911 10th Annivesary: Remembering the Lies (Part 1)

Introduction -

There are many reports all over the place that contradict the official story of 911. Volumes could be written on them. However, I am going to discuss only three issues and they will be in three parts:

Part 1 – I will discuss that there was intention to invade Afghanistan before 911 and the 911 Attacks appears staged, or at least was allowed to happen, to give US an excuse to start a war with Afghanistan.

Part 2 – I will discuss the high volume of trades days before 11 Sep 2001 at the NY and Chicago Exchange, on put options on American Airlines (AA) and United Airlines (UA), the two airliners whose planes were used during the 911 Attacks, indicating foreknowledge that a disaster was about to occur concerning these two carriers.

Part 3 – I will discuss how the BBC reported that WTC7 had collapsed twenty minutes before its actual collapse. Again, more indication of foreknowledge. WTC 7 was not hit by the 2 planes.

Qualifying Statement -

Terror should not be condoned. Innocent lives are lost when terror strikes. Likewise what cannot be condoned is the justification of war, killing more innocents to “rectify” the terror committed.

Invasion of Afghanistan was planned long before 11 Sep 2001 -

Afghanistan is right at the crossroads between Asia and the Caspian. The Caspian has a lot of oil reserves. However, unlike the oil reserves in the Mid East, the Caspian has no waterfront. To transport that oil, superlong pipelines have to be constructed across Central Asia. Afghanistan sits on that land.

In the 1980s, Afghans fought a war with the Russians. America supported Afghanistan in terms of training, equipment and intelligence. The CIA trained Osama bin Laden to help the Afghans in that war. Of course today we know that after Osama’s usefulness to the US has expired, he was made a “terrorist”.

After the Russians pulled out, the Taliban became the default govt. An 800 km pipeline construction across Afghanistan from the Caspian to Pakistan/India (to be constructed by Americans, of course – that’s why they supported the Afghans against the Russians) was in the works.

Unfortunately, during this period (in the 1990s), then President Bill Clinton was about to be impeached by Congress for misbehaving at the White House. He had some flings with Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones and some other names I can’t remember.

It was during this time that Bill Clinton ordered the bombing of Sudan and Afghanistan, alleging the targets were terrorist fronts. Many were skeptical and felt that he was just “wagging the dog”, a term used for the US President to divert attention away from his domestic scandal.

As a result, the Taliban stopped the American companies working on that 800 km oil pipeline. This triggered the start of the planning of 911.

Here is a report, right from a government website that archives the goings-on of Congress (you can call it minutes of meeting if you wish). Note that the link I give is NOT from a dubious website.

105th Congress, February 12 1998

48–119 CC

1998

U.S. INTERESTS IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS

HEARING

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

FEBRUARY 12, 1998

Long document. Here is the relevant part of the document.

http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa48119.000/hfa48119_0.HTM#30

STATEMENT OF JOHN J. MARESCA, VICE PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNOCAL CORPORATION



Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s nice to see you again. I am John Maresca, vice president for international relations of the Unocal Corporation. Unocal, as you know, is one of the world’s leading energy resource and project development companies. I appreciate your invitation to speak here today. I believe these hearings are important and timely. I congratulate you for focusing on Central Asia oil and gas reserves and the role they play in shaping U.S. policy.

I would like to focus today on three issues. First, the need for multiple pipeline routes for Central Asian oil and gas resources. Second, the need for U.S. support for international and regional efforts to achieve balanced and lasting political settlements to the conflicts in the region, including Afghanistan. Third, the need for structured assistance to encourage economic reforms and the development of appropriate investment climates in the region. In this regard, we specifically support repeal or removal of section 907 of the Freedom Support Act.



Mr. Chairman, the Caspian region contains tremendous untapped hydrocarbon reserves. Just to give an idea of the scale, proven natural gas reserves equal more than 236 trillion cubic feet. The region’s total oil reserves may well reach more than 60 billion barrels of oil. Some estimates are as high as 200 billion barrels. In 1995, the region was producing only 870,000 barrels per day. By 2010, western companies could increase production to about 4.5 million barrels a day, an increase of more than 500 percent in only 15 years. If this occurs, the region would represent about 5 percent of the world’s total oil production.



