Dude, Where's My Country_ - Michael Moore [113]
53 Ibid.
54 Cheryl W. Thompson, “Senators challenge Ashcroft on Gun Issue,” The Washington Post, July 27, 2001.
55 Fox Butterfield, “Justice Dept. bars use of gun checks in terror inquiry,” The New York Times, December 6, 2001; Neil A. Lewis, “Ashcroft defends antiterror plan; says criticism may aid US foes,” The New York Times, December 7, 2001; Peter Slevin, “Ashcroft blocks FBI access to gun records,” The Washington Post, December 7, 2001; Violence Policy Center (www.vpc.org), “Firearms training for Jihad in America”; Fox Butterfield, “Ashcroft’s words clash with staff on checks,” The New York Times, July 24, 2002.
56 “Taleban to Texas for pipeline talks,” BBC World Service, December 3, 1997, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/west—asia/36735.stm.
57 Caroline Lees, “Oil barons court Taliban in Texas,” The Telegraph (Online), December 14, 1997.
58 Caroline Lees, “Oil barons court Taliban in Texas,” The Telegraph, December 14, 1997; Barbara Crossette, “US, Iran relations show signs of thaw,” The New York Times, December 15, 1997; “Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline,” BBC News, December 4, 1997; Kenneth Freed & Jena Janovy, “UNO partner pulls out of Afghanistan project,” Omaha World Herald, June 6, 1998.
59 Ed Vulliamy, “US women fight Taliban oil deal,” The Guardian, January 12, 1998; Dan Morgan, et al., “Women’s fury toward Taliban stalls pipeline,” The Washington Post, January 11, 1998.
60 “Trans-Caspian gas line receives go-ahead,” Europe Energy, February 26, 1999.
61 Justin Weir, “Natural resources,” Institutional Investor International, April 1997; Gerald Karey, “Unocal’s Uzbekistan deal adds to Central Asia plan,” Platt’s Oilgram News, November 5, 1996.
62 Letter from Kenneth L. Lay to Governor George W. Bush, April 3, 1997.
63 David B. Ottaway & Dan Morgan, “In drawing a route, bad blood flows,” The Washington Post, October 5, 1998; Daniel Southerland, “Haig involved in plans to build gas pipeline across Iran,” Houston Chronicle, January 22, 1995.
64 Jeremy Kahn, “Will Halliburton clean up?” Fortune, April 14, 2003; Peter Waldman, “A pipeline project in Myanmar puts Cheney in Spotlight,” The Wall Street Journal, October 27, 2000; Colum Lynch, “Firm’s Iraq deals greater than Cheney has said,” The Washington Post, June 23, 2001.
65 Tyler Marshall, “High stakes in the Caspian,” Los Angeles Times, February 23, 1998; Richard B. Cheney, “Defending liberty in a global economy,” speech delivered to the Collateral Damage Conference at the Cato Institute, June 23, 1998.
66 Peter Gorrie, “US underestimated bin Laden at first,” Toronto Star, September 22, 2001.
67 Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, March 2001.
68 Jack Meyers, et al., “Saudi clans working with US oil firms may be tied to bin Laden,” Boston Herald, December 10, 2001.
69 Robert Fisk, “Saudi calls for jihad against US ‘crusader,’” The Independent, September 2, 1996; Tim McGirk, et al., “The Taliban allow a top ‘sponsor’ of terrorism to stay in Afghanistan,” Time magazine, December 16, 1996.
70 Claudia Kolker, “The Fall of Enron: Dead Enron power plant affecting environment, economy, and livelihoods in India,” Houston Chronicle, August 4, 2002.
71 “Turkmen-Pakistani export gas pipeline marks progress,” Oil & Gas Journal, November 3, 1997; “Gulf gas rides to the rescue,” Middle East Economic Digest, January 16, 1998.
72 Unocal press release, “Unocal, Delta sign MOU with Gazprom and Turkmenrusgaz for natural gas pipeline project,” August 13, 1996.
73 James Astill, “Strike one: In 1998, America destroyed Osama bin Laden’s ‘chemical weapons’ factory in Sudan. It turned out that the factory made medicine,” The Guardian, October 2, 2001.
74 “Unocal Statement: Suspension of activities related to proposed natural gas pipeline across Afghanistan,” press release, August 21, 1998; “Unocal Statement on withdrawal from the