“What we do know for sure is that from February 5 to August 2, 2001, the United States engaged in private and risky discussions with the Taliban concerning geostrategic oil interests, among other things. These discussions involved the Taliban betraying Osama bin Laden, though at the time the Americans did not know the extent of the religious leader’s power over the Afghan rulers.”
– Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, Forbidden Truth, Page xxxiv