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Independent
I read endlessly here about how western media can't be trusted, is controlled by Zionists etc. Sister Shaden tells us she knows better, she knows what's happening 'on the ground'. Yet her sources aren't so great. They don't seem to have noticed the complete absence of a gas pipeline that's supposed to be stretching several thousand kilometres across central Asia.
I've only ever seen you draw satisfaction out of overly simplistic conclusions!
I'd hate to repeat myself but the problem indeed lies with your reading comprehension and lack of three dimensional understanding - I can't decide if that's the sphere you naturally orbit or just under pretense but don't care either way!
Do try for some intellectual honesty if you wish to be viewed as something other than a paid net troll!
Even cheesy resources like wikipedia state:
The roots of this project lie in the involvement of international oil companies in
Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan beginning of 1990s. As
Russia, who controlled all export pipelines of these countries, consistently refusing to allow the use of its pipeline network, these companies needed an independent export route avoiding both
Iran and Russia
.
Since the pipeline was to pass through Afghanistan, it was necessary to work with the Taliban. The U.S. ambassador to Pakistan,
Robert Oakley, moved into CentGas in 1997. In January 1998, the
Taliban, selecting CentGas over Argentinian competitor
Bridas Corporation, signed an agreement that allowed the proposed project to proceed. In June 1998, Russian
Gazprom relinquished its 10% stake in the project. On 7 August 1998,
American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam were bombed under the direction of
Osama bin Laden, and all pipeline negotiations halted, as the Taliban's leader,
Mullah Mohammad Omar, announced that Osama bin Laden had the Taliban's support. Unocal withdrew from the consortium on 8 December 1998, and soon after closed its offices in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
[citation needed]
After
September 11 attacks some conspiracy theorists claimed that possible motivation of the attacks include justifying the
invasions of Afghanistan as well as
geostrategic interests such as the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline project.
[8] The new deal on the pipeline was signed on 27 December 2002 by the leaders of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
[9] In 2005, the Asian Development Bank submitted the final version of a feasibility study designed by British company
Penspen. ‘Since the US-led offensive that ousted the Taliban from power,’ reported
Forbes in 2005, "the project has been revived and drawn strong US support" as it would allow the Central Asian republics to export energy to Western markets "without relying on Russian routes
which explains both Russian and U.S interest in the region and I also recall writing in so many words that it doesn't matter what the warlords do, since Afghanistan has always been the graveyard of empires. They enter but they don't achieve their goals and die :ia:
Definitely not naivety since I have seen frank malice from your end - which is precisely way you've spoken in my voice with obvious conviction prior when you've no clue as to my beliefs religious or scientific and just prefer to waffle along as usual hoping if you flood us with enough BS it will take.
If your style had been slightly bit elegant and not straight out of your cubicle this might have been classified under slightly amusing!
Please quit referring to me as 'sister' I am no sister to you!
best,