Afghanistan

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Dear Maharajas, Prabhus and Matajis,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

 

With the recent jirgha loya election of Hamid Karzai and the rapid

construction of a new oil pipeline through Afghanistan to Pakistan,

the following message becomes still more urgent. I am sending this

to everyone whose e-mail address I can get, and I hope you will also

share it with others. Thanks. (Please forgive me if anyone receives

more than one copy of this.)

 

I hope this meets you in the best of health and Krsna consciousness.

 

Your servant,

Amoghalila das

 

 

OIL AND AFGHANISTAN

 

Is it true that, long before September 11, 2001, military action against

the Taliban had already been planned in order to insure that an oil

pipeline could be built through Afghanistan? Here is some very

disturbing documentation of this claim (these are excerpts from

www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/02_11_02_lucy.html). For

even more, see www.copvcia.com:

 

1. 1991-1997 - Major U.S. oil companies including ExxonMobil,

Texaco, Unocal, BP Amoco, Shell and Enron directly invest billions in

cash bribing heads of state in Kazakhstan to secure equity rights in the

huge oil reserves in these regions. The oil companies further commit to

future direct investments in Kazakhstan of $35 billion. Not being

willing to pay exorbitant prices to Russia to use Russian pipelines the

major oil companies have no way to recoup their investments. ["The Price

of Oil," by Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, July 9, 2001 - The Asia

Times, "The Roving Eye Part I Jan. 26, 2002.]

 

2. December 4, 1997 - Representatives of the Taliban are invited

guests to the Texas headquarters of Unocal to negotiate their support

for the pipeline. Subsequent reports will indicate that the negotiations

failed, allegedly because the Taliban wanted too much money. [source:

The BBC, Dec. 4, 1997]

 

3. February 12, 1998 - Unocal Vice President John J. Maresca -

later to become a Special Ambassador to Afghanistan - testifies before

the House 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. [source: Testimony before the House International

Relations Committee.]

 

5. April, 1999 - Enron with a $3 billion investment to build an

electrical generating plant at Dabhol India loses access to plentiful

LNG supplies from Qatar to fuel the plant. Its only remaining option to

make the investment profitable is a trans-Afghani gas pipeline to be

built by Unocal from Turkmenistan that would terminate near the Indian

border at the city of Multan. [source: The Albion Monitor, Feb. 28, 2002.]

 

12. July, 2001 - Three American officials: Tom Simmons (former U.S.

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 and tell them that the U.S. is planning military

strikes against Afghanistan in October. A French book released in

November, "Bin Laden - La Verite? Interdite," discloses that Taliban

representatives often sat in on the meetings. British papers confirm

that the Pakistani ISI relayed the threats to the Taliban. [source: The

Guardian, September 22, 2001; the BBC, September 18, 2001.The Inter

Press Service, Nov 16, 2001]

 

13. Summer, 2001 - The National Security Council convenes a Dabhol

working group as revealed in a series of government e-mails obtained by

The Washington Post and the New York Daily News. [source: The Albion

Monitor, Feb. 28, 2002]

 

14. Summer 2001 - According to a Sept. 26 story in Britain's The

Guardian, correspondent David Leigh reported that, "U.S. department of

defense official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January. The

Guardian's Felicity Lawrence established that US Rangers were also

training special troops in Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports

that Tajik and Uzbek special troops were training in Alaska and Montana."

 

17. June 26, 2001 - The magazine indiareacts.com states that "India

and Iran will 'facilitate' US and Russian plans for 'limited military

action' against the Taliban." The story indicates that the fighting will

be done by US and Russian troops with the help of Tajikistan and

Uzbekistan. [source: indiareacts.com, June 26, 2001.]

 

25. September 1-10, 2001 - In an exercise, Operation "Swift Sword"

planned for four years, 23, 000 British troops are steaming toward Oman.

Although the 9/11 attacks caused a hiccup in the deployment the massive

operation was implemented as planned. At the same time two U.S. carrier

battle groups arrive on station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the

Pakistani coast. Also at the same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join

more than 23,000 NATO troops in Egypt for Operation "Bright Star." All

of these forces are in place before the first plane hits the World Trade

Center. [sources: The Guardian, CNN, FOX, The Observer, International

Law Professor Francis Boyle, the University of Illinois.]

 

39. October 10, 2001 - The Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post

reports that U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call on the

Pakistani oil minister. A previously abandoned Unocal pipeline from

Turkmenistan, across Afghanistan, to the Pakistani coast, for the

purpose of selling oil and gas to China, is now back on the table "in

view of recent geopolitical developments."

 

45. December 25, 2001 - Newly appointed afghani Prime Minister Hamid

Karzai is revealed as being a former paid consultant for Unocal.

[source: Le Monde.]

 

46. January 3, 2002 - President Bush appoints Zalamy Khalilzad as a

special envoy to Afghanistan. Khalilzad, a former employee of Unocal,

also wrote op-eds in the Washington Post in 1997 supporting the Taliban

regime. [source: Pravda, 1/9/02]

 

50. February 9, 2002 - Pakistani leader General Musharraf and Afghan

leader Hamid Karzai announce their agreement to "cooperate in all

spheres of activity" including the proposed Central Asian pipeline.

Pakistan will give $10 million to Afghanistan to help pay Afghani

government workers. [source: The Irish Times, 2/9/02]

 

 

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