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Three reviews of
Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth
by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie
French authors Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie recently published a
book entitled Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth which tells of the negotiations for oil
pipeline rights in Afghanistan that collapsed in August 2001 after the U.S. told the
Taliban: Accept our offer of a carpet of gold or you'll get a carpet of bombs.
Julio Godoy: U.S. Policy on Taliban Influenced by Oil
Lara Marlowe: U.S. Efforts to Make Peace Summed up by 'OIL'
TOP VIEW: New Book Details Bush/Big Oil Negotiations With Taliban Before WTC
U.S. Policy on Taliban Influenced by Oil
By Julio Godoy
Under the influence of United States oil companies, the government of President
George W. Bush initially blocked intelligence agencies' investigations on terrorism
while it bargained with the Taliban on the delivery of Osama bin Laden in exchange
for political recognition and economic aid, two French intelligence analysts claim.
In the book, "Bin Laden, La Verite Interdite" (Bin Laden, the Forbidden Truth), that
was released recently, the authors, Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie,
reveal that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Deputy Director John O'Neill
resigned in July in protest over the obstruction.
The authors claim 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." The two claim that the U.S. government's main objective in Afghanistan
was to consolidate the position of the Taliban regime to obtain access to the oil and
gas reserves in Central Asia.
They affirm that until August, the U.S. government saw the Taliban regime "as a
source of stability in Central Asia that would enable the construction of an oil
pipeline
across Central Asia" from the rich oilfields in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and
Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the Indian Ocean. Until now, says
the book, "the oil and gas reserves of Central Asia have been controlled by Russia.
The Bush government wanted to change all that."
But, confronted with Taliban's refusal to accept U.S. conditions, "this rationale of
energy security changed into a military one", the authors claim.
"At one moment during the negotiations, the U.S. representatives told the Taliban,
'either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of
bombs,'" Brisard said in an interview in Paris. [This threat was made before
September 11th.]
According to the book, the Bush Administration began to negotiate with the Taliban
immediately after coming into power in February. U.S. and Taliban diplomatic
representatives met several times in Washington, Berlin and Islamabad.
To polish their image in the United States, the Taliban even employed a U.S. expert
on public relations, Laila Helms. The authors claim that Helms is also an expert in
the works of U.S. intelligence organizations, for her uncle, Richard Helms, is a former
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The last meeting between U.S. and Taliban representatives took place in August,
five weeks before the attacks on New York and Washington, the analysts maintain.
On that occasion, Christina Rocca, in charge of Central Asian affairs for the U.S.
government, met the Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan [Abdul Salam Zaeef] in
Islamabad.
Brisard and Dasquie have long experience in intelligence analysis. 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.
Brisard and Dasquie draw a portrait of the closest aides to Bush, linking them to the
oil business. Bush's family has a strong oil background, as do some of his top aides.
>From Vice President Dick Cheney, through the Director of the National Security
Council Condoleezza Rice, to the secretaries of commerce and energy, Donald
Evans and Stanley Abraham, all have for long worked for U.S. oil companies.
Cheney was until the end of last year President of Halliburton, a company that
provides services for oil industry; Rice was between 1991 and 2000 manager for
Chevron; Evans and Abraham worked for Tom Brown, another oil giant.
Besides the secret negotiations held between Washington and Kabul and the
importance of the oil industry, the book takes issue with the role played by Saudi
Arabia in fostering Islamic fundamentalism, in the personality of bin Laden, and with
the networks that the Saudi dissident built to finance his activities.
Brisard and Dasquie contend that the U.S. government's claim that it had been
prosecuting bin Laden since 1998 [is a big fraud]. "Actually," Dasquie says, "the first
state to officially prosecute bin Laden was Libya, on charges of terrorism."
"Bin Laden wanted to settle in Libya in the early 1990s, but was hindered by the
government of Muammar Gaddafi," Dasquie claims. "Enraged by Libya's refusal, bin
Laden organized attacks inside Libya, including assassination attempts against
Gaddafi."
Dasquie singles out one group, the Islamic Fighting Group (IFG), reputedly the most
powerful Libyan dissident organization, based in London, and directly linked with bin
Laden. "Gaddafi even demanded Western police institutions, such as Interpol, to
pursue the IFG and bin Laden, but never obtained cooperation," Dasquie says. "Until
today, members of IFG openly live in London."
The book confirms earlier reports that the U.S. government worked closely with the
United Nations during the negotiations with the Taliban. "Several meetings took place
this year, under the arbitration of Francesc Vendrell, personal representative of UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to discuss the situation in Afghanistan," says the
book. "Representatives of the U.S. government and Russia, and the six countries
that border with Afghanistan were present at these meetings," it says. "Sometimes,
representatives of the Taliban also sat around the table."
