Missasin tuon uutisen. Muistatko sanottiinko siinä mitään perustetta hyökkäyksen suunnittelulle? Osamahan oli nimittäin jo silloin maailman etsityin terroristi, jota epäiltiin erinnäisistä iskuista Yhdysvaltoja vastaan. Taisi olla myös hyvin tiedossa missä päin maailmaa Osama majailee, joten sikäli ajatus ei kuulosta mitenkään mielivaltaiselta. Oikeutus ei kenties ole yhtä selkeä kuin 11.9. jälkeen (miten selkeä se sitten oli?), mutta edelleen mielestäni vahvemmalla pohjalla kuin Irakiin kohdistuvilla sotatoimilla.
usa neuvotteli talebanin kanssa öljyputken rakentamisesta kaspianmereltä turkmenistanista afganistanin kautta pakistaniin, kunnes neuvottelut katkesivat ja usa päätyi lopulta uhkaamaan talebania sotatoimilla. tässä joitakin poimintoja eri uutis- ym. lähteistä liittyen aiheeseen:
October 27, 1997: Halliburton, a company with future Vice President Cheney as CEO, announces a new agreement to provide technical services and drilling for Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia. The press release also mentions that "Halliburton has been providing a variety of services in Turkmenistan for the past five years." On the same day, a consortium to build a pipeline through Afghanistan is formed. Its called CentGas, and the two main partners are Unocal and Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia. [Halliburton press release, 10/27/97, CentGas press release, 10/27/97]
December 4, 1997: Representatives of the Taliban are invited guests to the Texas headquarters of Unocal to negotiate their support for the pipeline. Future President Bush Jr. is Governor of Texas at the time. The Taliban appear to agree to a $2 billion pipeline deal, but the Taliban will only do the deal if the US officially recognizes the Taliban regime. The Taliban meet with US officials, and the Telegraph reports that "the US government, which in the past has branded the Taliban's policies against women and children `despicable', appears anxious to please the fundamentalists to clinch the lucrative pipeline contract." [BBC, 12/4/97, Telegraph, 12/14/97] FTW
February 12, 1998: Unocal Vice President John J. Maresca - later to become a Special Ambassador to Afghanistan - testifies before the House of Representatives that until a single, unified, friendly government is in place in Afghanistan the trans-Afghani pipeline needed to monetize the oil will not be built. He suggests that with a pipeline through Afghanistan, the Caspian basin could be producing 20 percent of all the non-OPEC oil in the world by 2010. [House International Relations Committee testimony, 2/12/98] FTW
December 5, 1998: In the wake of the al-Qaeda US embassy attacks, the US gives up on putting a pipeline through Afghanistan. Unocal announces they are withdrawing from the CentGas pipeline consortium, and are closing three of their four offices in Central Asia. Worries that Clinton will lose support amongst women voters for upholding the Taliban also plays a role in the cancellation. [New York Times, 12/5/98] FTW
February 9, 2001: Vice President Cheney is briefed that it has been conclusively proven bin Laden was behind the October attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Although Bush has only been in office a matter of days, secret pipeline negotiations with the Taliban have begun. The new administration has already twice threatened the Taliban that the US would hold the Taliban responsible for any al-Qaeda attack. But, fearful of ending those negotiations, the US does not retaliate against either the Taliban or known bin Laden bases in Afghanistan in the manner Clinton did in 1998. [Washington Post, 1/20/02]
July 21, 2001: Three American officials, Tom Simons (former US Ambassador to Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth (former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian affairs) and Lee Coldren (former State Department expert on South Asia), meet with Pakistani and Russian intelligence officers in Berlin. [Salon, 8/16/02] It is the third of a series of back-channel conferences called "brainstorming on Afghanistan." The officials say that the US is planning military strikes against Afghanistan in October. Taliban representatives sat in on previous meetings, but may have boycotted this one due to worsening tensions. However, British newspapers confirm that the Pakistani ISI relay the threats to the Taliban. One specific threat made at this meeting is that the Taliban can choose between "carpets of bombs" - an invasion - or "carpets of gold" - the pipeline. [Guardian, 9/22/01; BBC, 9/18/01,
neuvotteluja öljyputken rakentamisesta on jatkettu tämän vuoden puolella afganistanin uuden hallinnon sekä pakistanin kanssa.
December 22, 2001: Afghani Prime Minister Hamid Karzai takes power in Afghanistan. It was revealed a few weeks before that he had been a paid consultant for Unocal, as well as Deputy Foreign Minister for the Taliban for a time. [Le Monde, 12/13/01, CNN, 11/22/01] FTW
May 13, 2002: The BBC reports that Afghanistan is about to close a deal for construction of the $2 billion gas pipeline to run from Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India. The story states, "work on the project will start after an agreement is expected to be struck" at a summit scheduled for the end of the month. Afghan leader Hamid Karzai (who formerly worked for Unocal) calls Unocal the "lead company" in building the pipeline. [BBC, 5/13/02] FTW
May 30, 2002: Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, Turkmenistan's President Niyazov, and Pakistani President Musharraf meet in Islamabad and sign a memorandum of understanding on the trans-Afghanistan gas pipeline project. [Alexander's Gas and Oil Connections, 6/8/02, Dawn, 5/31/02] FTW
suosittelen lukemaan esimerkiksi tuoreesta voima-lehdestä artikkelin liittyen 11.9. iskuihin ja niihin liittyviin ristiriitaisuuksiin, kuten usan/bushin/cia:n saamiin lukuisiin ennakkovaroituksiin tulevista iskuista, joiden olemassaolo pitkään kiellettiin tyystin em. tahojen toimesta. ottakaa selvää ja tehkää omat johtopäätöksenne.
tässä puolestaan vastaus noam chomskyn sanoin alkuperäiseen kysymykseen "mitä mieltä olet usasta" :-)
"On October 12th [2001], a couple of days after the bombing [of Afghanistan] started, [George W.] Bush publicly announced to the Afghan people that we will continue to bomb you, unless your leadership turns over to us the people whom we suspect of carrying out crimes, although we refuse to give you any evidence. That's probably because they don't have any. And we dismiss without comment the offers of your leadership for negotiations about extradition.
Notice that is a textbook illustration of international terrorism, by the US official definition. That is the use of the threat of force or violence, in this case extreme violence, to obtain political ends through intimidation, fear and so on. That's the official definition, a textbook illustration of it." (pidempi pätkä chomskyn haastattelusta löytyy osoitteesta
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Chomsky_DV-HotType.htm
"If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier; just so long as I was the dictator." - George W. Bush, Washington DC, 2000-12-18
who do you believe?
-e
"the 911 is a joke" -public enemy
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