September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

foreign law enforcement sources, Swiss investigating magistrate Daniel Devaud examined between 50
and 60 accounts in at least four different banks: Credit Agricole Indosuez, Credit Suisse, Pictet and
United European Bank. Many of the most controversial transactions went through Credit Agricole
Indosuez, an affiliate of the French bank Credit Agricole. (Author’s note: Credit Agricole Indosuez
would later absorb the operations of the scandal ridden BCCI as it was shut down.)” [American at
Center of Kazakh Oil Probe, Michael Dobbs, David Ottaway and Sharon LaFraniere, Washington Post
Staff Writers]
In addition to covert Whitehouse sponsorship, significant lobbying assistance was
provided by The United States Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce (USACC).
“Azerbaijan is key to understanding the region and the power. During the past decade the only western
source of power and force projection into the region was with the USACC. The United States
Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce. It was this body that has, and remains, the source of negotiations,
planning and structure in the region. Prior to many of its board members entering the present White
House along with Mr. Bush, they were the force behind the U.S. Congressional effort called the Silk
Road Strategy of `1996-1998`; the Caspian initiative; Black Sea pipeline routes and the division of the
Caspian Sa, etc. The USACC Advisory Board consisted of "only" these seven men: Dr. Henry
Kissinger, James A Baker III, Lloyd Bentsen, Zibigniew Brzezinski, Dick Cheney, Brent Scowcroft,
John Sununu. It is noted here that the current Vice President’s daughter, Elizabeth `Cheney-Perry`, has
been named Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs for regional economic issues; she left
Armitage Associates for the job. The USACC `Vice-Chairman` of the Board is James A Baker IV
(Baker Botts, L.L.P.); Chairman Emeritus is T. Don Stacy (VP, Amoco); with Richard Armitage as
Board President, until he resigned to become Colin Powell’s Deputy, which rounds out the US elite
running the USACC. The remaining Board of Directors are a who’s who of the oil and gas
multinational corporate interests of the west and specifically the United States. On the Board of
Trustees or USACC the latter interests hold sway again with three primary exceptions: Senator Sam
Brownback (`R-KS`) and Joseph R. Pitts (`R-PA`) (whose efforts formed the 1996 legislative
backbone of the House/Senate Silk Road Strategy for Afghanistan, [Unocal, Texaco] et al) and
Richard Perle (US Defense Policy Board). The Legal Counsel for USACC is Ted Jones of the Texas
Law firm Baker Botts L.L.P. (James A Baker III & IV’s law firm.); Treasurer is Karl Mattison (VP,
Riggs Bank, NA). It was the James A. Baker III Institute of Rice University which outlined the Cheney
Strategic Energy Initiative which later became the Administration’s Strategic Energy National Security
Policy. (Clearly Dick Cheney wouldn’t be interested in giving Congress the names of who he
consulted on the Energy Initiative as they would amount to the remainder of the Board of Directors
and Board of Trustees of USACC.)” [U.S. political objectives in the Middle East will Fail, Creating a
New Cold War with China and Russia; Target is Iran not Iraq., By. Craig B Hulet]
From the point of view of this group, the grander ‘Silk Road’ strategy was one of
capturing the Caspian Oil:
“…what are Bush’s political objectives? It is not so much Iraq’s WMD as we are led to believe; it is
more about Iran. Bush will try to outflank Iran and not allow oil and gas pipelines to run through Iran
from the Northern Caspian region, Russia, Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan/ Kazakhstan, South to the
Persian Gulf and into Pakistan. Bush, inextricably tied to western oil interests, wants to run their
pipelines through Afghanistan into Pakistan as the counter weight on the Eastern front. Then pipelines
through Iraq, an Iraq controlled by the U.S., is the counterweight on the Western front. Control
Baghdad, you control the Euphrates and Tigris rivers’ trade waterways. But Russia will try to dominate
in the North, with pipelines running North and Northwest into Russia and across to the Black Sea;
China will try to dominate the East with pipelines running East and Southeast into China, "The Silk
Road" route. Put succinctly: Russia wants the Black Sea routes, China the Silk Road routes, Bush
wants everything to flow South from the entire region into his deep pockets via the Persian Gulf routes.
Geography rules even if borders no longer matter. Also, recently reported (Jan.14, 2003 NYT), Russia
is negotiating massive pipeline routes from its Siberian oil fields: one from Angarsk into the northern
industrial region of China and a separate one which would bypass China. Negotiating with the
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