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It is one of those perplexities in life that President Bush chooses poverty stricken
Afghanistan as the theater of war against Muslim terrorism. Afghanistan is the key
to unlocking the vast oil and gas reserves located in the Caspian Basin.
This is a prize so big that those who control the region will become instant
trillionaires. George Bush the elder together with a consortium of multi-national
oil companies tried in vain to negotiate a deal with the ruling Taliban Muslims to
construct a 1,000 mile natural gas pipeline through Afghanistan to deliver gas
from the Caspian Basin to Pakistan where it can then be distributed to an insatiable
market in the Orient with a growing need for this commodity. A host of George Bush cronies
including James Baker, Brent Scowcroft and even Dick Cheney could not close the deal
with the Taliban Muslims. Preferring to remain free from the corrupting and
decadent influence of Western society, the Taliban said no to the whole deal,
not wanting to become another Saudi Arabia which the fundamentalist Taliban
Muslim rulers perceive as sinful for succumbing to western values and riches. Click
Afghan Pipeline
{updated June 2001} for proposed pipeline route.
Unlike the Saudi's the Taliban cannot be persuaded with wealth and riches, so removing the Taliban from power becomes the alternative. President Bush is now calling on the United Nations to help form a new government in Afghanistan after the Taliban is overthrown by military force. He wants an international peace keeping force to occupy the region after the military mission has been completed. This international peace keeping force will provide the perfect mechanism for safeguarding a gas pipeline and guarantee uninterrupted profits from the natural gas venture. President Bush has already stated that the war will not end even if bin Laden is handed over. What then will end the war? It seems certain the war would end tomorrow if the Taliban suddenly decided to allow the natural gas pipeline and provided a means for protecting it. It also seems certain that there would be no motivation to wage war on Afghanistan if this natural gas pipeline was constructed and producing profits for big oil.
Once the Taliban is ousted, big multi-national oil and energy companies can thereafter get their much coveted natural gas pipeline. President Bush has established a coalition to reap obscene profits from the petroleum rich Caspian Basin. Former Soviet republics Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are allied with the United States in unlocking the vast Caspian Basin riches, since these republics will profit enormously. Both these republics have pledged bases for the U.S. military mission, and Turkmenistan has approved plans to build a natural gas pipeline across its borders.
In 1998, Dick Cheney {updated October 2001}, the then chief executive of a major oil services company and now U.S. Vice-President remarked: "I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian."(emphasis underlined). It is all about oil and natural gas. Terrorism and Osama bin Laden are incidentals. The Caspian riches are so great that world war is not unthinkable.
There is a recent precedent for all this. The impetus for the Persian Gulf War began as a border dispute between Iraq and Kuwait. Iraq had charged that multi-national oil companies operating in Kuwait were using lateral drilling techniques to extract oil reserves from the vast Rumaila oil field which unquestionably belonged to Iraq, and Iraq wanted the practice to end. Iraq subsequently went to war with Kuwait to reclaim its territory. This greatly inflamed the multi-national oil companies which had been harvesting the oil. Papa Bush, acting as the point man for big oil, orchestrated an international coalition to declare war against the upstart Iraq.
The rest is history. A coalition of nations went to war against Iraq. The Rumaila oil field was acquired by Kuwait after the war ended. It is apparent that the transfer of this rich oil field was the single motive of the Persian Gulf War. General Norman Swartzcoff was at the outskirts of Baghdad and fully ready and able to overthrow the Saddam Hussein government. Suddenly the order came down from Washington to halt the invasion in place. General Swartzcoff sensed that negotiations to end the war were occurring. The next order he received baffled him and to this day he cannot explain it. He was ordered to abandon all his captured positions and withdraw completely. With overwhelming victory in his grasp the general withdrew his forces as ordered. All hostilities thereafter ceased.
Why was General Swartzcoff ordered to quit the invasion with absolute and total victory assured? The answer to the question may never be provided. However, based upon known facts, an intelligent guess can be offered. The scenario goes something like the following: Big multi-national oil companies operating within Kuwait became enraged with Saddam Hussein for declaring war on Kuwait to prevent big oil from tapping into the rich Rumaila Iraqi oil field. Big oil wanted Saddam's hide and fabricated the myth that the rich Rumaila oil field was disputed territory. War was orchestrated against Iraq by big oil for the express purpose of acquiring total possession of this rich Iraqi oil field. So, why was General Swartzcoff denied total victory? One can only surmise that Saddam Hussein recognized the war was lost when General Norman Swartzcoff threatened Baghdad and capitulated. Wanting to save his government and remain in power, Saddam agreed that the Rumaila oil field was in disputed territory which belonged to Kuwait. Once big oil gained its coveted prize, the war ended. An oil field with billions of dollars in known reserves was dropped into the laps of big oil. Evacuation from Iraq was so rapid that military equipment and hardware worth billions of dollars were left behind. These big multi-national oil companies operating out of Kuwait have more than doubled their prewar oil output. So, the Persian Gulf War was fought to provide obscene profits for multi-national oil companies. Based upon the facts, is this an unreasonable conclusion?
Now it appears the big multi-national oil companies are at it again, this time in Afghanistan. Again they have an all too compliant oil man in the White House. Once the Taliban is overthrown and big oil gets its natural gas pipeline agenda fulfilled, can we expect the "War on Terror" to be declared over? The attack on the World Trade Center was far too convenient. It provided the opportunity to declare Afghanistan the belligerent for allegedly harboring terrorists and declare war on it. Also the gravity of the September 11 sneak attack was needed to motivate Americans into an unconditional war and grant simultaneously to the President an unlimited war making power. It confounds the imagination that far away Afghanistan should have hostile designs against the United States, which was their ally in expelling the Soviets from their country. Who stood the most to gain from the World Trade Center assault? The Pakistani newspaper Ummat on September 28 published an interview with Osama bin Laden, who denied any involvement or knowledge in the World Trade Center carnage. When asked who may have done it bin Laden talked about a covert government within the government of the United States which was probably culpable for the act. Bin Laden said "The United States should look within itself for the perpetrators of these attacks: those people who are part of the U.S. system, but are dissenting against it." A reprint of this Bin Laden interview can be found at AFP:AL-Qaeda Not Involved, Says bin Laden, from the American Free Press website.
Would big oil sacrifice human life to reap big profits? The answer is yes. In the Gulf War we witnessed the spectacle of Amoco, British Petroleum, Chevron, Exxon, Mobil and Unocal clamoring for war against Iraq to gain their hidden agenda of taking possession of the rich Rumaila oil field. This same gang is again allied in a feeding frenzy to extract the vast oil and natural gas reserves from the Caspian Basin. Houston based Enron, a gas and energy company with strong ties to the Bush family, is a big player in the proposed Afghanistan gas pipeline. Coincidentally Enron was a major contributor to the election campaign of George W. Bush.
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