On May 1, 12:53 am, SocraticMethod <
bettymar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Certainly 9/11 was a false flag. and Iraq. ..they wanted to call It;
> Operation Iraqi Liberation.: O.I.L. "
>
> No
KNOW 911 was a TOTAL inside job.
> We just need to ignore the facts that there's currently no Unocal oil
> pipeline through Afghanistan.
May 25, 2005: BTC PIPELINE OPENS
The pipeline has been under construction for ten years and was built
by a consortium of oil companies including Amerada Hess,
ConocoPhillips, Eni, Inpex, Itochu, Statoil, Total, SOCAR, TPAO,
UNOCAL and BP.
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December 5, 1998: Unocal Abandons Afghan Pipeline Project
Unocal announces it is withdrawing from the CentGas pipeline
consortium, and closing three of its four offices in Central Asia.
President Clinton refuses to extend diplomatic recognition to the
Taliban, making business there legally problematic. A concern that
Clinton will lose support among women voters for upholding the Taliban
plays a role in the cancellation. [New York Times, 12/5/1998]
May 23, 2001: Former Unocal Employee Becomes Bush’s Special Assistant
to Middle East and Central Asia
Zalmay Khalilzad. [Source: US Embassy, Iraq]Zalmay Khalilzad is
appointed Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for
Gulf, Southwest Asia and Other Regional Issues on the National
Security Council. Khalilzad was an official in the Reagan and George
H. W. Bush administrations. During the Clinton years, he worked for
Unocal. [US Department of State, 2001; Independent, 1/10/2002] He
previously worked under Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and
helped him write a controversial 1992 plan for US world domination.
(see March 8, 1992) [New York Times, 3/23/2003] He was a member of the
neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century. The
Asia Times notes, “It was Khalilzad—when he was a huge Taliban fan—who
conducted the risk analysis for Unocal (Union Oil Company of
California) for the infamous proposed $2 billion, 1,500 kilometer-long
Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan [TAP] gas pipeline.” [Asia Times,
12/25/2003] After 9/11, he will be appointed as special envoy to
Afghanistan (see January 1, 2002) and then US ambassador to
Afghanistan (see November 2003).
December 22, 2001: Karzai Assumes Power in Afghanistan
Afghan Prime Minister Hamid Karzai and his transitional government
assume power in Afghanistan. The press reported a few weeks before
that Karzai had been a paid consultant for Unocal at one time (Karzai
and Unocal both deny this), as well as the Deputy Foreign Minister for
the Taliban.
May 30, 2002: Afghan, Turkmen, and Pakistani Leaders Sign Pipeline
Deal
Leaders sign the pipeline agreement. [Source: Associated
Press]Afghanistan’s interim leader, Hamid Karzai, Turkmenistan’s
President Niyazov, and Pakistani President Musharraf meet in Islamabad
and sign a memorandum of understanding on the trans-Afghanistan gas
pipeline project. [Dawn (Karachi), 5/31/2002; Alexander's Gas & Oil
Connections, 6/8/2002] Afghan leader Hamid Karzai (who formerly worked
for Unocal) calls Unocal the “lead company” in building the pipeline.
[BBC, 5/13/2002] The Los Angeles Times comments, “To some here, it
looked like the fix was in for Unocal when President Bush named a
former Unocal consultant, Zalmay Khalilzad, as his special envoy to
Afghanistan late last year .” [Los Angeles Times, 5/30/2002] Unocal
claims that it has no interest in any Afghanistan pipeline after 9/11.
However, Afghan officials say that Unocal will be the lead company in
funding the pipeline. The Afghan deputy minister of mines comments on
Unocal’s claim of disinterest: “Business has its secrets and
mysteries. Maybe… they don’t want it to be disclosed in the
media.” [Toronto Star, 3/2/2003]
Entity Tags: Hamid Karzai, Saparmurat Niyazov, Unocal, Pervez
Musharraf, George W. Bush, Zalmay M. Khalilzad
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May 25, 2005: BTC PIPELINE OPENS
The $4 billion US-backed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline officially
opens. The pipeline begins in Baku, Azerbaijan and travels 1,762 km
(1,000 miles) through Georgia to the Mediterranean port city of Ceyhan
in Turkey. The pipeline has been under construction for ten years and
was built by a consortium of oil companies including Amerada Hess,
ConocoPhillips, Eni, Inpex, Itochu, Statoil, Total, SOCAR, TPAO,
Unocal, and BP. The pipeline is expected to bring one million barrels
of oil per day to the West. [Institution, 3/4/2003; BBC, 5/5/2005;
BBC, 5/25/2005]
Entity Tags: Unocal, British Petroleum, TPAO, SOCAR, Total, Eni,
ConocoPhillips, Amerada Hess, Inpex, Itochu, Statoil