MichaelLWagner
11-17-2009, 07:26 PM
Here Read:
+ Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline / BBC (1997):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/west_asia/37021.stm
"A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in Afghanistan is in the United States for talks with an international energy company that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan."
+ US policy on Taliban influenced by oil - authors / Asia Times (2001):
http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/CK20Ag01.html
"Under the influence of United States oil companies, the government of President George W Bush initially blocked intelligence agencies' investigations on terrorism ..."
"'the main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it'."
"... the US government's main objective in Afghanistan was to consolidate the position of the Taliban regime to obtain access to the oil and gas reserves in Central Asia."
"... confronted with Taliban's refusal to accept US conditions, 'this rationale of energy security changed into a military one' ..."
+ The warlords casting a shadow over Afghanistan / The Independent (2009):
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...n-1682660.html
"One of the most feared of the Afghan warlords, Faryadi Zardad, was notorious for robbing, raping, torturing and killing travellers on the road between Kabul and Jalalabad."
"In 1998, as the Taliban overran Afghanistan, he fled to Britain on a fake passport. He was running a pizza restaurant in south London in 2000 when he was unmasked by the BBC, and in 2005 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Britain."
"Other warlords, who were once his comrades in arms, are now part of the political elite in Kabul, prominent members of the government or multimillionaire owners of palatial houses in the capital."
"At the time Zardad was torturing and killing at his much-feared checkpoint at Sarobi on the Kabul-Kandahar road in 1992-96, he was a valued military commander in the forces of Gulbuddin Hekmetyar, the leader of the fundamentalist Hizb-e-Islami party."
"... Hekmetyar is reportedly about to start negotiations to join the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai. Under a power-sharing deal, his party would supposedly fill several ministerial posts and governorships in return for abandoning the Taliban."
"Just before Mr Karzai went to Washington to see President Barack Obama last week, he neatly divided the opposition, and almost certainly ensured his re-election as President, by selecting as his vice-presidential running-mate Mohammad Qasim Fahim, a powerful Tajik former warlord."
"One reason the Taliban had been able to conquer most of Afghanistan in the 1990s, aside from the support of Pakistan, was by taking advantage of a popular reaction against warlords."
"At the time of the terrorist attacks on the US in 2001, warlords including General Dostum and General Fahim were fighting for their lives or were in exile. But within hours of 9/11, the US was looking for local allies to provide the ground troops which, backed by US airpower, advisers and money, would overthrow the Taliban in Kabul."
Also Good Reads:
+ Afghanistan's future threatened by ex-warlords / MSNBC (2009)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33865380..._central_asia/
+ Warlords Toughen US Task in Afghanistan / Time (2008)
http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...865255,00.html
+ Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda of Silence / Democracy Now (2008)
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/10/...rlords_and_the
+ Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline / BBC (1997):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/west_asia/37021.stm
"A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in Afghanistan is in the United States for talks with an international energy company that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan."
+ US policy on Taliban influenced by oil - authors / Asia Times (2001):
http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/CK20Ag01.html
"Under the influence of United States oil companies, the government of President George W Bush initially blocked intelligence agencies' investigations on terrorism ..."
"'the main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it'."
"... the US government's main objective in Afghanistan was to consolidate the position of the Taliban regime to obtain access to the oil and gas reserves in Central Asia."
"... confronted with Taliban's refusal to accept US conditions, 'this rationale of energy security changed into a military one' ..."
+ The warlords casting a shadow over Afghanistan / The Independent (2009):
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...n-1682660.html
"One of the most feared of the Afghan warlords, Faryadi Zardad, was notorious for robbing, raping, torturing and killing travellers on the road between Kabul and Jalalabad."
"In 1998, as the Taliban overran Afghanistan, he fled to Britain on a fake passport. He was running a pizza restaurant in south London in 2000 when he was unmasked by the BBC, and in 2005 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Britain."
"Other warlords, who were once his comrades in arms, are now part of the political elite in Kabul, prominent members of the government or multimillionaire owners of palatial houses in the capital."
"At the time Zardad was torturing and killing at his much-feared checkpoint at Sarobi on the Kabul-Kandahar road in 1992-96, he was a valued military commander in the forces of Gulbuddin Hekmetyar, the leader of the fundamentalist Hizb-e-Islami party."
"... Hekmetyar is reportedly about to start negotiations to join the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai. Under a power-sharing deal, his party would supposedly fill several ministerial posts and governorships in return for abandoning the Taliban."
"Just before Mr Karzai went to Washington to see President Barack Obama last week, he neatly divided the opposition, and almost certainly ensured his re-election as President, by selecting as his vice-presidential running-mate Mohammad Qasim Fahim, a powerful Tajik former warlord."
"One reason the Taliban had been able to conquer most of Afghanistan in the 1990s, aside from the support of Pakistan, was by taking advantage of a popular reaction against warlords."
"At the time of the terrorist attacks on the US in 2001, warlords including General Dostum and General Fahim were fighting for their lives or were in exile. But within hours of 9/11, the US was looking for local allies to provide the ground troops which, backed by US airpower, advisers and money, would overthrow the Taliban in Kabul."
Also Good Reads:
+ Afghanistan's future threatened by ex-warlords / MSNBC (2009)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33865380..._central_asia/
+ Warlords Toughen US Task in Afghanistan / Time (2008)
http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...865255,00.html
+ Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda of Silence / Democracy Now (2008)
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/10/...rlords_and_the