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Raymond
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Benazir Bhutto Had To Go to Protect American Oil Companies' Interest
In The Area. PAKISTAN will be the terminus for the Central Asian
pipeline and the government (ARMY) controls the success or failure of
the
Trans-Afghanistan pipeline wich will export Turkmen gas via
Afghanistan to Pakistani ports, from where it could reach world
markets. And, Butto had no control over the military ( AKA Pakistan's
President Pervez Musharraf,... the General in a blue suit.and personal
friend of Bush/Cheney.)
IT'S ALL ABOUT OIL
Unocal and other American companies like it are fully prepared to
undertake ... pipeline from the Central Asian republic through
Afghanistan TO Pakistan. ...
In 1998, Dick Cheney, now US vice-president but then chief executive
of a major oil services company, remarked: "I cannot think of a time
when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as
strategically significant as the Caspian." But the oil and gas there
is worthless until it is moved. The only route which makes both
political and economic sense is through Afghanistan. [Guardian]
The building of the trans-Afghanistan pipeline has been under
discussion for some years but plans have been held up by Afghanistan's
unstable political situation.
Afghanistan: The Oil Behind the War
PAKISTAN will be the terminus for the pipeline
Whoever controls the Caspian region has a counterweight to the
Persian
Gulf--a way to strengthen control over all oil-producing states by
hooking up a new energy source to the world market.
The Caspian region's energy fields are landlocked--far from the
oceans. Exploiting the people and resources of the Caspian region
takes huge pipelines traveling hundreds of miles over mountains and
deserts. Whoever controls the pipelines controls the oil. And so
there
has been an intense fight over who will build these new pipelines and
where they will go.
If the pipelines go north through Russia to Europe, Russia will
reestablish control over the Caspian region and the European
imperialists will have a source of energy that the U.S. does not
control.
If a major pipe goes west, from Baku in Azerbaijan, across Turkey to
the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan--then the U.S. expects to have
control over that oil and everyone who needs that oil.
If the pipes go south through Iran to its refineries and harbors, then
the U.S. containment of Iran is broken. And, in that case, the
Caucasus region becomes an inland extension of the Persian Gulf--not a
separate competitive region.
And, if a U.S.-built pipeline goes south through Afghanistan to
PAKISTAN, Russia loses control in the CARs, and the U.S. gains power
over those who use it--especially Pakistan and India.
Throughout the 19th century, the expanding Russian and British empires
fought over control of Afghanistan and Central Asia--in a colonial
contest for power that the British called the "Great Game." Today, oil
has become the focus of the "New Great Game" for the Caspian region.
The US government informed other nations of it's plan to invade
Afghanistan months before the 9/11 attacks
http://revcom.us/a/v23/1120-29/1125/oil_afghanistan.htm
See Map
Alternate route
Friday, 27 December, 2002, 11:23 GMT
Central Asia pipeline deal signed
With improved regional security after the fall of the Taleban about a
year ago, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Pakistan have decided to push
ahead with plans for the ambitious 1,500-kilometre-long gas pipeline.
PAKISTAN will be the terminus for the pipeline
The leaders of the three countries have now signed a framework
agreement defining the legal aspects of setting up a consortium to
build and operate the pipeline.
The trans-Afghanistan pipeline would export Turkmen gas via
Afghanistan to Pakistani ports, from where it could reach world
markets.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2608713.stm
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire;
and where they make a desert, they call it peace."
--Calgacus
Benazir Bhutto Assassination Has CIA Written All Over It
by Andres Kargar
Thursday Dec 27th, 2007 11:57 PM
Imagine this scenario: a suicide bomber blows himself up to distract
and disperse the crowd while ISI (Pakistani Intelligence) snipers take
Bhutto down.
Benazir Bhutto was no angel, but she and Nawaz Sharif have been going
around, making speeches and posing as a real threat to the US-backed
General Perviz Musharraf's continued dictatorship.
Benazir Bhutto was no angel, but she and Nawaz Sharif have been going
around, making speeches and posing as real threat to the US-backed
General Perviz Musharraf's continued dictatorship. With the upcoming
elections (which will now face an uncertain fate), the US control of
the situation in Pakistan was quickly slipping away.
