To: boris_a who wrote (8095 ) 3/31/2004 9:41:34 AM From: PartyTime Respond to of 173976 During Bush's first months in office he was actively and secretly negotiating with the Taliban--not condemning them! OBL was merely a snag in what otherwise would have become a lucrative deal for Bush oil and energy insiders--especially Enron, which helped put Bush into office. You see, Enron wanted to build a pipeline through Afghanistan in order to connect into its money-draining Indian plant which had been producing energy at way too high of a cost--the pipeline would have saved the plant (perhaps Enron), which otherwise seemed financially doomed. >>>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 Enron’s secret and immoral Taliban negotiations. The suppressed Al Qaida document tends to support recent claims of a cover-up made by several mid-level intelligence and law enforcement figures. Their ongoing terrorist investigations appear to have been hindered during the same sensitive time period while the Enron Corporation was still negotiating with the Taliban. An inadvertent result of the Taliban pipeline cover-up was that the Taliban’s friends in Al Qaida were able to complete their last eight months of preparations for 9/11 while the Enron secrecy block was still in force.<<<john-loftus.com And The Drug War proved part of the bait for greasing this deal: >>>Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously. That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention.<<<robertscheer.com Here's more writing on the subject:atimes.com cephasministry.com htp://www.cooperativeresearch.net/timeline/main/AAoil.htmlcounterpunch.org