Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L) - David Rovics youtube

Please click url and read entire article.... No wonder it was deemed necessary to have a New Pearl Harbor, eh? ......cal

Complete 9/11 timeline before 9/11 = Pipeline Politics
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1996-September 11, 2001: Enron Gives Taliban Millions in Bribes in Effort to Get Afghan Pipeline Built The Associated Press will later report that the Enron corporation bribes Taliban officials as part of a “no-holds-barred bid to strike a deal for an energy pipeline in Afghanistan.” Atul Davda, a senior director for Enron’s International Division, will later claim, “Enron had intimate contact with Taliban officials.” Presumably this effort began around 1996, when a power plant Enron was building in India ran into trouble and Enron began an attempt to supply it with natural gas via a planned pipeline through Afghanistan (see 1995-November 2001 and June 24, 1996). In 1997, Enron executives privately meet with Taliban officials in Texas (see December 4, 1997). They are “given the red-carpet treatment and promised a fortune if the deal [goes] through.” It is alleged Enron secretly employs CIA agents to carry out its dealings overseas. According to a CIA source, “Enron proposed to pay the Taliban large sums of money in a ‘tax’ on every cubic foot of gas and oil shipped through a pipeline they planned to build.” This source claims Enron paid more than $400 million for a feasibility study on the pipeline and “a large portion of that cost was pay-offs to the Taliban.” Enron continues to encourage the Taliban about the pipeline even after Unocal officially gives up on the pipeline in the wake of the African embassy bombings (see December 5, 1998). An investigation after Enron’s collapse in 2001 (see December 2, 2001) will determine that some of this pay-off money ended up funding al-Qaeda. [Associated Press, 3/7/2002]

Khalid bin Mahfouz wikipedia
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Controversies
[edit] $225 million BCCI scandal fine
Bin Mahfouz was a non-executive director of Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a financial conglomerate later convicted of money laundering, bribery, support of terrorism, arms trafficking, and many other crimes.[9] Mahfouz personally owned a 20% stake in BCCI. He was indicted by a New York state grand jury for fraud but denied any culpability. The fraud charges were settled for $225 million in lieu of fines.[4] Mr. bin Mahfouz has claimed that he simply settled as a business decision rather than using resources to fight further.

[edit] Donations to Osama bin Laden in 1988
Craig Unger's book House of Bush, House of Saud claims that bin Mahfouz donated over $270,000 to Osama bin Laden's Islamist organization at the request of Osama's brother Salem bin Laden. Bin Mahfouz's lawyer stated: "This donation was to assist the US-sponsored resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and was never intended nor, to the best of Sheikh Khalid's knowledge, ever used to fund any 'extension' of that resistance movement in other countries."[10]

Hess Corporation wikipedia
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In a recent water contamination case against several major US oil companies, the Hess Corporation will pay part of a $422 million settlement. The case was filed by 153 public water providers in 17 states against the oil companies "over water over drinking water contamination caused by the gasoline additive Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE)." The settlement also stipulates that the settling parties pay their share of treatment costs of the plaintiff's wells that may become contaminated or require treatment for the next 30 years.[7]

Thomas Kean 9/11 Commission
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Thomas Kean is a director (and shareholder) of Amerada Hess Corporation , which is involved in the Hess-Delta joint venture with Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia (owned by the bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi clans). Delta-Hess "was established in 1998 for the development and exploration of oil fields in the Caspian region...In Azerbaijan Delta Hess is involved in the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli PSA (2.72%) and the Garabaghli-Kursangi PSA (20%). It is also an equity holder in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline":

ENRON and Afghanistan
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So where do we start?

There’s two thing that are key to understanding what's going on behind this flimsy curtain.

Chevron made a historic deal with Kazakhstan to develop the oil and gas fields in a Central Asian Country in 1993. Both Dick Cheney and Condoliza Rice have been instrumental in these dealings. The energy in this region is land locked. Afghanistan was the best route for pipelines to get the energy out to the Arabian Sea and over to Pakistan and India

ENRON ties in because Enrons Flagship Project in Dabhol India was a huge gas fired power plant that couldn't run without natural gas from these pipeline projects. Enron was also involved in getting the energy out of Central Asian countries.

Interesting note: a Chevron oil tanker was named "The Condoleeza Rice" until she was put in charge of the National Security Agency in 2001.

Here's a summary of FACTS that connect September 11th to Energy

Pipeline and Afghanistan
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Briefing on the Sept. 11th Terrorst Attacks
The Taliban, Unocal and a Pipeline
Brooke Shelby Biggs, Pacific News Service
October 12, 2001

Whenever the US takes military action in the Middle East, critics are quick to ask: Is this really about oil?
Clearly, that question is moot with respect to the current air strikes against Afghanistan. But Central Asia experts point out that energy politics did help set the stage for the current crisis, and that at least one US oil company has provided aid to the Taliban regime in pursuit of a business deal.

Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, Western energy interests have hungrily eyed the massive, untapped oil and natural gas reserves in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. It's estimated that roughly 15 billion barrels of oil and about 9 trillion cubic meters of natural gas lie beneath the soil of Afghanistan's neighbors, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. One calculation puts the potential value of Central Asian fossil fuels at $3 trillion.

