My Complete 9/11 Time Line
Compiled by John Heartson
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1906: Texas Oil Company registers the trademark name, "Texaco"
production in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia
1930s: Rocky Mountain division of Pacific Western, a Getty subsidiary, begins
oil exploration in Saudi Arabia
1933: Pacific Western wins Saudi Arabia concession SOCAL (Standard Oil Co. of
California) discovers oil in Saudi Arabia
1936: Texaco joins with SOCAL (later Chevron), to found the Arab-American
Oil Company [Aramco] Texaco purchases half interest in Bahrain Petroleum and
California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (Calarabian) from SOCAL
California-Texas company, Caltex, founded as a joint venture between SOCAL and
Texaco as outlet for future oil production in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia
1949: Getty’s Western Pacific Oil Corporation signs concession for Saudi
half of the Neutral Zone with Saudi government
1953: Getty acquires Tidewater Oil
1953: The Shah (of Iran) was brought to power by the CIA in 1953 and kept
there with billions of dollars in U.S. weaponry
1954: Consortium of oil companies, including British Petroleum, Exxon,
Socony, Texas Oil, Socal, Gulf, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and CFP form the
Iranian Oil Participants Ltd. (IOP) and negotiate agreement with Iranian
government and for oil production in Iran
1954: Bill Liedtke, John Overby, and George Bush form Zapata Offshore Oil
Company
1956: All of J. Paul Getty’s oil holdings organized under Getty Oil 1956:
Texas Oil Company acquires Regent Oil, a British company
1961: SOCAL buys Standard of Kentucky
1963: Pennzoil Company is formed through consolidation of South Penn Oil
Company, STETCO Petroleum Corporation and Zapata (Geo Bush) Offshore Oil
Company
1965: Pennzoil (Bush) Company acquires United Gas Corporation
1971: Gulf purchases 10% in Syncrude Canada Limited
1972: At the request of the Shah, Nixon and Kissinger agreed to supply
Kurdish rebels with millions of dollars in military hardware (May 1975)
1972 The US produced and stockpiled weapons containing anthrax prior to the
Biological Weapons Convention but has destroyed them.
http://www.intelbriefing.com/afi/afi011009.htm
Jan 23, 1973 Shah of Iran announces that the 1954 operating agreement between a
consortium of oil companies and Iran will not be renewed when it expires in
1979. The consortium was formed in 1954 as a means to settle a dispute between
a new ministry in Iran and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC). The consortium
included Standard Oil of New Jersey, Standard Oil of California, SOCONY-Vacuum,
the Texas Company, Gulf, Royal Dutch-Shell, the Compagnie Francaise de
Petroles, and the AIOC.
October 19, 1973: Oil embargo begins
March 18, 1974: Oil embargo ends
1974: Bahraini government acquires 60% interest in BAPCO
Jan 13, 1975 Business Week publishes Kissinger interview hinting at military action
against oil countries in case of "actual strangulation."
1976: The elder George Bush becomes director of the Central Intelligence
Agency, a post he retained for one year.
1975: Iran and the U.S. signed an accord that required Iran to buy $15 billion
in U.S. goods and services over the next five years. That agreement was the
largest of its kind in history (until Sept 1990 when Geo Bush proposed his $20
billion arms deal with the Saudis)
March 1975: for three years the Kurdish resistance was supported by $16 million
from the U.S. and millions from Iran. In March 1975 the Shah met with Iraq's
vice president, Saddam Hussein, and negotiated peace -- on the condition that
the U.S. and Iran abandon their support for the Kurds, which was done
immediately. The day after the treaty was signed, Iraq went on the offensive,
attacking the Kurdish rebels, and within a week the Kurds cabled this message
to the CIA: Complete destruction is hanging over our head. No explanation for
this. We appeal [to] you and [the] USG[overnment] to intervene according to
your promises..." And the Kurds sent Kissinger this message: "Our
movement and people are being destroyed in an unbelievable way with silence
from everyone. We feel Your Excellency that the U.S. has a
moral and political responsibility toward our people who have committed
themselves to your country's policy." Neither the CIA nor Kissinger
responded to these pleas. Hundreds were killed and thousands of Kurds -- men,
women and children, many barefoot with only the clothes on their backs -- were
forced to flee Iraq over the mountains for Iran. According to a 1976 report by
the House Select Committee on Intelligence (known as the Pike Report),
"Over 200,000 refugees managed to escape into Iran. --Neither the U.S. nor
Iran extended adequate humanitarian assistance. In fact, Iran was later to forcibly return over
40,000 of the refugees, and the U.S. government refused to admit even one
refugee into the U.S. by way of political asylum, even though they qualified
for such admittance." When the Pike Committee questioned
Kissinger on his role in betraying the Kurds, His Excellency responded,
"Covert Action should not be confused with missionary work."