These meetings, also called Six plus Two, because of the number of states (six
neighbors plus the U.S. and Russia) involved, have been confirmed by Niaz A. Naik,
former Pakistani Secretary for foreign affairs.
In a French television news program two weeks ago, Naik said that during a Six plus
Two meeting in Berlin in July, the discussions turned around "the formation of a
government of national unity. If the Taliban had accepted this coalition, they would
have immediately received international economic aid. And the pipelines from
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan would have come," he added.
Naik also claimed that Tom Simons, the U.S. representative at these meetings,
openly threatened the Taliban and Pakistan. "Simons said: 'either the Taliban behave
as they ought to, or Pakistan convinces them to do so, or we will use another option'.
The words Simons used were 'a military operation'," Naik claimed.
(c) 2001 Asia Times Online Co. Ltd
U.S. Efforts to Make Peace Summed up by 'OIL'
By Lara Marlowe
The fate of John O'Neill, the Irish-American FBI agent who for years led U.S.
investigations into Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network, is the most chilling
revelation in the book Bin Laden: The Hidden Truth, published in Paris this week.
O'Neill investigated the bombings of the World Trade Centre in 1993, a US base in
Saudi Arabia in 1996, the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-Es-Salaam in 1998, and
the USS Cole last year.
Jean-Charles Brisard, who wrote a report on bin Laden's finances for the French
intelligence agency DST and is co-author of Hidden Truth, met O'Neill several times
last summer. He [O'Neill] complained bitterly that the US State Department — and
behind it the oil lobby who make up President Bush's entourage — blocked attempts
to prove bin Laden's guilt.
The US Ambassador to Yemen, Ms. Barbara Bodine, forbade O'Neill and his team of
so-called Rambos (as the Yemeni authorities called them) from entering Yemen. 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.
Brisard and his co-author Guillaume Dasquie, the Editor of Intelligence Online, say
their book is a tribute to O'Neill. The FBI agent had told Brisard: "All the answers,
everything needed to dismantle Osama bin Laden's organisation, can be found in
Saudi Arabia."
But US diplomats shrank from offending the Saudi royal family. O'Neill went to Saudi
Arabia after 19 US servicemen died in the bombing of a military installation in
Dhahran in June 1996. Saudi officials interrogated the suspects, declared them guilty
and executed them — without letting the FBI talk to them. "They were reduced to the
role of forensic scientists, collecting material evidence on the bomb site," Brisard
says.
O'Neill said there was clear evidence in Yemen of bin Laden's guilt in the bombing of
the USS Cole, in which 17 US servicemen died, but that the State Department
prevented him from getting it.
Brisard and Dasquie discovered that the first country to issue an international arrest
warrant against bin Laden was not the US, but Moamar Gadafy's Libya, in March
1998. The confidential notice, published for the first time in their book, was sent by
the Libyan interior ministry to Interpol on March 16th, 1998, and accuses bin Laden
of murdering two German intelligence agents, Silvan Becker and his wife, in Libya in
1994.
Bin Laden supported a fundamentalist group called al-Muqatila, made up of Libyans
who had fought with him against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Al-Muqatila wanted to assassinate Gadafy, whom it considered an infidel.
According to the former MI5 agent David Shayler, British intelligence — also in
league with al-Muqatila — tried to assassinate Gadafy in November 1996.
It was because of British collaboration with al-Muqatila that the Interpol warrant was
ignored, Brisard says. Since September 11th, al-Muqatila has been placed on
President Bush's list of "terrorist groups".
The central thesis of Brisard and Dasquie's book is sure to join the annals of 21st
century conspiracy theories. The writers document negotiations between the Bush
administration and the Taliban between February and August of this year.
The chief motivation behind US attempts to make peace with the Taliban can be
summed up in one word: oil. The former Soviet republics of Central Asia —
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and especially "the new Kuwait", Kazakhstan have vast oil
and gas reserves. But Russia has refused to allow the US to extract it through
Russian pipelines and Iran is considered a dangerous route. That left Afghanistan.
The US oil company Chevron — where Mr. Bush's National Security Advisor
Condoleeza Rice was a director throughout the 1990s — is deeply involved in
Kazakhstan. In 1995, another US company, Unocal (formerly Union Oil Company of
California) signed a contract to export $8 billion worth of natural gas through a $3
billion pipeline which would go from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan.
The authors recall how the State Department applauded the Taliban takeover in
September 1996, five months after a US assistant secretary of state warned
"economic opportunities will be missed" if political stability was not restored in
Afghanistan.
