The scandals are all related, just follow the oil-slick trail: The ENERGY PLAN spawned administration negotiations & threats to achieve strategic oil supply (and profits for friends, see CORPORATE GREED & IMMORALITY), leading to 9/11 preemptive 'terrorist' attacks, followed by desperate damage-control involving SECRECY & SHREDDING and DESTROYING CIVIL RIGHTS and ENRON money transfers off-shore and fast-getaway bankruptcy. Reference: COPVCIA's 9-11 related timeline

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Pipeline police in Afghanistan [Islamabad News, By Hamid Mir, 09/12/02] What's this war really about, hmmm? "It is obvious that not only Russia and Iran but also China are not happy on the growing influence of America around the oil and gas resources of Central Asia. Americans have their troops not only in Afghanistan but also in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. These troops are not there to fight against terrorism, their real task is to act as the "pipeline police" of American oil companies. [Emphasis added] They landed in Afghanistan for a long stay and this danger cannot be ruled out that Afghanistan will become a battlefield of oil war between Iran, Russia and America. Pakistan may go with America in this future war but it will be difficult for India to say good-bye to its old friends, Iran and Russia."

Donahue interviews Jean Charles Brisard, French Intelligence Investigator and Author of "Forbidden Truth"-"U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for bin Laden" [MSNBC, Donahue & Brisard, 08/16/02] Transcript: Scroll halfway down "...makes some disturbing allegations regarding a connection between oil, Saudi Arabia, the Clinton and Bush administrations and al Qaeda."

Bush administration moves to stifle discovery in 9/11 lawsuits [WSWS, By Walter Gilberti, 08/02/02] Lame suits and stifling are about warnings ignored in the 'sea of intelligence data' -- they're not about discovery of events CAUSING Al Qaeda-Taliban to attack America in the first place, which this oily administration REALLY wants to hide! "The Bush administration and the Department of Justice are moving to suppress evidence that could be used in discovery proceedings in several civil lawsuits resulting from the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. In June, Robert D. McCallum, US attorney general for the civil division, and James B. Comey, United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, informed US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in a letter that the Justice Department intends to intervene to control access to all evidence and documents related to the 9/11 attacks."

"It’s the Oil, Stupid!" [MediaMonitors, by Joseph Clifford, 07/30/02] The obviousness of what happened and then covered-up is stunning!

The causes of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks [The Nation, 07/15/02] If the United States were given such a threat what would we have done? Why isn't congress investigating THIS? "According to Naik [former foreign minister of Pakistan], at this point US ambassador Tom Simons referred to an open-ended military option against Afghanistan from bases in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. "Ambassador Simons stated that if the Taliban wouldn't agree [to extradite Osama bin Laden and form a broad-based national government in exchange for economic subsidies from the construction of a pipeline] plan, and if Pakistan was unable to persuade them, the United States might use an overt action against Afghanistan. The words used were 'a military operation.'"

US's Afghan aid package fuels pipeline politics [Asia Times, By James Borton, 05/30/02] Once again the details of oil-scandal are found in the FOREIGN press "Washington's approval of more than US$1.4 billion for the economic recovery of barren and battle-scarred Afghanistan provides the Bush administration with possible insurance for deepening its petro-political sphere of influence along Russia's borders in the form of a revived Trans-Afghan pipeline."

US 'planned attack on Taleban' long before 9-11 [as reported on 9/18/01!] [BBC, by George Arney, 05/21/02] Known US plans to invade Afghanistan CAUSED the 9-11 attack! "Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October."

Pipeline Dream [WorkingForChange/truthout.com, by William Rivers Pitt , 05/21/02] Did Nearly 3,000 Americans Die for an Oil Pipeline? Even before Bush took office in 2001, he was apparently scheming with Unocal to force through a deal with the Taliban to put an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. Thus, in AUGUST 2001, instead of taking steps to avert terrorist attacks, Bush was holding secret meetings with the Taliban over the pipeline, threatening to bury them "beneath a carpet of bombs" if they didn't play ball. Two weeks before Sept. 11, FBI deputy director John O'Neill - the nation's top Osama Bin Laden expert - quit in disgust because he felt Bush was placing corporate interests ahead of national security.