[Senator
Kerrey Speaks on Government/Media Complicity: by Joel Bleifuss and Senator Bob
Kerrey]
1976: Amnesty International reported that Iran had the "highest rate of
death penalties in the world, no valid system of civilian courts and a history
of torture which is beyond belief. No country in the world has a worse record
in human rights than Iran." And no country was a better friend to Iran
than the U.S. .
1977 Smallpox was officially declared eradicated by the World Health
Organization, after treating the last known case in Merca, Somalia.
1977: George W. Bush founds a Midland-based company that puts together
private partnerships for oil drilling ventures, known as Arbusto Exploration.
[CNN]
1978: George W. Bush runs for the U.S. House of Representatives. He wins the
Republican primary but loses the race. [CNN}
Ken Lay contributes handsomely to Bush's 1978 congressional campaign sixteen years before Bush told the press he got to know the man on 10 January 2002. ("Bush Caught Red-Handed in Lie to American People", http://www.mediawhoresonline.com/ )
Ken Lay contributes handsomely to Bush's 1978 congressional campaign sixteen years before Bush told the press he got to know the man on 10 January 2002. ("Bush Caught Red-Handed in Lie to American People", http://www.mediawhoresonline.com/ )
1978 Wolf Szmunes, the National Institutes of Health and the Center for
Disease Control (CDC) experimented on more than 1000 nonmonogamous men with
vaccines, designed by Merck and other pharmacy companies
June 1978 Iran and Saudi Arabia block efforts of OPEC price hawks to fix the
price of OPEC oil in a currency more stable than the U.S. dollar. Say world
economy cannot support associated price increases. Are accused by hawks of
being U.S. agents.
Sept 1978 Shah puts Iran under military rule. Muslim leader Noori arrested in
crackdown of opposition groups.
Jan 1979 Shah leaves Iran on vacation, never to return. Bakhtiar government
established by the Shah to preside until unrest subsides. One million Iranians
march in Teheran in a show of support for the exiled Ayatollah Komeini,
fundamental Muslim leader.
Mar 5, 1979 Iran resumes petroleum exports.
Spring 1979 Gasoline shortage/world oil glut.
Nov 4, 1979 Iran takes western hostages.
Nov 12, 1979 Carter orders cessation of Iranian imports to U.S.
Nov 15, 1979 Iran cancels all contracts with U.S. oil companies.
1980: Bahraini government acquires remaining interest in BAPCO
Karzai,
the leader of the southern Afghan Pashtun Durrani tribe, was a member of the
mujaheddin that fought the Soviets during the 1980s. He was a top contact for
the CIA and maintained close relations with CIA Director William Casey, Vice
President George Bush, and their Pakistani Inter Service Intelligence (ISI)
Service interlocutors. Later, Karzai and a number of his brothers moved to the
United States under the auspices of the CIA. Karzai continued to serve the
agency's interests, as well as those of the Bush Family and their oil friends
in negotiating the CentGas deal, according to Middle East and South Asian
sources. [The Blacklisted Journalist 4/1/02]
Sep 1980 Iraq breaks 1975 treaty with Iran and proclaims sovereignty over Shatt
al-Arab waterway. Iraq invades Iran. Mutual bombing of installations.Iraq
captures southern port of Khorramshahr.
1981: George Bush is sworn in as vice president under President Ronald
Reagan. Saudis flood market with inexpensive oil in, forcing unprecedented
price cuts by OPEC members. In October, all 13 OPEC members align on a
compromise $32 per barrel benchmark. Later, benchmark price is maintained, but
differentials are adjusted.
1980 - 1988: Iraq Iran at war
1982:, Arbusto (G.W. Bush oil Co) changes
its name to Bush Exploration Co. and goes public in an effort to generate
funds.
