Is Enron
Behind The War In
From Robert Lederman
I've added a few url's from
oil industry websites to this forwarded email as
further evidence of Enron's involvement in the motivation for the war in
and its ties to Bush-Cheney in a whole new light. To find thousands of other
energy industry website articles on this do a GOOGLE search
http://www.google.com using these keywords: Pipeline Enron Uzbekistan Cheney
Halliburton
--Robert
Enron and the oil pipeline deal
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/ntc85031.htm "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.mbpprojectfinance.com/transactions/s_oilgas.html
http://www.advancenet.net/~k_a/uzbekistan/companies.htm
"The one serious drawback companies have faced is getting the supplies to
the right market, the energy-hungry Asian Pacific economies. Afghanistan --
the only Central Asian country with very little oil -- is by far the best
route to transport the oil to Asia. Enron, the biggest contributor to the
Bush-Cheney campaign of 2000, conducted the feasibility study for a US$2.5
billion trans-Caspian gas pipeline which is being built under a joint
venture agreement signed in February 1999 between
General Electric Capital Services."
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/drillbits/6_08/1.html
"
to provide $400 million in financing for a joint venture of Uzbekneftegaz
and Enron oil and Gas Co. (Houston) to develop a clutch of gas fields in
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/drillbits/0801/96080107.html
Here's an email I recieved this morning. You may
already know about the oil
pipeline deal in Afghanistan and the Bush threats to the Taliban to invade
BEFORE 9/11 but these links show how Enron and the new Afghan leader we just
installed are all directly connected to Bush, to the so-called war, Cheney
refusing to reveal who he met with and the supression
of the 9/11
investigation Bush has threatened Congress
with. --------------------------------------------------
FORWARD:
From: The Daily Brew: http://www.thedailybrew.com/
The Motive
For years, US oil interests have been trying to build a pipeline across
Afghanistan to access the oil and gas around the Caspian Sea; efforts that
have continued past the 9-11 attacks.
Source http://www.wluml.org/english/new-archives/wtc/at-stake/unocal.htm
Enron was a key player in this game. Way back in 1996, Enron had cut a deal
with the president of Uzbekistan for joint development of the nation's
natural gas fields.
Source Houston Chronicle Date: TUE 06/25/96 Section: Business Page: 4
Edition: 3 STAR (sorry, no link)
Enron had also done the feasibility study for the pipeline.
Source http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MAD201A.html
For a time, the Taliban appeared to be a potential
partner. They even
visited Sugarland, Texas to talk things over.
Source
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/west_asia/newsid_37000/37021.st
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The Crime
Unfortunately, the talks broke down, and by late last
summer, the
Government was threatening to commence war against
which would have violated every precept of international law).
Sources
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1550000/1550366.stm
*****
(Inserted by Jack) BBC Audio of report on US intentions to invade
Afghanistan BEFORE Sept 11th
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1550000/audio/_1550366_afghan01_arney.ram
*****
At least twice, Bush conveyed the message to the Taliban that the United
States would hold the regime responsible for an al Qaeda
attack. But after
concluding that bin Laden's group had carried out the
October 2000 attack on
the USS Cole, a conclusion stated without hedge in a Feb. 9 briefing for
Vice President Cheney, the new administration did not choose to order armed
forces into action.
Source http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8734-2002Jan19.html
Simultaneous with making, but not following through on these threats, Bush
took a number of actions to make the
terrorist attack. He ordered the Naval strike force,
which Clinton placed in
the Indian Ocean on 24 hour alert so he could hit Osama
as soon as he had
solid intelligence, to stand down. Bush threatened to veto the Defense
Appropriations Bill after Democrats tried to move $600 million out of Star
Wars and into anti-terror defense. Bush opposed
Clinton's
anti-money-laundering efforts, which were designed to stop al Qaeda's money.
Bush abandoned Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud,
or as the two
star general Donald Kerrick told the Washington
Post, reflecting on his
service to both President Clinton and President Bush: Clinton's advisors met
nearly weekly on how to stop bin Laden and al Qaeda. "I didn't detect that
kind of focus" from the Bush Administration.
Source http://democrats.com/view.cfm?id=5714
I don't have to tell you what happened next.
The Cover Up
Dick Cheney is openly breaking the law by defying GAO requests to turn over
his records of meetings with Enron.
Source http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20020201.html
At the same time that Cheney has refused to turn over
his records, Enron and
its accountants have shredded millions of pages of documents.
Source http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/business/30SHRE.html
The Bush's themselves may have destroyed evidence. When
the Justice
Department instructed the Bush administration to preserve any documents
related to Enron Corporation, a senior administration official said that
until now, "the White House had not been making any formal effort to
preserve or catalogue information about Enron contacts."
Source http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10918-2002Feb1.html
While all of this law breaking, stalling, and destruction of evidence has
gone on, Bush has asked Daschle to limit Congressional probes into Sept. 11.
Source http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/inv.terror.probe/index.html
Note that the supposedly "liberal press" has so far failed to put all
of
these pieces together. They are too busy giving Bernard Goldberg and Bill
O'Reilly the airtime to sell a canard called "Bias." ___
TheDailyBrew.com
Centre for Research on Globalisation
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MAD201A.html
Afghanistan, the Taliban and the Bush Oil Team
By Wayne Madsen Democrats.com, January 2002
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) globalresearch.ca 23 January 2002
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.
Karzai, the leader of the southern Afghan Pashtun Durrani tribe, was a
member of the mujaheddin that fought the Soviets
during the 1980s. He was a
top contact for the CIA and maintained close relations with CIA Director
William Casey, Vice President George Bush, and their Pakistani Inter Service
Intelligence (ISI) Service interlocutors. Later, Karzai
and a number of his
brothers moved to the United States under the auspices of the CIA. Karzai
continued to serve the agency's interests, as well as those of the Bush
Family and their oil friends in negotiating the CentGas
deal, according to
Middle East and South Asian sources.
When one peers beyond all of the rhetoric of the White House and Pentagon
concerning the Taliban, a clear pattern emerges showing that construction of
the trans-Afghan pipeline was a top priority of the Bush administration from
the outset. Although UNOCAL claims it abandoned the pipeline project in
December 1998, the series of meetings held between U.S., Pakistani, and
Taliban officials after 1998, indicates the project was never off the table.
Quite to the contrary, recent meetings between U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan
Wendy Chamberlain and that country's oil minister Usman
Aminuddin indicate
the pipeline project is international Project Number One for the Bush
administration. Chamberlain, who maintains close ties to the
Saudi
ambassador to Pakistan (a one-time chief money conduit for the Taliban), has
been pushing Pakistan to begin work on its Arabian Sea oil terminus for the
pipeline.
Meanwhile, President Bush says that U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan
for the long haul. Far from being engaged in Afghan peacekeeping -- the
Europeans are doing much of that -- our troops will effectively be guarding
pipeline construction personnel that will soon be flooding into the
country....
The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MAD201A.html