Pipeline Reality! Afghanistan plans gas pipeline [BBC, 05/21/02] UNOCAL has been named "lead company" in the construction "Afghanistan hopes to strike a deal later this month to build a $2bn pipeline through the country to take gas from energy-rich Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India [where Enron's huge gas-fired power plant was built after much armtwisting and bribery, even though there was no source of natural gas....]."

A War in the Planning for Four Years [Centre for Research on Globalisation, by Michael Ruppert, 05/07/02] According to this Council on Foreign Relations plan, this is the beginning of a final conflict before total world domination by the United States leads to the dissolution of all national governments. "World events since the attacks of September 11, 2001 have not only been predicted, but also planned, orchestrated and – as their architects would like to believe – controlled. The current Central Asian war is not a response to terrorism, nor is it a reaction to Islamic fundamentalism. It is in fact, in the words of one of the most powerful men on the planet, the beginning of a final conflict before total world domination by the United States leads to the dissolution of all national governments."

Events preceding September 11: The Circumstantial Case Proving Bush Regime Conspiracy [Online Journal, by Bill Molson, 04/18/02] Part 1 of a four-part series "Since September 11, reports have been dribbling out, one at a time, that are by themselves disturbing, but taken all together lead to a shocking conspiracy involving the highest levels of government."
Bulletin! [04/19/02] Poll Shocker: Nearly Half Support McKinney's 9/11 Conspiracy Theory A shock since the U.S. Media have studiously avoided coverage of allegations (being so 'Liberal'), unlike the European press which is abuzz with it.

Congresswoman McKinney Presses for Investigation of Bush Administration Links to 9-11 [TruthOut, 04/13/02] Do yourself a favor and read this and related stories "The need for an investigation of the events surrounding September 11 is as obvious as is the need for an investigation of the Enron debacle. Certainly, if the American people deserve answers about what went wrong with Enron and why (and we do), then we deserve to know what went wrong on September 11 and why."

The truth is out there ... right? [as published in the Vancouver Sun, by†Ian Mulgrew, 03/21/02] At first, it all seemed so obvious. It was those Islamic terrorists. Osama bin Laden. Mullah Omar. George W. Bush had nothing to do with it ... did he...? "...The Pentagon has just established a new Office of Strategic Influence that calls for the planting of false stories in the foreign press, phoney e-mails from disguised addresses and other covert activities to manipulate public opinion.

This could be one of them...."

Enron Pipedreams Buried in Afghanistan [freezerbox Mag., BY RON CALLARI, 03/21/02] A MUST READ! POSES QUESTIONS AND THEORIES THE PRESS DOESN'T SEEM TO EVER GET AROUND TO... "...Based on the records available, however, it seems that relationships became strained. The Taliban demanded that the U.S. reconstruct Afghanistan's infrastructure in exchange for building the pipeline, and demanded as well that the pipeline be open for local consumption. The U.S. wanted a closed pipeline that pumped gas for export only, and it had no interest in helping rebuild the country. Negotiations devolved into threats: "we'll either carpet you in gold or carpet you in bombs" became a mantra in the press, one that underscored America's new willfulness at the table. Amid these acrimonious circumstances, sometime in late August, it seems, the whole deal went sour. The pipeline became a no-go.

This left Enron badly exposed. The company had one last card to play, and that was selling the Dabhol plant for quick cash--if it could. If the company could get its asking price of $2.3 billion, then Enron could be pulled out of its bankruptcy nosedive. ..."

