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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (74825)	5/14/2010 8:40:43 PM
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The subject is debatable. I don't know if we will ever know for sure, but I'll come down on the side which sez that was the real reason. Thursday, December 4, 1997 Published at 19:27 GMT World: West Asia Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline The 1,300km pipeline will carry gas across Afghanistan's harsh terrain A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in Afghanistan is in the United States for talks with an international energy company that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan. news.bbc.co.uk == As documented in the book I coauthored with Guillaume Dasquie, "Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth," the Clinton and Bush administrations negotiated with the Taliban, both to get the repressive regime to widen its government as well as look favorably on U.S. companies' attempts to construct an oil pipeline. The Bush White House stepped up negotiations with the Taliban in 2001. When those talks stalled in July, a Bush administration representative threatened the Taliban with military reprisals if the government did not go along with American demands salon.com