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On 28 Sep 2001 20:31:30 -0500, in misc.activism.progressive you
wrote:
>--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernie Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> US role in WTC attacks- Investigation called for by Infinite
>Justice September 22 2001, Sat, 11:39am
>
>Evidence is mounting that the Bush administration may have
deliberately
>provoked a terrorist attack on the U.S. as a means of justifying
>its plans to replace the Taliban in Afghanistan with a puppet
>government friendly to gas and oil development in the region.
>
>Control of the area is considered crucial not only to
development
>of oil and gas resources, but to a new "Silk Road" commercial
>corridor long planned by corporate interests. Many of the
important
>players in this initiative are top officials in the Bush
administration,
>and include VP Cheney and the President himself.
>
>Commercial success in the region could only occur through
military
>domination, since the fractious political situation in these
>countries has stymied all progress in this direction. However,
>direct intervention by the U.S. military would have been
impossible
>to justify since pursuing speculative development plans can
hardly
>be classified as "protecting U.S. interests".
>
>In July of this year, the U.S. "leaked" word to the Taliban that
>it planned to invade Afghanistan and replace the Taliban
government.
>This was either incredibly stupid "foreign relations" or a
cynical
>and deliberate effort to provoke a preemptive attack on U.S.
soil
>and thereby "justify" the requisite use of force. In this
circumstance,
>attacks such as those carried out at the WTC and Pentagon were
>inevitable.
>
>There should be an immediate call for a full and open inquiry
into
>the Bush administration's role in provoking the WTC attacks -
all
>the indications are there, and criminal indictments are
routinely
>obtained on a lot less evidence than this.
>
>Sources on US actions leading up to attacks:
>
>US planned attack on Taleban - BBC News September 18, 2001
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1550000
/1550366.stm
>
>Secret memo reveals US plan to overthrow Taliban regime -
September
>21, 2001
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4261737,00,html
>
>Threat of US strikes passed to Taliban weeks before US attack -
>Guardian September 22, 2001
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,556279,00.html
>
>Sources on oil/gas interests:
>
>Testimony by John J. Maresca VP, International Relations UNOCAL
>CORP - February 12, 1998 (Mr. Maresca was George Bush Sr.'s
Ambassador
>to Cyprus )
>http://www.house.gov/international_relations/105th/ap/wsap212982
..htm
>
>Afghanistan Fact Sheet (note section titled "Regional Pipeline
>Plans") - December, 2000
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/afghan2.html
>
>The New Great Game - Guardian, March 5, 2001
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4146099,00.html
>
>See also article titled "Afghanistan and Enron"
>
>http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=66181&group=webca
st
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>http://www.iht.com/articles/33456.htm
>http://www.theonion.com/onion3412/enemytryouts.html
>http://www.ctvnews.com/content/sitesections/1/810529.asp
>http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/KashmirAxis.txt
>http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/091701a.html
>http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
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