Saudi Intelligence Service

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

Also known as GIS. Saudi Arabian Intelligence Service, formerly held by Director, Prince Turki Al-Faisal (->), who started to support the Taliban in 1995 with pick-ups from Japan and telecommunication tools. In 1996, Mohammad Mullah Omar (->) and the Taliban occupied Kabul, Afghanistan and killed former president Najibullah in an UN-building, where he tried to escape. The GID has close business ties to oil company Ningharco, who tried to make business with argentinian oil company Bridas, after they got tricked out by Unocal, who became member of the CentGas Consortium (->) in the Mid90s.

Unocal Corp. of the United States and Bridas of Argentina were competing for the right to build a $2.5 billion, 1,300-kilometer natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan; it would cross southern Afghanistan (Far Eastern Economic Review, 1997). The Unocal proposal was favored by Turkmenistan and Pakistan, and Bridas's was backed by the Taliban of Afghanistan. 

Unocal was unlikely to secure the financing required for the project until the ethnic fighting ends. Unocal and its Saudi partner, Delta Oil (-> Aramark, -> Kean, Tom), planned to start construction by the end of 1997, even though the Taliban refused to give Unocal permission to build the pipeline across their territory. Turkmenistan was to sell natural gas to the consortium at the border. Bridas was prepared to go ahead with the project without external funding from major banks. Bridas set up the TAP Pipeline, a 50-50 partnership with Ningharco.

Bin Laden knew on a pending attack against Afghanistan regarding the old UNOCAL pipeline plans. Former chairman of the Saudi intelligence, Prince Turkey al-Faisal, once has stated that Osama Bin Laden has changed into a radical person after Saudi Arabia had invited the American forces to end the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Ahmed Muttawakil - 9/11 Encyclopedia