Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:19:14 -0500 From: Atif Durrani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Hamid Karzai - Consultant for UNOCAL? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was forwarded this excerpt from an article on another listserv. The article was published in Le Monde. It claims Hamid Karzai once worked for the US Oil company UNOCOL. Apoligies if it has already been posted here. Makes you wonder - coincidence? Atif ------------------------------------------------------------ LE MONDE | 13.12.01 | 18h07 Hamid Karzai, un Pachtoune nomm prsident Hamid Karzai, a Pashtoun, named President Le Monde http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3210-7019-254716,00.html TRANSLATION OF FOURTH PARAGRAPH FROM THE TOP Aussi à l'aise à discuter accroupi sur un tapis que dans un salon à Washington ou à Londres, Hamid Karzaï a une large connaissance du monde occidental. Après Kaboul et l'Inde où il a étudié le droit, il a parfait sa formation aux Etats-Unis où il fut un moment consultant de l'entreprise pétrolière américaine Unocal, quand celle-ci étudiait la construction d'un oléoduc en Afghanistan. "...Hamid Karzai, who is as comfortable discussing sitting on a carpet as in a Washinton or London "salon", has a profound knowledge of the western world. After Kabul and India, where he has studied law, he completed his learnings [apprenticeship ?] in the USA, where he acted, for a while, as a consultant for the American oil company Unocal, at the time it was considering building a pipeline in Afghanistan..." -- Yoshie * Calendar of Anti-War Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> * Anti-War Activist Resources: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osu.edu/students/CJP/>
