> >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 on geological studies for the pipeline construction, and courted the Taliban for their support in allowing the construction to begin? > > >f. 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 in the eyes of America? > > >j. In 2001, Bush declares war against Afghanistan, though not a single Afghan 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?
