Dean Henderson: Afghan History Suppressed, Part III.

The Central Asian Grand Chessboard. In 1997, the Trilateral Commission founder to Abiigniew Brzezinki, the godfather of the Afghan mujahadeen, wrote a book titled, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geo-strategic Imperatives. In the book, Brzezinski, who sat on the board at BP Amoco, argues that the key to global power is control of Eurasia, and that the "key to controlling Eurasia, is controlling the Central Asian Republics". Brzezinski's plan to assassinate  called for ruling Central Asia via control of Uzbekistan, which borders Afghanistan to the north. In 1997, Enron attempted to negotiate a $2 billion deal with the Uzbek state owned Neftegas, with help from the Bush White House. When that effort, and other privatization attempts were rebuffed in 1998, CIA backed Islamist attacks on Uzbekistan's government were ratcheted up. In 1999, a series of explosions rocked the Uzbek capital of Tashkent, Islamic Party of Turkistan, attempted to assassinate socialist President Islam Karimov. They attacked the fertile Fergana Valley, in an attempt to disrupt harvests and the Uzbek food supply. Karimov was also attacked by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Hizb ut Tahrir. The US government gave $43 million in aid to the Taliban in 2000, and $132 million in 2001. The Taliban were told by the Bush White House to hire a Washington PR firm to scrub up their image. The firm was headed by Laila Helms, niece of former CIA Director and BCCI crony Richard Helms. Big Oil representatives were present at the Bush Taliban negotiations, where one official told the Taliban at that last August meeting,"You either accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs." After the "carpet of bombs" began raining down on neighboring Afghanistan in October 2001, Uzbekistan, along with neighbors Kyrgyztan and Tajikistan, were coerced into accepting new US military bases. In 2005, Kyrgyztan's nationalist President Askar Akayev was deposed by Islamists in the Tulip Revolution. Within days, Donald Rumsfeld was meeting with the new leaders. Karimov had seen enough, and ordered US troops out of Uzbekistan.