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depleted uranium shells are not poisonous, radioactive, nor do they have long term side effects. 99% of the information on this website is a load of bullshit, and i hope i meet the creator of this site one day to i can personally knock the living shit out of you. how dare you insult my country and my brave soldiers while you sit in your socialist shithole country taking bong hits all day.
99% of the information on this website is a load of ...
You have offered no evidence even to support your one claim that DU has no deleterious effects, much that less the whole website is erroneous.
Follow the links that talk about DU, especially to the interview with the Pentagon's top DU guy.
The saddest part of this whole nightmare is how deeply divided our country is with contempt and hatred for each other. The venomous attack by aboveyourbs is a typical far right reaction to criticism of the war and Bush. How entirely different our world would have been had Bush ignored the war-mongering neocons and spent our country's resources on real homeland security and shoring up our allies with respect and cooperation. Look at the political wasteland this country is now in thanks to Bush's morally bankrupt policies and contempt for other nations and cultures. And how sad that half this country still thinks he is a great leader.
email bcommon@hotmail.com if you`d like to ask me anything about the following. I can send you a word doc if you want.
So who benefits from a war in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Afghanistan – Then and Now.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/naarpr_Defense.pdf
Defense Strategy for the 1990s:
The Regional Defense Strategy
Secretary of Defense
Dick Cheney
January 1993
http://www.halliburton.com/news/archive/1997/hesnws_102797.jsp
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 27, 1997
HALLIBURTON ALLIANCE AWARDED INTEGRATED SERVICE CONTRACT OFFSHORE CASPIAN SEA IN TURKMENISTAN
HOUSTON, Texas - Halliburton has received a Letter of Intent from Petronas Carigali (Turkmenistan) SDN. BHD. to provide integrated drilling services for an exploration and appraisal program in the Caspian Sea beginning in late 1997.
Halliburton, in conjunction with alliance partners, Dresser Industries and Western Atlas, will provide a combination of 10 services. Halliburton will be the lead contractor and project manager in addition to providing technical services. The value of the award is estimated to be U.S. $30 million for the total project.
http://www.halliburton.com/news/archive/2000/corpnws_072500.jsp
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 25, 2000
LESAR TO SUCCEED CHENEY AS HALLIBURTON CHAIRMAN AND CEO
DALLAS, TX - Halliburton Company's (NYSE:HAL) chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Dick Cheney, announced today that he has accepted the invitation of George W. Bush to be Bush's Republican Party vice presidential running mate.
Dave Lesar commented, "Halliburton has immensely benefited from Dick Cheney's leadership and the worldwide respect he commands. Together we have established corporate strategies that will remain in place and continue to lead Halliburton in the future."
http://911review.org/Wget/www.cooperativeresearch.org/oil/industry/centralasia.html
“The importance of Afghanistan will grow in the coming years when the oil and gas of Central Asia will begin to play a major role in the world energy market” - - - Zalmay Khalilzad, Winter 2000 Washington Quarterly. (cited in Samaha 1-18-2002)
“Those who control the oil routes out of Central Asia will impact all future direction and quantities of flow and the distribution of revenues from new (extraction).” - - - James Dorian, September 10, 2001 Oil and Gas Journal (cited in Zwicker 2-17-2002)
Southward pipeline route through Afghanistan.
1) The U.S. favors this route to bring oil to eastern markets because it would give the U.S. considerable leverage over the oil importing countries. The U.S. could use embargos and sanctions to restrict oil if these countries ever threaten U.S. geopolitical interests.
(2) This pipeline route would also undermine Iran’s ambitions to have the gas and oil pipelines run over their land. (AFP 10-7-2001; Margolis 11-28-2001)
(3) Oil companies also favor this route because they see big potential for the Asian markets that these pipelines would service. They call it ‘the new Silk Road.’ (Margolis 11-28-2001)
http://www.unocal.com/uclnews/96htm/081396.htm
Unocal, Delta Sign MOU with Gazprom and Turkmenrusgaz for natural gas pipeline project
El Segundo, Calif., Aug. 13, 1996 -- Unocal Corporation (NYSE: UCL) and Delta Oil Company of Saudi Arabia said today they had signed a memorandum of understanding with Russia's Gazprom and Turkmenistan's Turkmenrusgaz as important additions to the consortium that plans to build a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan via Afghanistan.
The government of Turkmenistan also signed the memorandum at ceremonies held in Moscow.
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB97/#doc24
Department of State, Cable, "Afghanistan: Meeting with the Taliban," December 11, 1997, Confidential, 13 pp.
Source: Freedom of Information Act Release to the National Security Archive.
On December 8, 1997 Taliban officials, who were in the US under the auspices of Unocal, met with Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Karl Inderfurth in Washington D.C. The Taliban officials seek improved relations and American assistance to fund crop substitution programs. Inderfurth welcomes cooperation in this area and also queries the Taliban on their gender policies and terrorism. Taliban officials replied that their gender policies reflect Afghan tradition, and pledged to prevent terrorists from using Afghanistan to launch attacks on others. While arguing that the Taliban did not invite Bin Laden into Afghanistan, Taliban officials claim they stopped allowing him to give public interviews and "frustrated Iranian and Iraqi attempts to get in contact with him."
U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Senator Brown and Congressman Wilson Discuss Afghanistan with Pakistani Officials," February 18, 1995, Confidential, 4 pp.
Source: Freedom of Information Act Release to the National Security Archive.
On February 18, 1995, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto met with Senator Hank Brown (R-CO) and Congressman Charlie Wilson (D-TX). Bhutto stressed the need for the Trans-Afghan gas pipeline in order to meet the "growing Pakistani demand for oil/gas, provide an outlet for the Central Asian Republics (CAR) other than via Iran and Russia, and encourage efforts towards [Afghan] national reconciliation." She also takes this opportunity to tell the Americans that the perception that "her government was backing the Taliban was simply untrue."
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB97/
U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "A/S Raphel Discusses Afghanistan," April 22, 1996 Confidential, 7 pp.
Source: Freedom of Information Act Release to the National Security Archive.
Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Robin Raphel travels to the region for discussions with representatives of the Government of Pakistan, the Kabul government, and Taliban officials.
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB97/tal15.pdf
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/europe/caspian100598.htm
By David B. Ottaway and Dan Morgan
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, October 5, 1998; Page A1
DAULETABAD GAS FIELD, Turkmenistan – Far out in a remote corner of this Central Asian desert, not a half-hour's drive from where the ancient Silk Road once crossed the tawny sand hills, a tangle of pipes rises out of nowhere.
