OIL WARS

Why didn't Bush target al Qaeda after USS Cole attack

Q: Why didn't the Bush people punish al Qaeda when they got proof that the group was behind the Cole bombings?
A: Because they were trying to get a deal struck with the Taliban who were the allies of bin Laden. The pipeline was to run a constant supply of cheap natural gas to India, where it would have been picked up by a pipeline built by Enron which would deliver that gas to their Dabhol Electric utility

Enron is a scandal so enormous that it's hard to wrap your mind around it. Not just a single financial disaster, it's actually a jigsaw of interlocking scandals, each outrageous in its own right. There's Enron the Wall St. con game, where company bookkeepers used slight of hand to turn four years of steady losses into stunning profits. There's Enron the reverse Robin Hood, which stole from its own employees even as its executives were hauling millions of dollars out the backdoor. There's Enron's Ken Lay the Kingmaker, who used the corporation's fraudulent wealth to broker elections and skew public policy to his liking. And then there are the Enron coverups, as documents are shredded and the White House seeks to conceal details about meetings between Enron and Vice President Cheney. More ...