Afghan oil news

[Richard Romeo]

The US press has also not pursued the story regarding allegations in a new 
book by two french journalists that the bush admin. called off the crackdown 
on al qaeda in hopes of gaining oil concessions from the taliban early last 
year.

Rich


>From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Afghan oil news
>Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:54:06 -0800
>
>
>"The United States' new special envoy to Kabul once lobbied for the Taliban
>and worked for an American oil company that sought concessions for
>pipelines in Afghanistan. [...] his oil contacts are bound to raise
>suspicions about both his priorities and those of the Bush administration.
>At the NSC, Mr Khalilzad worked for the National Security Adviser,
>Condoleezza Rice, who had served on the board of the Chevron Corporation as
>an expert on another central Asian state with major oil reserves,
>Kazakhstan.
>
>President Bush and Vice-president Dick Cheney have extensive backgrounds in
>the oil business, too, and it will not be lost on any of them that central
>Asia has almost 40 per cent of the world's gas reserves and 6 per cent of
>its oil reserves.
>
>In addition, Mr Khalilzad has links to the most hawkish wing of the
>administration. In the 1980s, he worked on Afghanistan alongside Paul
>Wolfowitz, now the Deputy Secretary of Defence and an ardent advocate of
>military action to depose Saddam Hussein in Iraq - a hardline view that has
>also sometimes been voiced by Mr Khalilzhad. "
>
>http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=113662


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