One major problem has yet to be resolved: how to get the region’s vast energy resources to the markets where they are needed. ……



….The second option is to build a pipeline south from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. One obvious route south would cross Iran, but this is foreclosed for American companies because of U.S. sanctions legislation. The only other possible route is across Afghanistan, which has of course its own unique challenges. The country has been involved in bitter warfare for almost two decades, and is still divided by civil war. From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of the pipeline we have proposed across Afghanistan could not begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments, lenders, and our company. ….



….Last October, the Central Asia Gas Pipeline Consortium, called CentGas, in which Unocal holds an interest, was formed to develop a gas pipeline which will link Turkmenistan’s vast Dauletabad gas field with markets in Pakistan and possibly India. The proposed 790-mile pipeline will open up new markets for this gas, traveling from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Multan in Pakistan. The proposed extension would move gas on to New Delhi, where it would connect with an existing pipeline. As with the proposed Central Asia oil pipeline, CentGas can not begin construction until an internationally recognized Afghanistan Government is in place.

As can be seen from the above document, there was intention to replace the Taliban since Feb 1998, more than three years before the Sep 11 2001 attacks. The issue was not terror but oil.

Afghanistan was finally invaded (on the pretext of fighting terror) at the end of 2001. After the Taliban was replaced, the mega oil companies wasted no time in re-securing their contracts to build that lucrative 800km oil pipeline.

From the BBC (note the date 13 May 2002. That was quick, ain’t it?) – Afghanistan plans gas pipeline

Monday, 13 May, 2002, 10:20 GMT 11:20 UK



The pipeline is Afghanistan’s biggest foreign investment project

Afghanistan hopes to strike a deal later this month to build a $2bn pipeline through the country to take gas from energy-rich Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India.

Afghan interim ruler Hamid Karzai is to hold talks with his Pakistani and Turkmenistan counterparts later this month on Afghanistan’s biggest foreign investment project, said Mohammad Alim Razim, minister for Mines and Industries told Reuters.

“The work on the project will start after an agreement is expected to be struck at the coming summit,” Mr Razim said.

The construction of the 850-kilometre pipeline had been previously discussed between Afghanistan’s former Taliban regime, US oil company Unocal and Bridas of Argentina.

The project was abandoned after the US launched missile attacks on Afghanistan in 1999.

Note the following points:

- the Caspian region has a lot of oil reserves.

- to distribute that oil, a pipeline across Afghanistan has to be built.

- the then govt of Afghanistan (ie Taliban) was “not very US friendly” (no thanks to Bill Clinton’s waggng the dog bombing) and hence, had to be replaced by a more US friendly govt.

Unfortunately for the warmongers and warhawks, that pipeline is running into some trouble even till today. US ain’t winning the war and the construction still can’t resume.

No need to invade Afghanistan, Taliban willing to hand over Osama -

When then President GW Bush accused Osama of targetting the twin towers during the 911 terror attacks, Osama was in Afghanistan. The Taliban was willing to hand over Osama to a third party if US presented evidence of Osama’s involvement.

However, in spite of Taliban’s suggestion, which was actually what Bush asked for, Bush amazingly rejected it. Why? Simple. The 911 Attacks was actually an excuse to replace the Taliban with a more US friendly govt.

If Bush had accepted the Taliban’s offer to hand over Osama, there would be no reason to invade Afghanistan and the plan, as discussed at the 105th Congress in 1998, would not be fulfilled! (Not to mention that US didn’t have any evidence Osama was behind it in the first place.)

From the Washington Post – Bush Rejects Taliban Bin Laden Offer

JALALABAD, Afghanistan –– A senior Taliban leader said Sunday that the Islamic militia would be willing to hand over Osama bin Laden to a third country if the United States halts the bombing of Afghanistan and provides evidence against him.

