SpearsBritney
07-01-2005, 02:20 PM
Ca$pian $ea (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/oil.html)
In 1998, Dick Cheney, now US vice-president but then chief executive of a major oil services company, remarked: "I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian."
Testimony of John Maresca, Vice President, International Relations, of Unocal Corporation (http://www.ringnebula.com/Oil/Maresca_testimony_USHouse_1998.htm)
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.
Failed Negotiations (http://www.rense.com/general17/before.htm)
Bush-Cheney/Big Oil and Afghanistan's Taliban negotiated for MONTHS over running a Caspian Sea oil pipeline through Afghanistan.
Afghanistan Timeline (http://www.ringnebula.com/Oil/Timeline.htm)
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.
Iraq Timeline (http://www.ringnebula.com/Oil/Timeline-Iraq_040903c.htm)
Shortly thereafter, the US placed a new regime in Afghanistan that was strongly linked to the oil industry. The building of a US controlled one-million barrels/day trans-Afghanistan oil pipeline, earlier refused by the Taliban, was soon after approved.
In 1998, Dick Cheney, now US vice-president but then chief executive of a major oil services company, remarked: "I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian."
Testimony of John Maresca, Vice President, International Relations, of Unocal Corporation (http://www.ringnebula.com/Oil/Maresca_testimony_USHouse_1998.htm)
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.
Failed Negotiations (http://www.rense.com/general17/before.htm)
Bush-Cheney/Big Oil and Afghanistan's Taliban negotiated for MONTHS over running a Caspian Sea oil pipeline through Afghanistan.
Afghanistan Timeline (http://www.ringnebula.com/Oil/Timeline.htm)
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.
Iraq Timeline (http://www.ringnebula.com/Oil/Timeline-Iraq_040903c.htm)
Shortly thereafter, the US placed a new regime in Afghanistan that was strongly linked to the oil industry. The building of a US controlled one-million barrels/day trans-Afghanistan oil pipeline, earlier refused by the Taliban, was soon after approved.