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The Oil Motive Behind the Afghan War

By AAN Staff
september 25, 2002  01:58 pm
The Oil Motive Behind the Afghan War
The mainstream media in the United States has ignored wire service and European newspaper coverage of long-standing plans to run an oil pipeline from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean through Afghanistan, Ted Rall reports in an exclusive article on Philadelphia City Paper's Web site. "The 'war on terrorism' was less about fighting terrorism, or finding the perpetrators of 9-11, than about bombing Afghanistan" to secure a stable route for the pipeline, Rall writes.
View full article at Philadelphia City Paper