Oil companies happy
The return of unbridled feudal tyranny to Afghanistan is
considered a "very positive development" by the U.S. energy
company Unocal Corp. Together with Delta Oil Co. of Saudi
Arabia, it is seeking to build both a gas and an oil pipeline
from Pakistan to Turkmenistan via Afghanistan. Chris Taggart,
executive vice president of the company, says these projects
are "now more likely to succeed than they were two weeks ago."
These are multi-billion-dollar projects that promise huge
profits to the transnational oil companies.
The U.S. government indicated it will recognize the new
regime soon, despite its ultra-reactionary character.
--Oct. 10, 1996
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