Ex-Unocal Consultant Khalilzad's War Role

A few years before the September 11, 2001 attack on the Twin Towers, former Unocal Consultant Zalmay Khalilzad drafted a 1999 White Paper for the Afghanistan Foundation which contained a description of the anti-Taliban campaign that the Bush Administration began implementing on September 12, 2001. In his 1999 White Paper for the Afghanistan Foundation, Khalilzad stated the following: "The importance of Afghanistan may grow in the coming years, as Central Asia's oil and gas reserves, which are estimated to rival those of the North Sea, begn to play a major role in the world energy market. Afghanistan could prove a valuable corridor for this energy as well as for access to markets in Central Asia...In particular, the Taliban must hand over (or at the very least expel) Usaman bin Laden so he can stand trial...For my policy to succeed, Washington must secure U.S. domestic support. This can be done by engaging in a public diplomacy campaign to explain the importance of Afghanistan...Particularly important is bringing in groups concerned with the Taliban's mistreatment of women, one of the major few interest groups in the United States concerned with Afghanistan."

Today, former Unocal Counsultant Khalilzad is the Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council member responsible for setting up the post-Taliban "Pro-Unocal" regime in Afghanistan. Over 3,5000 Afghan civilians have already been killed by the U.S. military machine in the Bush Administration's military campaign to replace the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in order to serve the special interests of the California-based Unocal.