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The Vietnam War was prosecuted by men who were close to In the late 1970s, with the Soviet discovery of vast untapped oil Roosevelt and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and who in Chechnya, the region was ripe for exploitation but control over had long voiced a desire to gain control over Indochina's oil, mag- Afghanistan was needed to ensure the safety of a pipeline to bring nesium and rubber assets. Again a provocation was created. In the oil to world markets. But after almost 10 years of brutal, no- August 1964, President Lyndon Johnson whipped Congress into a quarter fighting against Afghans and Arab mercenaries including frenzy by claiming that North Vietnamese gunboats had attacked Osama bin Laden, and backed by the US, the Soviets were forced the US Sixth Fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam. to withdraw. The economic stress of this Russo-Afghan War was "Our boys are floating in the water," he cried. enough to topple communism in the early 1990s. Congress responded by passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Now the international bankers and oilmen have a foothold in which bypassed the Constitution and gave Johnson the power to cash-strapped Russia, and the estimated $40 billion in Caspian wage war to stop attacks on Americans. It was the beginning of _ Sea oil is again attracting serious attention. In 1997, six interna- the real-shooting Vietnam War. tional companies and the Government of Turkmenistan formed And it was all a lie. No evidence has ever been brought for- Central Asian Gas Pipeline Ltd (CentGas) to build a 790-mile- ward that such an attack took place. In fact, editors for US News long pipeline to Pakistan and perhaps on to the New Delhi area of & World Report (July 23, 1984) called it "The 'Phantom Battle’ India. Leading this consortium was Unocal Corporation, whose that Led to War". president, John F. Imle, Jr, said the project would be "the founda- While America was waging war against tion for a new commerce corridor for the North Vietnam, which we were told was region—often referred to as the Silk Road for merely a puppet of communist Russia and the 21st century". China, Johnson was encouraged by his CFR But problems developed with the funda- advisers to grant the Soviet Union loans at mentalist Muslim government in higher levels than offered during World War Afghanistan, not the least of which was the II when they were our ally. US-backed loans H Taliban government's treatment of women provided Russia with the means to build Today it can be which prompted feminist demonstrations facilities which turned out war materials that demonstrated that against firms seeking to do business there. were then sent to North Vietnam for use wae . Additionally, the Taliban regime was creat- against American troops. This was a good military action ing chaotic conditions by pitting the various example of the duplicity of our modern wars. . . Islamic sects against each other in order to The Gulf War was all about oil, from the against Afghanistan maintain control. In mid-1999, Unocal with- wells in Kuwait slant-drilling into Iraq's i drew from the pipeline consortium, citing the southern reserves to the destruction of was In the works hazardous political situation, and the long before the the oilfields at its finish. Here we project languished. found a new Hitler in Saddam Hussein, Notice that in President George W. September 11 attacks. an enemy armed and financed by the Bush's declaration of War on Terrorism, CIA—an agency whose top officials he never mentioned terrorists in have long been connected to oilmen, Northern Ireland or Palestinian suicide CFR members and other globalists (see bombers. Attention was focused only Rule by Secrecy). on Afghanistan, the one nation neces- Saddam Hussein, strapped for cash sary to complete the lucrative pipeline. due to his eight-year war against Iran It should also be noted that Vice on behalf of the US, decided to regain President Dick Cheney headed Kuwait as a means of increasing his Halliburton, a giant oil industry service income. Kuwait had been carved out of company with vested interests in the southern Iraq by British troops. When region, and he is generally thought to be asked her thoughts on this move, US Ambassador April Glaspie more powerful than the President. replied that the US Government had "no opinion" and that the matter of Kuwait was not associated with America. But when he AFGHAN ACTION PLANNED LONG AGO moved his troops into Kuwait, President George H. W. Bush Today it can be demonstrated that military action against mobilised a United Nations force against him, backed by a US$4 Afghanistan was in the works long before the September 11 billion secret fund provided by his business associates in Saudi attacks. Arabia. As reported by the BBC's George Arney, former Pakistan Yet, as those patriotic soldiers closed in on Saddam, the whole Foreign Secretary Niaz Naik was alerted by American officials in war stopped and George H. W. Bush's old business partner is still mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would be in power. It appears to have been yet another provocation. And launched by mid-October. as in Vietnam, even as we prepared to fight against Saddam, the At a UN-sponsored meeting concerning Afghanistan in Berlin, American taxpayers backed $500 million in loans that Bush used Naik was informed that unless bin Laden were handed over, to purchase arms for use against our forces. America would take military action either to kill or capture both him and Talihan landae Mullah Omar ac tha i Today it can be demonstrated that military action against Afghanistan was in the works long before the September 11 a oe oe “attacks. AFGHAN ACTION PLANNED LONG AGO Today it can be demonstrated that military action against Afghanistan was in the works long before the September 11 attacks. As reported by the BBC's George Arney, former Pakistan Foreign Secretary Niaz Naik was alerted by American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would be launched by mid-October. At a UN-sponsored meeting concerning Afghanistan in Berlin, Naik was informed that unless bin Laden were handed over, America would take military action either to kill or capture both him and Taliban leader Mullah Omar as the initial step in installing a new government there. In a 1998 interview published in the French publication Le Nouvel Observateur (the significant portions of which never made it to the United States), former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted that American activities in CASPIAN SEA OIL COVETED Today the real issue is the rich oil reserves of the Caspian Sea region—the prize sought by Hitler, whose drive to that area was stopped only by the tenacious Russian defence of the Volga River city of Stalingrad. 14 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com DECEMBER 2001 — JANUARY 2002