Niels Groeneveld
This article can end the career of Tony Blair ?
Sat Jul 19 19:35:10 2003
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Subject: This article can end the career of Tony Blair ?
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 23:23:24 +0200
From: "Niels Groeneveld" niels.groeneveld@nl.wanadoo.com


Here's some nice evidence that the UK Ministry of Defense was planning the war on terrorism weeks BEFORE the september 11th attacks in 2001, planning to use this as a pretext for among others the invasion of Afghanistan.

I wonder whether Tony Blair would be able to explain the following government publication :


Afghanistan and the "New Great Game"
http://web.archive.org/web/20020222072241/http://www.mod.uk/rcds/bashir.htm

COMMODORE NOMAN BASHIR

SUMMARY

After the withdrawal of Red Army from Afghanistan, the country imploded as a
result of intense conflict between rival Mujahideen factions. Regional and
extra regional interests actively abetted this slide into anarchy and chaos
for their own vested interests.

While Taliban were able to re-unify the country and bring some degree of
order by demobilization of the militias, their policies have generally been
regarded as medieval based on tribal traditions. The international community
has sought to isolate Afghanistan and regards Taliban as posing a threat of
Islamic extremism. However, a closer analysis reveals that Taliban are
inward rather than outward looking. They have also signalled readiness to
engage constructively with the international community.

The emergence of resource rich newly independent states in Central Asia and
Caspian region evoked a simultaneous interest from amongst regional and
extra-regional countries to compete for the resources. The competition has
focussed primarily on providing routes for outflow of the hydrocarbons from
these landlocked states. Additionally, the area considered as heartland of
Eurasia is strategically significant to the states aspiring for regional and
global primacy.

The geo-politics dictated by geo-economics in Central Asia and Caspian
region as well as the internal turmoil consequent to the jihad against the
Soviet invasion has impacted severely on Afghanistan. Keeping Afghanistan
broken and destabilized suits those who do not want the Caspian/Central
Asian oil and gas pipelines to take one of the shortest and economical
outlets over Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. The current
situation in Afghanistan is thus dependent as much on external factors,
which have fuelled the ongoing strife.

>>>>The efforts for stabilisation of Afghanistan and restoration of peace
cannot succeed in isolation. A sustained and institutionalised process of
addressing concerns about terrorism or fundamentalism may produce positive
results. Similarly, a more cooperative endeavour to stabilize the Eurasian
heartland regions could bring handsome dividends to all regional and extra
regional interests.

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BBC News

Saturday, 19 July, 2003

Weapons expert had slashed wrist
Police have confirmed that the expert at the centre of the Iraq dossier row bled to death from a cut to his wrist, as Tony Blair comes under increasing pressure over the affair.

Dr David Kelly, 59, was the suspected mole behind a BBC report that Downing Street communications director Alastair Campbell "sexed up" a dossier setting out the case for war.

A senior officer said a knife and a packet of painkillers had been found close to where his body was discovered in woodland near his home in Oxfordshire on Friday.
[ Well now, wasn't that convenient, eh?
Kinda like Vince Foster where his body was found in the park with a gun in his hand.... ]

Dr Kelly's family said he was a "loving, private and dignified" man, adding that recent events had made his life "intolerable".

The government will now hold an independent judicial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death.

[ Translation: the government will have someone from the government determine that the government was not involved in Dr. Kelly's death. Convenient. ]

Full Story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3079787.stm

Please Mr. Government, don't do me like Vince Foster or David Kelly..

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