Afghanistan itself is not known to have major energy reserves. Instead.........

Pipeline
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Turkmenistan is eager for the construction work on the pipeline to begin, just as Taliban and Pakistan are keen for the gas shipments to commence so that they can benefit from transit revenues. This lucrative project has brought Taliban, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, UNOCAL and the Delta Oil Company together into an odd-looking coalition.

Uzbekistan has been the most vocal Central Asian critic of the Taliban advance. The government of President Karimov has built a working relationship with the Uzbek warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, whose forces control northern Afghanistan, territory adjacent to the Uzbek border. It is believed that the Uzbek government has provided military training and financial support for Dostum's forces in the past. The Taliban victory in Kabul and their northward push threatens General Dostum's autonomy and Uzbekistan's influence in Afghanistan. This is not a favourable scenario for the Uzbek government. Uzbekistan's response was to lobby other summit participants in Almaty to commit themselves to tangible support for General Dostum.

Uzbekistan has massed its elite troops in Termez, on the border with Afghanistan.[OMRI 14 October 1996] The road leading from Termez to Mazari Sharif in Afghanistan is logistically important. It was used by the Russian army for the invasion of Afghanistan, later by Uzbekistan for supplying General Dostum, and also by the UN for transporting food and other humanitarian aid to refugees from Tajikistan who settled there after the outbreak of a civil war in their republic.

Abdul Rashid Dostum wikipedia
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In June 2009, shortly before the presidential elections, Afghan President Hamid Karzai reappointed Dostum to his post.[2] [3]

Human rights groups have accused his troops of human rights violations, charges which Dostum denies.[4][5][6][7][8]

President Burhanuddin Rabbani wikipedia
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Burhanuddin Rabbani (Persian: برهان الدين رباني - Burhânuddîn Rabbânî) (b. 1940), is a former President of Afghanistan.[1] Burhanuddin Rabbani is the leader of Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan (Islamic Society of Afghanistan). He also served as the political head of the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (UIFSA), an alliance of various political groups who fought against Taliban rule in Afghanistan. He served as President from 1992-1996 until he was forced to leave Kabul because of the Taliban takeover of the city. His government was recognized by many countries, as well as the United Nations. He is currently the head of Afghanistan National Front, known in the media as United National Front the largest political opposition to Hamid Karzai's government.

Abuse and Stanley McCrystal
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At least 34 Special Operations soldiers were eventually disciplined by the Pentagon for these abusive interrogations. Many more cases had to be dropped because the specific interrogator could not be conclusively identified or because crucial computer records were lost.

While there is no suggestion that General McChrystal was personally involved in any misconduct, he has a clear responsibility to illuminate what went wrong, what if anything was done to stop these horrors, and what he intends to do to ensure that they are not repeated under his command in Afghanistan.

The overall performance of the Special Operations Command under General McChrystal’s leadership — both acts of heroism and acts of abuse — is an essential part of measuring General McChrystal’s fitness for his new assignment. He needs to be rigorously questioned.

Mahfouz family
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The names Bin Laden and Bin Mahfouz have been coming up in discussions of terrorism for many years. In November 2001, two French defense and intelligence analysts, Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié, published a book entitled Bin Laden, The Forbidden Truth detailing connections between the larger — beyond Osama — Bin Laden family, the Bin Mahfouz banking empire and Al Qaeda.

Ameranda Hess and BP agree swap
Release date: 30 January 2003
BP has agreed an exchange of interests with Amerada Hess under which BP will swap its 25% interest in block A-18 of the Malaysia Thailand Joint Development Area (JDA), for Amerada Hess's interests in Colombia.
The Colombian interests include a 12% stake in the Santiago de las Atalayas, Tauramena and Rio Chitamena contracts, in which the Cusiana and Cupiagua fields are located; 10% in the Recetor Association contract; and a 9.6% stake in the OCENSA pipeline.

Amerada Hess will also make a balancing payment to BP of $10 million.

The exchange allows both companies to consolidate their portfolios in their respective areas and focus on activities where they already have material upstream businesses. It adds some 58 million barrels of proven reserves to BP's Colombian portfolio.

The deal is subject to certain regulatory approvals and notifications. Completion is expected in the first half of 2003.

Putin-Karimov discuss ties gas transportation system
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“The most important thing to be found in this document, which deserves special mention, is the two countries’ mutual desire to promote real projects in our cooperation, set concrete goals and work to achieve them,” he said. “Russia sees Uzbekistan as one of its most important strategic partners in Central Asia,” Putin said. “We’ll continue honest interaction in key aspects of the international agenda, including the situation in Afghanistan, and we will work jointly in regional integration structures, including the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Eurasian Economic Community, the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization,” the Russian president said.

CentGas wikipedia
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Central Asia Gas Pipeline, Ltd. (CentGas) was a consortium formed in the 1990s to develop a project to build the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline to link Turkmenistan's abundant proven natural gas reserves with growing markets in Pakistan. The Group led by Union Oil Company of California (Unocal) and Delta Oil Company, Ltd., of Saudi Arabia had also considered an extension of the line to the New Delhi area. Regional and political instability proved too great a challenge to overcome and the project eventually was cancelled after Unocal (the largest CentGas investor) withdrew from the consortium.