September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

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. 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Center and the Pentagon, Unocal announced it had withdrawn from the Afghanistan pipeline project.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.” [March 4, 2002, American Patriot
Friends Network]
The evidence suggests:
1. The intelligence block was unnecessary to protect Enron and Unocal, unless their
agents were engaged in negotiations that could not be made public because they were
illegal. The pipeline was a done deal, despite common perceptions in the press;
2. The attack on the WTC was not required to cement the pipeline deal.
• The pro-Russian opposition leadership of the Northern Alliance had been
assassinated (Abdul Haq and AhmadShah Masood), as had key Taliban
resistance.
• the Taliban had been bought off;
“the chief Taliban leader based in Kandahar, Mullah Mohammed Omar, now on America's
international Most Wanted List, was firmly in the UNOCAL camp.… Mullah Omar knew
UNOCAL had pumped large sums of money to the Taliban hierarchy in Kandahar and its
expatriate Afghan supporters in the United States. Some of those supporters were also close to
the Bush campaign and administration. And Kandahar was the city near which the CentGas
pipeline was to pass, a lucrative deal for the otherwise desert outpost…” [Provisional leader
Karzai links to US Oil, Indymedia Somewhere, Wayne Madsen, January 21, 2002]
• The Pakistanis while very pro Taliban, were more pro-Pakistani, and knew the
pipeline meant large dividends for them. Payoffs to the Pakistanis – especially
the by the Saudis measured in the hundreds of millions.
This should suggest that if the intelligence block and the attack on the WTC were
unnecessary to secure the Afghan pipeline, both were needed for something else. This
report concludes that while the attack on Afghanistan was part of a larger strategy, the
attack was not a necessity as reported by a large school of conspiracy theorists. The deal
was sealed. It was a fait accompli. An attack on the WTC was not necessary to secure the
pipeline, but was more of a coup de grace for any vestige of resistance. It was not the oil
negotiations that were being covered up by the “intelligence block” –but the illegal
money behind the negotiations. Most importantly, the decision to destroy the WTC was
made long before the crisis in pipeline negotiations occurred in mid-1999. The
recruitment of Atta’s hijackers was already underway.
4.6 Afghan Heroin
Unocal – as part of the negotiations with the Taliban up until the attack – had a
documented record of supporting local warlord business enterprises in Asia, which
resulted in dealing with drugs and money laundering
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