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What Congress Does Not Know about Enron and 9/11
john loftus dot com ^ | September 22, 2003 | John Loftus

Posted on 09/22/2004 7:45:10 AM PDT by jtesh

A captured Al Qaida document reveals that US energy companies were secretly negotiating with the Taliban to build a pipeline. The document was obtained by the FBI but was not allowed to be shared with other agencies in order to protect Enron. Multiple sources confirm that American law enforcement agencies were deliberately kept in the dark and systematically prevented from connecting the dots before 9/11 in order to aid Enron’s secret and immoral Taliban negotiations.

The suppressed Al Qaida document tends to support recent claims of a cover-up made by several mid-level intelligence and law enforcement figures. Their ongoing terrorist investigations appear to have been hindered during the same sensitive time period while the Enron Corporation was still negotiating with the Taliban. An inadvertent result of the Taliban pipeline cover-up was that the Taliban’s friends in Al Qaida were able to complete their last eight months of preparations for 9/11 while the Enron secrecy block was still in force.

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Why does Fox News always have this guy on?

Here he is saying on his web site that Bush stifled the FBI thus letting 9/11 happen (not on purpose but by gross negligence) in order to protect Enron's dealings with the Taleban.

By this logic, American companies are no better than the French and Bush no better than Chirac......

It is amazing how Fox News will give a guy airtime without letting their viewers know that the guy is a conspiracy nutjob.....

1 posted on 09/22/2004 7:45:13 AM PDT by jtesh
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To: jtesh; Admin Moderator



jtesh
Since Sep 22, 2004


So long, John Tesh....


2 posted on 09/22/2004 7:46:07 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (http://www.drunkenbuffoonery.com/mboards/)
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To: dighton; Constitution Day; general_re; BlueLancer; martin_fierro

Things that make you say hmmmmm.....


3 posted on 09/22/2004 7:46:34 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Pay no attention to the Nattering Newbies of Negativism)
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To: jtesh; Conspiracy Guy; marmar; MeekOneGOP; King Prout

incoming


4 posted on 09/22/2004 7:48:07 AM PDT by bad company (What's the font kenneth?)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

do you support John Loftus or not? How about Fox News?


5 posted on 09/22/2004 7:48:53 AM PDT by jtesh
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To: Tijeras_Slim

6 posted on 09/22/2004 7:49:33 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: jtesh

3-2-1....


7 posted on 09/22/2004 7:50:24 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS
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To: Constitution Day

don't like my screen name, do you?


8 posted on 09/22/2004 7:51:02 AM PDT by jtesh
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To: jtesh

Are you John Tesh?


9 posted on 09/22/2004 7:51:39 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: HEY4QDEMS

why is everyone being so adversarial?

I raised a good question....

maybe I should go elsewhere...


10 posted on 09/22/2004 7:52:13 AM PDT by jtesh
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To: Constitution Day

11 posted on 09/22/2004 7:52:40 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Pay no attention to the Nattering Newbies of Negativism)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

What's your issue with this guy?


12 posted on 09/22/2004 7:52:41 AM PDT by Solson (The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. - Phil Weltman)
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To: jtesh

13 posted on 09/22/2004 7:53:03 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (And Havoc thinks I'm drinking the Kool-Aid.)
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To: Constitution Day

no, but I thought jtesh would be a funny screen name.....


14 posted on 09/22/2004 7:53:06 AM PDT by jtesh
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To: jtesh

Fair enough. Think of this as your hazing into FR.


15 posted on 09/22/2004 7:53:50 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: jtesh

>>>. The document was obtained by the FBI but was not allowed to be shared with other agencies in order to protect Enron.

What are they talking about? This stuff was on the Net. Let me see if I can find it again.

BRB


16 posted on 09/22/2004 7:54:18 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Har!


17 posted on 09/22/2004 7:54:23 AM PDT by Constitution Day (and LOL at the tagline)
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To: jtesh

They're just making fun of your screen name.