Niyazov's interest in Iran as a pipeline route had not ended with the failure of the Haig proposal. In the summer of 1997, a $200 million pipeline to carry modest amounts of Turkmen gas into northern Iran was already under construction. Niyazov had also hired the British-Dutch conglomerate Royal Dutch/Shell to study various pipeline options, including one across northern Iran to Turkish power plants.
http://www.defencejournal.com/2002/august/slick.htm
Afghan Prime minister Hamid Karzai has served as an advisor to Unocal. Former National Security Advisor of Reagan, Robert McFarlane runs K Street oil consulting firm.
http://www.cfr.org/ForeignPolicy_Taliban_Paper.html
When the Taliban took Kabul, a UNOCAL Vice-President, Chris Taggart, reportedly termed it a 'positive development'.[46] However, for both UNOCAL and the Taliban, the relationship proved frustrating.
The New York Times
March 23, 2004
TEXT
Public Testimony Before 9/11 Panel
A secondary consideration was that stability would allow an oil pipeline to be built through the country; a project to be managed by the Union Oil Company of California, or UNOCAL.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/753359.asp?cp1=1
On September 9th, a top-secret formal National Security Presidential Directive was passed to the White House for presidential approval. This directive contained the strategy for the "war on terrorism" launched 2 days later, according to NBC's Jim Miklaszewski. According to the May 16th NBC report "The plan dealt with all aspects of a war against al-Qaida, ranging from diplomatic initiatives to military operations in Afghanistan, the sources said on condition of anonymity. In many respects, the directive, as described to NBC News, outlined essentially the same war plan that the White House, the CIA and the Pentagon put into action after the Sept. 11 attacks. The administration most likely was able to respond so quickly to the attacks because it simply had to pull the plans "off the shelf" ". This news report, quite unable to draw any explicit conclusions, finished nicely with " Such directives are top-secret documents that are formally drafted only after they have been approved at the highest levels of the White House, and represent decisions that are to be implemented imminently."
http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/DA29Ag02.html
The man who spotted Karzai's leadership potential and recruited him to "the fold" was then RAND (the Santa Monica, California think tank, mostly conducting contract research for the Pentagon) program director, now US National Security Council member and special Bush envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad. Like Karzai, Khalilzad is an ethnic Pashtun (born Mazar-i-Sharif, PhD University of Chicago). He headed Bush's defense department transition team, and served under present US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz in the Reagan State and Bush I Defense Departments. Also like Karzai (whom Mullah Omar once asked to represent the Taliban at the UN), Khalilzad early on supported and urged engagement of the Taliban regime, only to drop such notions when the true nature of the regime became patently obvious by 1998. And one further thing both men have in common is that in 1996/97 they advised American oil company Unocal on the US$2 billion project of a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan pipeline. In 2000, Khalilzad invited Karzai to address a RAND seminar on Afghanistan; the same year, Karzai also testified before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and met periodically with Christina Rocca, then a Senate aide (to Kansas Republican Sen Sam Brownback), now the assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs. "To us, he is still Hamid, a man we've dealt with for some time," said a state department official.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MAD201A.html
According to Afghan, Iranian, and Turkish government sources, Hamid Karzai, the interim Prime Minister of Afghanistan, was a top adviser to the El Segundo, California-based UNOCAL Corporation which was negotiating with the Taliban to construct a Central Asia Gas (CentGas) pipeline from Turkmenistan through western Afghanistan to Pakistan.
http://usembassy.state.gov/islamabad/wwwh01128.html
WENDY J. CHAMBERLIN
Former Ambassador to Pakistan
(September 13, 2001 - May 28, 2002)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai (R) stands with the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, Zalmay Khalilzad, after an inauguration ceremony of a dormitory in Kabul September 28, 2004. Karzai who enjoys international support, is widely expected to win the presidential vote, due in October but there is concern among Western diplomats that the more complex parliamentary elections could be manipulated by commanders and their political parties. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
http://baltimorechronicle.com/101804JohnHickman.shtml
First, and most obviously, Hamid Karzai had an enormous advantage over the other 15 candidates in the race because he enjoyed the unofficial endorsement of the United States and its NATO allies. They put him in power in Afghanistan, or at least in power in the capital city of Kabul, and their armies, bodyguards and reconstruction aid have kept him alive and in power. That Karzai was supported by US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, like Karzai another former UNOCAL executive and an ethnic Pashtun, was not a secret during the election. UNOCAL is a major player in the contemporary Great Game for control over the oil and natural gas deposits of Central Asian pipelinestan. Pashtuns comprise the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan.
So, who benefits? Well, for starters there`s Bush (Harken), Cheney (Halliburton), British Petroleum, Unocal, Monsanto.
http://www.unocal.com/uclnews/2004news/063004.htm
Unocal has absolutely no intention of participating in an Afghanistan pipeline project nor are we in discussions with any parties about doing so. We had no understanding・with the Bush Administration that once U.S. military forces removed the Taliban from power we would proceed with such a project. Further, Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, was never a consultant or adviser to Unocal, as Moore erroneously asserts.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0610/p01s03e-wosc.html
Cool and worldly, Karzai is a former employee of US oil company Unocal – one of two main oil companies that was bidding for the lucrative contract to build an oil pipeline from Uzbekistan through Afghanistan to seaports in Pakistan
http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/DE29Ag02.html
As part of Afghanistan's pipeline political recovery, some in Washington questioned President George W Bush's new appointment of Zalmay Khalilzad, a former Unocal consultant, as his special envoy to Afghanistan. This is the same consultant who once served as Unocal's point man assisting with the energy company's earlier plans to build a pipeline through Afghanistan. Coinciding with this appointment, a recent Reuters release stated that Afghanistan hopes to strike a deal by the end of May to build a $2 billion pipeline through the country to take gas from energy-rich Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India. Karzai is scheduled to hold talks with his Pakistani and Turkmenistan counterparts later this year on Afghanistan's largest foreign investment project, according to Afghan Minister for Mines and Industries Mohammad Alim Razim.
According to Razim, Unocal is still considered the "lead company" among those that would build the pipeline, which would bring 30 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas to market annually. Unocal, which led a consortium of companies from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Japan and South Korea, had previously maintained the project is both economically and technically feasible once Afghan stability was secured.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1984459.stm
Mr Razim said US energy company Unocal was the "lead company" among those that would build the pipeline, which would bring 30bn cubic meters of Turkmen gas to market annually.
