- Message 1 of 1 , Sep 16, 2001
Just as with Iraq: Oil, Military Spending and Geopolitical Control are the
reasons behind the latest.
The essence is explained by Princeton Ph.D. Professor Eqbal Ahmad (the
social justice expert on this issue) in his book "Confronting Empire"
(2000):
pp. 48-9:
"The American corporations want, obviously, to get hold of the oil and
gas.... But how are they going to get the oil and gas out?...Through Turkey
and via Afghanistan to Pakistan are two possibilities. Iran is the third,
but they don't want to put any pipelines in Iran because Iran is an
adversary of America. Therefore, Pakistan and Afhanistan become the places
through which they are likely to take pipelines. And then they can cut the
Russians out."
"President Clinton made personal telephone calls to the presidents of
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Takikstan, and Azerbaijan, urging them to sign
pipeline contracts that together amount to billions. These pipelines would
go through Turkey and via Afghanistant to Pakistan and take oil to the
tankers that would meet them at the ports. The pipeline would go through
Afghanistan. Both Pakistan and the United States...pick the most
murderous, by far the most crazy of Islamic fundamentalist groups, the
Taliban, to ensure the safety of the pipelines."
p. 44:
"American operatives went aobut the Muslim world recruiting for the jihad
in Afghanistan.... They received training from the CIA. They received arms
from the CIA. I have argued in some of my writings that the notion of
jihas as "just struggle" had not existed in the Muslim world since the
tenth century until the United States revived it during its jihad against
the Soviet Union in Afghanistan."
reasons behind the latest.
The essence is explained by Princeton Ph.D. Professor Eqbal Ahmad (the
social justice expert on this issue) in his book "Confronting Empire"
(2000):
pp. 48-9:
"The American corporations want, obviously, to get hold of the oil and
gas.... But how are they going to get the oil and gas out?...Through Turkey
and via Afghanistan to Pakistan are two possibilities. Iran is the third,
but they don't want to put any pipelines in Iran because Iran is an
adversary of America. Therefore, Pakistan and Afhanistan become the places
through which they are likely to take pipelines. And then they can cut the
Russians out."
"President Clinton made personal telephone calls to the presidents of
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Takikstan, and Azerbaijan, urging them to sign
pipeline contracts that together amount to billions. These pipelines would
go through Turkey and via Afghanistant to Pakistan and take oil to the
tankers that would meet them at the ports. The pipeline would go through
Afghanistan. Both Pakistan and the United States...pick the most
murderous, by far the most crazy of Islamic fundamentalist groups, the
Taliban, to ensure the safety of the pipelines."
p. 44:
"American operatives went aobut the Muslim world recruiting for the jihad
in Afghanistan.... They received training from the CIA. They received arms
from the CIA. I have argued in some of my writings that the notion of
jihas as "just struggle" had not existed in the Muslim world since the
tenth century until the United States revived it during its jihad against
the Soviet Union in Afghanistan."
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