What they don't like is newbies posting anything remotely critical of anything the Bush admin has ever done, whether stated by a nutjob or even RINO members of his party.

I predict you'll be threatened by ZOTS and Viking Kitties before long. Of course, if they'd read your comments, they might not think you're a troll.

Let the games begin.


18 posted on 09/22/2004 7:54:46 AM PDT by dmz
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To: jtesh

Why does someone sign up today and post a two year old article in breaking news?


19 posted on 09/22/2004 7:55:30 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS
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To: jtesh

Fooey. Ridiculous stuff, if you read it all. Enron was hired by the oil companies to do a study of the pipeline's feasability. The deal collapsed in August of 01. It was not Enron's deal; they were consultants. It was the oil companies' deal; they were to build the pipeline.


20 posted on 09/22/2004 7:55:36 AM PDT by MoralSense
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To: Constitution Day

be careful of fox ...... it wants to be the big dog now.... and it sees an opportunity....


21 posted on 09/22/2004 7:55:46 AM PDT by Gibtx (Wow)
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To: jtesh

Still alive. Hey, at least Tesh ain't Manilow. Or Slim Whitman.


22 posted on 09/22/2004 7:55:59 AM PDT by 4CJ (Laissez les bon FReeps rouler)
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To: Lunatic Fringe; Admin Moderator

Don't zot the article though! I've got a lot of material to add about the Taliban Enron connection.

Use your judgement on the poster, I'm not worried about him/her.


23 posted on 09/22/2004 7:56:58 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

Preliminary quick search, more coming:

ENRON GAVE TALIBAN $MILLIONS

The Enron Corporation gave the Taliban millions of dollars in a no-holds-barred bid to strike a deal for an energy pipeline in Afghanistan -- wile the Taliban were already sheltering terror kingpin Osama Bin Laden!

Enron executives even met with Taliban officials in Texas, where they were given the red-carpet treatment and promised a fortune if the deal went through.

That's the bombshell finding of an exclusive ENQUIRER investigation into the collapse of the company that ripped off Americans for millions of dollars. The ENQUIRER has also uncovered that some of the Enron money wound up supporting Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda terrorist network!

"Enron would do business with the devil if it would make the company money!" said a member of a Congressional committee investigating the company's collapse.

And Atul Davda, who worked as a senior director for Enron's International Division until the company's collapse, confirmed to The ENQUIRER: "Enron had intimate contact with Taliban officials. Building the pipeline was one of the corporation's prime objectives."

As The ENQUIRER revealed two weeks ago, Enron secretly employed CIA agents to carry out its dealings overseas. And a CIA insider disclosed: "Enron was wooing the Taliban and was willing to make the Taliban a partner in the operation of a pipeline through Afghanistan.

"Enron proposed to pay the Taliban large sums of money in a 'tax' on every cubic foot of gas and oil shipped through the pipeline."

Enron shelled out more than $400 million for a feasibility study on the pipeline and "a large portion of that cost was payoffs to the Taliban," said the CIA source.

Shockingly, Enron's wooing of the Taliban continued even after Al Qaeda agents bombed two American embassies in Africa in 1998, and the U.S. retaliated with missile attacks on suspected Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and Sudan.

"The U.S. was shooting missiles into Afghanistan, and it was clear that the Taliban were enabling Bin Laden and Al Qaeda," terrorist expert Jeffrey Steinberg, editor of the Executive Intelligence Review, told The ENQUIRER.

"Nonetheless the oil companies continued to work behind the scenes to complete the pipeline deal."

The pipeline project was originally proposed by Unocal Corporation.

And an FBI source told The ENQUIRER: "Enron and Unocal dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into Afghanistan and the Taliban. The pipeline would relieve our dependence on Saudi Arabia -- and Enron would make billions.