Reuters:18Feb2002 AFGHANISTAN: UNOCAL'S PEOPLE LEAD AFGHANISTAN.
American Unocal oil company has played a key role in appointment of
Khamid Karzai as a leader of interim Afghanistan government, reads
today's issue of Spanish Mundo newspaper. The newspaper writes that
Karzai earlier worked for the company, which since long plans to build
oil and gas pipelines from the Caspian Sea to India and Pakistan via
Afghanistan. Spanish newspaper also claims that in the 1980s Karzai
cooperated with American authorities. Karzai established contacted with
Americans via U.S. citizen of Afghanistani origin Zalmai Khalilzad, who
is U.S. special envoy in Kabul now. In the 1990s Khalilzad also worked
in Unocal, emphasizes Spanish newspaper.
ADB (Afghanistan Development Bank)
ITOCHU Oil Exploration Co., Ltd.
http://www.unocal.com/uclnews/97news/102797a.htm
Consortium formed to build Central Asia gas pipeline
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, Oct. 27, 1997 -- Six international companies and the Government of Turkmenistan formed Central Asia Gas Pipeline, Ltd. (CentGas) in formal signing ceremonies here Saturday. The group is developing a project to build a 790-mile (1,271-kilometer) pipeline to link Turkmenistan's abundant proven natural gas reserves with growing markets in Pakistan. The group is also considering an extension of the line to the New Delhi area in India.
The Route
The 48-inch diameter pipeline will extend 790 miles (1,271 kilometers) from the Afghanistan-Turkmenistan border, generally follow the Herat-to-Kandahar Road through Afghanistan, cross the Pakistan border in the vicinity of Quetta, and terminate in Multan, Pakistan, where it will tie into an existing pipeline system.
http://www.njpcgreens.org/khalilzad.html
Daily Telegraph Link
Oil barons court Taliban in Texas
By Caroline Lees
THE Taliban, Afghanistan's Islamic fundamentalist army, is about to sign a 2 billion contract with an American oil company to build a pipeline across the war-torn country.
The Islamic warriors appear to have been persuaded to close the deal, not through delicate negotiation but by old-fashioned Texan hospitality. Last week Unocal, the Houston-based company bidding to build the 876-mile pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan, invited the Taliban to visit them in Texas. Dressed in traditional salwar khameez, Afghan waistcoats and loose, black turbans, the high-ranking delegation was given VIP treatment during the four-day stay.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/10/11/wtal111.html
BEHIND the tribal clashes that have scarred Afghanistan lies one of the great prizes of the 21st century, the fabulous energy reserves of Central Asia.
Unocal, the Californian oil company, in alliance with Delta Oil, the Saudi Arabian company, has been in negotiation with the Taliban, as well as rival warlords, for much of this year over terms for the Turkmenistan-Pakistan pipeline. Preliminary agreement was reached between the two sides long before the fall of Kabul last month.
A vice-president of Unocal said last week that the victory of the Taliban could help the country if it brought stability. That would allow international investors to fund the pipeline, and eventually bring billions of pounds a year in transit revenues to Afghanistan.
Oil industry insiders say the dream of securing a pipeline across Afghanistan is the main reason why Pakistan, a close political ally of America's, has been so supportive of the Taliban, and why America has quietly acquiesced in its conquest of Afghanistan.
Agreement On US 3.2 Billion Gas Pipeline Project Signed
PakNews.com
December 28, 2002
Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan on Friday signed here a framework agreement for a US $ 3.2 billion gas pipeline project passing through the three countries.
http://www.paknews.org/top.php?id=1&date1=2002-12-28
Agreement On US 3.2 Billion Gas Pipeline Project Signed
PakNews.com
http://adb.org/Documents/TARs/REG/tar_stu36488.pdf
The Steering Committee, which was set up in May 2002, has decided the project should be constructed and operated by a consortium of international oil companies and national companies.
Affiliates
As the Pentagon drew up targets, The State Department mapped out pipelines. The U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Wendy Chamberlain, met with Pakistan’s oil minister to discuss reviving the old Unocal deal on Oct. 10, 2001—the third day of the bombing campaign,. This was when the Northern Alliance controlled just 5 percent of the country, and the defeat of the Taliban was far from certain.
http://www.metroland.net/back_issues/vol_25_no41/features.html
On Dec. 31, 2001, Bush appointed Afghan-American academic Zalmay Khalilzad as his special envoy to Hamid Karzai’s nascent government. (The Karzai regime was called “interim” before the loya jirga and “transitional” afterward.) Khalilzad was a former Unocal Corporation consultant who, as a member of the NSC, had reported to former ChevronTexaco general counsel Condoleezza Rice.
The Karzai and Khalilzad appointments were understandably interpreted by Central Asia hands as a move that signaled U.S. support for a trans-Afghan pipeline in general and Unocal’s involvement in particular. Karzai, after all, is himself a former Unocal consultant. In February 2002, Khalilzad traveled to Ashkhabat to sign a letter of intent on the pipeline with Turkmenistan’s autocratic president-for-life, Saparmurat Niyazov. And on March 7, 2002, Reuters reported that Karzai traveled to Islamabad to cover the Pakistani side of the deal with Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Two and half months later, all three countries met in Pakistan to ink a letter of understanding.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/605437/posts
Ted Rall- The Afghan War obviously isn't about fighting terrorism it is about the oil
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-09-22-Bush-Afghanistan_x.htm
Bush picks Khalizad as ambassador to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush has decided to name his special envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, as ambassador to the country.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/natres/oil/2002/0318pipeline.htm
To make things even smoother, the U.S. engineered the rise to power of two former Unocal employees: Hamid Karzai, the new interim president of Afghanistan, and Zalmay Khalizad, the Bush administration's Afghanistan envoy.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/print.asp?page=story_23-9-2003_pg7_49
Khalizad, an American born in Afghanistan and a former UNOCAL executive, has played a key role in the US bid to set up a new governing structure in Afghanistan since the ouster of its former Taliban leaders following the September 11 attacks.
http://www.unocal.com/uclnews/2004news/020304a.htm
BTC signs project finance agreements with Azerbaijan government
The BTC Co. shareholders are: BP (30.1%); SOCAR (25.00%); Unocal (8.90%); Statoil (8.71%); TPAO (6.53%); Eni (5.00%); Total (5.00%), Itochu (3.40%); INPEX (2.50%), ConocoPhillips (2.50%) and Amerada Hess (2.36%).
http://users.otenet.gr/~adgeki/afg/p006.htm
UNOCAL trying to re-enter Turkmen gas
pipeline project
03/24/2000
KARACHI (March 24)
UNOCAL is trying to again jump into the Turkmenistan gas pipeline project it had quit about a year ago on account of alleged gross abuse of human rights in Afghanistan.
http://www.ratical.com/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/Maresca2USG.html
JOHN J. MARESCA
VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
UNOCAL CORPORATION
In spite of this, a route through Afghanistan appears to be the best option with the fewest technical obstacles. It is the shortest route to the sea and has relatively favorable terrain for a pipeline. The route through Afghanistan is the one that would bring Central Asian oil closest to Asian markets and thus would be the cheapest in terms of transporting the oil.
