This is for archive as to 9/11.
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In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at
04:54:14PM -0000
The invasion of Afghanistan was definitely planned before 9-11.
U.S. diplomats announced at a quiet meeting in Berlin in July 2001
that Bush would attack Afghanistan by October of that year.
http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4774
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1550366.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1550000/audio/_1550366_afghan01_arney.ram
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4261737,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,556279,00.html
Note that both of the U.S. government web pages linked to in
the Indymedia article have been removed.
The authors of these articles, written soon after 9-11, were
under the impression that warning at this meeting of the
invasion, conveyed to bin Laden via Pakistan and the Taliban,
"provoked" him to carry out the 9-11 attacks. However, we now
know, from the defense stand-down, Pentagon damage details, and
many other pieces of evidence, that 9-11 was perpetrated by
agents of the Bush Neocon junta. Here is a gateway to 9-11
research sites containing this evidence:
http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911
The real reasons for invading Afghanistan were to build
the Unocal pipeline to exploit Caspian Sea oil deposits
(specifically needed to bail out a failing Enron power plant in
Dabhol, India), restart heroin production in the area (which the
Taliban had stopped), and terrorize the world with a capricious
display of mass murder by the U.S. government and military.
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