| In a previous blog I mentioned Julie Sirrs, a military analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), who traveled to Afghanistan and met with Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud.
Sirrs claimed, "The Taliban's brutal regime was being kept in power significantly by bin Laden's money, plus the narcotics trade, while [Massoud's] resistance was surviving on a shoestring. With even a little aid to the Afghan resistance, we could have pushed the Taliban out of power. She claimed the US government and the oil company Unocal wanted the Taliban to achieve the necessary "political stability to enable a trans-Afghanistan pipeline." She also stated, "The State Department didn't want to have anything to do with Afghan resistance, or even, politically, to reveal that there was any viable (alternative) |
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