to fight the Soviets, the CIA permitted its ISI allies to recruit Muslim extremists from around the world. Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid reports
In 1988, with U.S. knowledge, bin Laden created Al Qaeda (The Base): a conglomerate of quasi independent Islamic terrorist cells spread across at least 26 countries," writes Indian journalist Rahul Bhedi. "Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda, confident that it would not directly impinge on the U.S." After the Soviet withdrawal, however, bin Laden and thousands of other volunteers returned to their own countries.
Oh, do read the article ;)
A good old fashioned history lesson;
[U.S.] policies in Afghanistan a decade and more ago helped to create both Osama bin Laden and the fundamentalist Taliban regime that shelters him." An examination of this history will reveal the extent to which U.S. foreign policy is based on hypocrisy, realpolitik, and the short-term pursuit of narrow interests. (OIL)
1979: The Russian invasion in December was the signal for U.S. support to the Afghan rebels to increase dramatically.
By February 1980, the Washington Post reported that the mujahideen was receiving arms coming from the U.S. government.
When Ronald Reagan became president in 1981, he found the Democratic-controlled Congress eager to increase spending on the Afghan war.
In March 1985, the Reagan administration issued National Security Decision Directive 166,29 a secret plan to escalate covert action in Afghanistan dramatically.
Beginning in 1985, the CIA supplied mujahideen rebels with extensive satellite reconnaissance data of Soviet targets on the Afghan battlefield, plans for military operations based on the satellite intelligence, intercepts of Soviet communications, secret communications networks for the rebels, delayed timing devices for tons of C-4 plastic explosives for urban sabotage, and sophisticated guerrilla attacks, long-range sniper rifles, a targeting device for mortars that was linked to a U.S. Navy satellite, wire-guided anti-tank missiles, and other equipment.
Between 1986 and 1989, the mujahideen were also provided with more than 1,000 state-of-the-art, shoulder-fired Stinger antiaircraft missiles.
By 1987, the annual supply of arms had reached 65,000 tons, and a "ceaseless stream" of CIA and Pentagon officials were
visiting Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) headquarters in Rawalpindi and helping to plan mujahideen operations:
CIA operations officers helped Pakistani trainers establish schools for the mujahideen in secure communications, guerrilla warfare, urban sabotage and heavy weapons.
Bin Laden and the Arab-Afghans
As well as training and recruiting Afghan nationals to fight the Soviets, the CIA permitted its ISI allies to recruit Muslim extremists from around the world. Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid reports
In 1988, with U.S. knowledge, bin Laden created Al Qaeda (The Base): a conglomerate of quasi independent Islamic terrorist cells spread across at least 26 countries," writes Indian journalist Rahul Bhedi. "Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda, confident that it would not directly impinge on the U.S." After the Soviet withdrawal, however, bin Laden and thousands of other volunteers returned to their own countries.
Oh, do read the article ;)
Al-Ahram Weekly | War | Fuel for the war machine
Al-Ahram Weekly War Fuel for the war machine
Pre- 9/11 plan to attack Afghanistan
RE: Centgas, Unocal, Delta Oil
January 1998, that the Taliban had signed an agreement allowing a 1,272km, $2-billion, 1.9-billion-cubic- feet-per-day natural gas pipeline project to proceed. The proposed pipeline, according to the US government's Energy Information Administration (EIA), would have transported natural gas from Turkmenistan's Dauletabad natural gas field to Pakistan, and was projected to run from Dauletabad south to the Afghan border, through Herat and Kandahar, to Quetta in Pakistan before linking up with Pakistan's natural gas grid at Sui
By March, however, Unocal, the company leading the project, had announced that details would not be finalised immediately due to the civil war in Afghanistan....
Unocal, however, was no stranger to unpopular governments: it was, after all, part of the consortium building a pipeline in Burma that human rights groups slammed for using forced labour and cooperating with a military dictatorship. Among the other members of that consortium, incidentally, was an oil company named Halliburton -- of which the CEO was none other than current Vice- President Richard Cheney. Unocal and Halliburton share other affinities, however: at the Collateral Damage Conference of the Cato Institute on 23 June 1998, Cheney himself made some of these clear, noting that "70 to 75 per cent of [Halliburton's] business is energy related, serving customers like Unocal, Exxon, Shell, Chevron and many other oil companies around the world."