1984: SOCAL buys Gulf Corporation and after restructuring changes name to
Chevron Corporation, Texaco acquires Getty, Chevron buys Gulf. Bush Exploration
merges with Spectrum 7 Energy Corp.
1986, oil was $10 a barrel and our president's friends and colleagues who own
and operate the U.S. oil industry were finding it hard to maintain their way of
life. In spring of that year the former Texas oilman
and then-vice president went to Saudi Arabia and convinced King Fahd to agree,
along with Iran, to lower production. Within a few months the price of oil was
up to $20 a barrel.
1985-1989 "The Center for Disease Control (CDC) was responsible for most of
the shipments of lethal American-produced Biochemical Warfare agents that were
sold to Iran.." Source: Devon Jackson, NY Times/Village Voice
1986 – 1989: Milt Bearden, station commander managed America’s covert war in
Afghanistan, helping the Moujaheddin drive out the Soviets between 1986-1989.
1988: George W. Bush pitches an Enron gas pipeline in Argentina. Neil Bush
uses defrauded investors' money from Silverado to drill for oil in Argentina.
[http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MA00/argentina.html]
http://www.thegully.com/essays/argentina/010607bush_menem.html )
November 1988: Presidential Election,George Bush Sr. elected. A few weeks after the
U.S. presidential election in 1988, Terragno received a phone call from a
failed Texas oilman named George W. Bush, "He told me he had recently
returned from a campaign tour with his father," the Argentine minister
recalls. The purpose of the call was clear: to push Terragno to accept the bid
from Enron (http://www.ei.enron.com/presence/latin_america.html )....George W.
wasn't the only Bush plying the family name in Argentina. His brother Neil had
tried to funnel $900,000 in loans from Silverado Savings and Loan, where he
served as a director, into a failed attempt to drill for oil in Argentina. The
S&L eventually collapsed, costing taxpayers nearly $1 billion to bail out,
and federal regulators banned Neil from certain banking activities.
1989 (B): Bin Laden, having returned from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia and the
family business in 1989, moves to Sudan. With a personal fortune of around $250
million (estimates range from $50 to $800 million [Miami Herald, 9/24/01]), he begins plotting
terrorist attacks against the US. [New Yorker, 1/24/00]
1989: George Bush (Sr.) is sworn in as the president of the United States.
During that same year, George W. buys a 2 percent share of the Texas Rangers
baseball team for $600,000 in borrowed money. He serves as managing general
partner for five years, which nets him an additional 10 percent interest in the
team. [CNN]
1989, Vladimir Pasechnik defected from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to
Great Britain while on a trip to Paris. He had been the top scientist in the
FSU's bioweapons program, which is heavily dependent upon DNA sequencing. Dr.
Christopher Davis of Virginia, was the member of British intelligence who
de-briefed Dr. Pasechnik at the time of his defection Pasechnik spent the 10
years after his defection working at the Centre for Applied Microbiology and
Research at the UK Department of Health, Salisbury
June 1, 1990: Bush and other members of Harken Energy's audit board (including
Harken's president, former Arthur Andersen accountant Mikel Faulkner) meet with
Harken's accountants: Arthur Andersen. According to Robert Jordan, Bush's
lawyer during ensuing the SEC probe, neither the accountants nor the committee
members discuss the company's budget woes at this meeting --
despite
the fact that Harken is about to take a hefty $23.2 million loss for the second
quarter of the fiscal year, which is just ending. The minutes of the meeting
would verify this claim, Jordan will tell the Washington Post in a 1999
campaign profile of Bush. But Harken refuses to release those records.
("Bush and Andersen's Texas Two-Step",
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=floyd20020130 )
June 22, 1990: Bush dumps Harken stock just before $23.2 million loss is disclosed.
http://mediafilter.org/caq/BushFamilyPreys.html] On June 22, 1990, George
Jr.sold two-thirds of his Harken stock for $848,560 -- a cool 200 percent
profit. The move was well timed. One week after Junior sold his stock, Harken
announced a $23.2 million loss in quarterly earnings and Harken stock dropped
sharply, losing 60 percent of its value over the next six months.
