An understanding is developing that prior to the 9-11 attacks, Enron Corporation was contracting the building of a pipeline with the Taliban. The pipeline would have been built with the help of the Bin Laden construction group of Saudi Arabia and this pipeline, if realized, would have allowed Enron to extricate itself from the brink of bankruptcy. The story goes that in July 2001 the negotiations to build the pipeline failed and the Taliban were promised a carpet of bombs rather than a carpet of gold. Further, another story speculates that Al Qaeda became aware of the failure of these negotiations and as a consequence they launched the 9-11 attacks as a pre-emptive strike to the expected bombing of Afghanistan by the Americans.

Now we must understand that 15 of the 19 hijackers who participated to the 9-11 attacks were Saudi nationals, yet it is embarrassing to notice that Saudi Arabia, while assisting both the rise of power of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel, has been treated all along as a loyal and friendly country by the Bush administration.

We also understand that the fusion of money and government have made the United States a plutocracy, that is a corporate oligarchy for the greedy rich. We also know that Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy. As a consequence, we must understand that the friendship between the Bush family and the Saudi extended royal family is based on their business relationships. And in fact, both President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney have deep interests in the oil and military business of Saudi Arabia. And it is ironic that on September 11, while the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were being attacked, the Carlyle Group, a military business partnered by Bush's father, was holding its annual investor conference with the participation of Shafig Bin Laden, brother of Osama Bin Laden.

References

What Congress Does Not Know about Enron and 9/11. The Enron pipeline connection to 9/11. The War at Home: Federal Law Enforcement Officials Follow International Terrorism's Money Trail from Northern Virginia to Saudi Arabia, but President Bush Says That's Far Enough by Atty. John J. Loftus http://www.john-loftus.com/enron1.htm

Evidence Mounts Linking Saudi Arabia to World Terrorism Michael Crawford, MILNET http://www.milnet.com/milnet/afi/AFI-Research-0414.htm

Kevin Phillips on WEALTH AND DEMOCRACY NOW with Bill Moyers, 5.17.02 http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_phillips.html

Dark heart of the American dream It's the most polluted state in the planet's most powerful country. Ed Vulliamy goes into George Bush's backyard to reveal how big oil got in bed with big politics and the price paid by the little people. By Ed Vulliamy, Sunday June 16, 2002, The Observer http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4434515,00.html

Carlyle's way Making a mint inside "the iron triangle" of defense, government, and industry. By Dan Briody January 8, 2002 http://www.redherring.com/vc/2002/0111/947.html

Bush advisers cashed in on Saudi gravy train by Maggie Mulvihill, Jack Meyers and Jonathan Wells, December 11, 2001, Second of two parts http://www.bostonherald.com/news/americas_new_war/saud12112001.htm

SAUDI ARABIA: Human Rights Developments. The government of Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy, continued to violate a broad array of civil and political rights, allowing no criticism of the government, no political parties, nor any other potential challenges to its system of government. Human Rights Watch 1999 http://www.hrw.org/worldreport99/mideast/saudi.html