As with the proposed Central Asia Oil Pipeline, CentGas cannot begin construction until an internationally recognized Afghanistan government is in place. For the project to advance, it must have international financing, government-to-government agreements and government-to-consortium agreements.
A second option is to build a pipeline south from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean.
One obvious potential route south would be across Iran. However, this option is foreclosed for American companies because of U.S. sanctions legislation. The only other possible route option is across Afghanistan, which has its own unique challenges.
The country has been involved in bitter warfare for almost two decades. The territory across which the pipeline would extend is controlled by the Taliban, an Islamic movement that is not recognized as a government by most other nations. From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of our proposed pipeline cannot begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments, lenders and our company.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/afghan.html
Afghanistan as an Energy Transit Route
Due to its location between the oil and natural gas reserves of the Caspian Basin and the Indian Ocean, Afghanistan has long been mentioned as a potential pipeline route, though in the near term, several obstacles will likely prevent Afghanistan from becoming an energy transit corridor. During the mid-1990s, Unocal had pursued a possible natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan's Dauletabad-Donmez gas basin via Afghanistan to Pakistan, but pulled out after the U.S. missile strikes against Afghanistan in August 1998. The Afghan government under President Karzai has tried to revive the Trans-Afghan Pipeline (TAP) plan, with periodic talks held between the governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan on the issue, but little progress appears to have been made as of early June 2004 (despite the signature on December 9, 2003, of a protocol on the pipeline by the governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan). President Karzai has stated his belief that the project could generate $100-$300 million per year in transit fees for Afghanistan, while creating thousands of jobs in the country.
http://www.halliburton.com/news/archive/2003/article_110603.jsp
Many people are also under the impression that contractors take the government to the cleaners. In fact, government keeps a watchful eye on contractor profits -- and government work has low profit margins compared with the commercial work the same companies perform.
http://www.halliburton.com/news/archive/2004/corpnws_012304a.jsp
Halliburton Credits Government $6.3 million for Potential Over billing until investigation complete
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1550366.stm
Tuesday, 18 September, 2001, 11:27 GMT 12:27 UK
US 'planned attack on Taleban'
A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week's attacks.
Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October.
Russian troops were on standby
Mr Naik said US officials told him of the plan at a UN-sponsored international contact group on Afghanistan which took place in Berlin.
Mr Naik was told that if the military action went ahead it would take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest.
He said that he was in no doubt that after the World Trade Center bombings this pre-existing US plan had been built upon and would be implemented within two or three weeks.
And he said it was doubtful that Washington would drop its plan even if Bin Laden were to be surrendered immediately by the Taleban.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0%2C3604%2C556254%2C00.html
Threat of US strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack
Special report: attack on America
Special report: terrorism crisis
Special report: Afghanistan
Special report: Pakistan
Jonathan Steele, Ewen MacAskill, Richard Norton-Taylor and Ed Harriman
Saturday September 22, 2001
The Guardian
Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington, which were allegedly masterminded by the Saudi-born fundamentalist, a Guardian investigation has established.
The threats of war unless the Taliban surrendered Osama bin Laden were passed to the regime in Afghanistan by the Pakistani government, senior diplomatic sources revealed yesterday.
The Taliban refused to comply but the serious nature of what they were told raises the possibility that Bin Laden, far from launching the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon out of the blue 10 days ago, was launching a pre-emptive strike in response to what he saw as US threats.
The warning to the Taliban originated at a four-day meeting of senior Americans, Russians, Iranians and Pakistanis at a hotel in Berlin in mid-July. The conference, the third in a series dubbed "brainstorming on Afghanistan", was part of a classic diplomatic device known as "track two".
It was designed to offer a free and open-ended forum for governments to pass messages and sound out each other's thinking. Participants were experts with long diplomatic experience of the region who were no longer government officials but had close links with their governments.
"The Americans indicated to us that in case the Taliban does not behave and in case Pakistan also doesn't help us to influence the Taliban, then the United States would be left with no option but to take an overt action against Afghanistan," said Niaz Naik, a former foreign minister of Pakistan, who was at the meeting.
http://usembassy.state.gov/islamabad/wwwh01080201.html
I met today with Mr. Zaeef, the representative of the Taliban movement in Islamabad. This meeting was part of our continuing dialogue with the Taliban, other Afghan factions, and Afghan moderate leaders not aligned with the fighting factions involved in the conflict. U.S. officials meet routinely with representatives of all factions, and other Afghans, to convey our ongoing concerns about events in Afghanistan.
Mr. Zaeef and I also discussed security-related issues including the newly adopted UN Security Council Resolution 1363 on monitoring the existing UN sanctions against the Taliban. I reiterated that the monitoring mechanism and the sanctions themselves would not be necessary if the Taliban simply complied with the resolutions by closing terrorist training camps and sending Usama Bin Ladin to a country where he can be brought to justice.
http://msnbc.msn.com/news/753359.asp?0bl=-0
President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, U.S. and foreign sources told NBC News.
`The document, a formal National Security Presidential Directive, amounted to a "game plan to remove al-Qaida from the face of the Earth," one of the sources told NBC News' Jim Miklaszewski.
"It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America 's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization."
Zbigniew Bzrezinski, "The Grand Chessboard"
Subject: Re: Question about Hamid Karzai and Unocal. (In connection with Karzai`s purported work with Unocal. Unocal say he has never worked for them.)
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:07:40 +0000
Dear *********,
Many thanks for your kind note and your entry in the guestbook. I am glad you
enjoyed the book. As for your question, Unocal is not telling the truth. They
define consultancy in a narrow, legal sense. It's a bit like Clinton saying
that he did not have sex with Monica.
Regards,
Lutz Kleveman
www.newgreatgame.com/
The New Great Game (Blood and oil in Central Asia) by Lutz Kleveman.
