-Caveat Lector- America's Dirty Afghan Secret: It's a War over Oil By V K Shashikumar, New Delhi, November 21, 2001
Intelligence analysts Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie have released an explosive book that claims the US' primary interest in the Afghan War might be oil, not terrorism; the US president, they claim, had obstructed investigation into the Taliban's terrorist activities. A book written by two French intelligence analysts is certain to embarrass President George W Bush and his administration. The book, Bin Laden, La Verite Interdite (Bin Laden, the Forbidden Truth), released recently, claims that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director John O'Neill resigned in July in protest over Bush's obstruction of an investigation into Taliban's terrorist activities. The authors, Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, claim that Bush resorted to this obstruction under the influence of the United States' oil companies. Bush stymied the intelligence agency's investigations on terrorism, even as it bargained with the Taliban on handing over of Osama bin Laden in exchange for political recognition and economic aid. "The main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests, and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it," O'Neill reportedly told the authors. According to the Brisard and Dasquie, the main objective of the US government in Afghanistan prior to Black Tuesday was aimed at consolidating the Taliban regime, in order to obtain access to the oil and gas reserves in Central Asia. Prior to September 11, the US government had an extremely benevolent understanding of the Taliban regime. The Taliban was perceived "as a source of stability in Central Asia that would enable the construction of an oil pipeline across Central Asia" from the rich oilfields in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the Indian Ocean. This would have secured for the US another huge captive and alternate oil resource centre. "The oil and gas reserves of Central Asia have been controlled by Russia. The Bush government wanted to change all that.this rationale of energy security changed into a military one," the authors claim.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,583254,00.html Backyard terrorism The US has been training terrorists at a camp in Georgia for years - and it's still at it George Monbiot Tuesday October 30, 2001 The Guardian "If any government sponsors the outlaws and killers of innocents," George Bush announced on the day he began bombing Afghanistan, "they have become outlaws and murderers themselves. And they will take that lonely path at their own peril." I'm glad he said "any government", as there's one which, though it has yet to be identified as a sponsor of terrorism, requires his urgent attention. For the past 55 years it has been running a terrorist training camp, whose victims massively outnumber the people killed by the attack on New York, the embassy bombings and the other atrocities laid, rightly or wrongly, at al-Qaida's door. The camp is called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, or Whisc. It is based in Fort Benning, Georgia, and it is funded by Mr Bush's government. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1124-03.htm Published on Saturday, November 24, 2001 in the Independent/UK Patriotism Slows Inquiries into Intelligence Failures by David Usborne in New York The political inquests into the failures of US intelligence agencies before the 11 September attacks, which are certain to embarrass Republicans and Democrats alike, are to go ahead. But do not tune in for a while yet. Congressional leaders have told the White House that it need fear nothing at least until the new year. The reasons are partly procedural, but are mostly to do with patriotism. It has been deemed a bad idea to start finger-pointing – at the CIA in particular – when the country is at a crucial phase of the war in Afghanistan. http://www.bcentral.com/articles/isyndicate/finance/3bfa2d9c.22ab.211.1.asp?co brand=msn New Federal Patriot Act Turns Retailers into Spies against Customers By Scott Bernard Nelson, The Boston Globe Nov 20, 2001 2:18 AM Nov. 18--Ordinary businesses, from bicycle shops to bookstores to bowling alleys, are being pressed into service on the home front in the war on terrorism. Under the USA Patriot Act, signed into law by President Bush late last month, they soon will be required to monitor their customers and report "suspicious transactions" to the Treasury Department -- though most businesses may not be aware of this. Buried in the more than 300 pages of the new law is a provision that "any person engaged in a trade or business" has to file a government report if a customer spends $10,000 or more in cash. The threshold is cumulative and applies to multiple purchases if they're somehow related -- three $4,000 pieces of furniture, for example, might trigger a filing. www.jimhightower.com Sanity Injections by Jim Hightower WAR PROFITEERING .... But the most rancid of all, so far, is the sickening "economic stimulus package" that the Republican leadership recently muscled through the house. This is raw garbage, which will stimulate nothing but more campaign contributions from the corporations and speculators who get all the money. In addition to a special capital gains tax break that will put 80 percent of the money into the pockets of the wealthiest two percent of Americans, this package includes a retroactive elimination of the "corporate minimum alternative tax." Under this greasy giveaway, $25 billion will be given to a handful of profitable corporations as a full refund of taxes they've paid for the past 15 years! Among these wartime welfare mooches are Enron, getting $254 million in refunds, GE getting $671 million, and Ford getting about $2 billion.... Among other things, the $100-billion package gratuitously gives a special capital-gains tax break to the wealthiest two-percent of Americans, and it also allows enormously profitable corporations to get $25 billion in tax rebates.... http://www.msnbc.com/news/660124.asp The Final Word? New documents raise questions about news media's findings on the 2000 presidential election By Michael Isikoff NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE Nov. 19 — After spending nearly $1 million, a consortium of big news organizations last week rendered what it once thought would be final word on last year's bitterly contested Florida recount. THE DECISION: a split verdict. To the chagrin of Democratic partisans, the consortium proclaimed Bush still would have won the apparently limited statewide recount underway last December 9 even if the U.S. Supreme Court had not swooped in and stopped it. But if all disputed ballots had been manually counted—something, ironically, neither side had even asked for—Al Gore could have eked out a narrow victory. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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