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Afghanistan-It's about money, it's about oil, it's not about democracy."

Posted by kpete in General Discussion
Thu Nov 05th 2009, 10:11 AM

Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

By Daniel Tencer
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 -- 3:31 pm

Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be raped with broken bottlesThe 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.
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/ambassador-cia... /
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In the story about a UK ambassador reporting on U.S. sponsored torture in Uzbekistan is buried an interesting tidbit about why we are in Afghanistan:

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 gain the rights to Uzbekistan's natural gas deposits, while oil company Unocal worked on developing the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline.

"The consultant who was organizing this for Unocal was a certain Mr. Karzai, who is now president of Afghanistan," Murray noted.

and it goes on with:

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."

AMAZING AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option...

more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/...

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