[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:7405] Oil company adviser named US representative to Afghanistan (fwd)

[Margaret E. Kosal]

Al -

As always, thank you for the informational forward.  I have very much 
appreciated many of the non-mainstream news pieces which you have shared.

Someone w/whom i shared the following article (contextually, a Scripps 
Research Inst medical prof), made the reactive commentary of "Who would you 
suggest?  I can't think of a better envoy.  Afghani-born, with an 
understanding of the culture and an awareness of what economic benefits oil 
development could bring to the country."

Ignoring the specious thinking in the last sentence (w/r/t benefits of 
oil), do you or does anyone else in the accumulated wisdom of this group, 
have a specific answer to the question: "who would you suggest?"

Warm regards,
Margaret


At 09:00 1/8/2002 -0600, you wrote:
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>>Oil company adviser named US representative to Afghanistan
>>By Patrick Martin
>>3 January 2002
>>
>>http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/oil-j03.shtml
>>
>>President Bush has appointed a former aide to the American oil
>>company Unocal, Afghan-born Zalmay Khalilzad, as special envoy to
>>Afghanistan. The nomination was announced December 31, nine days
>>after the US-backed interim government of Hamid Karzai took office
>>in Kabul.
>>
>>The nomination underscores the real economic and financial
>>interests at stake in the US military intervention in Central Asia.
>>Khalilzad is intimately involved in the long-running US efforts to
>>obtain direct access to the oil and gas resources of the region,
>>largely unexploited but believed to be the second largest in the
>>world after the Persian Gulf.