I think I found what they were looking for in Afghanistan, page 1

Ladies and gentlemen, who are they capturing? I believe I have the answer. This has probably been posted many times, but I want to really emphasize the extent of this situation:

www.nytimes.com...

WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.

Over a trillion dollar worth of natural minerals especially lithium. Some sources say that this is up to three trillion dollars of natural resources:

www.telegraph.co.uk...

en.wikipedia.org...

Every piece of electronic equipment requires lithium-ion batteries, not to mention a host of other uses:

en.wikipedia.org...


This is one of many resources that the US government has mapped out in Afghanistan:

1.bp.blogspot.com...
snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com...


pubs.usgs.gov...


www.defence.pk...


chrisvonada.com...




management.fortune.cnn.com...






The Anyak Copper Deposit:


Gemstones of Afghanistan:


Gold:


Rare Metals:


Hajigak Iron Deposit:


Marbles:


I was speaking to a family friend of mine and they said that when he was in the Pakistani army in the middle east, he told me that the British had mapped out all these mineral and oil deposits and when he asked the question, his superior said that they were not supposed to talk about it. Taliban my ass.

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S & F

CIA installed HEROINE plantations decades ago,

now we're BACK in Afghanistan also for those mineral resources...

Truth be told, Afghanistan's resources make it the richest mining region on earth.

www.independent.co.uk...

Thats why USA dropped 200s of TONS of Depleted Uranium on the Afghani people, to make sure their next of kin don't retake these resources...

US is destroying Afghanistan's gene pool water and food chain with depleted uranium

"Depleted uranium is radioactive and extremely destructive to humans - with a half-life of 4.5 billion years. In other words, it takes 4.5 billion years for one kilogram of depleted uranium to reduce to a half a kilogram - the US has forever contaminated the Middle East.
The United States' use of radioactive munitions in Afghanistan has destroyed the people's health and mutilated the genetic future of the country"

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But I also remember reading that China and India are the two who are mining there the most, with the US and allies "apparently" hardly mining at all. Could be media propaganda though?
Also anyone notice how the vast amount of minerals are located in the northern part of the country? This is where the war is kept relatively quiet (maybe because there mining?)
And the southern part is the war ravaged area (maybe its a distraction?)
Good post though, I S@F.

No no no. I used to argue this with one of my buddies when he said that Afghanistan didn't have a lot of oil, I showed him a Popular Science magazine about all the rare metals in Afghanistan and he said no. So there you go. No means no.

Oh, and for the people that believe that the US had a positive impact in Afghanistan...here you go.

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Whaaaaat??? It's not about liberating the Afghani's? It's about resources? I'm shocked.

Good thread and good research though.

More info here-

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Yeah, we won't be walking away from those billions trillions in resources anytime soon.

reply to post by THE_PROFESSIONAL

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Good compilation, albeit of information already known.

The American "discovery" of these mineral deposits broke into the news at around the same time that US allies in Afghanistan were packing up to go back home. My country (Canada) already had a big political deal years earlier about extending our pull out deadline even to 2010. But then this Afghan mineral story showed up and suddenly there was support to keep Canadian forces within Afghanistan even until now.

Turns out that these mineral deposits were actually discovered by the Soviets back in the 80s. The Americans, of course, knew this. When allies were about to leave, the US produced this information publically and of course, countries who kept troops in Afghanistan got to have their stake at contracting rights.

Oh, and it should also be noted that China basically owns most of Afghan copper industry. Western forces obviously wouldn't want the rest of Afghanistan's mineral deposits falling into Chinese hands (since China owns 90%+ of the earth's supply of rare earth minerals), probably explaining why they are still fighting the "war on terror" in such a hopeless place.

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★ & F

ATS needs more threads like this one.

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Gee ,here I thought it was the opium.I guess they're going for the full Monte

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