July 24, 1990: April Glaspie US ambassador to Iraq, told
Saddam Hussein "...we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border
disagreement with Kuwait...we see the Iraqi point of view that the measures
taken by the U.A.E. and Kuwait is, in the final analysis, parallel to military
aggression against Iraq." ('N.Y. Times, 22 September, 1990) Then only one
day before the Iraq invasion into Kuwait, a State Department spokesperson
stated the U.S. did "not have any defense treaties with Kuwait, and there
are no special defense or security commitments to Kuwait."
Aug 2, 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait. Geo Bush orders troops to Saudi Arabia.
danger,
that we have as much at stake as we did in World War II. At this moment I
believe our military action was improperly rationalized, incompletely thought
out and dangerous. It is dangerous because it could provoke the war we seek to
prevent... One of the most disturbing assumptions in all of this is the one
that declares: If we do not defang Hussein now, he will just be back in a few
years to do the same thing. The assumption here is that we should remove with
force what we have never in earnest attempted to remove through other means.
Recall that not long ago our Commerce Department was cabling `Hooray for you!'
to American entrepreneurs seeking to export nuclear-weapons technology to
Iraq... Our men and women in uniform are dear enough that we owe them our last
full measure of candor before we ask them for their last full measure of
devotion... Imagine if [the president] had told us of his willingness to comply
with a Saudi request for armed support, but also shown us the intelligence
photographs which made Saudi fears credible... Imagine if he had told us of the need to take
arms to defend a new world order, but also explained exactly what that new
world order is... The new world order described vaguely by the president surely
does not mean a continuation of this old practice of selling weapons to the
enemy of our enemy... Twenty billion dollars [in arms sales to Saudi Arabia] is
a lot of money, Mr. President, for an economy struggling to keep its head above
the recessionary waters swirling around us. However, we should be careful --
very careful -- not to let our foreign policy be completely dominated by the
concerns of those who sell oil and weapons..." [Senator Kerrey Speaks on
Government/Media Complicity: by Joel Bleifuss and Senator Bob Kerrey]
1990: George W. Bush sells two-thirds of his stock in Harken Energy. Over the
next two months, Harken stock prices dropped in the wake of poor quarterly
earnings. Critics then questioned the timing of his sale, asking whether he had
advance warnings. In October 1993, a federal commission cleared him of any
wrong doing. [CNN]
1991 . With the departure of Bob Strauss, the firm (Akins, Gump, Strauss,
Hauer & Feld) amends its name to Akin,
Gump, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. [www.akingump.com] Founded in 1945, the firm
is a leading international law firm with more than 1,050 lawyers in offices in
the United States and Europe. The firm supports more than 50 practice groups
representing regional, national and international clients (This is the same
firm the Mr. Idris, owner of the Sudan pharmeceutical company bombed by US
cruise missles in 1998, used to fight the US, claiming no connection to
terrorism)
1991: (Osama)Bin Laden officially broke with the US in 1991 when US troops
began arriving in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm. Bin Laden felt
this was a violation of the Saudi regime's responsibility to protect the
Islamic Holy Shrines of Mecca and Medina from the infidels. (this turned out to
be a disinformation story) {Comment: US troops were
nowhere near the holy sites. They were specifically located away from these sensitive
religious sites.} Bin Laden's anti-American and anti-House of Saud
rhetoric soon reached a fever pitch.
