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LOL another oil connection.

  • 24-12-2001 11:36pm
    #1
    Hobbes
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    Turns out the new president of Afganistan actually worked for UNOCAL which was the American oil company that lobbied congress to have the Afgan goverment removed and another put in it's place.


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  • #2
    JustHalf
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    Erm.

    When did UNOCAL do that? I think you're misrepresenting the facts here. It's my understanding that they've said they couldn't do what they wanted without a new government in place, but that's a far cry from lobbying for that change to take place.


  • #3
    tools
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    Translated from Le Monde

    Pashtun. The new Afghan president is an American collaborator. Hamid Karzai, the new provisional Afghan head of state learned of his nomination in the Uruzgan province 30 km from Kandahar where he's leading an offensive against the Taliban with the aid of the American special forces. Aged forty four, born 24 December 1957, this Pashtun from Kandahar, a member of a small clan of the Popolzai tribe is no newcomer to politics as in 1992 he was the deputy foreign minister of the first Mujahidin government in Kabul.

    However, unlike his colleagues, Hamid Karzaï is not a Mujahidin and did not join the Jihad against the Soviets from 1979 to 1989. Disgusted with the bloody power struggles between rival Mujahidin factions he resigned towards the end of 1994 and supported the Taliban who, he hoped would clean Afghanistan of its commanders who led a reign of terror, before returning power to King Zaher Shah.

    "(...) Hamid Karzai, who is as comfortable discussing sitting on a carpet as in a Washinton or London "salon", has a profound knowledge of the western world. After Kaboul and India, where he has studied law, he completed his learnings [apprenticeship ?] in the USA, where he acted, for a while, as a consultant for the American oil company Unocal, at the time it was considering building a pipeline in Afghanistan. (...)"


  • #4
    Clintons Cat
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    The taliban were courted by UNOCOL for many years until pressure from RAWA over Womens human rights caused a relutant postponement of their plans.Check monbiot.com for details.


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