Laila Helms, the part Afghan niece of the former CIA director and former US
Ambassador to Tehran Richard Helms, is described as the Mata-Hari of US-Taliban
negotiations. Ms. Helms brought Sayed Rahmatullah Hashimi, an adviser to Mullah
[Muhammad] Omar, to Washington for five days in March 2001 — after the Taliban
had destroyed the ancient Buddhas of Bamiyan.
Hashimi met the directorate of Central Intelligence at the CIA and the Bureau of
Intelligence and Research at the State Department. In negotiations which continued
until July, the US then took a more discreet position, letting the UN envoy Francesc
Vendrell do most of the work and appointing a former US Ambassador to Pakistan,
Thomas Simons, to represent the US at informal meetings in Berlin.
The last direct US contact with the Taliban was on August 2nd, 2001, when Christina
Rocca, the director of Asian affairs at the State Department, met the Taliban
Ambassador in Islamabad. Ms. Rocca was previously in charge of contacts with
Islamist guerrilla groups at the CIA, where in the 1980s, she oversaw the delivery of
Stinger missiles to Afghan mujaheddin.
Last February, the Taliban had indicated it might be willing to hand over bin Laden,
but by June, according to Brisard and Dasquie, the US began considering military
action. "The US thought they could 'decouple' Osama bin Laden from the Taliban,"
Brisard says. "What they did not understand was that without bin Laden, the Taliban
regime wouldn't have existed."
By dispatching Francesc Vendrell to see the exiled King Zaher Shah in Rome and
raising the threat of military action, Washington "backed the Taliban into a corner",
the authors say.
(c) 2001 ireland.com
New Book Details Bush/Big Oil Negotiations With Taliban Before WTC
By TOP VIEW
Fact: The World Trade Center (WTC) was bombed right AFTER Bush-Taliban oil
pipeline talks soured. The talks soured right AFTER Bush/Big Oil threatened Taliban
to take their offer or receive a "carpet of bombs." Bush-Cheney/Big Oil and
Afghanistan's Taliban negotiated for MONTHS over running a Caspian Sea oil
pipeline through Afghanistan. Talks began in February and continued right on until
only one MONTH before New York City's World Trade Center towers were
demolished.
DURING the course of these negotiations, the two parties were unable to agree upon
a deal, MAINLY because Bush/Big Oil agents constantly upped the ante on the
rather naive Taliban representatives: playing intimidation, bait & switch, and "shell"
games relentlessly. The Taliban negotiators, understandably, became distrustful of
the entire process, and less and less confident they were being dealt with in good
faith.
In the beginning of August, the Bush Administration and its Big Oil cohorts delivered
what amounted to an ultimatum to the Taliban.
The Taliban representatives were reportedly told by Bush/Big Oil: Accept our offer of
"a carpet of gold or you'll get a carpet of bombs."
That's a DIRECT quote, according to French authors Jean-Charles Brisard and
Guillaume Dasquie, who've just written a thoroughly-researched and heavily-
documented book about the entire extraordinary business titled "Bin Laden: The
Forbidden Truth".
ALSO revealed in the book is the fact that BUSH HIMSELF directly ordered the FBI
and other U.S. law enforcement groups to BACK OFF on TERRORIST-RELATED
INVESTIGATIONS while the oil pipeline negotiations were underway!
In FACT, the FBI's Deputy Director John O'Neill resigned in July in protest over this
outrageous and intolerable obstruction. And by the way: the whereabouts of one
OSAMA BIN LADEN, then already firmly entrenched at the very top of the US's
"most-wanted terrorist" list during the entire course of these pipeline negotiations,
was NEVER an issue with the Bush cartel.
Never ONCE were the Taliban urged to hand bin Laden over for all those OTHER
horrendous crimes Feds maintain bin Laden has been charged with committing over
the years.
And SO: barely a MONTH after the Bush administration sabotaged the negotiations
with the Taliban regarding running the Caspian Sea oil pipeline through Afghanistan,
the World Trade Center towers are bombed into oblivion, bringing about the currently
ongoing UNDECLARED (and therefore illegal) "war on terrorism" ... that just
HAPPENS to be directed at the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The WTC was bombed — according to Feds — by the VERY SAME Osama bin
Laden whom the very same Bush administration was so UNCONCERNED ABOUT
during those JUST-WRECKED talks with the Taliban. NO ONE but the Bush
administration and their Big Oil allies/accomplices — not the Taliban, not the
Palestinians, not ANY other nation whether Islamic or otherwise — not any other
group, agency, force or faction on Earth stood to "GAIN" from the destruction of the
World Trade Center which occurred only ONE MONTH after talks between the Bush
administration and the Taliban fell apart due to outrageous threats and intimidation
by Bush/Big Oil "negotiators."
The World Trade Center Demolition
and the So-Called War on Terrorism
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