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The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.
Murray asserts that the primary motivation for US and British military involvement in central Asia has to do with large natural gas deposits in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. As evidence, he points to the plans to build a natural gas pipeline through Afghanistan that would allow Western oil companies to avoid Russia and Iran when transporting natural gas out of the region
Murray alleged that in the late 1990s the Uzbek ambassador to the US met with then-Texas Governor George W. Bush to discuss a pipeline for the region, and out of that meeting came agreements that would see Texas-based Enron gain the rights to Uzbekistan's natural gas deposits, while oil company Unocal worked on developing the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline.
"There are designs of this pipeline, and if you look at the deployment of US forces in Afghanistan, as against other NATO country forces in Afghanistan, you'll see that undoubtedly the US forces are positioned to guard the pipeline route. It's what it's about. It's about money, it's about oil, it's not about democracy."
Originally posted by TeslaandLyne
The Russia and Iran sphere of influence will keep most of the gas.
Defending the pipeline might have been considered as far back as
"Fahrenheit 9/11" by Roger Moore.
One immediate windfall was the drugs.
Those in control know how to work the system.
Originally posted by TeslaandLyne
The Russia and Iran sphere of influence will keep most of the gas.
Defending the pipeline might have been considered as far back as
"Fahrenheit 9/11" by Roger Moore.
One immediate windfall was the drugs.
Those in control know how to work the system.