U.S. Using Anti-Terror War to Gain World Oil Reserves— Soviet Intelligence

U.S. Using Anti-Terror War to Gain World Oil Reserves — Soviet Intelligence Chief
Created: 21.03.2005 14:05 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:05 MSK, 2 hours 18 minutes ago


MosNews


On the pretext of fighting international terrorism the United States is trying to establish control over the world’s richest oil reserves, Leonid Shebarshin, ex-chief of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service, who heads the Russian National Economic Security Service consulting company, said in an interview for the Vremya Novostei newspaper.

Using the anti-terrorist cause as a cover the United States has occupied Afghanistan, Iraq and will soon move to impose their “democratic order” on the Greater Middle East, Shebarshin said. “The U.S. has usurped the right to attack any part of the globe on the pretext of fighting the terrorist threat,” Shebarshin said.

Referring to his meeting with an unnamed al-Qaeda expert at the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit research organization in the U.S., Shebarshin said: “We have agreed that is not a group but a notion.”

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http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/03/21/shebarsh.shtml

Of course it's about oil.... and the world knows this that's why every country is cutting deals with others...and leaving the US out.

I always thought this too, on the logic that if a terrorist group had the resources and gung-ho to smash planes into buildings, why haven't they done anything since then?

They could if they wanted to, it's pitifully easy. An RPG fired at, say, a liquid natural gas tanker would probably vaporize a city block. They could cut rail lines without fear of anyone ever catching them, ship explosive cargo crates, etc.

It's just so easy that if they really existed as * wants us to believe, they would have done a lot more already.

so that we can get into Afghan and Iraq.....for oil and and oilice presence in the middle east

this ranks as a "no, duh! ya think?" moment.

or have we as a whole just accepted the policy? We want our SUVs and if we have to kill several hundred thousand brown people in the process then it's ok because we've deluded ourselves in the belief of the war on terror. Group think at its worst. do any of shrub's supporters even entertain the thought that the end game of this imperialism is someone eventually exploding several (maybe hundreds) of nukes on our soil? China and Russia will not allow us to take control of the world's oil supplies. Is it really worth the end of all things? We need to wake up.

it's true, and won't admit it because they are selfish evil bastards.
Some are truly just plain stupid. Some of the selfish evil bastards just act plain stupid.
Those are the most sinister of the lot. We really have a *ucked up country.

I mean, even a six year old can connect the dots: Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, syria, Venezuela...gee, what do they ALL have in common?

that the Russians are aware of this since they border the Arctic..

However what is not being stated is that the Russia\China alliance is not going to permit this. But, seeing how at the core of the neocons philosophy is the idea of a winnable nuclear war, they do not see this as a problem.

However, Americans may want to start thinking about investment in personal underground shelters. Way, way, underground.

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It is a powerful book,

as were most of the books by Nevil Chute (or Shute - I furget)

I lived with a sense of impending disaster for decades after that, especially since I read it just shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis which happened while I was in Grade 8.

Bush and the US's preemptive wars have renewed that sense of impending global disaster in a "this COULD happen - SOON" sort of way

No Highway( by Nevil) is a good book too, about pieces falling off of planes and the gov't and manufacturers won't listen

Isn't AirBus losing pieces (tail rudders) lately ??

hmmm

Waiting for the end to come, knowing it is the end of human history.

Only thing worse would be being a fundy wondering why they have not been raptured as the radiation line moves closer.

that in the event of a full blown nuclear exchange, being at ground zero is the best place to be.

agenda??? pretty poor intelligence.

is that the nuclear war is only winnable for the thousand or so special people that will get to use the good fallout shelters. The rest of us will be feeding on the flesh of our friends to survive.

... for the majority of Americans.

The good ol' 51% would be incapable of appreciating quite how obvious
and well-known the original post is. They are the people who neither
see nor want to see the truth.

Still, every little bit of exposure that the truth gets is a chance
for someone to awaken from their isolation.

What was your first clue?

He retired in 1991. He was in charge of one of the divisions of the KGB briefly before he retired, his training is in external "surveillance" and his specialty is SW Asia: he's served in Pakistan, in India in the 1970s, and from 1979-83 in Iran. He did stints as an analyst before being called back to Moscow in 1983, and then proceeded from analyst to #2 in the "first chief directorate" of the KGB, then to head it.