The Bush regime desperately needs Perviz Musharraf for its so-called
War on Terror. Pakistan's northwestern region of Wazirestan is the fig
leaf that supposedly hides the mythical Osama bin Ladin, the Taliban
fighters, Al-Qaeda, and any other potential "terrorists", thus
providing the Bush administration justification to milk the American
people out of billions of dollars for its crusade. This has only been
possible because of Musharraf and ISI's connections in the region and
the sealing of Wazirestan to outsiders, including independent
journalists.
DESPITE the US government's claim that it had been seeking
reconciliation between Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto, it should be
mentioned that the Pakistani people would never have accepted any such
reconciliation and collaboration.
Even though the situation seems much more chaotic after Bhutto's
assassination, now General Musharraf has the much needed pretext to,
once again declare martial law and postpone the elections indefinitely
or carry it out under martial law.
"Aunt Jemima" Rice Scripted Bhutto's Return then Left her
Unprotected .
The set up
Two months ago Secretary of State, Condi Rice, convinced Pakistan's
president and current dictator, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, to allow exiled
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto back into the deeply troubled country.
Rice also had to convince Bhutto it to come out of exile and go back
into public spotlight and the rough and tumble world of Pakistani
politics. She did so with a promise of US support and a shared power
structure agreement with Musharraf.
But after two attempts on her life, beginning almost the minute she
touched down in Pakistan, one might start to wonder if the former
Prime Minister wasn't set up from the beginning. Especially when you
consider Bhutto was sent there with no additional security.
However, the State Department didn't offer her any personal
protection, even though they all knew that Bhutto's past history with
the Pakistani Taliban and al Qaeda would make her an instant target.
Rice didn't even offer the services of private firms like Blackwater,
which the State Department routinely uses all across the globe to
protect important diplomats.
The results? An attempt on her life the moment she touched down in
Pakistan which killed 158 innocent civilians and another one this week
that did take the life of Benazir Bhutto. At least, one of the three
official causes of death took the life of the "last hope of Pakistan."
"Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
In The Area. PAKISTAN will be the terminus for the Central Asian
pipeline and the government (ARMY) controls the success or failure of
the
Trans-Afghanistan pipeline wich will export Turkmen gas via
Afghanistan to Pakistani ports, from where it could reach world
markets. And, Butto had no control over the military ( AKA Pakistan's
President Pervez Musharraf,... the General in a blue suit.and personal
friend of Bush/Cheney.)
IT'S ALL ABOUT OIL
Unocal and other American companies like it are fully prepared to
undertake ... pipeline from the Central Asian republic through
Afghanistan TO Pakistan. ...
In 1998, Dick Cheney, now US vice-president but then chief executive
of a major oil services company, remarked: "I cannot think of a time
when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as
strategically significant as the Caspian." But the oil and gas there
is worthless until it is moved. The only route which makes both
political and economic sense is through Afghanistan. [Guardian]
The building of the trans-Afghanistan pipeline has been under
discussion for some years but plans have been held up by Afghanistan's
unstable political situation.
Afghanistan: The Oil Behind the War
PAKISTAN will be the terminus for the pipeline
Whoever controls the Caspian region has a counterweight to the
Persian
Gulf--a way to strengthen control over all oil-producing states by
hooking up a new energy source to the world market.
The Caspian region's energy fields are landlocked--far from the
oceans. Exploiting the people and resources of the Caspian region
takes huge pipelines traveling hundreds of miles over mountains and
deserts. Whoever controls the pipelines controls the oil. And so
there
has been an intense fight over who will build these new pipelines and
where they will go.
If the pipelines go north through Russia to Europe, Russia will
reestablish control over the Caspian region and the European
imperialists will have a source of energy that the U.S. does not
control.
If a major pipe goes west, from Baku in Azerbaijan, across Turkey to
the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan--then the U.S. expects to have
control over that oil and everyone who needs that oil.
If the pipes go south through Iran to its refineries and harbors, then
the U.S. containment of Iran is broken. And, in that case, the
Caucasus region becomes an inland extension of the Persian Gulf--not a
separate competitive region.
