[chance33_98]

Extensive review and summary of book, much much more then I posted here- fascinating read.

Taliban, Ahmed Rashid

(2000, Yale Univ Press, New Haven, CT)

[ISBN 0-300-08902-3]; 216 pages

[chance33_98]

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[Check6]

Yep.

[chance33_98]

In 1996 a Unocal executive, told wire agencies that the pipeline project would be easier to implement now that the Taliban had captured Kabul. The statement was retracted but the damage was done. Unocal’s gaffes and the confusion in the State Department only further convinced Iran, Russia, the CARs, and the anti-Taliban alliance and most Pakistanis and Afghans that the US-Unocal partnership was backing the Taliban and wanted an all-out Taliban victory.

http://www.unocal.com/uclnews/98news/082198.htm - Unocal Statement: Suspension of activities related to proposed natural gas pipeline across Afghanistan (1998)

http://www.unocal.com/uclnews/2001news/091401.htm - Unocal Statement: Company not supporting Taliban in any way (Sept 14, 2001)

As we say on FR - Interesting...

[Carry_Okie]

You'll wanna read this carefully.

[virgil]

I don't know. I'm not so sure it was the CIA that spawned the fundamentalists groups in Afghanistan. I think OBL spawned them as a reaction to increased western presence in the region ( because of the pipeline)

[genefromjersey]

Interesting : I posted a review of this book about 2 weeks ago and got FLAMED because I dared to report that both Republican and Democrat administrations had screwed up - and screw up they did !! We sent Billions of dollars to these people - trusting Pakistan to administer the funds. The Saudis, who had Wahabi Muslim ( Islamic fundamentalists who are virtual twins to the Taliban ) cells operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan , matched the billions we supplied.

[Fixit]

Amazon has some sample pages, the covers and the TOC available online.

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