Richard Cheney

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During the election campaign for George Bush, in August 2000, Vice President Dick Cheney stepped down as CEO of Halliburton Root and Brown (->), but still had a considerable shareholding in the conglomerate. Halliburton worked together with Unocal, who had big interests in the Afghanistan region. Richard Celler, former director of "UNOCAL Pakistan Ltd" once said: "...UNOCAL controlled is best contacts, into US-government circle around US-vice president Cheney, that at a project office to the line plan involved. In addition assured "UNOCAL...() the cooperation of influential lobbyist as well as Ex-Secretary of State Kissinger (->) , the earlier US-ambassador in Pakistan, Robert Oakley, and the former colleague of the UN-Sondermission in Afghanistan, Charlie Santos, also US-American.."

In 1996, Unocal (advisor at that time was Henry Kissinger ->) signed an agreement with the Taliban and the Afghan NorthernAlliance giving Unocal the go-ahead to build a south-bound pipeline through Afghansitan to Pakistan and the expanding Asain market. Halliburton was UNOCALs construction partner. In 1997, a multinational consortium was evaluating construction of a Central Asia Gas (CentGas ->) pipeline between Turkmenistan and Pakistan. Part of this pipeline would have crossed western Afghanistan. However, Unocal pulled out of the consortium in 1998 and the pipeline was never constructed. From the original Ground Zero Forum archive: "In June 2001, Cheney asked Indian opposition leader Sonia Gandhi about a multimillion-dollar debt owed to Enron from a major energy project in India. A Cheney aide said, the vice president has had three meetings with Indian officials since the Bush administration took office. The $64 million Enron debt has come up just once, in the June 27th meeting with the opposition leader. Halliburton, in the same time finished new deals with the US Defence. In 2001 the "Fasttrax consortium team" [US/UK] provided tank transporter service to British Army include Oshkosh Truck Corporation and Deutsche Bank. Local partners of FastTrax include King Trailers Limited, who produce "Disaster Recovery Vehicles" for the middle east region. King Consortium is a subsidiary of the Haliburton Company. Sources: defence-data.com/current/pagerip2.htm#EURM www.kingtrailers.co.uk/Specialist/ kingtrailers.co.uk/KingTrailers/newsDet.asp?NewsID=13

In August 2001, King Trailers finished another deal with MechTool Engineering, a pioneer "in the design of fire, blast and acoustic protection". Based in Darlington, the company has an international presence through agents and alliances in the Far East, Middle East, Australia, Canada and Norway. King Trailers is a consortium member of Fasttrax, who signed contracts in £300m Army Contract. kingtrailers.co.uk/KingTrailers/newsDet.asp?NewsID=6

MechTool has many "alliances in the Far East [and] Middle East". http://www.mechtool.co.uk/company_profile.htm 

In March 2000, Military Magazine Janes (->) already reported, that "seven consortia were invited to submit outline proposals for the Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) service and eventually two companies, Defence Heavy Equipment (Serco Military teamed with MAN truck) and FastTrax (Brown & Root teamed with Oshkosh Truck), went through to the final stage. The official endorsement of the preferred bidder due later this year." www.janes.com/defence/land_forces/market_review/jmvl_2000_2001/military_vehicles_and_logistics_2000-2001_09.shtml 

The BBC confirmed in December 2001 the August 2001 deal, which took place only a few weeks before the Sep11th attack. "A private consortium called FastTrax headed by Brown and Root (->), a subsidiary of US oil services giant Halliburton, has become the preferred bidder for a £300m contract to provide the British Army's new tank transporters." news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1689000/1689031.stm

On December 3rd, 2001, BBC said, that "Britain's contribution to the ongoing struggle in Afghanistan" could be worth" about £13bn over a number of years". Cheney always played the mystery man. During Summer 2001, Cheney was working on a "top secret" Energy Development Task Force. Immediately after the Sep11th attack, Cheney (who had four heart attacks in the last few years) vanished for various times from the political landscape. In fact his whereabouts had been questioned various times until he suddenly announce a trip to the Middle East. In late 2002, he was responsible for the arrestment of a photographer. In the meantime, various US Congress Members like Sam Donaldson asked for an investigation of Halliburton + Dick Cheney, later supported by watch group Judicialwatch.Org and even the Gao. Donaldson pointed out: "A company that, in one year, changed its accounting rules to count $100 million of cost overence (ph) as revenue without telling their investors for more than a year. This was on the advice of Arthur Andersen. The company's Halliburton. The man who made that decision as CEO was Dick Cheney.

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