“…social scientist Chalmers Johnson has commented, ‘Support for this enterprise [the dual oil and gas pipelines [through Afghanistan]]…appears to have been a major consideration in the Bush administration’s decision to attack Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.’ Political commentator Kevin Phillips has agreed that ‘plans were discussed in the spring and summer of 2001–well before the events of September [11]–for hamstringing Iraq and convincing the Taliban in Afghanistan to accept construction of an American (Unocal) pipeline from Turkmenistan through Kabul to Karachi, Pakistan.’ ”
– Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11, Page 167