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MAD201A.html
Afghanistan, the Taliban
and the Bush Oil Team
by Wayne Madsen
democrats.com, January 2002
Of course, you can trust Unocal not to tell any lies.
http://www.unocal.com/uclnews/2004news/063004.htm
Controversial new movie repeats old and false allegations about Unocal
El Segundo, Calif., June 30, 2004 -- In his new movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore reviews the Bush administration’s publicly stated rationale for the war against terrorism in Afghanistan – it was part of the U.S. response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 – and then suggests that the real reason for the war was, at least in part, to enable Unocal to proceed with a natural gas pipeline project in Afghanistan and for other U.S. energy and oil-service companies to participate in various projects in that country.
Unocal has absolutely no intention of participating in an Afghanistan pipeline project nor are we in discussions with any parties about doing so. We had no “understanding” with the Bush Administration that once U.S. military forces removed the Taliban from power we would proceed with such a project. Further, Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, was never a consultant or adviser to Unocal, as Moore erroneously asserts.
During the mid-1990s, a Unocal subsidiary joined a consortium that proposed to build a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan. Negotiations concerning this project proposal were never concluded with representatives of these governments and no construction ever began.
In August 1998, Unocal ended its active participation in the proposed project, a full three years before the terrorist attacks of September 11, and nearly four years before the U.S. action in Afghanistan. The company formally withdrew from the project consortium in December 1998 (see news release). Our withdrawal from this business consortium was made on a commercial basis and has not been reconsidered.
Who was getting in American Big Oil interests way in Afghanistan? Bridas was. http://www.bridascorp.com/ Personally I don`t like the Taliban regime, but bombing the country with depleted uranium weapons is not the best way to go about it and all for the sake of oil.
FILED
September 9, 2003
Charles R. Fulbruge III
Clerk
Revised September 12, 2003
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
_______________
No. 02-20929
BRIDASNext Hit SAPIC; Previous HitBRIDASNext Hit ENERGY
INTERNATIONAL, LTD; INTERCONTINENTAL
OIL & GAS VENTURES, LTD.; Previous HitBRIDASNext Hit
CORPORATION,
Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
GOVERNMENT OF TURKMENISTAN; ET AL.,
Defendants,
GOVERNMENT OF TURKMENISTAN; STATE
CONCERN TURKMENNEFT,
Defendants-Appellants.
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Texas
Before DAVIS and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI * , District Judge.
BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:
Timeline of Competition between Unocal and Bridas for the Afghanistan Pipeline
http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm
Oil and the New Great Game
by Lutz C. Kleveman
The Nation magazine, February 16, 2004
Since September 11, 2001, the Bush Administration has undertaken a massive buildup in Central Asia, deploying thousands of US troops not only in Afghanistan but also in the newly independent republics of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Georgia. These first US combat troops on former Soviet territory have dramatically altered the geostrategic power equations in the region, with Washington trying to seal the cold war victory against Russia, contain Chinese influence and tighten the noose around Iran. Most important, however, the Bush Administration is using the "war on terror" to further American energy interests in Central Asia. The bad news is that this dramatic geopolitical gamble involving thuggish dictators and corrupt Saudi oil sheiks is likely to produce only more terrorists, jeopardizing America's prospects of defeating the forces responsible for the September 11 attacks.
The main spoils in today's Great Game are the Caspian energy reserves, principally oil and gas. On its shores, and at the bottom of the Caspian Sea, lie the world's biggest untapped fossil fuel resources. Estimates range from 85 to 219 billion barrels of crude, worth up to $4 trillion. According to the US Energy Department, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan alone could sit on more than 110 billion barrels, more than three times the US reserves. Oil giants such as ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco and British Petroleum have already invested more than $30 billion in new production facilities.
The aggressive US pursuit of oil interests in the Caspian did not start with the Bush Administration but during the Clinton years, with the Democratic President personally conducting oil and pipeline diplomacy with Caspian leaders. Despite Clinton's failure to reduce the Russian influence in the region decisively, American industry leaders were impressed. "I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian," declared Dick Cheney in 1998 in a speech to oil industrialists in Washington. Cheney was then still CEO of the oil-services giant Halliburton. In May 2001 Cheney, now US Vice President, recommended in the Administration's seminal National Energy Policy report that "the President make energy security a priority of our trade and foreign policy," singling out the Caspian Basin as a "rapidly growing new area of supply." Keen to outdo Clinton's oil record, the Bush Administration took the new Great Game into its second round.
With potential oil production of up to 4.7 million barrels per day by 2010, the Caspian region has become crucial to the US policy of "diversifying energy supply." The other major supplier is the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea, where both the Clinton and the Bush administrations have vigorously developed US oil interests and strengthened ties with corrupt West African regimes. The strategy of supply diversification, originally designed after the 1973 oil shock, is designed to wean America off its dependence on the Arab-dominated OPEC cartel, which has been using its near-monopoly position as pawn and leverage against industrialized countries. As -global oil consumption keeps surging and many oil wells outside the Middle East are nearing depletion, OPEC is in the long run going to expand its share of the world market even further. At the same time, the United States will have to import more than two-thirds of its total energy needs by 2020, mostly from the volatile Middle East.
Rest can be read here: http://www.newgreatgame.com/excerpts.htm
Oil company adviser named US representative to Afghanistan
By Patrick Martin
3 January 2002
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President Bush has appointed a former aide to the American oil company Unocal, Afghan-born Zalmay Khalilzad, as special envoy to Afghanistan. The nomination was announced December 31, nine days after the US-backed interim government of Hamid Karzai took office in Kabul.
The nomination underscores the real economic and financial interests at stake in the US military intervention in Central Asia. Khalilzad is intimately involved in the long-running US efforts to obtain direct access to the oil and gas resources of the region, largely unexploited but believed to be the second largest in the world after the Persian Gulf.
As an adviser for Unocal, Khalilzad drew up a risk analysis of a proposed gas pipeline from the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan across Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Indian Ocean. He participated in talks between the oil company and Taliban officials in 1997, which were aimed at implementing a 1995 agreement to build the pipeline across western Afghanistan.
Unocal was the lead company in the formation of the Centgas consortium, whose purpose was to bring to market natural gas from the Dauletabad Field in southeastern Turkmenistan, one of the world’s largest. The $2 billion project involved a 48-inch diameter pipeline from the Afghanistan-Turkmenistan border, passing near the cities of Herat and Kandahar, crossing into Pakistan near Quetta and linking with existing pipelines at Multan. An additional $600 million extension to India was also under consideration.
