September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

Cheney was initially involved in the pipeline negotiations while CEO of Halliburton. As
newly elected Vice President of the U.S, he would intercede in January of 2001,
supposedly at the request of Enron, to impose an “intelligence block” that would prevent
numerous US investigative agencies from interfering with or monitoring discussions
between Afghan, Saudi and US covert operatives who were “fixing” the situation.
During this time while the block was in effect, two key leaders of the Northern Alliance
(Abdul Haq and Ahmad Shah Masoud (Masood)) were assassinated, and the Taliban
leadership was “courted” with cash.
“Abdul Haq, the assassinated former mujaheddin leader from Jalalabad, and the leadership of the
Northern Alliance… When Haq entered Afghanistan from Pakistan last October (2001), his position
was immediately known to Taliban forces, which subsequently pinned him and his small party down,
captured, and executed them….” [Provisional leader Karzai links to US Oil , Indymedia Somewhere,
Wayne Madsen, 2002-01-21]
"The Taliban's execution of Afghan opposition leader Abdul Haq will be a subject of contention at a
congressional hearing today and could lead to new scrutiny of the CIA's close ties to Pakistan’s
intelligence service. A House International Relations subcommittee is expected to air charges that
Pakistani agents betrayed Abdul Haq, and the CIA didn't do enough to save him. Recriminations are
rising in the aftermath of Abdul Haq's execution Friday in Afghanistan. His champions say the hero
during the war with the Soviet Union was a potential unifying force for anti-Taliban opposition
factions... Abudul Haq's death has prompted some of the strongest criticism of the U.S. war effort. 'A
lot of people are very upset,' says Al Santolly, an aide to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. 'The whole
episode shows a lack of coherence in the (Bush administration) policy.' The crux of the criticism over
his death is the CIA's relationship with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)... The CIA went
along with the ISI, including the ISI's creation of the Taliban, critics say... Vince Cannistraro, a former
CIA director of counterterrorism, says there is 'credible information' that the ISI tipped off an Afghan
tribal leader about Abdul Haq's whereabouts, and the tribal leader told the Taliban. A senior official of
the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance made the same charge on Tuesday, as did several congressional
aides." [Taliban foe's death sparks criticism of U.S. goals," USA Today, 10/31/2001]
“September 9, the leader of the Northern Alliance, Commander Ahmad Shah Masood, was
assassinated. The Northern Alliance informed the Bush administration that the ISI of Pakistan was
implicated in the murder.”[ Mahmoud Ahmad and The Secret Cult of 9-11, Laura Knight-Jadczyk]
A significant amount of money was spent in courting the Taliban leadership. There are
accounts that both the US and Russian fixers were each plowing $20 million per month
into the Afghan leadership.
What is widely perceived as a collapse of negotiations is thought to be the impetus for the
invasion of Afghanistan. However, key Northern Alliance resistance leadership had
already been removed. The Taliban, to a large degree, supported a US pipeline, and only
this fact can explain the limited assault on Taliban forces by US troops, once the invasion
began, and the willingness of US forces to let thousands of Taliban fighters to escape.
With the dispersal of the Taliban and the elimination of Northern Alliance leadership, it
was easy for the US to install as president its own candidate, an oil industry executive
who formerly worked for Unocal - Hamid Karzai. Coincidentally, it also created
conditions allowing for a change in heroin traffic through Northern Afghanistan,
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