President Bush quickly rejected the offer.

Today, it is already about 10 years of war in Afghanistan. The US shows no sign of withdrawing. In fact, it is hoping to root further. Here is a report from the US Defense Dept itself, hypocritically stating that the rich minerals in Afghanistan could be used to help the economy. Question is help WHOSE economy? Mineral Resources Could Give Afghans New Hope

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2010 – An estimated $1 trillion of untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan could lead to economic sovereignty, easing the country’s financial dependency on the United States and international community, a top defense official said yesterday.

There’s not only the issue of oil, but the issue of stealing Afghan’s rich minerals that’s keeping the oppressive US Forces in there.

Summary -

The plan to invade Afghanistan was made as far back as in 1998, three years before the attacks of the Twin Towers of 911.

The plan was to replace the Taliban with a more US friendly govt, so that a lucrative 800km oil pipeline could be built.

That plan was discussed at the 105th Congress Meeting.

The 911 Attacks hence appeared very dubious. It’s just an excuse to invade Afghanistan to replace the Taliban.

The Taliban agreed to hand over Osama to a third party if evidence was given he planned the attacks. Bush rejected. That’s because it was either Bush didn’t have the evidence, or the US was bent on invading Afghanistan anyway, as per 105th Congress Plan.

Today, the US is trying to steal rich minerals from Afghanistan to fund the war, which has depleted much of America’s resources. It hypocritically purports to use those minerals for the good of the Afghans.

Final Words -

Terror must not be condoned. This year is the 10th Anniversary of the 911 Attacks. But 3000+ innocents dead at the WTC is no justification for the US to kill thousands more innocents in Afghanistan.

While the mass media keeps playing up that the 911 Attacks were planned by Osama and Al-CIAda, it hides the fact that there was a plan to invade Afghanistan long before the 911 Attacks itself.

Very suspicious circumstances, no?

Next in Part 2 – Foreknowledge exposed when it was reported that put options of AA and UA, the two airliners involved in the 911 Attacks, were purchased in extraordinary high volumes, days before 11 Sep 2001.

>Pat Tillman – Is the US Govt covering up something?

>I am not the type who would pay much attention to fallen US soldiers who fought the Vietnam, Iraq or Afghan wars. That’s because I believe in doing so, it would be insulting the real victims of war – the civilians whom the US soldiers kill, maim and torture.

However, for Pat Tillman, I am making an exception. I believe that he truly died a hero. Not because he fought the foreign enemy, but because he fought the enemy within – The US Govt.

This is the true story of Pat Tillman. An American Football star who turned down a multi-million dollar contract to serve the US Army – so that he could fight the enemy in Afghanistan. Or so he thought.

In 2004, Tillman was killed in combat. The US govt was only too eager to make him a hero, awarding his family the Silver Star. It turned out that the US govt lied the way he died so as to shore up public American support for the protracted Afghan War. This is Tillman’s story, and his family’s struggle to find the truth.

The Tillman Story Trailer

As it turned out, the govt lies could not hold. Soon the story changed and it was reported that Tillman was killed in a friendly fire.
What Happened To Pat Tillman?
http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/player-dest.swf

However, what is even more intriguing in a story of twists and turns, is that many suspect that Tillman was murdered – and that’s because he was about to speak too much. You can do a search on the internet and see many stories about why it was murder and not even friendly fire.

I find the following article below probably has the most relevant point. Tillman was about to tell the world when he comes home after his duty in Afghanistan, why the Afghan War is wrong. That would be a disaster because instead of a high profile Football Star being used to support the war, the US Army would now have that very star campaigning against the war.

Who Killed Pat Tillman?

Apparently a meeting between Tillman and Chomsky was planned for after Pat’s return to the U.S., but he never returned. Instead, he was killed – under circumstances that Pat’s mother, Mary, has always characterized as “murky,” at best, and that seem, to my eye, at least, suspicious at worst. And it isn’t just me. Now the release of thousands of pages of documents by the Pentagon, as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request, raise even more questions about the circumstances surrounding Pat Tillman’s death:

“Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman’s forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player’s death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

“’The medical evidence did not match up with the, with the scenario as described,’ a doctor who examined Tillman’s body after he was killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2004 told investigators.

