From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 15:49:14 MDT
--- Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> At the time of the Gulf War the media talk was that Sadaam was
> reasserting his right to what had once been a province of Iraq.
No, Saddam was claiming that that was his justification for doing so.
If you look at the real history, you'd see that it is Iraq which was
once the property/territory of the Sabah family of Kuwait, taken away
after WWI and the British/French mandate system was established, and
the allies needed a convenient place to put the sons of the Caliph of
Mecca and Medina who had gotten tossed by the Saudi allies of Britain.
> Frankly I have long thought this whole series of events in the
> middle east were the results of various folks wanting power over oil
> or wishing to deny power to those they considered dangerous That
> includes the Saudis,
> Sadaam, bin Laden, the US, and very likely the Chinese. A lot of
> people seem
> to have missed the developing connection Afghanstan has to the energy
> market.
This has been claimed by many conspiracy theorists, asserting that the
former Soviet republics (now known as 'the Stans') want to run a
pipeline to the Indian Ocean through Afghanistan. The problem is that
there is a significant geographical hindrance to such plans: the Hindu
Kush, such that there is only one bridge to one tunnel linking the
northern border of Afghanistan (i.e. the Mazaar e Sharif area) with the
rest of the country. Running a north-south pipeline will require a 10
mile long tunnel be built in an area with no access to tunelling
technology, no highway system to get it there, and a very hostile work
environment prone to brigandry, sabotage, and extortionism.
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