Reply #28: Thanks. Unocal assisted Osama.

[Carl Brennan]

Unocal assists Osama, Unocal higher up Robert Oakley is/was Ambassador to Pakistan. Unocal assists Osama: http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/afgnstan/afgn11.htm

"An analyst for the International Institute of Strategic Studies wrote: "The Saudis started financing the Taliban as an anti-Iranian force. Some observers believe that the US perceived them as useful, not only for enforcing the US containment of Iran, but also providing it with a new niche to secure ideological leverage against the anti-US forces of Islam in the region, and for expanding Washington's access to Central Asian resources. At least two international consortia-one led by UNOCAL of the US and Delta oil of Saudi Arabia, and another by Bridas of Argentina perceived the Taliban as potentially helpful as a source of security in their bid to construct a $2.5 billion pipeline across Afghanistan to export gas from Turkmenistan to South Asia.
"As the Saudis pumped millions of dollars into their budget, mostly through Pakistan's ISI, as US officials established regular contacts with the militia leaders, as UNOCAL dubbed the Taliban take-over as a 'positive development', and as the drug traffickers made lucrative deals with them, the Taliban became unstoppable."