La trama energética...

Ojito porqué parte del móbil está aquí:

The Indian government gives approval for Enron's Dabhol power plant, located near Bombay. Enron has invested $3 billion. Enron tries to make the plant financially viable by investing in gas fields in nearby Uzbekistan, but it cannot get that gas to Dabhol without a gas pipeline through Afghanistan. Construction of the plant is abandoned just before completion.
La trama petrolera será una constante que irá tomando más y más fuerza con el avance de los años...veremos el asunto Unocal.

1994: The Taliban begin their conquest of Afghanistan. CNN reports, "The Taliban are widely alleged to be the creation of Pakistan's military intelligence [the ISI]. Experts say that explains the Taliban's swift military successes." The CIA also worked with the ISI to create the Taliban. A regional expert with extensive CIA ties says: "I warned them that we were creating a monster." After 9/11, the Wall Street Journal states: "Despite their clean chins and pressed uniforms, the ISI men are as deeply fundamentalist as any bearded fanatic; the ISI created the Taliban as their own instrument and still supports it."
En efecto: los talibanes fueron creados por CIA con ayuda en el campo de ISI (Pakistán), cómo ya comentamos tres o cuatro posts atrás.

Pero claro, empieza a ser realmente complicado ocultar todo esto, demasiada gente lo sabe todo:
The government of Sudan offers the US all of its files on bin Laden and al-Qaeda, but the US turns down the offer. Bin Laden had been living in Sudan since 1991. The Sudanese government collected a "vast intelligence database on Osama bin Laden and more than 200 leading members of his al-Qaeda terrorist network... [The US was] offered thick files, with photographs and detailed biographies of many of his principal cadres, and vital information about al-Qaeda's financial interests in many parts of the globe." In April 1996, the US again rejects Sudan's offer of the files. An American involved in the secret negotiations later says that the offer was blocked by another arm of the federal government: "I've never seen a brick wall like that before. Somebody let this slip up... We could have dismantled his operations and put a cage on top. It was not a matter of arresting bin Laden but of access to information... and that's what could have prevented September 11. I knew it would come back to haunt us". Sudan also offers the files to England. Also turned down.

Y luego el tema Bojinka, nuevamente encubierto:
Philippine police uncover plans for Operation Bojinka, an al-Qaeda operation led by 1993 WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef and 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. The plan is to explode 12 passenger planes over the Pacific Ocean simultaneously on January 21, 1995. If successful, up to 4,000 people would have been killed. Plans found for a second phase of attacks are also found. Planes would be hijacked and flown into buildings. The WTC, CIA headquarters, Pentagon and the Sears Tower are specifically mentioned as targets. One pilot, who learned to fly in US flight schools, confesses that his role was to crash a plane into CIA headquarters.
En mi modesta opinión, y esto es sólo opinión, con el descubrimiento de la trama Bojinka la CIA se da cuenta de que existen ya demasiadas facciones de Al-Qaeda o cómo-queráis-llamarles que están fuera de control. Bojinka, en mi humilde opinión, no es una trama de la CIA sinó de una splinter cell de Al-Qaeda. Tema muy interesante.

In the wake of the uncovering of the Operation Bojinka plot, a letter written by the terrorists who planned the failed 1993 WTC bombing is found on a computer disk in the Philippines. This letter warns that future attacks would be more precise and they would continue to target the WTC if their demands were not met. This letter was never sent, but its contents are revealed in 1998 congressional testimony.
A mediados de los 90, opinión mia de nuevo, creo que CIA empieza a darse cuenta de que Al-Qaeda escapa ya a su control y decide, en un proceso complejo, pegar un puñetazo sobre la mesa para recuperar el control de esa organización ya gigantesca. Para mí, y estando abierto a todo, los atentados de Madrid y Londres pueden leerse en esa misma clave. Y lo mismo aplico a Mogadiscio 94, y Riyadh.
Cómo veremos, a Clinton se le hincharon los huevos a instancias de sus asesores.

Finalizamos con esto:
The oil company Unocal signs a contract with Turkmenistan to export $8 billion worth of natural gas through a $3 billion pipeline which would go from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan. Henry Kissinger is a consultant for Unocal.
Oh, la hostia!!!!
El Tio Henry es el negociador de Unocal para construir el oleoducto por Afghanistan...curioso...¿qué pasaría si los Talibanes, el gobierno Afghano de facto, rechazaran tal propuesta?

Asia Times, 18 Enero 2001

MSNBC, 10/2/01			New Yorker, 10/16/01
CNN, 10/5/96			Guardian, 9/30/01		Village Voice, 10/31/01
Times of India, 3/7/01			Independent, 6/6/02		Los Angeles Times, 6/24/02
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			Village Voice, 9/26/01]		Washington Post, 9/23/01
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			Washington Post, 10/5/98

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