tel(oil) ka khel

Did you know that:

 

 

a.. USA supported Bin Laden and the Taliban for

years, and viewed them as

freedom fighters against the Russians?

 

 

b.. As late as 1998, the US was paying the salary of

every single Taliban

official in Afghanistan ?

 

 

c.. There is more oil and gas in the Caspian Sea ,

but you need a pipeline

through Afghanistan to get that out?

 

 

d.. UNOCAL, a giant oil conglomerate, wanted to

build a 1000 mile pipeline

from the Caspian Sea through Afghanistan to the

Arabian Sea?

 

 

e.. UNOCAL spend $ 10,000,000,000 on geological

studies for the pipeline

construction, and courted the Taliban for their

support in allowing the

construction to begin?

 

 

f.. All leading Taliban officials were in Texas

negotiating with UNOCAL in

1998?

 

 

g. In 1999, Taliban changed its mind and threw

UNOCAL out of the country

and awarded the pipeline project to a company in

Argentina?

 

 

h.. John Maresca, VP of UNOCAL testified before

Congress and said no

pipeline should be set until the Taliban was gone

and a more friendly

government was established?

 

 

i.. After 1999, the Taliban became the most evil

people in the world

 

 

j. In 2001, Bush declares war against Afghanistan ,

though not a single

Afghani was involved in the plane hijacking?

 

 

k.. Bush blamed Bin Laden, but did not offer any

proof, saying it was

confidential?

 

 

l.. Talibans offered to hand over Bin Laden if there

was proof, but Bush

bombed Afghanistan instead?

 

 

m.. We now have a new government in Afghanistan ,

which is friendlier?

 

 

n.. That the leader of the new government is one

gentleman called Hamid

Karzai, who formerly worked for UNOCAL?

 

 

o.. Bush appoints a special envoy (Lakhdar Ibrahimi)

to represent the US

to deal with the new government. This special envoy

was formerly chief

consultant to UNOCAL?

 

 

p.. The US government quietly announces in January

2002 that it will

support the Trans-Afghan pipeline construction?

 

 

q.. President Musharraf and Hamid Karzai announce

agreement in February

2002 to build proposed gas pipeline from Central

Asia to Pakistan through

Afghanistan?

 

 

......And you thought we were fighting terrorism

here, didn't you?

US was NEVER fighting terrorism......!!!

Good Post Nitesh !