9/11 review
Thomas
E. Gouttierre, the director of the Center for Afghanistan
Studies, is an old friend of Zalmay Khalilzad, President's Bush's
nominee as ambassador to Afghanistan
and a former paid adviser to Unocal. While working for the Cambridge
Energy Research Associates, Khalilzad conducted risk analysis for
Unocal for the proposed pipeline
from Turkmenistan to Pakistan. Gouttierre also coached
Khalilzad's basketball team at Habibia high school in Afghanistan.
That team, as well as teams from various Afghan colleges, helped to
form the Afghan National Basketball Team in the early 1970s.
During the December 1997 Taliban visit to the United States, Khalilzad
joined the group for its trip to Unocal's facilities in Texas. In 1997,
Khalilzad, Gouttierre and Marty Miller,
Unocal vice president, testified together before the Senate Foreign
Relations Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs subcommittee.
In July 1999, Gouttierre gathered with a dozen Afghan leaders for a
confidential meeting, after which he submitted the first of eight
classified reports to the State Department.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/WOW/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=61
Afghanistan Relief Committee
Thomas E. Gouttierre worked in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan. He was the director of the Center for Afghan Studies at the University of Nebraska.
Gouttierre was denounced by the Afghan government radio for working
with the CIA. He attended a pro-mujahedeen conference in 1981
with Karen McKay of Committee for a Free Afghanistan. (3) Dupree serves on the board of AFA. (9)
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t
r u t h o u t | January 13, 2001 - The appointment by the
Bush Administration of Zalmay
Khalilzad as special envoy to Afghanistan which was
announced on December 31, 2001,
only nine days after the U.S.-backed interim government of
Hamid Karzai took office in Kabul, seems timely and logical. Khalilzad,
a U.S. citizen
born in Afghanistan with extensive knowledge of the region and
experience, appears to be the right person for the job.
Khalilzad's presence, however, is the fruit of an older agenda, one
that reaches back at least to the Reagan era, and Khalilzad has more
connections to that agenda than meets the eye.
Simply put, Khalilzad's appointment means oil. Oil for the United
States. Oil
for Unocal, a U.S. company long criticized for doing business
in countries
with repressive governments and rumored to have close ties to the
Department of State and the intelligence community.
Zalmay Khalilzad was an advisor for Unocal. In the mid 1990s, while
working for the Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Khalilzad
conducted risk analyses for Unocal at the time it had signed letters of
approval from the Taliban. The analyses were for a proposed 890-mile,
$2-billion, 1.9-billion-cubic-feet-per-day natural gas pipeline project
which would have extended from Turkmenistan to Pakistan. In December
1997, Khalilzad joined Unocal officials at a reception for an invited
Taliban delegation to Texas.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/01.14A.Zalmay.Oil.htm
HEADLINE: Final words, final hours before all changed
The day before the attacks on the World Trade Center was like any other
for most.
BYLINE: By Stephen Buttry
SOURCE: WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
'''Thomas Gouttierre''',
director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the '''University of
Nebraska at Omaha''', was the morning speaker at the Loveland Golden K
Kiwanis.
He told the club of the threat of al-Qaida. Not that
Gouttierre foresaw the next day's attack.
But he had followed the group's activities as a U.N. senior
political affairs officer in 1996 and 1997.
In Gouttierre's '''September
10''' (2001) speech, Golden K Kiwanis members heard a
preview of hundreds of interviews Gouttierre would grant in the weeks
ahead.
He told about the "unholy alliance" among Afghanistan's ruling Taliban
regime, al-Qaida, Pakistan's intelligence service and Muslim extremists
in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Gouttierre also received disturbing news that day, that Ahmed Shah
Massood, leader of the Northern Alliance forces that were fighting the
Taliban, had been attacked.
Gouttierre immediately saw the hand of terrorist leader Osama
bin Laden in the attack. Initial news reports did not say whether
Massood survived.
Gouttierre assumed correctly that this meant he was dead.
Also that day, Gouttierre prepared for the weekly three-hour lecture in
his Tuesday international studies class.
His scheduled lecture topic for September 11 was international
terrorism.
People spent money that Monday. The Omaha data center of First Data
Resources processed 21,852,530 credit card transactions.
Almost 700 people visited Borsheim's. First National Bank processed 2.1
million merchant transactions.
Fire Capt. Rick Klein spent September 10 making last-minute
preparations for a class that members of Lincoln's urban search and
rescue team would take the next day.