"When Clinton was bombing Bin Laden camps in Afghanistan in 1998, Enron was making payoffs to Taliban and Bin Laden operatives to keep the pipeline project alive. And there's no way that anyone could NOT have known of the Taliban and Bin Laden connection at that time, especially Enron who had CIA agents on its payroll!"

Said an Enron company source, "After the Taliban came to power in 1996, Tliban leaders were invited to Sugar Land, Texas, by Unocal and Enron executives.

"The Taliban's mullahs were given the royal treatment for four days in 1997!"

The visit was aimed at getting Taliban cooperation to build the pipeline, which would carry vast gas and oil deposits from Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Enron had exclusive contracts with the former Russian republics, according to another former Enron employee.

The pipeline was to travel through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Indian Ocean.

When contacted by The ENQUIRER, U.S. State Department's press officer for South Asian Affairs, Len Scensny, confirmed that a Taliban delegation visited Sugar Land, Teas, in 1997 to discuss business with oil companies.

Three days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Unocal announced it had withdrawn from the Afghanistan pipeline project.

But the CIA insider said Enron and its CEO Kenneth Lay held on, waiting for the Taliban to give up Bin Laden as the Bush administration was demanding.

"Enron figured the Taliban wanted to stick to their deal, that they wanted riches the same way Enron did.

"What Enron and Ken Lay didn't understand is that it was Bin Laden who was calling the shots, not Enron's Taliban friends.

"Now Enron and the Taliban are both goners!"


24 posted on 09/22/2004 7:57:42 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
I like John Tesh!

(Well, I also put mandarin oranges slices in my cottage cheese. Go figure.)

25 posted on 09/22/2004 7:58:21 AM PDT by SandyInSeattle (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: jtesh
Loftus resigned from the Justice Department in 1981.

The world has changed. attacking america is not a sport any more. It's sedition. Everyone knows Enron is a POS. He tries to blame Bush, when it was all through the Clinton Admin that the deals were being pushed.

26 posted on 09/22/2004 7:58:39 AM PDT by marty60
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To: MoralSense

I thought it was UNOCAL and those negotiations collapsed in 1998.


27 posted on 09/22/2004 7:58:46 AM PDT by Morgan's Raider
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To: jtesh

Naughty, naughty, you forgot your tin foil hat. See what happens when you forget?


28 posted on 09/22/2004 7:58:46 AM PDT by tiki (Win one against the Flipper)
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To: jtesh

I think many will confuse your post and comment as being in agreement while I read that you think the guy is a nut job. Good luck in the insuing flame war.


29 posted on 09/22/2004 7:59:31 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Dan Rather, "I lied, but I lied about the truth".)
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To: SandyInSeattle
I like John Tesh!

More proof for the "Big Tent" of campassionate conservatism. :)

30 posted on 09/22/2004 7:59:31 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Pay no attention to the Nattering Newbies of Negativism)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Is there a 12-step program for people who like really bad music?


31 posted on 09/22/2004 8:00:22 AM PDT by SandyInSeattle (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: jtesh

Hang tough it will calm down in a minute.


32 posted on 09/22/2004 8:00:23 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Dan Rather, "I lied, but I lied about the truth".)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Or Slim Whitman.

Don't be messin' with Slim!

33 posted on 09/22/2004 8:00:39 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Pay no attention to the Nattering Newbies of Negativism)
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To: SandyInSeattle

Step 11 is REALLY tough:

http://www.mrsmillersworld.com/


34 posted on 09/22/2004 8:01:56 AM PDT by weegee (What's the provenance, Kenneth? Where did the forged SeeBS memo come from?)
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To: SandyInSeattle
Is there a 12-step program for people who like really bad music?

I think it's called line dancing.

35 posted on 09/22/2004 8:01:59 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Pay no attention to the Nattering Newbies of Negativism)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

He saved us from the Martians


36 posted on 09/22/2004 8:02:13 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Dan Rather, "I lied, but I lied about the truth".)
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To: jtesh
>It is amazing how Fox News will give a guy airtime . . .

