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US oil-interests in Afghanistan are clear Wereldsurfer - 03.01.2002 17:02
President Bush has appointed a former aide to the American oil company Unocal, Afghan-born Zalmay Khalilzad, as special envoy to Afghanistan. The nomination was announced December 31, nine days after the US-backed interim government of Hamid Karzai took office in Kabul. The nomination underscores the real economic and financial interests at stake in the US military intervention in Central Asia. Khalilzad is intimately involved in the long-running US efforts to obtain direct access to the oil and gas resources of the region, largely unexploited but believed to be the second largest in the world after the Persian Gulf. Lees verder op http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/oil-j03.shtml Lees verder op http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/oil-j03.shtml Website: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/oil-j03.shtml |
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