The KGB had variously 8-16 "chief directorates" (I assume there's a standard translation for the phrase, but I've never seen it in English). The first was in charge of espionage abroad.

Bigshot, but low enough on the food chain that we'd never see him if he were in the CIA.

Iraqis watch an oil fire burn / Photo: Reuters

their plan for getting the oil isn't exactly going well.

Check out Feb. 2005 alone....

199. February 2 - attack on oil pipeline connecting Bayji refinery to Daura refinery. The attack took place near Samarra.
200. Fabruary 5 - attack on a cluster of eight pipelines west of Samarra connecting the Bayji and Daura refineries.
201. February 6 - attack on pipeline carrying crude oil from Kirkuk to Bayji.
202. February 9 - attack on a gas pipeline before dawn in Fatha, about 15 miles north of Bayji.
203. February 9 - rocket attack on a pipeline linking Kirkuk to Bayji.
204. February 13 - 10:00pm attack on oil pipeline at the al-Dibbis oil field 31 miles north of Kirkuk.
205. February 14 - another attack on oil pipeline at al-Dibbis.
206. February 16 - attack on pipeline carrying crude from Kirkuk to Bayji near Fatha.
207. February 16 - attack on pipeline carrying crude from Kirkuk to Daura refinery.
208. February 16 - another attack on pipeline near Fatha.
209. February 16 - attack on pipeline in the Bajwan area, northwest of Kirkuk.
210. February 16 - gunmen killed Colonel Ibrahim Ahmed in charge of pipeline security. The killing took place at Ajeel west of Kirkuk.
211. February 25 - late night attack on a pipeline connecting the Dibbis oil fields with Kirkuk.


http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm

I didn't realize that there were so many incidents. Pipelines are generally very vulnerable so I should have guessed.

I've bookmarked the site-- very informative and comprehensive, unlike our lazy and complicit MSM.

that think that bush isn't secretly getting any oil out of Iraq and stock piling it somewhere (like Saudia Arabia) are under estimating what the oil companies are capable of, I am certain they are directional drilling and sucking the oil out of Iraq from the border of Kuwait.
Here is a map that shows how close one of Iraq's biggest oil field is from the Kuwait border




Advancements in directional or horizontal drilling techniques, which allow increased access to potential reserves, have had a significant impact on drilling capabilities. Drilling begins vertically, but the drill bit can be turned so drilling can continue at an angle of up to 90 degrees. This technique extends the reach, enabling a drill to reach separate pockets of oil or gas.


BTW this technique is widely used in Texas and Oklahoma where oil companies will purchase oil rights from a land owner and suck all their neighbors dry from right under them for free.

I didn't know the whole darn map was going to show up in the post !

from the bottom of the link upthread



you can have it. yours is taking up a LOT of space!

:)

From my blog:

The Russian news agency Novosti has conducted an interview with Leonid Shebarshin, who served as the KGB's "chief of foreign spying" in the 1980s, and was named acting KGB chairman after the failed coup of 1991. (A French translation of the interview may be accessed here; I've yet to find it in English.)

Shebarshin makes three points which stand out: Iran will be the next target; "international terrorism" is a convenient fiction, and Osama bin Laden "is still today an agent of the CIA."

Did you get that? The former acting chairman of the KGB says bin Laden is still working for the United States. Of course, we'd be foolish to take a professional spy's word for anything. But, and again of course, we don't need to. We have our eyes, and our brains, and our guts. We've had for more than three years the reports that bin Laden was treated at the American hospital in Dubai the summer of 2001, and there met with the CIA station chief and others. What we've done with it, how we've let that and much else inform our judgement of the "War on Terror" narrative, has been our business. Our responsibility.

Besides, you can't tell people this stuff. Everyone needs to intuit for themselves just how wrong things have become. Or not. But knowing that something has gone horribly wrong with America is also about self-knowledge, particularly for Americans. Because the cognitive dissonance between the national myths and the imperial reality is threatening to become a serious issue of mental health.