So we allowed 9/11 to happen then created an excuse to invaded Iraq...just read. Its very clear and its all about a group of greedy men wanting to get fat rich on oil at any expense, including 9/11, which was clearly covered up from the very beginning.
Pre- 9/11 plan to attack Afghanistan
RE: Centgas, Unocal, Delta Oil
January 1998, that the Taliban had signed an agreement allowing a 1,272km, $2-billion, 1.9-billion-cubic- feet-per-day natural gas pipeline project to proceed. The proposed pipeline, according to the US government's Energy Information Administration (EIA), would have transported natural gas from Turkmenistan's Dauletabad natural gas field to Pakistan, and was projected to run from Dauletabad south to the Afghan border, through Herat and Kandahar, to Quetta in Pakistan before linking up with Pakistan's natural gas grid at Sui
By March, however, Unocal, the company leading the project, had announced that details would not be finalised immediately due to the civil war in Afghanistan....
Unocal, however, was no stranger to unpopular governments: it was, after all, part of the consortium building a pipeline in Burma that human rights groups slammed for using forced labour and cooperating with a military dictatorship. Among the other members of that consortium, incidentally, was an oil company named Halliburton -- of which the CEO was none other than current Vice- President Richard Cheney. Unocal and Halliburton share other affinities, however: at the Collateral Damage Conference of the Cato Institute on 23 June 1998, Cheney himself made some of these clear, noting that "70 to 75 per cent of [Halliburton's] business is energy related, serving customers like Unocal, Exxon, Shell, Chevron and many other oil companies around the world."
But back to Afghanistan. Until Unocal relinquished its shares in Centgas, it had held an 85 per cent stake in conjunction with the Saudi Arabian company Delta Oil...
It is true that war has generally been good to Halliburton; in 1999, according to the Tribune, its Brown and Root division won substantial portions of Pentagon contracts worth over $1 billion "for support services for U.S. troops in the Balkans and at the Incirlik air base in Turkey" -- where the US planes that patrol the northern no- fly zone over Iraq are stationed. The firm, interestingly, also won a $100 million contract to improve security at US embassies worldwide.
A history that is no coincidence. It was just another oil deal, with a few twists and turns...tens of thousands of innocent people got killed, US government lied, and here we are in Iraq.So we allowed 9/11 to happen then created an excuse to invaded Iraq...just read. Its very clear and its all about a group of greedy men wanting to get fat rich on oil at any expense, including 9/11, which was clearly covered up from the very beginning.
EU: Iran's Nuclear Research Resumption Violates Agreement | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 10.01.2006
EU: Iran's Nuclear Research Resumption Violates Agreement Europe Deutsche Welle 10.01.2006
A defiant Iran resumed nuclear research on Tuesday after a two-year suspension despite warnings from the West of possible UN sanctions. EU officials condemned the move and said counter-steps would have to be discussed.
"Today, with the authorization given by the IAEA to its inspectors (to supervise the action) ... seals from a number of research centers were removed," said Mohammad Saidi, deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency said, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
"As of today these centers resume their activities," Saidi told reporters. "The research will be carried out in all the centers that we told the IAEA about, and we will restart our work.
"The production of nuclear fuel is still in suspension and we hope to reach a conclusion over it in the near future, and also reach a clear agreement with the Europeans in this regard," Saidi said.
EU officials said the resumption violates an agreement to refrain from nuclear activities
"This is very much a step in the wrong direction," said Cristina Gallach, spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, according to Reuters news service. "We are extremely concerned and consultations are taking place (within the EU) to coordinate a response."
A defiant Iran resumed nuclear research on Tuesday after a two-year suspension despite warnings from the West of possible UN sanctions. EU officials condemned the move and said counter-steps would have to be discussed.
"Today, with the authorization given by the IAEA to its inspectors (to supervise the action) ... seals from a number of research centers were removed," said Mohammad Saidi, deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency said, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
"As of today these centers resume their activities," Saidi told reporters. "The research will be carried out in all the centers that we told the IAEA about, and we will restart our work.
"The production of nuclear fuel is still in suspension and we hope to reach a conclusion over it in the near future, and also reach a clear agreement with the Europeans in this regard," Saidi said.
EU officials said the resumption violates an agreement to refrain from nuclear activities
"This is very much a step in the wrong direction," said Cristina Gallach, spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, according to Reuters news service. "We are extremely concerned and consultations are taking place (within the EU) to coordinate a response."