The sacred
soil that the U.S. infidel soldiers supposedly desecrated was located in a
series of top secret facilities built during the 1980s by the U.S. military at
a cost (mostly to Saudi Arabia!) of - are you ready? - over 200 BILLION
dollars. This was the largest U.S. military construction project ever attempted
outside the continental USA. As a Public Television program (later) reported in
1993: http://emperors-clothes.com/news/probestop-i.htm
1991: Future National Security Advisor Rice joins Chevron's board of
directors, and works with Chevron until being picked as Bush's National
Security Advisor in 2001. Chevron names an oil tanker after her. {Comment: According to the San Francisco Gate
publication, in July 2001 Chevron was quietly asked to rename the 300,000
metric ton supertanker—I believe it is called the Atlantic Voyager.}
Rice is hired for her expertise in Central Asia, and much of her job is spent
arranging oil deals in the Central Asian region. Chevron also has massive
investments there, which grow through the 1990's. [Salon, 11/19/01]
November 6, 1991 Dissolution of Soviet Union; Last Kuwaiti oil fire is extinguished on
1991-1997: The Soviet Union collapses in 1991, creating many new nations in
Central Asia. Major US oil companies, including ExxonMobil, Texaco, Unocal, BP
Amoco, Shell and Enron, directly invest billions in these Central Asian
nations, bribing heads of state to secure equity rights in the huge oil
reserves in these regions. The oil companies commit to future direct
investments in Kazakhstan of $35 billion. These companies face the problem
however of having to pay exorbitant prices to Russia to use Russian pipelines
to get the oil out. These oil
fields have an estimated $6 trillion potential value. US companies own
approximately 75% of the rights. [New Yorker, 7/9/01, Asia Times, 1/26/02] FTW {Comment: US oil
companies are frustrated by their inability to make inroads into newly
established governments. Political environment not conducive to establishing
stable business. Lack of access and leverage cited.}
{NOTE: Most Saudi contracts, particularly
those involving defense contracts, stipulate that up to 30% of contract price
be "kicked back" to Saudi royal family as a "commission."
British contract for $30-billion Al Yamamah project provided for $9-billion in
"commissions" to Saudi royal family.}
The key to
the huge potential profits in Central Asia was distribution—how to transport
the oil and gas from this isolated, backward and landlocked region to the
world’s main energy markets. The only existing pipelines were those of the old
Soviet distribution network through Russia. As the scramble for resources in
the region intensified, the USwanted to undermine Russia’s economic monopoly,
making sure that other rivals were kept out of the race. The pipelines
therefore had to run through countries over which the US could exert
substantial political influence, which excluded China and Iran. [The Taliban,
the US and the resources of Central Asia]
1992: Bill Clinton defeated
incumbent George Bush and third party candidate Ross Perot in the 1992
presidential race.
1992: Government records show that Dugway has had the Ames strain since
1992. Dugway's production of dried anthrax is part of the government's secret
research program on how to defend against germ weapons, which gained momentum
in the late 1990's. The Clinton administration began a series of projects aimed
at understanding the nation's vulnerabilities to biowarfare and devising ways
combat the threats.
1992 Bob Strauss returns to the firm as a full name partner and the firm
happily becomes Akin Gump Strauss Hauer
Feld LLP once again. Akin Gump partner Vernon Jordan is named Chairman of
President Clinton's transition team. [www.akingump.com]
1992: Under Dick Cheney's direction, the Pentagon paid Texas-based Brown
& Root Services $3.9 million to produce a classified report detailing how
private companies -- like itself -- could help provide logistics for American
troops in potential war zones around the world. Brown & Root Services BRS
(a division of Halliburton) specializes in such work; from 1962 to 1972, for
instance, the company worked in the former South Vietnam building roads,
landing strips, harbors, and military bases. Later in 1992, the Pentagon gave
the company an additional $5 million to update its report. That same year, BRS
won a massive, five-year logistics contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers
to work alongside American GIs in places like Zaire, Haiti, Somalia, Kosovo,
the Balkans, and Saudi Arabia.
Nov. 1992: Several corporations -- including oil giants Exxon and Mobil as well
as J. P. Morgan and Chase Manhattan -- are clamoring to get into energy futures
market. Some of those companies ask Wendy Gramm, chairwoman of the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission and wife of Senator Phil Gramm, to exempt energy
derivative contracts and related swaps from government oversight. Gramm acts
quickly, scheduling a vote on the rule for January 1993, days before the
Clinton administration would take over. Boosted by her support, the proposed
rule passes. In five weeks whe will join the board of Enron. (" Enron made
a sound investment in Washington",
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020124/ts_usatoday/3799465&cid
=676 ;
"Enron's Web of Complex
1993-95. R. James Woolsey is the director of the CIA from 1993-95. He served as
an ambassador and United States representative to the Negotiation on
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna from 1989-91.
