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| Many the Afghani experts have asked a question, why the Taliban has allowed radical extremists to use the Afghani territory to spend acts of terrorism on the western purposes, when the profitable transaction with the pipeline was were finished. It also after the senior member of the cabinet of the Taliban has publicly declared, that economic and social future Afghanistan’s almost completely depended on the ability to become the reliable pipeline for riches of energy of Central Asia. The transit role “The could be stretched out of oil and gas, to trade in food, consumer goods and service points,” the Minister have told by the Kabul Radio shortly after the Taliban delegation has come back from Texas. |
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We know, that they did not visit country bars end a western. And, to avoid podverganija to the Texas women in tank tops, they have spent actually all time indoors, either in their hotel rooms or in boardrooms huge multinational Unocal. Eventually, at visiting the Taliban delegation was only one thing on their minds: business to construct a gas pipeline from Afghanistan-Turkmenia borders in the north on hungry energy the markets of Pakistan and India in the south.
It was in the end of 1997, after some short months after the Taliban took Kabul under the control. The taliban has been, of course, expelled from the Afghani capital in final weeks 2001. And since then, West favorable Hamid Karzai tried to bring similarity of a public order to its country. But the building of that gas pipeline is also still very much on the agenda.
In 1998, after attacks with application of explosives on the American embassies in East Africa, business Unocal for the Pipeline of Afghanistan of the transaction was is taken from a table, officially. Informally, however, connected with the first feasibility report on a gas pipeline have continued to search for ways to begin the project. “The struggle for Central oil and gas riches Asia’s, has just begun,” the representative for consortium Unocal has explained to reporters at a briefing in Islamabad, Pakistan, in 1997. “This - only the first project of the pipeline, and a pipeline network through Central Asia - potentially explosive judgement.”
Many the Afghani experts have asked a question, why the Taliban has allowed radical extremists to use the Afghani territory to spend acts of terrorism on the western purposes, when the profitable transaction with the pipeline was were finished. It also after the senior member of the cabinet of the Taliban has publicly declared, that economic and social future Afghanistan’s almost completely depended on the ability to become the reliable pipeline for riches of energy of Central Asia. The transit role “The could be stretched out of oil and gas, to trade in food, consumer goods and service points,” the Minister have told by the Kabul Radio shortly after the Taliban delegation has come back from Texas.
Irrespective of what happens since then, Afghanistan’s, the unique geographical position remains very intact today. Actually, within the last decade, the Central Asian area was able prove to more oil, it is more than gas, and it is more than minerals. Besides, the Central Asian governments tried to reduce their dependence on pipelines (stretched in heart of Europe) belonging and operated the Russian companies; and the requirement of gas within India grew on phenomenal rate last years.
So, in every respect, the Pipeline of Afghanistan of the transaction was not pipedream. In 2005, the Asian bank of development has confirmed in the feasibility report, that billion US$3.5 of project was more than is viable; the Afghani government is intended to receive approximately 8 % of incomes of the project, leading to dollar number which far advances any other segment of the Afghani economy, is possible with one exception: opium.
But, feasibility separately, any transnational company does not wish to proceed on the pipeline only nevertheless. The pipeline should pass through southern Afghanistan where insurgents and smugglers of drugs operate nights and, in some cases though it is temporary, days. In the beginning 2005 protaliban military leader Pushtun Abdullah Mehsud, the brother of prospective murderer Benazir Bhutto (Baitullah Mehsud), has told to group of reporters being in Peshawar, that “the Pushtun people will never allow any inostranno constructed and inostranno to operated oil or a gas pipeline to pass through breeding areas, as our first purpose here consists in establishing the government which operate according to laws Sharia.”
In the meantime, officials at the main offices of the Asian bank of development in Capital Manila asked a question as well as why meetings Талибана-Unocal in Sugarland were so successful. “Maybe we should come back in time and learn that motivated the Taliban in 1997,” one researcher of bank has offered. But returning in time, possibly, will cause widespread difficulty in the American Corporate Set.
Atul Davda, the senior director more not has confirmed now the essential dealer of energy Enron being in Texas, that “Enron developed close contacts to officials of the Taliban” after Billion US$3 of power station Dahbol in India has faced trouble in 1995. “The only the way to rescue Enron in India consisted in bringing gas Turkmenistan’s in game,” other source Enron has shown. “To which come to an end, leaders of the Taliban, were wined, had dinner and have bribed. Not confirmed estimations assume, that Enron paid one million US$400 as its contribution to the feasibility report, and the fair part of that money was used to pay commanders of the Taliban and breeding heads Pushtun.”
It should be noticed, that the Houston Chronicle from June, 25th 1996, declared, that Enron has signed huge Billion US$1.3 of gas agreement on development in Uzbekistan, other country on northern border Afghanistan’s. The Uzbek leaders of opposition then accused strong people inside government agencies Uzbekistan’s “selling nation’s resources to greedy transnational corporations after reception of huge payments.”
Rather clearly, that researcher in the Asian bank of development should not go “back in time” to learn, how to transform concept of the Pipeline of Afghanistan of the transaction into the living validity. |
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