And, if a U.S.-built pipeline goes south through Afghanistan to
PAKISTAN, Russia loses control in the CARs, and the U.S. gains power
over those who use it--especially Pakistan and India.
Throughout the 19th century, the expanding Russian and British empires
fought over control of Afghanistan and Central Asia--in a colonial
contest for power that the British called the "Great Game." Today, oil
has become the focus of the "New Great Game" for the Caspian region.
The US government informed other nations of it's plan to invade
Afghanistan months before the 9/11 attacks
http://revcom.us/a/v23/1120-29/1125/oil_afghanistan.htm
See Map
Alternate route
Friday, 27 December, 2002, 11:23 GMT
Central Asia pipeline deal signed
With improved regional security after the fall of the Taleban about a
year ago, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Pakistan have decided to push
ahead with plans for the ambitious 1,500-kilometre-long gas pipeline.
PAKISTAN will be the terminus for the pipeline
The leaders of the three countries have now signed a framework
agreement defining the legal aspects of setting up a consortium to
build and operate the pipeline.
The trans-Afghanistan pipeline would export Turkmen gas via
Afghanistan to Pakistani ports, from where it could reach world
markets.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2608713.stm
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire;
and where they make a desert, they call it peace."
--Calgacus
Benazir Bhutto Assassination Has CIA Written All Over It
by Andres Kargar
Thursday Dec 27th, 2007 11:57 PM
Imagine this scenario: a suicide bomber blows himself up to distract
and disperse the crowd while ISI (Pakistani Intelligence) snipers take
Bhutto down.
Benazir Bhutto was no angel, but she and Nawaz Sharif have been going
around, making speeches and posing as a real threat to the US-backed
General Perviz Musharraf's continued dictatorship.
Benazir Bhutto was no angel, but she and Nawaz Sharif have been going
around, making speeches and posing as real threat to the US-backed
General Perviz Musharraf's continued dictatorship. With the upcoming
elections (which will now face an uncertain fate), the US control of
the situation in Pakistan was quickly slipping away.
The Bush regime desperately needs Perviz Musharraf for its so-called
War on Terror. Pakistan's northwestern region of Wazirestan is the fig
leaf that supposedly hides the mythical Osama bin Ladin, the Taliban
fighters, Al-Qaeda, and any other potential "terrorists", thus
providing the Bush administration justification to milk the American
people out of billions of dollars for its crusade. This has only been
possible because of Musharraf and ISI's connections in the region and
the sealing of Wazirestan to outsiders, including independent
journalists.
DESPITE the US government's claim that it had been seeking
reconciliation between Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto, it should be
mentioned that the Pakistani people would never have accepted any such
reconciliation and collaboration.
Even though the situation seems much more chaotic after Bhutto's
assassination, now General Musharraf has the much needed pretext to,
once again declare martial law and postpone the elections indefinitely
or carry it out under martial law.
"Aunt Jemima" Rice Scripted Bhutto's Return then Left her
Unprotected .
The set up
Two months ago Secretary of State, Condi Rice, convinced Pakistan's
president and current dictator, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, to allow exiled
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto back into the deeply troubled country.
Rice also had to convince Bhutto it to come out of exile and go back
into public spotlight and the rough and tumble world of Pakistani
politics. She did so with a promise of US support and a shared power
structure agreement with Musharraf.
But after two attempts on her life, beginning almost the minute she
touched down in Pakistan, one might start to wonder if the former
Prime Minister wasn't set up from the beginning. Especially when you
consider Bhutto was sent there with no additional security.
However, the State Department didn't offer her any personal
protection, even though they all knew that Bhutto's past history with
the Pakistani Taliban and al Qaeda would make her an instant target.
Rice didn't even offer the services of private firms like Blackwater,
which the State Department routinely uses all across the globe to
protect important diplomats.
The results? An attempt on her life the moment she touched down in
Pakistan which killed 158 innocent civilians and another one this week
that did take the life of Benazir Bhutto. At least, one of the three
official causes of death took the life of the "last hope of Pakistan."
"Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