Feb. 16, 1993: Scott Armstrong: A $200 billion program that's basically put together and nobody's paying attention to it. It's-- it's the ultimate government off the books... " The Saudis have been the principal backers and financers of the largest armaments system that the world has ever seen, in any region of the world, that includes over $95 billion worth of weapons that they bought themselves, includes another $65 billion worth of military infrastructure and ports that they've put in. We've managed to create an interlocking system that has one master control base, five sub-control bases, any one of which is capable of operating the whole thing, that are in hardened bunkers, that are hard-wired, that is to say, against nuclear blast or anything else. They created nine major ports that weren't there before, dozens of airfields all over the kingdom. They have now hundreds of modern American fighter planes and the capability of adding hundreds more. The Saudis alone have spent $156 billion that I can document line by line, item by item, on weapons system and infrastructure to support this." (FRONTLINE Show #1112 Air Date: February 16, 1993 "The Arming of Saudi Arabia". Scott Armstrong is a top investigative reporter for the 'Washington Post']
(For official PBS WebPage for the show, click here; for the transcript, click here)
The
contracts for building those bases, ports, and airfields went in part to Saudi
construction companies. Osama's family company, Saudi Binladin Group (the name
is spelled differently but it's the same family) is intimate with the Saudi
royal family; moreover it is the biggest Saudi construction company (and also a
giant in the telecommunications field). http://emperors-clothes.com/news/probestop-i.htm
April 1993, Chevron concluded a historic $20 billion, 50/50 joint venture deal with
Kazakhstan to create the TENGIZCHEVOIL joint venture to develop the Tengiz oil
field, estimated to contain 6-9 billion barrels of oil. DOE/EIA Reports on the
Caspian 5/17/00 Page 9 Stalinist party boss, Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan
visited Washington and Houston November 18-20 and signed contracts with Texaco,
Mobil, Chevron and other US oil companies which are worth a staggering $600
billion over the next 40 years During his Washington visit, Nazarbayev was
honored at a private dinner in the exclusive Metropolitan Club, hosted by
longtime Democratic Party wheeler-dealer Robert Strauss, (of Law Firm: Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld) and attended by oil company CEOs, Clinton
crony Vernon Jordan, Energy Secretary Federico Pena, and media personalities
like Sam Donaldson--who led the toast to Nazarbayev--and William Safire.
[Sagebrush Saloon – Chevrons War]
1993: Pennzoil Company assimilates Chevron
June 1993: California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and Enron
begin their relationship in June. Each puts $250 million into Joint Energy
Development Investments (JEDI) The partnership will invest in an array of North
American natural gas businesses. ("CalPERS inadvertently linked to fall of
Enron", [www.sacbee.com/content/business/story/1517906p-1594346c.html ]
Keeping partnerships such as Jedi off its balance sheet was a paramount concern
for Enron. The company created
scores of
partnerships so it could keep their debts off its balance sheet. In Jedi's
case, as much as $711 million in debts were held off the books, according to
SEC filings.
July 1993 Oil prices plunge on speculation that Iraq will accept U.N. missile test
site inspections and receive approval to resume oil exports.
Sept 27, 1993 Nuclear Nonproliferation and Export Control Policy The President today
established a framework for U.S. efforts to prevent the proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction and the missiles that deliver them.
November 1993: The Indian government approves Enron's Dabhol power plant, located near
Bombay on the west coast of India. Enron has invested $3 billion, the largest
single foreign investment in India's history. Enron owns 65% of Dabhol. This
liquefied natural gas powered plant is supposed to provide one-fifth of India's
energy needs by 1997. [Asia Times, 1/81/01, Indian Express, 2/27/00]
1994, Jose Trias met with a friend in Houston, Texas and was planning to go
public with his personal knowledge of HHMI "front door" grants being
diverted to "back door" black ops bioresearch. The next day, Trias
and his wife were found dead in their Chevy Chase, Md. home. Chevy Chase is
where HHMI is headquartered. Police described the killings as a professional
hit. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) funds a tremendous number of
research programs at schools, hospitals and research facilities, and has long
been alleged to be conducting "black ops" biomedical research for
intelligence organizations, including the CIA.
1994: Pennzoil Company signs oil development deal with Qatar. Bush is elected
governor of Texas with 53.5 percent of the vote.