Klein is logistics manager of the team, which specializes in working in
the unstable debris of fallen buildings.
The team's class scheduled for the next day was the "Structural
Collapse Technician Course."
Before the end of the month, the Lincoln crew would be sifting the
wreckage of the largest structural collapse ever.
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Who is this man, the National Security
Council Director in charge of everything from the Persian Gulf
States to Southwest Asia?
Zalmay Khalilzad - Special US Envoy for Islamic Terror!
Compiled with comments by Jared Israel
Concerning Gouttierre, in an article on CIA penetration of the colleges, the Boston Globe wrote:
"[Gouttierre's] Center for Afghanistan Studies at
the University of Nebraska at Omaha has longstanding ties with
Washington policymakers and collaborates regularly with intelligence."
-- 'CIA, Scholar Links To Asia, Mideast Reexamined,' Boston Globe, 25 November 2001
For two decades, Gouttierre's Afghan Center at the University of
Nebraska wrote, edited and produced the Islamic jihad textbooks that
indoctrinated Afghan schoolchildren in Islamic fundamentalism from the
1980s until today. 14 million of these textbooks were shipped into
Afghanistan last year alone - produced by Gouttierre, paid for by USAID
and approved by the current Bush administration. Indeed, the textbooks
were publicly praised by Mr. Bush at a time when Khalilzad was his
National Security Council director for Afghanistan. [6E]
Khalilzad did his PhD work at the University of Chicago under Albert J.
Wohlstetter. Unknown to the public, the late Prof. Wohlstetter was one
of the most influential cold war strategists.
Next Khalilzad taught at Columbia. In 1984 he joined the State
Department as a Council on Foreign Relations fellow. Within two years
he was a member of the elite Policy Planning Council, as noted by the
Washington Post:
"He joined the State Department as a Council on Foreign Relations fellow in 1984 and served as a member of the department's Policy Planning Council from 1986 to 1988."
--- Biographical note accompanying the article, "How
the Good Guys [sic!] Won in Afghanistan," by Zalmay Khalilzad The
Washington Post February 12, 1989, Sunday, Final Edition Outlook, Page
C1
http://www.tenc.net/archive/khalilzad-facts.htm
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''On September
10 2001...''
UNO's '''Peter Tomsen'''
met in Rome with the nation's exiled king, Mohammad Zaher Shah.
Tomsen, a retired ambassador and UNO's ambassador-in-residence, worked
unofficially to bring together various Afghan exiles,
hoping to lay the groundwork for a post-Taliban government.
While they were meeting, the king was stunned to receive word that
Massood, the Northern Alliance leader
whom Tomsen had met in June, had been attacked in Tajikistan.
Tomsen won the king's support for an office to promote a loya jirga,
Afghanistan's traditional national assembly.
That evening, Tomsen worked on winning similar support from royal
relatives he thought were undermining the unity effort.
He took six of them to dinner at an Italian seafood
restaurant. The bill came to about $ 300.
LOAD-DATE: September 10, 2002
Copyright 2001 Gale Group, Inc.
ASAP
Copyright 2001 Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
link
http://911review.org/brad.com/wargames/GlobalGuardian.html
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Ambassador Tomsen was American Ambassador to Armenia from 1995 to 1998.
He was President G.W. Bush’s Special Envoy on Afghanistan
with the rank of
Ambassador, 1989-1992. In this capacity, he met many Afghan tribal
leaders, commanders and ulema who remain active today. Ambassador
Tomsen was one of
the last foreign visitors to meet Ahmed Shah Masood on June 23-24,
2001. He has visited Zahir Shah, Afghanistan’s former king,
in Rome in July and September of this year.
Peter Tomsen Ambassador in Residence University of Nebraska at Omaha
(UNO)
link
http://world.unomaha.edu/cas/staffs/bibilo/AmbassadorTomsenBio.pdf
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Talk:Center_for_Afghanistan_Studies
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Afghanistan_Studies
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"There's nothing to suggest bin Laden is a Muslim," Dr. Gouttierre
said. He repeatedly compared the terrorist leader to the Rev. Jim Jones
and David Koresh, two fanatical leaders of religious cults who led mass
suicides.
After leaving Maumee in the early 1960s - where he had been a pastry
chef at his father's old bakery - Dr. Gouttierre spent 10 years in
Afghanistan, first as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as a Fulbright
fellow and executive director of the Fulbright Foundation. At one
point, he coached the Afghan national basketball team.
