56. Elie Krakowski, "The Afghan Vortex," IASPS Research Papers in Strategy, April
2000. No. 9,
57. "Asia's big oil rush: count us in," U.S. News & World Report, Sept 29, 1997, p.
42.
58. Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its
Geostrategic Imperatives (New York: Basic Books, 1997). A similar argument
that the control of vital resources is the key to global power and global warfare is
presented by Michael T. Klare, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global
Conflict (New York: Henry Holt, 2001).
59. Brzezinski is echoing the geopolitical theory of 19th-century British
geostrategist Halford Mackinder. See Christopher J. Fettweis, "Sir
Halford Mackinder, Geopolitics, and Policymaking in the 21st Century,"
Parameters, Summer 2000, pp. 58-71,
60. Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, p. 211.
61. Stuart Parrott, "Azerbaijan: International Conference Convened to Revive Silk
Road," Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, March 2, 1998,
62. Anne Applebaum, "Russia, Oil, and Conspiracy Theories," Slate, November 27,
2001,
63. Quoted by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, "Afghanistan, the Taliban, and the United
States: The Role of Human Rights in Western Foreign Policy," Institute for
Policy Research & Development, January 2001,
64. Josh Martin, "Pipeline wrangle continues," The Middle East, May 1997, n267
p24(2).
65. New York Times, May 26, 1997.
66. Wall Street Journal, May 23, 1997.
67. Institute for Afghanistan Studies, "CIA worked in tandem with Pak to create
Taliban," March 7, 2001,
68. Quoted by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, "Afghanistan, the Taliban and the United
States: The Role of Human Rights in Western Foreign Policy," Institute for
Policy Research & Development, January 2001,
69. Thomas E. Ricks and Susan B. Glasser, "U.S. Operated Secret Alliance With
Uzbekistan," Washington Post, October 14, 2001,
70. Quoted by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, "Afghanistan, the Taliban and the United
States: The Role of Human Rights in Western Foreign Policy," Institute for
Policy Research & Development, January 2001,
71. Statement of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, "U.S. Policy toward
Afghanistan," hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on
South Asia, April 14, 1999,
72. Testimony of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, "Global Terrorism: South
Asia — The New Locus," hearing before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, 106th Congress, 2nd Session, July 12, 2000, 106-173, p. 22.
73. U.S. Department of State, "Fact Sheet: Humanitarian Aid to the Afghan
People," October, 15, 2001,
74. Julio Godoy, "US policy on Taliban influenced by oil," Asia Times Online,
November 20, 2001,
75. Godoy.
76. "Asia's big oil rush: count us in," U.S. News & World Report, Sept 29, 1997, p.
42; R. Jeffrey Smith, "U.S., Russian Paratroops Join in Central
Asian Jump; Exercise Shows Airborne Units' Long Reach,"
Washington Post, Sept 16, 1997, p. A12.
77. Thomas E. Ricks and Susan B. Glasser, "U.S. Operated Secret Alliance with
Uzbekistan," Washington Post, October 14, 2001,
78. Bob Woodward, "Secret CIA Units Playing a Central Combat Role,"
Washington Post, November 18, 2001, p. A-1,
79. Rahul Bedi, "India joins anti-Taliban coalition," Jane's, March 15, 2001,
80. "India in anti-Taliban military plan," Indiareacts.com, June 26, 2001,
81. George Arney, "US 'planned attack on Taleban,'" BBC, September 18, 2001,
82. Jonathan Steele, Ewen MacAskill, Richard Norton-Taylor and Ed Harriman,
"Threat of US strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack," Guardian,
September 22, 2001,
83. Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, p. 211.
84. Ostrovsky made the accusation in his By Way of Deception: The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990). For a review by Joe Sobran, see "Allies don't let our soldiers die: Did Israel
deliberately allow 241 American Marines to die?",
85. Patrick Seale, Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire (New York: Random House,
1992).