Khalilzad also lobbied publicly for a more sympathetic US government policy towards the Taliban. Four years ago, in an op-ed article in the Washington Post, he defended the Taliban regime against accusations that it was a sponsor of terrorism, writing, “The Taliban does not practice the anti-U.S. style of fundamentalism practiced by Iran.”
“We should ... be willing to offer recognition and humanitarian assistance and to promote international economic reconstruction,” he declared. “It is time for the United States to reengage” the Afghan regime. This “reengagement” would, of course, have been enormously profitable to Unocal, which was otherwise unable to bring gas and oil to market from landlocked Turkmenistan.
Khalilzad only shifted his position on the Taliban after the Clinton administration fired cruise missiles at targets in Afghanistan in August 1998, claiming that terrorists under the direction of Afghan-based Osama bin Laden were responsible for bombing US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. One day after the attack, Unocal put Centgas on hold. Two months later it abandoned all plans for a trans-Afghan pipeline. The oil interests began to look towards a post-Taliban Afghanistan, and so did their representatives in the US national security establishment.
This was very difficult to find.
http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/orders/2003/032204pzor.html
03-1018 STATE CONCERN TURKMENNEFT V. BRIDAS S.A.P.I.C., ET AL.
CERTIORARI DENIED
http://www.susmangodfrey.com/practice/practice_foreign.html
Bridas Corp. v. Unocal Corp., 16 S.W.3d (Tex. App.--Houston [14th Dist.] 2000
In Bridas v. Unocal, we defended UNOCAL in a $15 billion tortious interference claim filed by Bridas, an Argentine exploration company, in Texas state court. The suit arose out of the development of gas fields in Turkmenistan and the construction of a pipeline from the Turkmen fields to Pakistan. We won the case on summary judgment, convincing the Court that under foreign law (the laws of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan) there was no cause of action. The trial court's ruling was upheld on appeal, and, as a result, UNOCAL paid nothing on this $15 billion claim.
http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm
Timeline of Competition between Unocal and Bridas for the Afghanistan Pipeline
http://www.bridascorp.com/
Nothing to worry about here. A lawyer on the 911 commission representing the Turkmenistan Government against Bridas.
http://www.9-11commission.gov/about/bio_ben-veniste.htm
Mr. Ben-Veniste has been listed in Who's Who in America since 1975, The Best Lawyers in America since 1983, and Washingtonian Magazine's Top Lawyers in Washington, DC, since 1992, when the list first appeared.
http://www.mayerbrown.com/lawyers/profile.asp?hubbardid=B946682155
Employment
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Washington, D.C., 2002 to date • Weil, Gotshal and Manges, 1990-2002
http://www.americanlawyer.com/focuseurope/bigarbitrations.html
Turkmenistan Pipeline Project
Bridas SAPIC (Argentina) v. Government of Turkmenistan
International Chamber of Commerce, Houston
Stakes: $1.23 billion ($980 million claim; $247 million counterclaim)
Turkmen dictator Saparmurat Niyazov is famous for renaming both the month of April and the word for bread after his mother, Gurbansoltan-edzhe. But breaching a contract with a solid arbitration clause may have been his craziest move. The Argentine energy company, Bridas, formed a joint venture for the operation and upgrading of an oil and gas field in southwestern Turkmenistan. Turkmenistan terminated the contract, alleging that Bridas was spending extravagantly and operating the venture like a fiefdom. In a final award of January 2001, the panel found that while Bridas was guilty of misconduct, Turkmenistan’s termination was not justified. The panel awarded Bridas $473 million in damages for lost profits. The U.S. district court for the Southern District of Texas confirmed the award in September 2001–in a ruling now on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
An ICC arbitration in Stockholm between the same parties arose out of a second joint venture for gas exploration in the eastern part of the country. In that case, resolved in 2000, Bridas won $200 million in damages, but lost its quest for $2 billion in lost profits.
Lead lawyers: For Bridas, Sergio Le Pera of Argentina’s Le Pera & Lessa. Mary O’Connor of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Dallas joined Le Pera in representing Bridas in the U.S. federal court challenge. For Turkmenistan, William Knull III of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw in Houston and Ali Malek of London’s 3 Verulam.
U.S. Selling Off Iraq-Owned Companies CHARLES J. HANLEY
Associated Press
http://www.mbpprojectfinance.com/transactions/transactions.asp?file=oil.htm
Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw.
• Shurtan II/Uzbekistan: Represented ABN AMRO Bank, as arranger, in a project financing of the Shurtan II compressor station for Uzbekneftagaz, supported by Export-Import Bank of the United States and IFTRIC of Israel.
• Turkmenistan Pipeline: Represented China National Petroleum Corporation in connection with a proposed 6,250 kilometer, $9.5 billion gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to East China.
• Enron/Uzbek Oil and Gas: Represented a multinational energy company in connection with its joint venture to develop an oil and gas deposit in Uzbekistan.
http://www.uztexaco.com/index_en.cfm
The goal of establishing of this enterprise was to provide the Central Asian region with high-quality lubricants. Uz-Texaco's blending plant is located at the facilities of the Fergana Oil Refinery, owned by the state industrial association Uzneftepererabotka.
What do Dyncorp, Computer Science Corporations, Hamid Karzai have in common?
Department of Defense Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (US): CSC’s DynPort Edges One Step Closer to Plague Vaccine
http://www.csc.com/industries/government/casestudies/1710.shtml
Explains April Finnen, DVC’s public relations manager, “JVAP was initiated to manage the DoD effort to counter the growing threat of biological warfare. As part of this initiative, DVC not only manages DoD's legacy stockpile of biodefense vaccines for use under IND protocols, but is responsible for the advanced development, licensing, and storage of up to 18 new vaccines.” Among them: a smallpox vaccine; an anthrax vaccine; tularemia vaccine; Venezuelan equine encephalitis vaccine; and botulinum bivalent and multivalent vaccines. In addition, DVC has a therapeutic blood product — vaccinia immune globulin — to treat complications with smallpox vaccine.
Computer Sciences Corporation Van Honeycutt/CEO
http://www.voxfux.com/features/dynacorp_child_sexual_slavery.html
James P. McCoy Named Unit President and General Manager
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=17
Afghanistan contracts
In November 2002, the State Department's Diplomatic Security Services took over responsibility for President Hamid Karzai's security from the U.S. military. Part of the work was then contracted out to DynCorp, which also assisted in the protection of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Haitian president, in the early 1990s. Neither the State Department nor DynCorp have released the terms of the contract, but there is a transaction worth $130,000 for work in Afghanistan between DynCorp and the State department in the General Services Administration database for fiscal year 2002.
