Afghans on Edge of Chaos

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan4aug04,1,5090276.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Two months after a gun attack, the bullet holes in the Datsun sedan have been patched and it runs beautifully. But water engineer Asil Kahn walks with a limp and he still has two bullets in his body, one of them half an inch from his spine.

The vehicle's humanitarian logo made him a victim in the battle for Afghanistan's future, where water engineers, mine-clearers and humanitarian workers — people the country needs most — are prime targets for militants trying to destabilize President Hamid Karzai's interim government.

The May attack on the Afghanistan Development Agency car in Wardak province, south of Kabul on the road to Kandahar, injured Kahn but killed the driver.

"They weren't robbers or thieves," said Kahn, 46. "They just wanted to kill us. They're people against the government. They thought that maybe there would be some foreigners or some officials from aid organizations in the car. That's why they shot us."

U.S. forces have their hands full trying to subdue attacks in Iraq. But with the slow buildup of a national Afghan army, an inadequate U.S. and coalition presence and poor progress on reconstruction projects, Afghanistan is spiraling out of control and risks becoming a "narco-mafia" state, some humanitarian agencies warn.

[Wonder]

1. Yes, but that Caspian Pipeline Consortium is a Marvel, isn't it!

CHEVRON COMPLETES ACQUISITION IN CASPIAN PIPELINE CONSORTIUM
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16, 1997

http://www.chevrontexaco.com/news/archive/chevron_press/1997/97-05-16.asp

CHEVRON ANNOUNCES THE APPROVAL OF CASPIAN PIPELINE CONSORTIUM BUDGET FOR 2000 Issued in 1999

http://www.chevrontexaco.com/news/archive/chevron_press/1999/1999-11-02.asp

CASPIAN PIPELINE REACHES ANOTHER MILESTONE; CONSORTIUM CELEBRATES FINAL WELDING OF NEW PIPE LAID IN RUSSIA

http://www.chevrontexaco.com/news/archive/chevron_press/2000/2000-11-22.asp


Caspian pipeline skirts trouble spots
By Bill Anderson, UPI, Tuesday 27 Novembe 2001 19:14

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27b/010.html

press release Nov. 28, 2001

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011128-11.html

Official Opening of pipeline Nov 28, 2001

http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/11/11282001/ap_45688.asp


Caspian Pipeline Consortium to double its flow capacity

http://english.pravda.ru/comp/2002/07/11/32297.html

THE CASPIAN PIPELINE CONSORTIUM PROJECT

http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:oi28VRXwUfgJ:www.oildompublishing.com/PGJ/pgj_archive/March01/caspian.pdf+caspian+pipeline+consortium+project&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

IN THE NEWS AUG 1, 2003
Karachaganak consortium yet to agree date for start of phase-3

http://www.interfax.com/com?item=Kaz&pg=0&id=5651681&req=

Background refresher

The Enron-Cheney-Taliban Connection?
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12525

http://www.newhumanist.com/oil.html

http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm


BUT BUT BUT

There is no longer a shortage of oil export capacity in Kazakhstan, Cambridge Energy Research Associates said in a recent assessment of the feasibility of an Afghan pipeline. The need for a major new oil pipeline via Afghanistan or any other route will not reemerge until around 2010.

The construction of the CPC pipeline to Novorossiysk turned out to be the right choice for the United States while Afghanistan's failure to land a lucrative pipeline project will be chalked up as another misstep by the Taliban.

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27b/010.html

[gristy]

2. The state of Afghanistan is a tragedy

and a blight on the * cabal.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

7. The CABAL has great plans for us too!

Ha, Ha!!!!

[JoFerret]

3. Child malnutrition

running at double the rate of 2001. But the pipeline is indeed a marvel. So long as that is on track.

[Wonder]

4. I can't get a fix on the pipeline

seems the afghanis have been cut out altogether. Russia is a strong part of this pipeline consortium, though. I find it ironic, considering the afghan war and the US's proxy-Jihadish/mujuhadeen took the Russian economy down.

[Gloria]

5. I'm not registered, but I'm presuming this is a differentr article from

the Globe and Mail article (Canada) I've posted in the WMW (current).

That article describes the "devolution" of the state of affairs in Iraq over the last 18 months and the prediction by an Afghani that another war is looming.......It also says that it's becoming a narco state like Colombia. Good to see this info coming out...


3//The Globe and Mail Saturday, August 2, 2003 - Page A3

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030802/UAFGHN/TPInternational/TopStories

KABUL’S CALM MASKS CHAOS SIMMERING UNDERNEATH

The Afghan capital can quite literally explode any moment, as Mark MacKinnon reports

By Mark MacKinnon

(SNIP)


The devolution of the country during the past 18 months seems to many a chilling replay of what happened here in the wake of the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. Then, as now, the warlords moved in to fill the power gap, forming a similar government of national unity -- although Mr. Karzai is clearly an improvement on the ineffectual Burnahuddin Rabbani, the most prominent of the post-Soviet presidents.



The cobbled-together government of the early 1990s soon collapsed into factional infighting, and later full-fledged civil war, as it became clear that fighters who had worked together against the Red Army had little else in common.



Now, a similarly loose mixture of Pashtuns and Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks, moderates and fundamentalists have been thrust back together by their U.S. sponsors.



Once more, opium production controlled by the warlords is the country's primary source of income. The country is in grave danger of becoming a Colombia-style narco-economy.



As tensions rise, some say another implosion like the one a decade ago is not far off. "We have a lot of mujahedeen commanders inside this government. People from foreign countries want to diminish their power. This will cause a violent reaction," said Mullah Hamid, who heads a mosque in southwest Kabul.



"There will be another war. I guarantee you 100 per cent that it is coming."

[NYC]

6. Now we pay the warlords to tyrannize the Afghan people.

Email for RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan):

The Taliban fell but - thanks to coalition policy - things did not get better.

The Guardian (London) , July 31, 2003
BY Isabel Hilton

Diehard defenders of military intervention in Iraq argue that it's too soon to carp, that time is required to restore order and prosperity to a country ravaged by every type of misfortune. Time, certainly, is needed, but is time enough? If the example of Afghanistan is anything to go by, time makes things worse rather than better. More than 18 months after the collapse of the Taliban regime, there is a remarkable consensus among aid workers, NGOs and UN officials that the situation is deteriorating.

There is a further point of consensus: that the deterioration is a direct consequence of "coalition" policy. Some 60 aid agencies have issued a joint statement pleading with the international community to deploy forces across Afghanistan to bring some order...

[dArKeR]

8. Locking humans in shipping containers and suffocating them is a little

more than chaos. It's full blown Bush Family Satanism.

The Afghans Bush has put in charge of Afghanistan are much worse than the Taleban.

http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/