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svero
1st April 2003, 10:23 PM
This document...

http://www.unansweredquestions.net/timeline/main/timelinecomplete1.html

Purports to be a timeline of events leading to and related to 9/11 (as well as the current war by necessity) - Whether you agree with it or not it is really quite interesting and there's tons of interesting little bits that would take a lifetime to verify. There's so much there, that I've only just begun to scratch the surface, but go ahead... start attacking it or agreeing with it or whatever it is you do.

Here's one interesting snippet...

"1984-1994: The US, through USAID and the University of Nebraska, spends millions of dollars developing and printing textbooks for Afghan schoolchildren. The textbooks are filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation. For instance, children are taught to count with illustrations showing tanks, missiles and land mines. Lacking any alternative, millions of these textbooks are used long after 1994; the Taliban are still using them in 2001. In 2002, the US started producing less violent versions of the same books, which Bush says will have "respect for human dignity, instead of indoctrinating
students with fanaticism and bigotry." Bush fails to mention who created those earlier books. [Washington Post, 3/23/02, CBC, 5/6/02] Since the war with Russia ended in 1989, why did the US keep promoting Islamic radicalism another five years?"

a_unique_person
1st April 2003, 10:41 PM
here are the links

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A5339-2002Mar22?language=printer

http://www.cbc.ca/national/news/afghanschools/



There were those who opposed the text book project, such as Sima Samar who ran a school in those days, but opposition did little good.


Sima Samar
"I was opposing but we had no choice," says Samar, who is minister of women's affairs for Afghanistan's interim government. "It was already done and… nobody had the freedom to speak against all those things."



bizarre.

svero
1st April 2003, 11:04 PM
Just want to note that the textbook thing is a really minor point in what is a much more voluminous document. Just didnt't want people to get the idea it was just about textbooks.

subgenius
1st April 2003, 11:23 PM
It certainly also has to do with us giving millions of dollars to the Taliban shortly before 9-11 (for the ostensible purpose of curbing opium growing).

hammegk
2nd April 2003, 05:48 AM
It took 9/11 to demonstrate the foolhardiness of that failed US attempt at geopolitics.

War is a cleaner, swifter option for all participants.

svero
2nd April 2003, 07:03 AM
Another interesting quote from the timeline...

"January 26, 1998: The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), an influential neoconservative think tank, publishes a letter to President Clinton, urging war against Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein because he is a "hazard" to "a significant portion of the world's supply of oil." In a foretaste of what eventually actually happens, the letter calls for the US to go to war alone, attacks the United Nations and says the US should not be "crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council." The letter is signed by many who will later lead the 2003 Iraq war. 10 of the 18 signatories later join the Bush Administration, including (future) Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Undersecretaries of State John Bolton and Paula Dobriansky, presidential adviser for the Middle East Elliott Abrams, and Bush's special Iraq envoy Zalmay Khalilzad (see also June 3, 1997, January 26, 1998, and September 2000). [Sunday Herald, 3/16/03, PNAC Letter, 1/26/98] Clinton does heavily bomb Iraq in late 1998, but the bombing doesn't last long and its long term effect is the break off of United Nations weapons inspections. [New York Times, 3/22/03] "

svero
2nd April 2003, 07:53 AM
Here's a link to the actual letter mentioned above...

http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

Goes to show how long ago this was all started. That letter was written in 1998. 9/11 has definitely acted as a facilitating even for what many of the current bush administration have wanted in Iraq for many years.