Dahr Jamail's reports related to the conditions in Iraq
Dahr Jamail's reports related to the conditions in Iraq
Iraqi Hospitals Ailing Under Occupation
Dahr Jamail reports on the struggling health care situation in Iraq. The report surveys 13 Iraqi Hospitals, examines the actions taken by US military against hospitals and care workers that constitute war crimes as defined by the Geneva conventions, discusses and documents cases of US medical personnel complicit in torture through failures to document the visible signs of torture on their patients, and much more.
Download PDF Version of Iraqi Hospitals Ailing Under Occupation
Read the web version of Iraqi Hospitals Ailing Under Occupation
Bechtel's Dry Run: Iraqis Suffer Water Crisis
Dahr Jamail was the primary contributor to this report concerning the failure of Bechtel to reconstruct/rehabilitate the water treatment plants it mentioned in its contract. Released by Public Citizen last Spring, the report was sent to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense as well as the Members of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee.
Download PDF of Bechtel's Dry Run: Iraqis Suffer Water Crisis
Iraqi Hospitals Ailing Under Occupation
Dahr Jamail reports on the struggling health care situation in Iraq. The report surveys 13 Iraqi Hospitals, examines the actions taken by US military against hospitals and care workers that constitute war crimes as defined by the Geneva conventions, discusses and documents cases of US medical personnel complicit in torture through failures to document the visible signs of torture on their patients, and much more.
Download PDF Version of Iraqi Hospitals Ailing Under Occupation
Read the web version of Iraqi Hospitals Ailing Under Occupation
Bechtel's Dry Run: Iraqis Suffer Water Crisis
Dahr Jamail was the primary contributor to this report concerning the failure of Bechtel to reconstruct/rehabilitate the water treatment plants it mentioned in its contract. Released by Public Citizen last Spring, the report was sent to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense as well as the Members of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee.
Download PDF of Bechtel's Dry Run: Iraqis Suffer Water Crisis
10.1.06
Images From The War in Iraq :: The Face of War :: 1
Images From The War in Iraq :: The Face of War :: 1
Have a good hard look at what George Bush and his megalomaniac administration has done.
This is Iraqi reality.
Paid for by the citizens of the United States of America
Have a good hard look at what George Bush and his megalomaniac administration has done.
This is Iraqi reality.
Paid for by the citizens of the United States of America
Don't like it? Deal with it.
THEY HAVE TO EVERY DAY.
This album contains photos taken by the military of dead men in Fallujah.
They were taken on November 19th, 2004, to identify the dead.
The IRC estimates that at least 60% of those killed in the assault of Fallujah are women, children and elderly.
Warning:These are extremely graphic images posted simply to show the true face of war. Weblog
'Democracy' Brings Bleak Days
'Democracy' Brings Bleak Days
BAGHDAD - Many Iraqis see dismal days ahead in the face of rising violence and the decision by the U.S. administration not to seek any further funds for reconstruction.
"It is obvious that the situation is much worse than it used to be," retired army general Ahmed Abdul Aziz told IPS. "Can you walk free in the streets? Did you receive your food ration last month? It is essential for most Iraqis to receive the food ration just to feed their families."
The former Iraqi general added: "When you go to the hospital, do you find medicines? The answer is no medicines, no services, no sheets or pillows, no beds, no nursing, and no ambulances to carry you from your house."
World Bank president and former U.S. deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz had said Iraq could "really finance its own reconstruction."
But such words have fallen flat because the state of the infrastructure is clearly worse now than even during the harsh economic sanctions of the 1990s.
As the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq approaches, a study by Linda Bilmes at Harvard University and Dr. Joseph Stiglitz at Columbia University found that "the total economic costs of the war, including direct costs and macroeconomic costs, lie between 1 trillion and 2 trillion dollars."
A trillion is a thousand billion. This money has done little for Iraq. The situation on the ground remains dire, with estimates of unemployment at 70 percent. "My three sons have graduated from college, yet they still cannot find decent jobs because there are no jobs available," former deputy minister for trade Dr. Abdul Hadi told IPS.
The Saddam regime "did not allow any of the graduates to be without jobs," he said. Now there is even a severe shortage of teachers in the universities.
"I will not be satisfied until I find that all the people have the will to rebuild their country instead of humiliating their brothers," said Dr.. Hadi.
