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In oktober vorig jaar schrijft Mike Ruppert in zijn FTW-nieuwsbrief dat de opiumvelden vol 'poppy flowers' in Afghanistan zijn vernietigd in opdracht van de Taliban (op vriendelijk verzoek van de Amerikaanse regering die als dank eind mei vorig jaar $43 miljoen stortte op de bankrekening van de Taliban) en dat de productie is verplaatst ondermeer naar Oesbekistan: ''In March 2001 FTW reported from Moscow that Uzbekistan was “awash” in a sea of poppies. Since September 11 we have seen Uzbekistan not surprisingly become the hub for all U.S. military operations going into Afghanistan. It was, in fact, the very first place that U.S. military and “special operations” forces deployed – within days of the attacks. Unmentioned in press stories is the fact that firms like Southern Air, Evergreen and other CIA proprietary or contract operations have been establishing a presence in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent for more than a year. And Tashkent is a surprisingly modern city. It even has an Intercontinental Hotel. This is undoubtedly due in part to increased oil exploration, but it hauntingly parallels our experience from another era - Vietnam.' Lees de interessante rest onder de kop The Real Story. De drugs worden vervolgens door Europa vervoerd -grotendeels- door het Kosovo Bevrijdingsleger (KLA/UCK) dat in de oorlog tegen Milosevic alle steun en ruimte kreeg van de geallieerden: 'The Kosovo Liberation Army is an unlikely catalyst for NATO's first attack on a sovereign nation in its 50-year history', kopt CNN. Kritisch auteur Michael Parenti schrijft: '[...] In Kosovo, we see the same dreary pattern. The U.S. gives aid and encouragement to violently right-wing separatist forces such as the self-styled Kosovo Liberation Army, only a year ago considered a terrorist organization by Washington. The KLA has long been a prime player in an enormous heroin trade that reaches to Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Norway, and Sweden.' Lees meer over deze materie in het artikel 'KLA and Drugs: The `New Colombia of Europe' Grows in Balkans'. Door de Westerse banden met het KLA/UCK en door de aanwezigheid in Oesbekistan krijgen/houden de VS een vinger in de pap van een belangrijk deel van de wereldwijde drugshandel. Tegelijkertijd word dezelfde truuk toegepast in Colombia, waar de VS een 'oorlog tegen de drugs' zijn begonnen. Daarover later meer. Mike Ruppert schrijft: 'Now, as the CIA moves to control the drug trade in the region you can be sure of several things. First, when the world sees an explosion of heroin from the region it won’t be the Taliban’s doing. Second, the cash flows from the smuggling will now be directed through U.S. banks and stocks. That is what the CIA does. Third, those cash flows – as direct air operations from Tashkent to the U.S. become commonplace - will be taken away from Russia, the Balkans, Turkey and Eastern Europe. Fourth, the result of that will be de-stabilization of the entire region. Fifth, destabilization in the region will Balkanize Russia. Sixth, the increasing U.S. military and economic presence will consolidate U.S. control over the vast oil and gas reserves in the region. A revived Unocal-Saudi pipeline project, which will begin construction soon after the U.S. establishes control, will take the oil and gas from Central Asia, through Afghanistan, and down to the Pakistani coast where it will then be sold to China and Japan. The profits from those sales will come back into Wall Street. This will be a further drain on Russian influence in the region and greatly increase global instability.' Wat ik van de artikelen van Ruppert begrijp is
dat het geld dat wordt verdiend met de drugshandel nodig is om de Westerse
economieën draaiende te houden*: 'I have received additional
reports that Uzbekistan is now awash in the opium poppy and, as in the
US with the CIA, that Russian military and intelligence agencies facilitate
the trade as a means of protecting access to hard currency. The point here
is not that the US it totally evil or the only country doing these things.
But the US is far and away the most advanced nation when it comes to the
use of such methods to achieve superiority. As [Russian economist Michael]
Khazin has noted, the US and Britain and Germany started the conflict in
Kosovo in 1999 to stave off a collapse of western markets following the
Asian collapse of 1997-8. Now Colombia is a last-ditch effort to protect
the US markets and European opposition is jeopardizing that plan."', schrijft
Ruppert. DaanSpeak |