1994: Enron lobbies the Securities and Exchange Commission to receive an
exemption from the Public Utility Holding Company Act. The Depression-era law
was designed to prevent utilities from owning multiple plants in one geographic
area, allowing them to jack up rates. ("Enron made a sound investment in
Washington", http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020124/ts_usatoday/3799465&cid
=676 )
September 1994: In what was described as "the deal of the century," the
Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium (AIOC ) signed an $8 billion, 30-year
contract in September 1994 to develop three Caspian Sea fields—Azeri, Chirag,
and Guneshli—with total reserves estimated at 3-5 billion barrels. Oil
production is expected to reach 800,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) by the end of
the next decade. DOE/EIA Reports on the Caspian 5/17/00 Page 9
September 1994: Starting as Afghani exiles in
Pakistan religious schools, the Taliban begin their conquest of Afghanistan.
CNN reports, "The Taliban are widely alleged to be the creation of
Pakistan's military intelligence [the ISI]. Experts say that explains the Taliban's
swift military successes." The CIA also worked with the ISI to create the
Taliban. A regional expert with extensive CIA ties says: "I warned them
that we were creating a monster." After 9/11, the Wall Street Journal
states: "Despite their clean chins and pressed uniforms, the ISI men are
as deeply fundamentalist as any bearded fanatic; the ISI created the Taliban as
their own instrument and still supports it."
January 6, 1995: While investigating a possible assassination plan against the Pope,
Philippine police uncover plans for Operation Bojinka, an al-Qaeda operation
led by 1993 WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef and 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
The plan is to explode 12 passenger planes over the Pacific Ocean
simultaneously on January 21, 1995. If successful, up to 4,000 people would
have been killed. Plans found for a second phase of attacks are also found.
Planes would be hijacked and flown into buildings. The WTC, CIA headquarters,
Pentagon and the Sears Tower are specifically mentioned as targets. One pilot,
who learned to fly in US flight schools, confesses that his role was to crash a
plane into CIA headquarters.
http://coopertiveresearch.org/completetimeline/]
February 1995, US authorities named bin Laden and his Saudi brother-in-law, Mohammed Jamal
Khalifa, among 172 unindicted co-conspirators with the 11 Muslims charged for
the World Trade Center bombing and the associated plot to blow up other New
York landmarks." ('Jane's Intelligence Review,' 1 October 1995) (So bin
Laden is named as an unindicted co-conspirator a year before Sudan offered to
extradite him.)
1995: Pennzoil Company agrees to concession agreement withEgypt for Gulf of
Suez
Aug. 2, 1995 Saudi Arabia's King Fahd issues a decree replacing all members of the
Council of Ministers who do not have blood ties so the royal Family. While most
of the Council's top positions are unaffected by the reshuffling, Oil Minister
Hisham Nazer is replaced with Ali bin Ibrahim al-Naimi. (WSJ)
September 1995: After suffering military reversals in mid-1995, the Taliban re-armed
and reorganised with Pakistani assistance and in September 1995 entered Herat,
effectively clearing the road from Pakistan to Central Asia. The following
month, Unocal signed its pipeline deal with Turkmenistan. [The Taliban, the US
and the resources of Central Asia]
Publications
of the Center for Security Policy No. 95-D 71
DECISION BRIEF 2 October 1995
CASPIAN WATCH: RUSSIAN POWER-PLAYS ON 'EARLY OIL'
HALLMARK OF KREMLIN EXPANSIONISM PAST -- AND FUTURE? (Washington, D.C.)
.oil
companies from the United States, Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan), are scheduled
to make a strategically monumental decision: Through which countries will the
Consortium export the vast quantities of Azeri and other oil deposits it
expects to tap from Caspian Sea reserves estimated to rival those of the North
Sea and Alaskan North Slope, combined? At issue is whether Russia will enjoy
monopoly control over these oil flows -- and the attendant revenue streams? Or
will there ultimately be a southern, Western-oriented pipeline, for example,
through Georgia to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan? 'Great Game'
Redux…
The
Clinton Administration's mishandling of this issue is all the more appalling in
light of the obvious U.S. interests at stake in the decision to be announced in
Baku on 9 October. These include: Ensuring the free movement to international
markets of oil and gas from the Caspian Sea and Central Asia; Preserving the
independence and economic viability of former Soviet republics in the region --
and avoiding the de facto or de jure reconstitution of a southern-tier Soviet
Union; Thwarting political/military initiatives by Russia and Iran to wield
inordinate influence over pipeline routing decisions and other issues
fundamental to the development of these huge reserves; Strengthening secular
Muslim societies (notably, Turkey and Azerbaijan) against the predations of
Islamic extremism; and Protecting against further deterioration of the
sensitive ecosystems and waterways of the region (e.g., Turkey's imperilled
Bosphorus Straits)…….. Azerbaijan, on the other hand, recently concluded a
25-year multi-billion dollar deal with American oil companies, a development
evidently considered of little political importance in Washington. Relevant
congressional committees have also failed to give due consideration to the
strategic implications of the pending decisions concerning "early
oil" extracted from the Caspian Sea region. This is a particularly
regrettable oversight insofar as the near-term decisions will have momentous
long-term repercussions: To name one, who will control the world's second-
largest oil supplies for the industrialized democracies in the 21st century?
