Forbidden Truth U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden
by Brisard, Jean-Charles; Dasquie, Guillaume; Madsen, WayneFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-07-08
Publisher(s): Nation Books
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Summary
The result of three years of investigation by a leading French investigative journalist and an intelligence expert, Forbidden Truth is the untold story of the Clinton and Bush administration's attempts to stabilize Afghanistan and make it safe for US energy companies to build a pipeline through it. In particular, it details the secret diplomacy between the Bush administration and the Taliban between February and August 2001, talks that ultimately led the US to make threats that may have helped stoke the horrifying attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Preface to the American Edition | p. xix |
| Prologue | p. xxvii |
| Foreword | p. xxxi |
| Secret Liaisons: The United States and the Taliban | |
| Laili Helms: Lobbyist for the Taliban | p. 3 |
| The State Department: Sponsor of the Taliban | p. 11 |
| A Pipeline for the Taliban | p. 17 |
| Mullah Omar: A Troublesome Ally | p. 23 |
| Negotiating at All Costs | p. 29 |
| Chronicle of a Forbidden Negotiation | p. 37 |
| The Impossible Investigation | p. 47 |
| Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Many Dangers | |
| Of Oil and Koran | p. 63 |
| Saudi Fundamentalist Networks | p. 79 |
| Bin Laden, the Myth of a Renegade | |
| Libya 1994: A Terrorist Is Born | p. 97 |
| Family Support | p. 103 |
| Khalid Bin Mahfouz: The Lucrative Business of Terrorism | |
| The Banker of Terror | p. 115 |
| Afterword | p. 141 |
| Appendices | |
| Chronology | p. 149 |
| Interpol Arrest Warrant for bin Laden | p. 155 |
| Interpol "Red Notice" on bin Laden | p. 161 |
| State Department Fact Sheet on bin Laden | p. 167 |
| CIA Memo on bin Laden | p. 171 |
| FBI File on Omar and Abdullah bin Laden | p. 175 |
| The Economic Network of the bin Laden Family, by Jean-Charles Brisard | p. 181 |
| Charts | |
| Saudi Binladin Group | p. 225 |
| Investments of bin Laden | p. 226 |
| Bin Laden Family | p. 227 |
| Bin Mahfouz Family | p. 228 |
| Bin Laden and Mahfouz | p. 229 |
| BCCI | p. 230 |
| Notes | p. 231 |
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