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Rohrabacher is member of the Afghanistan - America Foundation, a
non-profit, non-partisan, independent organization located in
Washington, D.C., a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol building.
This Foundation is honored to have as its National Honorary Co-Chairmen
two former White House National Security Advisors, Dr. Zbigniew
Brzezinski and Gen. Brent Scowcroft.
Closely advising and working with the Foundation are Dr. Zalmay
Khalilzad, RAND Corp.; Dr.
Tom Gouttierre,
Director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies,
University of Nebraska, Omaha, and Vice-President of the
Afghanistan - America Foundation. Dr. Frederick Starr,
former President of Oberlin College and now Chairman of the
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at the School for Advanced
International Studies
(SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University; and Dr. Barnett Rubin, Council on
Foreign Relations, serve on the Foundation's White Paper Task Force.
But back to Tenet. Through June and July 2001, as the Washington Post
described, CIA Director George J. Tenet worked himself "nearly frantic"
with concern.
"At Langley, Tenet was nearly ready. His proposed assistance
to the Northern Alliance rebels ranged from $125 million to $200
million and included money,
battlefield intelligence, nonlethal equipment such as body armor and
winter clothing."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A8802-2002Jan19
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A few years ago, Unocal flew in in several Taliban leaders from
Afghanistan. They treated them to shopping sprees, tours, and had them
stay in five star hotels. Zalmay M. Khalilzad (refer to my first post
tos ee who he is) was one of the guys carting these Taliban leaders
around. They were eventually whisked of to Omaha Nebraska, where they
hooked up with Thomas E. Gouttierre. Gouttierre
was director of the University of Nebraska's Center for Afghanistan
Studies, which had begun heavily promoting the trans-Afghan pipelines
after receiving nearly a $1 million grant from non other than Unocal.
Goutierre, who has testified in Congress in support of the pipelines,
along with his good pal Khalilzad, took his turn feting the ruling
Afghan mullahs. Goutierre tried to show these Taliban mullahs what
American life was like, and even try and help them understand that
American people get along with women, unlike they do in their culture.
But, this American experience didn't rub off...
The next, and last stop on this Taliban delegation's tour was a
high-level meeting in Washington that Unocal put together with then
President Clinton's assistant secretary of state for South ASia. "It
was a golden chance for the Taliban leaders to repair their image-and
ask for recognition, which they did. But when officials brought up
their strict Islamic laws treating women and ethnic and religious
minorities as second-class citizens, they practically drew back bloody
stumps." The Taliban leaders then replied, "This is God's law. This is
thw ay it's supposed to be."
Unocal worked with the State Department channels to schedule a return
trip for the Taliban mullahs in 1999. On July 9, 1999, Goutierre
gathered the Taliban leaders and opposition factions in a room for two
hours, and tape-recorded the debate for one of several classified
briefings he filled with the State Department, which was closely
monitoring continued civil unrest in Afghanistan.
Working through the University of Nebraska center, Unocal sponsored a
program that trained Afghans in skills for pipeline construction.
Around 450 men were taught pipe-fitting, welding, etc.
THe Taliban leaders had more meetings here in the U.S. and were given
many gifts and such things, in the hopes that Unocal could up it's
chances for the oil pipelines to be built in the future...
In August of 1998 however, Unocal shelved its plans for both oil and
gas pipelines after the Clinton administration shot about sixty cruise
missiles into a largely empty al-Qaida terrorsit training camps in
Afghanistan in retaliation for the U.S. embassy bombing in Africa. The
El Segundo, California-based company made the announcement the next
day. The strikes made it obvious that the Taliban were sheltering Osama
bin Laden, meaning Unocal could kiss and hopes of project financing out
the door. Certainly no international insurer would underwrite
multibillion-dollar pipelines that could be blown up by missiles or
terrorists. Disengaging the Taliban at leasr the time being, was a
no-brainer
But then, the oil-friendly Bush administration took power, and suddenly
the Taliban were reengaged, but this time, not so gently.
Two days after Bush ordered U.S. forced to bomb Taliban targets in
Afghanistan, his ambassador to Pakistan at the time paid a visit to
Pakistan's oil minister. Diplomat Wendy Chamberlin, who was a key
Mideast adviseron former president Bush's National Security Council
during the Gulf War, sat down in Islamabad with Usman Aminuddin (refer
to first post) who was Pakistan's federal minister for petroleum and
natural resources, to discuss "matters pertaining to Pakistan-U.S.
cooperation in the oil andgas sector," according to Pakistan's official
news agency.