“The doctors – whose names were blacked out – said that the bullet holes were so close together that it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired from a mere 10 yards or so away.”

This occurs after at least three investigations have supposedly been conducted, in which Tillman’s death was attributed to “friendly fire,” adding to the strong suspicion that there’s something they’re not telling us – something they have been trying desperately to cover up. “The Army used him,” says his mother. “They knew right away he was killed by fratricide and [they] used him for their own purposes to promote the war, to get sympathy for the war, for five weeks.”

Mary Tillman has long suggested that her son was deliberately murdered by his fellow soldiers. After initially dismissing her allegations as a case of grief-gone-over-the-edge, I’ve come to believe that there is something awfully fishy about this whole incident.

After all, why were Army attorneys sending “congratulatory e-mails” to each other for fending off criminal investigators on the case? The general who kept the details of Tillman’s death from the Tillman family and the public claimed that he was having a problem with his memory, and that’s why he just couldn’t recall any important details of how Tillman’s death was handled. Doctors who tried to reconcile the forensic evidence with the official account urged that a criminal investigation be pursued, but they were rebuffed. What’s really suspicious, however, is that evidence of enemy fire at the scene was singularly lacking: no one was hit by enemy fire, nor was any equipment damaged. According to numerous reports, there were no Taliban in the area.

Chomsky is a high profile anti-war activist, well known not only in the US, but around the world. If Tillman were to have that meeting with Chomsky, it would be big news that the guy who sacrificed his football career to fight the Afghan war is now an anti-war activist. The US Govt could not afford that.

Here is a discussion on Tillman’s death, which appears to be murder, on MSNBC.
Pat Tillman Murdered?

Kevin Tillman, Pat’s brother giving a piece of his mind -
How they lied when Pat Tillman Died

So was Tillman murdered or was it an accident?

What we know for sure is that Tillman was not the American Hero who charged up against enemy forces to save his men. That was a plain lie by the US Govt.

Murder or accident, The Tillman Story is a true tale of US Govt Lies, one family’s struggle to find the truth, America’s baggage of war in Afghanistan, and how the world is deceived to support an illegal war that has lasted nearly 10 years now.

Certainly a good movie not to be missed.

But good movie or not, this episode is about one man’s courage to tell the world that what the US Govt does in Afghanistan is morally wrong. He paid the price with his life. Truly, he is a hero fighting the enemy not in Afghanistan, but the enemy within the US Govt.

>US just can’t let go, it hopelessly hangs onto Afghanistan

>In 2001, when US invaded Afghanistan, Bush said it was to get Osama bin Laden. The Taliban was willing to hand over Osama to a third party, but Bush, bent on invading, would not have any of that. He needed a reason to go to war – because it was planned all along even before 911.

The plan was to displace the Taliban with a more US-friendly govt in Afghanistan, so as to facilitate the construction of a 800-km oil pipeline from the Caspian region through Afghanistan. I discussed that in this link.
PM Lee’s Support on Iraq War – Is it right?

Greed for Oil

It is no secret that the real agenda for the invasion of Iraq is its oil reserves. What is less known is that Afghanistan was also invaded for the same reason – oil. Prior to 11 Sep 2001, before the WTC terror attacks, the US had already planned a regime change in Afghanistan to oust the Taliban. The idea was to install a government other than the Taliban who would be more friendly to the US. This would enhance the chances of an 800km oil pipeline across Afghanistan, that was planned to be built from the Caspian to Pakistan/India.

This link shows the document pertaining to the case UNOCAL, an American oil company, presented to the US government. It is dated 12 Feb 1998 to Congress (scroll to the top to see date).

http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa48119.000/hfa48119_0.HTM#30

STATEMENT OF JOHN J. MARESCA, VICE PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNOCAL CORPORATION

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s nice to see you again. I am John Maresca, vice president for international relations of the Unocal Corporation. Unocal, as you know, is one of the world’s leading energy resource and project development companies. I appreciate your invitation to speak here today. I believe these hearings are important and timely. I congratulate you for focusing on Central Asia oil and gas reserves and the role they play in shaping U.S. policy.

