Re: Why do you disbelieve this? Not arguing, just a question.
Just an off-topic question, I'd add.... Beware of QDick & gang! They'll complain about your swerving away from Asia <g> Well, I hope you're not waylaying me 'cause it cost me 3 DAYS in the doghouse when I ended up chatting about Microsoft!
Anyway, a coupla weeks ago, I was asked the very same question and below is the reply I emailed to the guy (who asked):
Here's the first discrepancy in the bin Laden scapegoating that got me think twice about the official version:
U.S. company signs Afghan telecom contract
09:27 p.m Sep 02, 1998 Eastern
KABUL, Sept 3 (Reuters) - A U.S. telecommunications company signed an agreement with Afghanistan's Taleban movement government on Wednesday to install a communication network across the war-torn country, a company official said.
The project would cost more than $240 million and was expected to be completed within three years, Telephone System International (TSI) deputy head Gary Brishinsky told Reuters.
He said the New Jersey-based TSI would provide 80 percent and the Afghan government 20 percent investment for the project, which would be exempted from tax for eight years and would be owned by Afghanistan after 15 years.
The agreement, providing for the biggest foreign investment in Afghanistan after about two decades of civil war, comes at a time when anti-American sentiment is high among Afghans after the August 20 U.S. missile attack on suspected terrorist camps in the eastern Khost area of country.
Brishinsky said the network would be a sophisticated wireless system covering whole of Afghanistan and linking the country to the rest of the world with advanced and standard telecommunication services, including the Internet.
He said TSI had set up telephone networks in African countries and had a good experience in the field.
Helicopters would be chartered to install phone towers on mountains and carry equipment within Afghanistan because of bad war-damaged roads, he said.
Referring to the U.S. State Department advice to Americans against travelling to Afghanistan, he said he felt more secure and safe in Afghanistan than in New York city.
He said he hoped to move to Kabul with his family within a few months and that his project would succeed despite the anti-U.S. feeling in the country.
The project would provide jobs for more than 20,000 Afghans and would be run by Afghan and U.S. technicians,. he said.
He said he was inspired and encouraged by a U.S.-based Afghan to build a communication system in the country nearly two years ago.
``I was giving a speech about building infrastructures in Islamic countries with fundamentalism...and an Afghan encouraged me if we could do anything in Afghanistan,'' he said.
He said his motto was to bring the world closer to Afghanistan, which he said had been neglected by the United States.
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