Did President Bush Pass Up an Attempt to Get Bin Laden Before 9-11? [Original AP Anchor story was deleted, replaced with one from HistoryNewsNetwork By Thomas Spencer, 02/16/02] Did Bush pass up getting Bin Laden before 9-11 for Oil & Gas Pipelines? According to French investigative reporters Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, Bush representatives met with the Taliban "several times in Washington, Berlin and Islamabad" to get a deal to build an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. Bush promised a "carpet of gold," but the Taliban had to accept a "national unity" government including the Northern Alliance. If they refused, Bush vowed to "bury you under a carpet of bombs." While negotiations took place, Bush "blocked U.S. secret service investigations on terrorism," prompting FBI Investigation's deputy director John O'Neill to resign in July in protest over the obstruction. O'Neill said "the main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were U.S. oil corporate interests and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it."

Congressional Investigations: Questions That Won't Be Asked[DemocraticUnderground, 03/01/02] The following are critically questions that probably won't be asked:

ENRON'S GLOBAL GAME – Beyond the domestic fallout lies a sordid saga of government-business collusion to control energy supplies [Toward Freedom, GREG GUMA, 02/28/02] Implications grow Enron may have been party to threat precipitating 9/11 attack "...Yet still invisible, even now, is the predatory nature of Enron's operations worldwide. Long a suspect in human rights violations, it often used bribery and threats to get its way. It also profited over the years from working relationships with the CIA, Pentagon, and State Department, the latter of which proved over-eager to pressure other countries into accepting Enron deals. And, as if that isn't enough, until recently the US-based energy trader had a strong presence in Afghanistan through its involvement in a pipeline project from Turkmenistan to Turkey by way of Azerbaijan and Georgia."

Enron involved international espionage and electronic spy warfare in Asia, CIA agents were "on payroll" [National Enquirer, 02/27/02] Feral-humans playing Cowboys and Indians again! "Once again, the National Enquirer has scooped the corporate media with real investigative reporting. "The corruption at Enron went far beyond unbridled greed and rampant sex- it also involved international espionage and electronic spy warfare, the Enquirer has learned... 'There have been at least 20 CIA agents on the payroll of Enron in the past eight years [training] Enron employees in intelligence gathering and security, [helping Enron] get billions of dollars in lucrative contracts in Asia, South America and Europe. 'Basically what the CIA operatives were able to provide was detailed information on bids made by foreign companies on projects of interest to Enron. 'They used human intelligence and also info gleaned from a satellite project called 'Echelon.' The satellites intercepted e-mails, phone calls and faxes with detailed business information... 'Pure and simple, U.S. intelligence agents were involved in corporate espionage.'" We demand a Special Prosecutor!"

US Govt Insiders now beginning to spill the beans on 9-11 / CIA connections {straightgoods, 02/25/02] Stranger than fiction: could U.S. and Saudi zealots for oil wealth and a CIA group have formed an unholy alliance to commit 9-11? Michael Springmann worked for the US government for 20 years with the foreign service and consulate. He just went public with the story of his involvement in a large scale CIA operation that brought hundreds of people from the middle east to the US, issued them passports and trained them to be terrorists. Springmann says that the CIA is working closely with Bin Laden and his operatives in Jeddah and has been since 1987. The most haunting implication from this interview is that all of the terrorist acts of late were planned and paid for by the CIA with US taxpayers money so that the US could legitimately bomb the hell out of Afghanistan. [Includes link to BBC RealPlayer video.]

Minutes of a pre-9/11 Bush inner-cabinet meeting? {truthout, 02/20/02] Introducing 'Shallow Throat" "...P[resident?]: You forget, Don, that we were negotiating with the Taliban just a few months ago, even invited them to Texas. We thought we could convince them to protect the pipelines that our friends want to build through Afghanistan. But those Islams wanted too much money -- imagine, threatening us with sabotage of the pipeline if we didn't cough up the dough." [Editor's comment: Since Bush quotes are not simple sentences I doubt authenticity]

911 Coverup Continues–George Tenet Crony to Lead Investigation [Reuters, By Tabassum Zakaria, 02/16/02] Choice of a 'buddy' to lead the investigation indicates a cover-up has already been decided upon! Is everyone brain-dead? "Former CIA Inspector General Britt Snider "will head a congressional investigation into U.S. intelligence agency failures related to the Sept. 11 attacks, despite some objections he was too close to the spy agency to have an independent eye..."