The dust was still settling at Ground Zero from a massive attack that
traces back to Pakistan as much as Afghanistan, yet terrorism was not
on CHamberlin's agenda that day. In their October 9, 2001 meeting, she
and Aminuddin discussed other energy issues, and reviving the proposed
trans-Afghanistan gas pipeline. Aminuddin said that "this project opens
up new avenues of multidimensional regional cooperation, particularly
in thw view of hte recent geopolitical developments in the region."
The same oil minister woul one year later, meet in the "liberated"
Afghan capital of Kabul with newly installed President Karzai's own oil
minister and Worl Bank officials to discuss both gas and oil pipelines.
Well if that happened in Afghanistan, what makes one think that
something similar won't happen in Iraq now? What will happen if the
U.S. installs a new Iraqi leader, and oil is the first thing we
discuss?
Of course the U.S. isn't going to just waltz right into any given
middle-eastern country and just take the oil. That could start world
war III. Think about it, the U.S. just goes in and tkes over Iraq, and
immediately starts shipping out oil. I see just a small problem that
may cause with the rest of the world.
Instead, the U.S. says their going to "liberate" Iraq, and so begins
the gradual process from which the oil will eventually become ours.
http://forums.retrothinking.com/showthread.php?t=16696
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Inspectors Find More Torture at Iraqi Jails abuse prison
The Iraqi government says the cases of abuse, illegal detention and
killings by the Shiite death squads are few, and it denies involvement
in kidnappings.
The U.S. military has said it is devoting 2006 to building up and reforming Iraq's police forces.
After the Nov. 13 disclosures, the highest-ranking U.S. officials in Iraq - Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr.
- issued rare public rebukes to their Iraqi government allies.
At the insistence of U.S. officials, Iraq agreed to
the joint inspections of what the United States said would be all of
Iraq's more than 1,000 detention centers.
"In these facilities that we did inspect
unannounced, we saw no signs of abuse," Lynch told reporters at a
briefing March 30. "The facilities were, by our standards, overcrowded,
but the people being held at those facilities were being properly taken
care of; they were being fed, they had water, they were taken care of.
So no abuse, no evidence of torture in those facilities."
Khalilzad,
the U.S. ambassador, said in an interview that when Americans find
abuse, "we document it, we investigate, we do a report, and we
ultimately pass that report to the government."
After abuse was found at one Interior Ministry site,
"that very day I went and talked to the government," Khalilzad said.
"We take this very seriously."
Khalilzad's calls to rein in Shiite security forces
and militias have put him on increasingly prickly terms with some
members of Iraq's governing coalition of Shiite religious parties.
Khalilzad has repeatedly urged that Interior Ministry forces be brought under the control of a nonsectarian minister.
OIL 9/11
In 1998, US oil company UNOCAL
stopped
their negotiations with the Taliban to start working on a huge
pipeline project.
After the war against the Taliban started in late
December 2001, one of the former UNOCAL advisors, Zalmay Khalilzad
(->),
a senior strategist at Rand (->), became a key
National
Security Council adviser on Afghanistan. French paper LeMonde
claimed,
that Hamid
Karzai, President of Afghanistan worked for UNOCAL, too, as a
consultant. It was never proven,
if Le Mondes informations had been
based on a confusion with Khalilzad, however the ties between him
and UNOCAL are true. As the Guardian reported, gas reserves in
afghanistan could be 576 trillion cubic feet.
guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,579401,00.html
Richard Armitage - 9/11 Encyclopedia
Armitage was in Japan and Korea in mid-May 2001: Tokyo and
Seoul. At the same time, Paul D. Wolfowitz,
(Deputy Defense
Secretary), made a swing through Europe that included a visit to
Russia, the other major power on China's border.
businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_22/b3734007.htm
At the same time, a new Rand
study was
released, written by former UNOCAL
consultant Zalmay Khalilzad
(->), at that time senior director at the National Security
Council,
today active for Bush in Afghanistan as well. This study
magically already envisioned "a coalition of U.S. Asian allies,
including Australia and the Philippines,
acting jointly to quell
any regional conflict. It also suggests the U.S. promote a balance
of power between Russia, China, and India so that none emerges as
dominant." businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_22/b3734007.htm
Unfortunately this study didn't include the interesting twist, that
Khalizad
once worked for Unocal
in
Afghanistan to get a huge pipeline running, as part of the
CentGas
Consortium
(->).