The Kitties here play
a lot rougher than the cats
over at Fox News . . .









37 posted on 09/22/2004 8:02:31 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I have to poke fun at him, he's my FIL's favorite ;o)


38 posted on 09/22/2004 8:03:15 AM PDT by 4CJ (Laissez les bon FReeps rouler)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

39 posted on 09/22/2004 8:03:45 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Calpernia

Let's not forget what it was that was to seal Enron's future under algore presidency, led by hillry in the Senate.


Kyoto Treaty!


40 posted on 09/22/2004 8:03:46 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Solson; Lunatic Fringe

NEvermind...he's a troll.


41 posted on 09/22/2004 8:04:57 AM PDT by Solson (The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. - Phil Weltman)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
Anyone who joins up to FR to post such an article is always going to be treated with skepticism. It is much harder to keep such a thread alive if the poster "agrees" with it.

This is akin to picking up some dog crap, bringing inside a building, and sharing it with everyone saying "See what I almost stepped in? Look at it!"

42 posted on 09/22/2004 8:05:11 AM PDT by weegee (What's the provenance, Kenneth? Where did the forged SeeBS memo come from?)
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To: jtesh

> ... why is everyone being so adversarial?

Because you signed up today
(1 troll point).

Posted a defamatory article without a warning in
the subject line like (Tinfoil Hat Alert) -
(1 troll point)

It's apparently not even a new tinfoil story
(1 troll point)

So, with 3 troll points, it's not surprising that some
readers have mistaken you for a troll.

On any forum/BBS, whatever its inclinations, it is always
a sound idea to register and lurk for a while before

making the first post. Even then, start by posting
responses, and not base articles. Trolls are a problem
on every forum I use. Some are quite clever, and the
user bases are growing weary of them, and often jump on
innocent newbies in error.


43 posted on 09/22/2004 8:05:34 AM PDT by Boundless
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To: Tijeras_Slim

"The suppressed Al Qaida document tends to support recent claims of a cover-up"

If they're suppressed, how does he know what's in them??


44 posted on 09/22/2004 8:06:16 AM PDT by Bigh4u2
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To: Conspiracy Guy
He saved us from the Martians

That's revisionist history, everyone knows it was this guy.

45 posted on 09/22/2004 8:06:47 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Pay no attention to the Nattering Newbies of Negativism)
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To: weegee

Ack!


46 posted on 09/22/2004 8:07:15 AM PDT by SandyInSeattle (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: jtesh

Welcome aboard! Don't mind us, we're a little twitchy these days with all the trolls and disruptors trying to infiltrate.


47 posted on 09/22/2004 8:08:06 AM PDT by SandyInSeattle (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: jtesh
maybe I should go elsewhere

Yes, maybe you should.

A hint you may want to remember for future trolling: try not to say anything really goofy until at least the day after you sign up.

48 posted on 09/22/2004 8:08:37 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: tiki

"The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons." Source: President Bush Discusses Iraq with Congressional Leaders, White House (9/26/2002).

"The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons." Source: George W. Bush Delivers Weekly Radio Address, White House (9/28/2002).

"We know the designs of the Iraqi regime. In defiance of pledges to the U.N., it has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons." Source: President, House Leadership Agree on Iraq Resolution, White House (10/2/2002).

"[Iraq] possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons." Source: President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat; Remarks by the President on Iraq, White House (10/7/2002).

"He said he wouldn't have chemical weapons, he's got them." Source: Remarks by the President at Missouri Welcome, White House (11/4/2002).

all from (http://www.house.gov/reform/min/features/iraq_on_the_record/)


49 posted on 09/22/2004 8:09:29 AM PDT by jtesh
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To: Boundless
Good post.
50 posted on 09/22/2004 8:10:05 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I'm a man.............I can change.............If I have to..................I guess...........)
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