The Bottom
Line In light
of the high stakes and the inadequate attention this issue has received to date
from senior U.S. policy-makers, the Center for Security Policy will be
producing a "Caspian Watch" of periodic Decision Briefs dealing with
the upcoming decision and the repercussions that flow from it over time.
Meanwhile, the Center urges the executive and legislative branches in
Washington to accord the strategic Caspian Sea oil region the priority it
deserves -- and to start safeguarding U.S. interests increasingly in jeopardy
there.
October 21, 1995: The oil company Unocal signs a contract with Turkmenistan to
export $8 billion worth of natural gas through a $3 billion pipeline which
would go from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan. Political
considerations and pressures allow Unocal to edge out a more experienced
Argentinean company for the contract. Henry Kissinger, a Unocal consultant,
calls it "the triumph of hope over experience." [Washington Post, 10/5/98]
1995: Cheney became the CEO of Halliburton, a Dallas-based oil services giant
that also owns Brown & Root Services. Halliburton does business in at least
100 countries. In 1998, Business Week reported that Cheney had been "courting
politicians and business leaders through the booming Caspian Sea region in an
all-out effort to secure key political ties with Azerbaijan and Kazakstan.
Accounting for the world's third-largest oil reserves, the region is Cheney's
best hope to secure big contracts for a long time to come." Cheney has
succeeded. Along with the heads of Chevron and Texaco Inc., Cheney sits on
Kazakstan's Oil Advisory Board, which serves as a sounding board for the
country's president. Between 1992 and 1999, the Pentagon paid BRS more than
$1.2 billion for its work in trouble spots around the globe. In May of 1999,
the US Army Corps of Engineers re-enlisted the company's help in the Balkans,
giving it a new five-year contract worth $731 million.. Dick Cheney helped
broker the Chevron-Kazakhstan deal when he sat on the Kazakhstan Oil Advisory
Board in the mid-'90s (Amarillo Globe-News, June 13, 1998)
1996: FBI investigators are prevented from carrying out an investigation into
Abdullah and Omar bin Laden, two brothers of Osama. The FBI suspected the World
Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) was terrorist organization and Abdullah was the
US director of WAMY. Apparently the case involved espionage, murder, and
national security. Four of the 9/11 hijackers later lived only three blocks
from the WAMY offices near Washington DC, at the same time the two bin Laden
brothers were there. WAMY still has not been put on a list of terrorist
organizations in the US, but has been banned in Pakistan. A high-placed
intelligence official tells the Guardian: "There were always constraints
on investigating the Saudis. There were particular investigations that were
effectively killed." An unnamed US source says to the BBC, "There is
a hidden agenda at the very highest levels of our government." The Saudi Arabian government starts paying huge amounts of
money to al-Qaeda, becoming its largest financial backer. They also give money
to other extremist groups throughout Asia. This money vastly increases the
capability of al-Qaeda. US officials later
privately complain "that the Bush Administration, like the Clinton
Administration, is refusing to confront this reality, even in the aftermath of
the September 11th terrorist attacks."
[http://coopertiveresearch.org/completetimeline/]
1996: Dr. Christopher Davis of Virginia left British intelligence service in
1996 Davis was the member of British intelligence who de-briefed
(microbiologist) Dr. Pasechnik when he defected (Dr. Pasechnik was a top
scientist in the FSU's bioweapons program, which is heavily dependent upon DNA
sequencing)
To be continues:
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