TY  - ADVS
AU  - Buvarp,Tore
ED  - Kanopy (Firm)
TI  - Taliban oil
PY  - 2016///
CY  - [San Francisco, California, USA]
PB  - Kanopy Streaming
KW  - Qaida (Organization)
KW  - Taliban
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Title from title frames; Originally produced by Java Films in 2015
N2  - This is the unknown story of secret negotiations between the Taliban and America to build a pipeline through Afghanistan. When America invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the stated aim was to dismantle Al-Qaeda, denying it a safe base of operations by removing the Taliban from power. But Al-Qaeda claimed that the attack on the Twin Towers was a response to the Bush administration’s threats to attack Afghanistan if its demands for pipeline rights were not met. According to sources, Taliban officials were told they could accept a ‘carpet of gold’ or a ‘carpet of bombs.’ What we know for sure is that in 1997, a delegation of Taliban officials visited Texas to discuss the possibility of a pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan via Afghanistan. Negotiations continued for years and as late as July 2001, just months before 9/11, the Taliban again met with top US representatives. What happened during those talks remains a mystery but, as this film shows, the pipeline played a key role in shaping US - Afghanistan relations pre-9/11
UR  - https://tus.kanopy.com/node/187010
UR  - https://www.kanopy.com/node/187010/external-image
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