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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] or in English, Bin Laden, The Forbidden Truth. Now, let's get one thing stright here at the get go of this thread, this is a book by two French writers. Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie to be specific, who appear to make claims about the present Bush Administration, the oil industry and the Taliban. Who are these fellows? [QUOTE]Brisard was until the late 1990s Director of economic analysis and strategy for Vivendi, a French company. He also worked for French secret services, and wrote for them in 1997 a report on the now famous Al-Qaeda network, headed by bin Laden. Dasquie is an investigative journalist and publisher of Intelligence Online, a respected newsletter on diplomacy, economic analysis and strategy, available through the Internet.[/QUOTE]Ok, now to another major point, I do not speak French beyond [i]bon jour[/i] (a couple of years of high school French notwithstanding) and I have not read the book. I can not therefore make any claims to the veracity of the information presented having not looked at soruces. My information comes from reviews and articles about the book and reported claims made by the book in those reviews and articles. So, why then do I create this thread? More or less in a for your information, here's something I found rather interesting you might too spirit. So, without further dalliance here are some of the claims alledged by the two French fellows: <ul></font></li></font></li></font></li> [*]Bush Administration began to negotiate with the Taliban about oil rights and pipelines, ect. immediately after coming into power in February. U.S. and Taliban diplomatic representatives met several times in Washington, Berlin and Islamabad. [*]When the negotiations started to go south, the Bush Administration told the Taliban to accept "a carpet of gold or you'll get a carpet of bombs." [*]According to Richard Butler, former head of the UN inspection team in Iraq, Brisard and Dasquie charge that the present Bush administration just shortly after assuming office, slowed down FBI investigations of al Qaeda and terrorism in Afghanistan in order to do a deal with the Taliban on oil - an oil pipeline across Afghanistan. [*]John O'Neill, Federal Bureau of Investigation's Deputy Director who headed the U.S. investigations into Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network, resigned due to the obstruction. [*]<font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Brisard and Dasquie calim that O'Neill told them that "the main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were U.S. oil corporate interests and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it." </ul>In August 2001, O'Neill resigned in frustration and took up a new job as head of security at the World Trade Center. He died in the September 11th attack. The reviews and articles can be found at the floowing links. [URL=http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/1119/wor8.htm]Irish Times[/URL] [URL=http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/CK20Ag01.html]Asia Times[/URL] [URL=http://www.truthout.com/11.17A.Oil.Taliban.htm]Truthout[/URL] [URL=http://www.islam.gov.qa/english/Article.asp?Article=2612]Islam Web[/URL] And for you French speakers go [URL=http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3230--243578-,00.html]here[/URL] and read the Le Mond article. Assuming some truth in the allegations, my thoughts are as follow.... The one major fault I see with this is that it does not take into account the vast amount of time and planning that went into the attacks on 11 September 2001. According to some things I've heard, those attacks had been in the planning stages for some time. Still one has to wonder if the threat to bomb the Taliban had any affect on the timing of the terror attacks on the United States. And one has to wonder if the slowdown of investigations on Bin Laden and terrorism would have had an affect on the events of 11 September 2001. If true, what I want to know is what in the heck was Bush thinking slowing down terror investigations to help big oil wtih it's negotiations with the freaking Taliban? Why did the Bush Administration let big oil / big business define national foreign policy and interests? Final thought, Bush has a great many questions to answer. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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