VISITING PROFESSOR TO DISCUSS ROOTS OF TERRORISM IN AFGHANISTAN, MEET WITH STUDENTS
http://www.salve.edu/salvetoday/archives/view_archive_public.cfm?archive_ID=1182
Dr. Thomas E. Gouttierre
http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Gouttierre_Thomas_3762103.aspx
Thomas E. Gouttierre, the director of the Center for Aghan Studies, is an old friend of Zalmay Khalilzad....
In fact, Gouttierre coached Khalilzad on a high school basketball team
when "Zal" first visited America as an exchange student....
According to Thomas E. Gouttierre, the director for the Unocal-funded
Center for Afghan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the
Khalilzad family "
certainly would have been people among the intellectual elite of the time."
Gouttierre met Zalmay when the young Afghani first visited the United
States as an exchange student through the American Friends Service
Committee,
a Quaker charitable organization....
Gouttierre coached him in basketball.
He returned to Afghanistan to complete his high school, but earned his
undergraduate degree from the American University in Beirut.
Fulbright Association
24th Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
“Transforming Transitions: A Fulbright Perspective”
November 8 – 11, 2001
Plenary Luncheon & Address
*Thomas E. Gouttierre - Dean, International Studies and Programs &
Director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska
at Omaha &
University of Nebraska Medical Center; former Executive Director,
Afghan-American Educational Commission (Fulbright Foundation), Kabul,
Afghanistan (1971 to 1974)
http://www.fulbright.org/conference/2001/01confsched.htm
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But he said American engineering advice and money went into the
construction of the complexes, situated to make approach by ground
troops difficult and guarded by stone barriers to prevent "smart"
guided missiles from penetrating the entrances. Only one was ever
captured by Soviet forces -- in 1987, "at a huge cost in blood" -- and
the remaining underground bases have probably been reinforced since
then, Bodansky said.
Bodansky's account of the U.S. role in financing the bunkers was confirmed by another expert on Afghanistan, Thomas E. Gouttierre, who now runs the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska in Omaha.
President Bush and other top officials have stated repeatedly that
their campaign against terrorism is a long-term effort not targeted at
one individual. But they have simultaneously emphasized the evidence
linking bin Laden and his organization, al-Qaida, to the attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Most nongovernment experts believe
that the U.S. anti-terror campaign will have to capture or kill bin
Laden to remain credible.
Bin Laden is said to like riding horses, Swetnam said, and holds a
degree in engineering and business management. But Bodansky said most
of bin Laden's time is probably spent conferring with al-Qaida aides or
"studying and writing," laying out the theological justification for
his jihad, or holy war, against America. Despite their malign purpose,
Bodansky said, "his writings are beautiful -- rich, logical and
well-researched."
Like Bodansky, Gouttierre, who lived and worked for the United Nations in Afghanistan in the 1990s, said he has never met bin Laden. But Gouttierre did see the terrorist's convoy pass by the noisy, crowded bazaar in Kandahar one day in 1999.
Gouttierre
said the convoy consisted of a half-dozen sport-utility vehicles with
blackened windows and armed guards riding on top and on the sides.
"When he drove by, it was like Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey passing by," Gouttierre
said. "All of a sudden there was a hush. People said, 'Osama. Osama.'
There was a kind of awe. He was considered a bigger-than-life figure,
whether people liked him or not."
Since 1998, when U.S. forces fired cruise missiles at a
terrorist training camp where he was believed to be attending a
meeting, bin Laden has become far more careful about security. He is
said to have recruited one or more men who resemble him physically to
sow confusion about his whereabouts, according to Bodansky, who has
taught at the Johns Hopkins University and directs a congressional task
force on terrorism.
Gouttierre
said bin Laden's notoriety could work against him. "He can't move
without being noticed. It may take a month or two, it may take until
spring, but I think we can find him," he said.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2001/011009-attack06.htm
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Thomas E. Gouttierre,
dean of international studies and programs at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha, is frustrated after getting pleas for help over the
past weeks from 41 foreign graduate students who were admitted for the
fall term but could not enroll because they were still waiting for
their visas.
He says the current situation is discouraging foreign students from
coming to American institutions at a time when other English-speaking
countries are attracting growing numbers of foreign students.
http://www.tassausa.org/Default.php?Type=Forum&go=7
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