CSC spent $520,000 in 2001 to lobby Congress and various government agencies on its own behalf. That same year, the company also paid lobby firms a total of $580,000. In total, Computer Sciences Corp spent $1,100,000 in 2001 on lobbying fees associated with a variety of issues, including appropriation and procurement bills related to the Defense Department, Treasury Department, the Executive Office of the President and other federal agencies. The company also lobbied on "legislative proposals for privatization and commercialization of Federal services," according to lobby documents filed with Congress. In 2002, Computer Sciences Corp spent a total of $1,110,000 to lobby on similar issues.
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/rebuilding_iraq/index.asp
DynCorp
The Contributions: $226,865 (72 percent to Republicans)
Total to President Bush: $7,500
Computer Sciences Corp. (acquired DynCorp March 7)
The Contributions: $276,975 (74 percent to Republicans)
Total to President Bush: $10,250
The Contract: The U.S. State Department awarded DynCorp, now a unit of Computer Sciences Corp., a multimillion-dollar contract April 18 to advise the Iraqi government on setting up effective law enforcement, judicial and correctional agencies.
18. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2002019761_afghan30.html
Dyncorp, a U.S. firm that provides security for Afghan President Hamid Karzai
http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=10080&TagID=2
Karzai depends on the Americans for his safety: DynCorp, a Virginia-based firm, has provided his bodyguards since November 2002 under a contract with the State Department
KABUL, Afghanistan — Mohammed Mohaqiq says he was getting ready to make his run for the Afghan presidency when U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad dropped by his campaign office and proposed a deal. "He told me to drop out of the elections, but not in a way to put pressure," Mohaqiq said. "It was like a request."
After the hourlong meeting last month, the ethnic Hazara said in an interview Tuesday, he wasn't satisfied with the rewards offered for quitting, which he did not detail. Mohaqiq was still determined to run for president — though, he said, the U.S. ambassador wouldn't give up trying to elbow him out of the race.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935689,00.html
The awarding of such a sensitive contract to DynCorp has caused consternation in some circles over the company's policing record. A British employment tribunal recently forced DynCorp to pay £110,000 in compensation to a UN police officer it unfairly sacked in Bosnia for whistleblowing on DynCorp colleagues involved in an illegal sex ring.
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=160672003
Last year, Rees testified in support of Kathryn Bolkovac, a UN police officer who was sacked for exposing the sexual abuse of women and children in Bosnia by her colleagues.
Bolkovac’s former employer DynCorp, an American security firm which supplied staff to the UN, was forced to pay £110,000 in compensation.
The chairman of the British employment tribunal which heard the case described DynCorp as "callous, spiteful and vindictive".
DynaCorp, a US military contractor accused of human rights violations, was awarded a multi-million dollar contract to recruit a private police force in Iraq.
19. http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/adnan.htm
Adnan G. El Shukrijumah is wanted in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States
Date of birth: August 4, 1975
Place of birth: Saudi Arabia
Height: 5'3" to 5'7"
Weight: Unknown
Build: Medium to Heavy
Hair: Black
Eyes: Black
Complexion: Olive
Sex: Male
CBS News link
Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, 28, is a Saudi native with ties to South Florida. He is wanted in connection with possible threats against the United States.
The FBI issued a worldwide alert Thursday for Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, a Saudi who government officials said may be plotting terrorist attacks against the United States as part of al-Qaida.
http://www.saudiembassy.net/2003News/Press/PressDetail.asp?cYear=2003&cIndex=126
09/05/2003
Adnan El Shukrijumah is not a Saudi citizen
[Washington, DC] -- The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia again feels the need to correct the issue regarding the nationality of Mr. Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, wanted in connection with possible threats against the United States. On March 31, 2003, the Ministry of Interior announced that Shukrijumah is not, and never has been, a Saudi citizen, as had been widely reported then and is again being reported now.
His father, Gulshai El Shukrijumah, worked in Saudi Arabia for 27 years as an expatriate employee until 1986 when the family moved to the United States. The father did not have Saudi citizenship. His son, Adnan El Shukrijumah, is also not a Saudi citizen and if he is traveling using a Saudi passport, then he has obtained it and is using it illegally.
It is unfortunate that the media continues to identify him as a Saudi citizen, ignoring the facts.
Saudi Arabia is vigilant in combating terrorism; it pursues terrorists vigorously and punishes them mercilessly.
Who benefits in Iraq? Obviously Halliburton (Cheney - former CEO). But there are many others such as Monsanto. (Did you know that Monsanto took over Donald Rumsfeld`s old company G D Searle in 1985? It was his former company that brought us aspartame. Sick From Aspartame? Meet Donald Rumsfeld. http://www.soundandfury.tv/Pages/Rumsfeld.html) Again, I didn`t like Saddam Hussein, but the British and Americans supported him with arms in his fight against Iran and using depleted uranium to pacify a population is not the right way to go about changing things there. All for oil and profits.
Look what has happpened to the civilians there: http://www.robert-fisk.com/iraqwarvictims_page1.htm
Did you know that transnational corporations such as Monsanto have patented and now own many seed varieties originated or developed by indigenous peoples? Look what has been done in Iraq. (The info. below has been cut and pasted from a few sources) http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/layout/default.asp
Iraq's new patent law: A declaration of war against farmers
http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=6
"The (now former) American Administrator of the Iraqi CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) government, Paul Bremer,updated Iraq's intellectual property law to 'meet current internationally-recognized standards of protection.'
http://www.iraqcoalition.org/regulations/20040426_CPAORD_81_Patents_Law.pdf
The updated law makes saving seeds for next year's harvest, practiced by 97% of Iraqi farmers in 2002, the standard farming practice for thousands of years across human civilizations,
http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/iraq_seeds.htm
now illegal.
Instead, farmers http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/04/11/13/2023220.shtml?tid=191&tid=155&tid=219
http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/iraq_seeds.htm
http://www.iraqcoalition.org/regulations/20040426_CPAORD_81_Patents_Law.pdf
http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=6
As part of sweeping "economic restructuring" implemented by the Bush Administration in Iraq, Iraqi farmers will no longer be permitted to save their seeds. Instead, they will be forced to buy seeds from US corporations -- including seeds the Iraqis themselves developed over hundreds of years. That is because in recent years, transnational corporations have patented and now own many seed varieties originated or developed by indigenous peoples. In a short time, Iraq will be living under the new American credo: Pay Monsanto, or starve.
regards,
Eric Sean Webber
The plans for world domination are no secret. From Cheney`s mouthpiece.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
What is depleted uranium and what are its effects?