I would like to focus today on three issues. First, the need for multiple pipeline routes for Central Asian oil and gas resources. Second, the need for U.S. support for international and regional efforts to achieve balanced and lasting political settlements to the conflicts in the region, including Afghanistan. Third, the need for structured assistance to encourage economic reforms and the development of appropriate investment climates in the region. In this regard, we specifically support repeal or removal of section 907 of the Freedom Support Act.

Mr. Chairman, the Caspian region contains tremendous untapped hydrocarbon reserves. Just to give an idea of the scale, proven natural gas reserves equal more than 236 trillion cubic feet. The region’s total oil reserves may well reach more than 60 billion barrels of oil. Some estimates are as high as 200 billion barrels. In 1995, the region was producing only 870,000 barrels per day. By 2010, western companies could increase production to about 4.5 million barrels a day, an increase of more than 500 percent in only 15 years. If this occurs, the region would represent about 5 percent of the world’s total oil production.

One major problem has yet to be resolved: how to get the region’s vast energy resources to the markets where they are needed. ……

….The second option is to build a pipeline south from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. One obvious route south would cross Iran, but this is foreclosed for American companies because of U.S. sanctions legislation. The only other possible route is across Afghanistan, which has of course its own unique challenges. The country has been involved in bitter warfare for almost two decades, and is still divided by civil war. From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of the pipeline we have proposed across Afghanistan could not begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments, lenders, and our company. ….

….Last October, the Central Asia Gas Pipeline Consortium, called CentGas, in which Unocal holds an interest, was formed to develop a gas pipeline which will link Turkmenistan’s vast Dauletabad gas field with markets in Pakistan and possibly India. The proposed 790-mile pipeline will open up new markets for this gas, traveling from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Multan in Pakistan. The proposed extension would move gas on to New Delhi, where it would connect with an existing pipeline. As with the proposed Central Asia oil pipeline, CentGas can not begin construction until an internationally recognized Afghanistan Government is in place.

As can be seen from the above document, there was intention to replace the Taliban since Feb 1998, more than three years before the Sep 11 2001 attacks. The issue was not terror but oil.

Well, now there is more reason for US to keep occupying Afghanistan. Here’s what the media is reporting.

U.S. Identifies Vast riches of Minerals in Afghanistan

The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.

The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.

An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys.

The vast scale of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists. The Afghan government and President Hamid Karzai were recently briefed, American officials said.

Now why would US geologists and Pentagon officials put in time, money and effort going round finding such materials in the first place? Officially, US was there to get Osama, not find gold and minerals, right? Or it was there to build the pipeline, right?

Is it perhaps just a bluff to tell Americans that all the wasted lives of young American soldiers (yeah, never mind Afghan civilians because to US, they don’t count) are worth it, because of the vast resources that are available?

This reminds me of how the Europeans would go round the world pillaging minerals from other continents and displacing the natives.

Perhaps it is a bluff, as what the author of this article appears to be implying.

Afghanistan’s ‘Vast Riches Of Minerals’ Highlighted By Pentagon

Read a little more carefully, though, and you realize that there’s less to this scoop than meets the eye. For one thing, the findings on which the story was based are online and have been since 2007, courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. More information is available on the Afghan mining ministry’s website, including a report by the British Geological Survey (and there’s more here). You can also take a look at the USGS’s documentation of the airborne part of the survey here, including the full set of aerial photographs.

Nowhere have I found that $1 trillion figure mentioned, which Risen says was generated by a Pentagon task force looking to help the Afghan government develop its resources (looking at the chart accompanying the article, though, it appears to be a straightforward tabulation of the total reserve figures for each mineral times current the current market price). According to Risen, that task force has begun prepping the mining ministry to start soliciting bids for mineral rights in the fall.