1997 Letter from Ken Lay to Bush explaining oil and gas projects in Uzbekistan. More Bush-Lay letters being made available at this site soon. {Letters available at TheSmokingGun, 02/16/02] Read them happily chatting about 'business opportunities' that somehow became a warzone... Note: View letters by clicking hypertext relative number at bottom of pages.

Topic Reference: COPVCIA, by Michael C. Ruppert, 02/15/02: A TIMELINE SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH – if CIA and the government weren't involved in the 9-11 attacks what were they doing? The cover-up of so many damning events is astounding This more complete timeline listing crucial events both before and after the September 11th suicide attacks, which have been blamed on bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly suggests that there was criminal complicity on the part of the U.S. government in their execution. It also makes clear that the events which have taken place since September 11th are based upon an agenda that has little to do with the attacks...One wonders how these events could have been ignored by the major media or treated as isolated incidents. Failing that, how could skilled news agencies avoid being outraged, or at least even just a little suspicious? [Expanded and Revised 2/11/02]

[Story: Reuters, 02/14/02: On Karzai's First Visit to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan Agree to Build US-Backed Gas Pipeline "Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai said on Friday he and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had agreed to revive a plan for a trans-Afghan gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan. 'Both sides have agreed that the construction of this pipeline will be very beneficial for both the countries as well as for the entire region,' Karzai told a news conference after talks with General Musharraf... calling the project 'very essential.' Karzai was in Islamabad on his first official visit to Pakistan...Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov, seeking new export outlets for his country's abundant gas reserves, said...'Peace is finally being installed in Afghanistan. And we can now build a pipeline to Pakistan across its territory.' A consortium led by U.S. Unocal had originally aimed to build the $1.9 billion, 1,400-km pipeline." Both Karzai and Zalmay Khalilzad, Bush's Special Envoy to Afghanistan, are former consultants to Unocal. How con-veen-yent!]

[Story: Salon, By NINA BURLEIGH, 02/10/02: Bush, oil and the Taliban "Two French authors allege that before Sept. 11, the White House put oil interests ahead of national security...The book, which has become a bestseller in France but has received little press attention here, also alleges that the Bush administration was bargaining with the Taliban, over a Central Asian oil pipeline and Osama bin Laden, just five weeks before the September attacks. The authors, Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, see a link between the negotiations and Vice President Dick Cheney's energy policy task force, with its conclusions that Central Asian oil was going to become critical to the U.S. economy."]

[Story: BushWatch Dailybrew, 01/31/02: Ace in the Hole - Soon you'll know why Bush-Cheney want to minimize 9/11 congressional hearings! "If these allegations are aired in Congressional hearings on CSPAN, the Bush administration will have a much bigger scandal on its hands than Enron. If these allegations are proven to be true, the Bush energy policy was much more than crony capitalism and a massive payback to the multi-national corporations that paid for Bush's ascension to the White House. If true, these allegations would show that Bush's energy policy led directly and predictably to the most devastating terrorist attack in history, an attack that caused billions in property damage and cost thousands of innocent Americans their lives."]