'They've been covering up for years and years'
By Richard Gazarik
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_273337.html
Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets
A death sentence here and abroad
http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml
DEMOCRACY BETRAYED
The horror of Depleted Uranium is not limited to Iraq – it may well
be at our doorsteps. The information which some governments
are concealing is presented here.
http://www.caduceus.info/articles/denver.htm
Poisoned?
Shocking report reveals local troops
may be victims of america's high-tech weapons
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/180333p-156685c.html
Crime Against Humanity
'The plight of Iraq's children is an alarm warning people about the horror of the new nuclear warfare.'
Takashi Morizumi / photographer of "Children of the Gulf War"
http://www.chimerafilms.co.uk/children.html
Children of the Gulf War Photo Exhibit
The exhibit includes approximately 50 photos taken by Takashi Morizumi since 1998. Some of these photos appear in the book Children of the Gulf War. You can read Takashi Morizumi's introduction to the book.
http://www.savewarchildren.org/exhibitPictures.html
This deeply moving exhibition has received international critical acclaim. It documents the aftermath of the Gulf War and focuses on the lasting effects of the 300 tonnes of Depleted Uranium Weapons that were used. It especially centres on the plight of the many children who have been affected by these weapons . Depleted Uranium Weapons are known to causeleukemia, liver and kidney problems as well as vastly increasing thechances of abnormalities at birth.
Takashi Morizumi who is a well respected photojournalist and advocate of a nuclear free world has been documenting the unfurling tragedy in Iraq since the late 1990's.
Sponsored by Melbourne City Council.
home www.vicpeace.org
http://www.vicpeace.org/aboutvpn/actions/exhibition.html
Horror Of US Depleted
Uranium In Iraq Threatens World
American Use Of DU is "A crime against humanity which may, in
the eyes of historians, rank with the worst atrocities of all time."
US Iraq Military Vets "are on DU death row, waiting to die."
By James Denver
4-29-5
http://www.rense.com/general64/du.htm
Depleted Uranium -
The Real Dirty Bombs
By Christopher Bollyn
8-27-4
http://www.rense.com/general56/dep.htm
Depleted Uranium Fact Sheet
International Action Organization
3-4-5
http://www.rense.com/general63/mme.htm
US Radiation In Iraq
Equals 250,000
Nagasaki Bombs
There Are No Words
By Bob Nichols
Dissident Voice.org
6-30-5
http://www.rense.com/general66/equals.htm
Who is telling the truth?
LATimes Link
"Vice President Dick Cheney said today that anyone who thought the wars waged during the Bush administration were conducted to protect U.S. sources of oil did not understand the problems President Bush faced before launching the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq."
http://www.truthout.com/docs_01/02.03E.Hallib.Iraq.htm
"The American oil industry is very interested in trying to enter Iraq," said J. Robinson West, chairman of Petroleum Finance Co., a consulting firm. "But I think that they are quite respectful of U.S. policy towards Saddam Hussein. There is a very strong feeling that in fact he is the greatest threat to oil production in the Middle East."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0%2C11319%2C822229%2C00.html
BP chief fears US will carve up Iraqi oil riches
Terry Macalister
Wednesday October 30, 2002
The Guardian
Lord Browne, chief executive of BP and one of New Labour's favourite industrialists, has warned Washington not to carve up Iraq for its own oil companies in the aftermath of any future war.
The comments from the most senior European oil executive, who has impeccable political connections in the UK, will be seen by anti-war protesters as further proof that US president George Bush has already made his mind up about an early attack.
Article continues
They will also serve to underline concern that the US is primarily concerned with seizing control of Saddam Hussein's oil and handing it over to companies such as ExxonMobil rather than destroying his weapons of mass destruction.
Britain's biggest company is reviewing what impact a regime change in Baghdad would have on its own business and global crude supplies.
Both London and Washington have been lobbied by the UK oil giant, which is concerned that European companies could be left out in the cold.
"We have let it be known that the thing we would like to make sure, if Iraq changes regime, is that there should be a level playing field for the selection of oil companies to go in there if they're needed to do the work there," said Lord Browne yesterday at a briefing on the company's results.
It`s not only George Bush and Dick Cheney who have ties with oil and gas firms. The newly appointed Head of the State Department Condoleeza Rice was a member of the board of directors for the Chevron Corporation.
San Francisco Chronicle Link
Critics Knock Naming Oil Tanker Condoleezza
Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer
Thursday, April 5, 2001
The White House, already criticized for its connections to Big Oil, now is facing renewed questions over Chevron's decision to name an oil tanker for national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.
http://www.usmm.org/socalships.html
The Condoleeza Rice 1993 (Bahamas) 129,915 tons
The double-hulled giant, Condoleezza Rice, is part of the international tanker fleet of the San Francisco-based multinational oil firm, named several years ago in honor of Rice when she was a Chevron board member and stockholder.
Want to know the future?
http://newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/stockbauer1.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050706/bs_nm/iraq_halliburton_dc_6
By Sue Pleming 7/705
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military has signed on Halliburton to do nearly $5 billion in new work in
Iraq under a giant logistics contract that has so far earned the Texas-based firm $9.1 billion, the Army said on Wednesday.
I have read a number of posts on this blog. I am serving in Iraq as a US Army officer in Baghdad; am home on leave for a few days. Well, the first thing I would like to do is probably wreak violence as that is my stock in trade and what I am trained to do. But I will disappoint you; the absolutely unintelligible statements by you and the other misguided people make me laugh so hard. "YOu people" don't have a f*****g clue on what does on in Iraq. You read some liberal tripe and have never been there to see what REALLY goes on. But, an alternative opinion is what makes this democracy so free. WHy don't you all go to Hollywood so you can print and/or film some more fiction? Disney is hiring....
I am serving in Iraq as a US Army officer in Baghdad; am home on leave for a few days.
All you did in your post was claim superior knowledge without sharing anything specific.
You may know more about the details of how Americans and Iraqis are murdering each other, but you have been lied to as to why. Iraq was never a threat to the USA.
"including the beheadings, which I suspect were done after death"
And exactly why do you suspect this Dr. roedy?
beheadings after death
Do a google on "Nick Berg beheading" in the alt.politics.bush newsgroup and read the discussions as to why his beheading was likely done after death.
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