Aidan Monaghan

"U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba."

May 1, 2001 - ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1

"1999: US Ready to Fight For Oil, Especially in Persian Gulf and Caspian Regions"

"A top level US policy document explicitly confirms the US military’s readiness to fight a war for oil."

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a99uswantsoil#a99uswantsoil

September 2000:

“Military … transformation … is likely to be a long one … absent … a new Pearl Harbor.”

Project For A New American Century

(Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz.)

http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

"October 11, 1996: Afghan Pipeline Key to ‘One of the Great Prizes of the 21st Century’"

http://cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a101196pipelinepolitics#a101196pipelinepolitics

"August 2, 2001: US Official Secretly Meets Taliban Ambassador in Last Attempt to Secure Pipeline Deal"

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a080201rocca#a080201rocca

"U.S. OK’d Plan To Topple Taliban A Day Before 9/11"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4585010/

"September 11, 2001: The 9/11 Attack: 3,000 Die in New York City and Washington, D.C."

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a091101attackshort#a091101attackshort

"May 30, 2002: Afghan Pipeline Given Go-Ahead"

"The leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan have agreed to construct a $2bn pipeline to bring gas from Central Asia to the sub-continent."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2017044.stm

February 14, 2002: US Military Bases Line Afghan Pipeline Route"

"The Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv notes: “If one looks at the map of the big American bases created [in the Afghan war], one is struck by the fact that they are completely identical to the route of the projected oil pipeline to the Indian Ocean.” Ma’ariv also states, “Osama bin Laden did not comprehend that his actions serve American interests… If I were a believer in conspiracy theory, I would think that bin Laden is an American agent. Not being one I can only wonder at the coincidence.”"

http://cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a021402bases#a021402bases

"1986: CIA Officially Backs ISI Program Promoting Militant Islam Worldwide"

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=western_support_for_islamic_militancy_28261#western_support_for_islami...

"1986: Bin Laden Works with CIA, at Least Indirectly"

"The CIA, ISI, and bin Laden build the Khost tunnel complex in Afghanistan. It will be reported in June 2001 that “bin Laden worked closely with Saudi, Pakistani, and US intelligence services to recruit mujaheddin from many Muslim countries.”"

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a86buildingkhost#a86buildingkhost

"January 15, 1998: Former National Security Adviser Has No Regrets Giving ‘Arms and Advice to Future Terrorists’"

“Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea.”

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a011598stirredup#a011598stirredup