"I want to tell (U.S. President George) Bush that he has destroyed our country for at least the next 25 years. He is the greatest terrorist, Arabs can never forget." People have no recourse to law any more.
"We are not living in a proper way," restaurant owner Qassim Abdul Hamed told IPS. "We are suffering at the hands of those who come in their vehicles just to have meals free of charge."
The restaurant has to go on serving free meals to the Iraqi police, he said. "We can't say a word because they have guns." And the free meals have to be served when the cost of food has risen due to fuel shortages.
"There have been scuffles in the restaurant which we have not seen before," Hamed said. Munaim Abid Hassan, a 22-year-old waitress at the restaurant said she is working to feed 12 people in her family, since she was the only one with a job.
"We used to love the American people but not any more," she said. "Hatred is spreading all over now, and everyone wants revenge on them. You (Bush) are bringing disasters to the people of your own country, not only to Iraqis."
With 2,206 U.S. soldiers killed so far, and more than 100 attacks on coalition forces every day, occupation forces appear unable to protect either themselves or Iraqis.
Under the Geneva Conventions, it is the responsibility of the occupying power to provide security for citizens.
"The Americans destroyed everything in Iraq," Gen. Aziz said. "I think every Iraqi should weep all his life over what is going on.
Bush should be among the greatest terrorists along with his colleagues in Britain, because they are all criminals who have killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis."
I can honestly say I have to agree. ~kmw
Copyright © 2006 IPS-Inter Press Service
BAGHDAD - Many Iraqis see dismal days ahead in the face of rising violence and the decision by the U.S. administration not to seek any further funds for reconstruction.
"It is obvious that the situation is much worse than it used to be," retired army general Ahmed Abdul Aziz told IPS. "Can you walk free in the streets? Did you receive your food ration last month? It is essential for most Iraqis to receive the food ration just to feed their families."
The former Iraqi general added: "When you go to the hospital, do you find medicines? The answer is no medicines, no services, no sheets or pillows, no beds, no nursing, and no ambulances to carry you from your house."
World Bank president and former U.S. deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz had said Iraq could "really finance its own reconstruction."
But such words have fallen flat because the state of the infrastructure is clearly worse now than even during the harsh economic sanctions of the 1990s.
As the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq approaches, a study by Linda Bilmes at Harvard University and Dr. Joseph Stiglitz at Columbia University found that "the total economic costs of the war, including direct costs and macroeconomic costs, lie between 1 trillion and 2 trillion dollars."
A trillion is a thousand billion. This money has done little for Iraq. The situation on the ground remains dire, with estimates of unemployment at 70 percent. "My three sons have graduated from college, yet they still cannot find decent jobs because there are no jobs available," former deputy minister for trade Dr. Abdul Hadi told IPS.
The Saddam regime "did not allow any of the graduates to be without jobs," he said. Now there is even a severe shortage of teachers in the universities.
"I will not be satisfied until I find that all the people have the will to rebuild their country instead of humiliating their brothers," said Dr.. Hadi.
"I want to tell (U.S. President George) Bush that he has destroyed our country for at least the next 25 years. He is the greatest terrorist, Arabs can never forget." People have no recourse to law any more.
"We are not living in a proper way," restaurant owner Qassim Abdul Hamed told IPS. "We are suffering at the hands of those who come in their vehicles just to have meals free of charge."
The restaurant has to go on serving free meals to the Iraqi police, he said. "We can't say a word because they have guns." And the free meals have to be served when the cost of food has risen due to fuel shortages.
"There have been scuffles in the restaurant which we have not seen before," Hamed said. Munaim Abid Hassan, a 22-year-old waitress at the restaurant said she is working to feed 12 people in her family, since she was the only one with a job.
"We used to love the American people but not any more," she said. "Hatred is spreading all over now, and everyone wants revenge on them. You (Bush) are bringing disasters to the people of your own country, not only to Iraqis."
With 2,206 U.S. soldiers killed so far, and more than 100 attacks on coalition forces every day, occupation forces appear unable to protect either themselves or Iraqis.
Under the Geneva Conventions, it is the responsibility of the occupying power to provide security for citizens.
"The Americans destroyed everything in Iraq," Gen. Aziz said. "I think every Iraqi should weep all his life over what is going on.
Bush should be among the greatest terrorists along with his colleagues in Britain, because they are all criminals who have killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis."
I can honestly say I have to agree. ~kmw
Copyright © 2006 IPS-Inter Press Service
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