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protect freedom impeach bush now Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 07:53 PM
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Cheney instructed FBI in Jan 2001 to back-off Bin Laden investigation
http://www.btinternet.com/%7Enlpwessex/Documents/WATinquirychaos.htm

In particular disclosure would almost certainly have placed further public attention on Kissinger's role as an adviser to US oil company Unocal and its relationship with the Taliban in Afghanistan (more details below).

But this would not have simply been a personal embarrassment to Kissinger. The Unocal trail leads directly to Enron and then on towards Vice President Dick Cheney.

Former federal war crimes prosecutor John Loftus already claims knowledge of paperwork confirming secret dealings between Enron and the Taliban. According to Loftus an al-Qaeda document on this subject was discovered in 1998 by FBI counter-terrorism chief, John O'Neil, following the US embassy bombings in Africa.

The real dynamite, however, is that Loftus also claims that Cheney instructed the FBI in January 2001 to back-off investigations of al-Qaeda in order to protect Enron's interest in the development of a gas pipeline through Afghanistan. That pipeline was originally due to be built by Unocal, with no less than Henry Kissinger himself hired by them to advise on the project.

O'Neil resigned from the FBI in the summer of 2001 in protest at the attempts by the Bush administration to obstruct him in his pursuit of al-Qaeda - and the rest, as they say, is history. Or not quite.

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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 07:56 PM
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1. Huh. I figgured it would be Poppy.
Since he was, ahem, thick as thieves with the Bin Ladens.
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MGKrebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 07:59 PM
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2. Man, I hope somebody, somewhere,
made a copy of those documents.

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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 10:08 PM
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3. Nixon, Kissinger, Rumsfeld ... these guys go WAY back
and what bothers me about so many people thinking that simply voting them out of power is going to really make them go away is exactly this.

They're not going anywhere, even if we vote them out of power. They're still major power players. Hell, they're probably more dangerous behind the scenes.

These guys need to be in jail. Or dealt with in an "extremely prejudicial" way.
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