[Story: Asia Times, By Pepe Escobar, 01/28/02: Pipelineistan (part 1): The rules of the game "The Afghan War was decided long before September 11. September 11 merely precipitated events. Plans to destroy the Taliban had been the subject of international diplomatic and not-so-diplomatic discussions for months [including] a crucial meeting in Geneva in May 2001 between US State Department, Iranian, German and Italian officials, where the main topic was a strategy to topple the Taliban and replace the theocracy with a 'broad-based government'... at the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Genoa, Italy, in July 2001 when India... also contributed its own plans... [and] in secret negotiations in a Berlin hotel a few days after the G-8 summit, between American, Russian, German and Pakistani officials. And Pakistani high officials... have extensively described a plan set up by the end of July 2001 by American advisers, consisting of military strikes against the Taliban from bases in Tajikistan, to be launched before mid-October." Also see Part 2: Pipelineistan (part 2): Enron Was A Player In Bush's Dream Of Central Asian Oil]
[**** Recommended]

[Film-clip: Canadian TV breaking 9-11 and CIA complicity query story Monday, January 28, 10:30 pm Eastern Time!!!! A 5 minute introductory segment can be viewed here with realplayer: "What Happened on 9/11 and why aren't the mainstream media asking that question?"]

[Story: Truthout, by William Rivers Pitt, 01/18/02: Bush & Co. may have "Hell to Pay": Perhaps High Treason and Murder "...If these allegations prove true, Bush and his friends allowed this affinity [for oil and a pipeline] to hamstring investigations that could have thwarted bin Laden's September plans. If these allegations prove true, everything since September 11th has been a massive cover-up operation in which American soldiers and thousands of Afghan civilians have died. If these allegations prove true, the Bush administration has the blood of thousands of American civilians on its hands."]

[Story: CNN 01/09/02: CNN "Discovers" (2 months late!) Explosive 'New' Book Published in France Alleges that U.S. Was in Negotiations to Do a Deal with Taliban Transcript: "ZAHN: Start off with what your understanding is of what is in this book -- the most explosive charge.

BUTLER: The most explosive charge, Paula, is that the Bush administration -- the present one, just shortly after assuming office slowed down FBI investigations of al Qaeda and terrorism in Afghanistan in order to do a deal with the Taliban on oil -- an oil pipeline across Afghanistan.

ZAHN: And this book points out that the FBI's deputy director, John O'Neill, actually resigned because he felt the U.S. administration was obstructing...

BUTLER: A proper...

ZAHN: ... the prosecution of terrorism."]

[Story: The Daily Brew 01/09/02: Who Killed John O'Neill? "If you believe the media, John P. O'Neill was simply another innocent victim killed in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. But you don't need much imagination to suspect something deeper was at work."]

[Story: Village Voice 01/03/02: Paris Reporters Say Bush Threatened War Last Summer]

[Story: Guardian 12/19/01: CLEARING UP AMERICA'S MESS, New evidence of US dealings with the Taliban highlights the role of oil "The Bush administration may also harbour some guilty secrets over its determination to put America's economic and strategic interests ahead of tracking down Islamist terrorists - at least before September 11...."]

[Story: 12/18/01: U.S. GOVERNMENT KNEW (IN ADVANCE) OF SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS; SENT F.E.M.A. SEARCH & RESCUE TEAMS TO NYC THE NIGHT BEFORE ATTACKS OCCURRED!]

[Story: 11/28/01: WHAT DID THEY KNOW AND WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT? An event & date compilation]

[Story: Toronto Star 11/27/01: Did bin Laden have help from U.S. friends? New book: Ben Laden: La Verité Interdite (Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth) “...the Bush regime's attitude toward the Taliban - and even to bin Laden - was driven by the new president's fixation on energy.”]

[Story: InTheseTimes 11/16/01: QUESTIONABLE TIES, Tracking bin Laden's money flow leads back to Midland, Texas]

[Story: Newsweek 11/13/01: Bracing for a ‘Pearl Harbor’ Inquiry]

[Story: 11/12/01: 9/11 Cover-up or Complicity of the Bush Administration? Were short- and long-term profiteering the goals at the outset?]

[Story: The CIA Needs to Answer Tough Questions About its Recent Relationship with the Taliban]

[Story: 09/22/01: Threat of US strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack]

[Perspective: Unocal Oil barons courted Taliban in Texas in '97 on this same 'venture'.]