The US - Central Asia: Why

The presidents of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan have signed an agreement to tap Central Asia's huge gas reserves.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2016340.stm

Central Asia gas deal signed

http://www.heartson.com/Politics/background.html

September 11th - The Energy Connection So where do we start? There’s two thing that are key to understanding what's going on behind this flimsy curtain.

9/11 Attack on America: the Energy Connection

George Monbiot: America's pipe dream | World news

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/23/afghanistan.terrorism11

"Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here," Woodrow Wilson asked a year after the first world war ended, "that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?" In 1919, as US citizens watched a shredded Europe scraping up its own remains, the answer may well have been no.

http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa48119.000/hfa48119_0.HTM

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Congress: U.S. Interests in Central Asian Republics

The War in Afghanistan: The legacy of Brzezinski

US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11

By the BBC's George Arney

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1550366.stm

BBC | US 'planned attack on Taleban'

From the 1998 Congressional Record . Emphasis added to text.

Excerpt from Congressional Record

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/oil.html

August 28: Second embassy bomb suspect charged The US authorities charge a second man in connection with the bombing of the American embassy in Kenya.

BBC | Special Report | 1998 | US strikes | Timeline

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/08/98/us_strikes/157188.stm

by Bill Sardi

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/sardi7.html

Ouster of UNOCAL

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/207183.stm

US attack closes US project

By William Reeve in Kandahar

BBC News | Monitoring | Libya accuses US

Sunday, August 23, 1998 Published at 11:02 GMT 12:02 UK

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/monitoring/156802.stm

President Clinton has defended his decision to order attacks against targets in Sudan and Afghanistan, but the countries concerned have reacted with anger. Speaking hours after attacks were launched in retaliation for the US embassy bombings which killed 250 people, Mr Clinton said the US was taking a stand against terror organisations who "wrap murder in the cloak of righteousness".

BBC News | Africa | Clinton defends military strikes

Unocal Quits Aghanistan Pipeline Project

Unocal Quits Afghanistan Pipeline Project by Steven Levine The New York Times December 5, 1998

Timeline of Oil - Afghanistan

July - Sept. 2000 - Pakistani Intelligence Chief (ISI) Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad reportedly instructed British born Saeed Sheikh (alias: Ahmad Umar Sheikh, Mustafa Muhammad Ahmed, ....) in Pakistan to wire $100,000 ( 7/00-9/00 ) to two Florida bank accounts held by hijacker Mohammed Atta. ( Washington Post 10-7-01 (39a) , ( Times of India 10-9-01 (30b) , ( Dawn News 10-9-01 (39c) , ( World Net Daily 1-30-02 (30d ), (Times of India 08-1-03 (39e ) Sept. 4, 2001 - ISI's Lt.