ref 388
October 29, 2005
ref 376
August 17, 2005
ref 116
May 24, 2004
ref 99
September 11, 2003
ref 331
May 31, 2002
ref 344
February 8, 2002
ref 252
January 20, 2002
ref 15
October 8, 2001
ref 11
September 30, 2001
ref 23
September 27, 2001
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| 1 | The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11 | archived: ref 388 |
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| Lobster: The Journal of Parapolitics October 29, 2005 |
The prime geostrategic goal of the drug traffic in Afghanistan is precisely to prevent peace and security from happening. It is true that the international illicit drug industry, like the international oil industry, is polymorphous and flexible, relying on diversified sources and markets for its products in order to maintain its global dominance. But for the global drug traffic to prosper, there must always be key growing areas where there is ongoing violence, and state order does not prevail. However, in speaking above of America's stated national interest, I do not assume that a U.S. government will always represent that national interest. | |||||
| 2 | State Dept. Says It Warned About bin Laden in 1996 | archived: ref 376 |
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| New York Times August 17, 2005 |
Aug. 16 - State Department analysts warned the Clinton administration in July 1996 that Osama bin Laden's move to Afghanistan would give him an even more dangerous haven as he sought to expand radical Islam "well beyond the Middle East," but the government chose not to deter the move, newly declassified documents show. | |||||
| 3 | This Made Ashcroft Gag: Translator keeps blowing 9-11 whistle on FBI; U.S. Keeps shutting her up | archived: ref 116 |
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| Village Voice May 24, 2004 |
Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa summarized the Edmonds case in questioning FBI director Robert Mueller: "I would also like to, on a second point, figure out why the FBI is going back in time and classifying some pretty basic information that's already in the public sector in regard to classification of information that we have received in Congress from a whistle-blower, Sibel Edmonds. | |||||
| 4 | The September 11th Sourcebooks | ref 99 |
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| National Security Archive September 11, 2003 |
9/11 documents for serious researchers. Includes links to many primary U.S. documents obtained through FOI. | |||||
| 5 | What Congress Does Not Know about Enron and 9/11 | archived: ref 331 |
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| john-loftus.com May 31, 2002 |
A captured Al Qaida document reveals that US energy companies were secretly negotiating with the Taliban to build a pipeline. The document was obtained by the FBI but was not allowed to be shared with other agencies in order to protect Enron. Multiple sources confirm that American law enforcement agencies were deliberately kept in the dark and systematically prevented from connecting the dots before 9/11 in order to aid EnronĂs secret and immoral Taliban negotiations. | |||||
| 6 | Bush, oil and the Taliban | archived: ref 344 |
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| Salon.com February 8, 2002 |
In a new book, "Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth," two French intelligence analysts allege the Clinton and Bush administrations put diplomacy before law enforcement in dealing with the al-Qaida threat before Sept. 11, in order to maintain smooth relations with Saudi Arabia and to avoid disrupting the oil market. 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. | |||||
| 7 | Emirates Looked Other Way While Al Qaeda Funds Flowed | archived: ref 252 |
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| LA Times January 20, 2002 |
In the emirate of Sharjah, Afghan-based militants linked up with Victor Bout, a Russian arms dealer accused of repeatedly violating United Nations weapon sanctions. And millions in Al Qaeda funds cascaded through the freewheeling financial institutions of the neighboring emirate of Dubai. Terrorists used a Somali warlord's money exchange, an Islamic bank once headed by the emirates' finance minister and currency houses that touted their ability to wire $1 million abroad overnight. | |||||
| 8 | Leader Purges Top Ranks Of Military, Spy Services | archived: ref 15 |
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| Washington Post October 8, 2001 |
Seeking to preempt threats to the stability to his government on the first day of U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan, President Pervez Musharraf today purged key senior officers in the Pakistani military and intelligence services, agencies that helped to create and support the Afghan Taliban militia, according to military sources. | |||||
| 9 | Drug Trade Filled Coffers of Taliban, Bin Laden Group | archived: ref 11 |
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| Minneapolis Star Tribune September 30, 2001 |
Since the mid-1990s, while the spotlight shone on cocaine cartels in Latin America, Bin Laden fortified a drug-trafficking network that provided major revenues for Afghanistan's Taliban regime _ and financed his Al-Qaida network of terrorism. | |||||
| 10 | The Creation Called Osama | ref 23 |
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| The Hindu September 27, 2001 |
It did not take long for the U.S. establishment to identify the culprits who masterminded these terrorist acts. These were the `evil' forces of `Islamic terrorism' led by Osama bin Laden. The mainstream U.S. media went on to explain these terrorist attacks in the context of the `clash of civilisations' thesis of Samuel Huntington. There were urgent calls for ``forming a global alliance that will use all tools - diplomatic, political, economic, educational, investigative, and where appropriate, force - to pursue and root out the terrorist criminals and their supporters...'' | |||||