So is the find to be believed? Either way, this seems more of a curse than a blessing to the Afghans. If the report of the finding is true, you can expect the US to occupy Afghanistan for a long time and the Afghans be left poorer for it.

If it is false, it also means that the Pentagon intends for the US to stay in Afghanistan for a long time and simply pulled a bluff on Americans (to get them to continue to support the war), so that they can get that long overdue 800 km pipeline constructed.

Heck, oil pipeline or minerals in Afghanistan, do remember that when the Europeans pillaged the Lands of the Native North and South American peoples, they not only stole their land, gold and other precious minerals, they also displaced the natives from their homes, raped their women and children, killed their men and committed many more untold crimes.

Isn’t that what’s happening in today’s Afghanistan?

So who’s the civilized and who’s the uncivilized? The Europeans or the Natives? Likewise, who’s the terrorists and who are the victims? The US military or the Afghan population?

>Afghanistan – Vietnam Redux

>The American Military Machinery, with all its sophisticated weapons and system, could not defeat the Viets. In fact, US lost the war – although America won’t admit that. During the Vietnam War, the Americans managed to control pockets of villages and towns, only to lose control later to the Viets. Looks like the same old story is happening in Afghanistan.

In the short video clip below, we see how the Americans abandoned a base. The Americans claim that they are “repositioning troops”. But there are telltale signs that it was actually more of it being either overrun, or hastily abandoned because US troops could not defend it.

Telltale signs like the American troops destroying its own cache of ammunition. Would you do that if you had the time and luxury to take it with you? Even more telling is that in spite of the deliberate destruction of their own ammo, there are lots of undestroyed weapons, ammo and fuel left behind – a clear indication that it was done in a hurried manner.

The Taliban, which took over the base says it all – they will use the weapons, ammo and fuel the Americans left behind against the Americans themselves.

US military base under Taliban control

If the video does not play, click on the link above.

>Afghanistan – Vietnam Replayed

>During the Vietnam War last century, all the superior weaponry from the US could not match the simple bamboo stick (in the form of the punji stick). The punji stick is a sharpened bamboo cut and placed to form traps, hidden in the ground and were very effective against US infantry soldiers.

Today, we see in Afghanistan, a replay of David defeating Goliath. Again, all the sophisticated American weaponry is unable to match the deadly Improvised Explosive Device (IED), which is made from simple fertilizers and diesel. What makes them so deadly is that because there are no metallic parts, the Americans’ sophisticated mine-identifying machines are rendered useless. Note that the punji sticks were also difficult to locate.

IED attacks in Afghanistan more lethal
Excerpt:

WASHINGTON — Attacks on U.S. and allied forces with makeshift bombs in Afghanistan are 50% more lethal than three years ago, reflecting insurgents’ use of more powerful explosives and the increased vulnerability of troops who patrol more on foot than in the past.

Lt. Gen. Michael Oates, director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Defeat Organization, told a House subcommittee that the casualty rate was “disturbing” and half that of troops hit by IEDs in Iraq.

Overall, IED attacks have doubled over the past year in Afghanistan, Oates said. It was even worse when comparing February 2010 with February 2009, attributed in part to a Marine-led offensive in the town of Marjah in Helmand province. This year, insurgents planted 721 bombs compared with 291 last year. Those attacks killed or wounded 204 troops this February compared with 51 in February 2009.

Below is a link to a video clip showing you that it costs only US$10 each to make these IEDs. These devices can paralyze million dollar US tanks. It didn’t cost much to the Viets making those punji traps too, did it? It costs the Taliban just $10 to destroy million-dollar U.S. military vehicles.

The purpose of the Afghan Invasion is to secure the land to build an oil pipeline from the Caspian through Afghanistan. It was never about Osama or terror. Same with Iraq, where the purpose is to secure oil. Not about Saddam.

In the eyes of Afghan civilians, the US is the oppressor while Afghan militants are simply fighting for their land back. Hey, that’s the way the Viets saw it too, no?