86. Doron Geller, "The Lavon Affair," Jewish Virtual Library,
87. Rowan Scarborough, "US troops would enforce peace under Army study," Washington Times, September 10, 2001, pp. A1, A9,
88. The initial 4,000 figure was reported in "Hundreds of Israelis missing in WTC attack," Jerusalem Post, September 12, 2001,
89. Yossi Melman, "5 Israelis detained for `puzzling behavior' after WTC tragedy," Ha'aretz, September 17, 2001,
90. This story was quickly erased from the Fox News Website but still appears elsewhere on the web. See "Carl Cameron Reports," December 12, 2001,
91. Richard A. Seranno and John-Thor Dahlburg, "Officials Told of 'Major Assault' Plans," Los Angeles Times, September 20, 2001,
92. "German Minister's Interview Rips 911 Case Open," Rense.Com, posted
January 16, 2002,
93. Stephen J. Sniegoski, "The Case for Pearl Harbor Revisionism," Occidental Quarterly 1:2 (Winter 2001),
94. Ivan Eland: "Does U.S. Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism? The
Historical Record," Cato Foreign Policy Briefing No. 50, December 17, 1998,
http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/dev_xyz/conflict/afghan_vortex_iasps_2000.htm. [Hitting this link currently seems to produce odd results. — ed.]
http://carlisle-
www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/00summer/fettweis.htm.
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/1998/03/F.RU.980302143024.html.
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2059026.
http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/AFGHAN%20CONFLICT/TALIBAN/afghanistan%20taliban%20and%20us.htm. [Hitting this link currently seems to produce odd results. — ed.]
http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/dev_xyz/news/2001_03_07_ians_harrison.htm. [Hitting this link currently seems to produce odd results. — ed.]
http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/AFGHAN%20CONFLICT/TALIBAN/afghanistan%20taliban%20and%20us.htm.
http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/5491-7.cfm;
Bob Woodward, "Secret CIA Units Playing a Central Combat Role," Washington Post, November 18, 2001, p.
A-1,
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/CIA18.html; and
Barton Gellman, "Broad Effort Launched After '98 Attacks," Washington Post, December 19,
2001,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62725-2001Dec18.
http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/AFGHAN%20CONFLICT/TALIBAN/afghanistan%20taliban%20and%20us.htm. [Hitting this link currently seems to produce odd results. — ed.]
http://www.wapha.org/dana.html;
Kevin Foley and Julie Moffett, "Afghanistan: U.S. Denies It Secretly Supports
Taliban," Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, April 15, 1999,
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/1999/04/F.RU.990415123406.html.
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/01101504.htm;
Brett Schaefer, "Afghanistan's Worst Enemy," Heritage Foundation,
http://www.heritage.org/views/2001/ed110601.html.
http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/CK20Ag01.html;
"Three reviews of Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie,"
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/wot/bl_tft.htm.
http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/5491-7.cfm.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/CIA18.html.
http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jir/jir010315_1_n.shtml.
http://www.indiareacts.com/archivefeatures/nat2.asp?recno=10∓ctg=policy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1550000/1550366.stm.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4262511,00.html.
http://www.codoh.com/zionweb/zionsob241die.html.
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/lavon.html;
David Hirst, "The Lavon Affair," Excerpts from his book The Gun and the Olive Branch, (Futura
Publications, 1977, 1984),
http://www.mideastfacts.com/lavon_hirst.html; and
Livia Rokach, Israel's Sacred Terrorism (Belmont, Mass.: AAUG Press Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc.,
1986), Chapter 7, "The Lavon Affair",
http://www.codoh.com/zionweb/zisacredterror/zilavon7.html.
http://www.iiie.net/Sept11/MossadTargetsUS.html.
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/09/12/News/News.34692.html;
Ed Toner, "Evidence of Mossad Treachery in the WTC," November 25, 2001,
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/01/11/WTC_DeathRoll2.html.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=75266&sw=mockery;
Scott DaVault, Urban Moving Systems and Detained Israelis,
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/sears.html; and
"The Stories of 9/11 the American Media Hopes You Forget,"
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/forget.html.
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/01/12/Israelis/spies1.html; and
Michael Collins Piper, American Free Press, "Israel Conducts Massive Spying Operation in U.S.," December 24, 2001,
http://www.geocities.com/denverspiritualcommunity/AmericanFreePress/AFPNewsDec01.htm#anchor14658.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092001probe.story; and
David Wastell and Philip Jacobson, "Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of large-scale terror attacks," (London) Sunday Telegraph,
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F09%2F16%2Fwcia16.xml.
http://www.rense.com/general19/minis.htm.
http://www.charlesmartelsociety.org/toq/vol1no2/ss-pearlharbor.html.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb-050es.html.