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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: KLP who wrote (217415)1/11/2002 6:07:09 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
No, the guys (and gals like Rice) who convinced Bush that he should quit pressuring the Taliban about Bin Laden to grease the wheels on the pipeline deal.
tiger.berkeley.edu

Osama Bin Laden, realizing that the millions of dollars for the Taliban via the oil deal would mean a loss of his influence in Afganistan had to do something to break up the deal, and might as well slap around Uncle Sam at the same time.

the government of Bush began to negotiate with the Taliban immediately after coming into power in February

''the main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were U.S. oil corporate interests
TP
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