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

Created: 21.03.2005 14:05 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:05 MSK, 4 hours 29
minutes ago

MosNews

On the pretext of fighting international terrorism the United States
is trying to establish control over the worldAEs 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 [al-Qaeda] is not a group but a notion."

"The fight against that all-mighty ubiquitous myth deliberately linked
to Islam is of great advantage for the Americans as it targets the oil-
rich Muslim regions," Shebarshin emphasized.

With military bases in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan,
Shebarshin said, the United States has already established control
over the Caspian region - one of the worldAEs largest oil reservoirs.

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


Cheers, Steve..

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