The latest potential scandal concerns a French book by Jean Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie "Bin Laden, the Forbidden Truth". The authors are noted intelligence experts. Brisard wrote a report in 1997 for the French secret services on Al Qaeda. Dasquie is the publisher of Intelligent Online and an investigative reporter.
The book details the close background of the Bush White House to Big Oil. They write about Vice President Cheney being President of the oil industry service company, Halliburton. They note that National Security Adviser Conoleeza Rice was a manager for Chevron. They state that Secretary of Commerce, Evans, and Secretary of Energy, Abraham, both worked for U.S. oil companies.
Brisard and Dasquie contend that the Bush Administration crippled the War on Terrorism before September 11th because oil industry goals were given the top priority in dealing with both the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic fundamentalism of Saudi Arabia. The authors claim that FBI Deputy Director, John O'Neill, resigned in July 2001 over this issue.
Brisard claims that O'Neill told the writers "the main obstacles to investigating Islamic terrorism were U.S. oil corporate interest". The book claims that the Bush White House was trying to strengthen the Taliban to gain access to huge Central Asian oil reserves via an Afghanistan pipeline. Those reserves were effectively under Russian control and U.S. oil interests wanted to control them instead of the Russians. Trillions of dollars are a stake!
The book claims that Bush operatives pressured the Taliban to agree to a deal that was very favorable to U.S. oil interests. They claim that at one point these operatives told the Taliban " either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs".
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