China makes bid to buy Unocal Oil/ Is this the same Unical that built in Afganistan?

[Puffy2]

Something to ponder:

Here are links to two separate articles - one that briefs on Unical's involvement with Afganistan (the US wanted a pipeline there prior to 9/11 and had negotiated with the Taliban...then negotiations were broken off, 9/11 occurred, we invaded, a new government is in ...and the pipeline is being built. A big player in that...Unical - a major oil company.
Separate article: Corporations in China have put in a multi billion dollar bid to buy...Unocal, as the article states and spells. Can anyone tell me if these two spellings are the SAME company OR two different companies?

If they are the same, does anyone else find this terriably ironic...and is this a hazard of politics mixing too closely with corporations...is it all for sale to the highest bidder???

http://www.questionsquestions.net/documents/terror_multinational.html

These are clips from an entire article "Who is winning in the ongoing struggle for Central Asian oil and gas?"
RADIO NETHERLANDS - Newsline

Wide Angle: Who is winning in the ongoing struggle for Central Asian
oil and gas?"

This remarkable documentary was broadcast on Radio Netherlands on
November 12. The writers draw a close relationship between Islamic
terrorism (Wahabism), the US "war on terrorism" and the interests of the
multinational oil companies. A few quotations:

"Wherever you go in the world, if you draw a map of oil pipelines, oil
routes and you overlay onto that the centres of Wahabi activity, the two
things match perfectly."

"[The Caspian region] provides new oil that is not controlled by OPEC
and it's not controlled by Russia either."

"[T]he Americans, in the early 1990s, [supported] a young rebel movement
that was fighting to bring stability to war-torn Afghanistan.
If these rebels, called the Taliban, could end the Afghan civil war,
then the Americans could finally build a pipeline that neither Russia
nor Iran would control."

"...in '93 '94, members of the Taliban were already in Houston signing
an oil deal with Unical to build a pipeline from Turkmenistan through
Afghanistan and down into Pakistan.

"governments have lost control of the process that feeds extremism and
terrorism...its not governments, but multinational corporations that are
calling the shots in global politics."

"Geopolitics has moved ahead a bit and you can't really look at it in
terms of nation states anymore. You have to look at it more in terms of
corporate entities.

"Muslims around the world are being encouraged to think on a petty
national basis and the global corporations get more and more global.

"...fundamentalist terrorism fits in hand and glove with the needs of
the global capitalist entities and the corporations...

"Western oil companies have been paying groups of extremists to carry
out attacks in oil rich regions around the world. The extremists ... are
Muslim fundamentalists who draw their inspiration from the Wahabi sect
in Saudi Arabia."

"...there is an alarmingly close relationship between Wahabism and
corporate western economic policy."

_____________________________________


"Wide Angle"

Who is winning in the ongoing struggle for
Central Asian oil and gas?

RADIO NETHERLANDS - Newsline
entire article at link..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315775/posts

China's Oil Group Eyes 13 Billion Bid For US Rival UNOCAL: FT

"CNOOC Ltd., China's third-biggest oil and gas group, is considering a bid of more than $13 billion for its U.S. rival Unocal Corp. in a deal that would mark the largest and most significant overseas acquisition by a Chinese company, the Financial Times reported Friday. Quoting people close to the situation, the British paper said the state-controlled group is interested in Unocal's Asian assets and has asked bankers to study a takeover of the whole company followed by a subsequent sale of the U.S. assets.
Unocal's main attraction for CNOOC is its extensive operations in several Asian countries, including Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh, according to the paper.

The negotiations are at an early stage and detailed talks have yet to take place, it said.

CNOOC's plans are the latest sign of Beijing's determination to push its flagship commodity companies to acquire natural resources to fuel the country's rapid industrialization and economic growth, the paper said.

The Hong Kong-incorporated public company engages primarily in the exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas offshore China"

 

[Puffy2]

Oh, and Hamid Karzai ,now president of Afghanistan, worked as a Unocal consultant prior to 9/11.

 

[JudicialTyranny]

Oh, and Hamid Karzai ,now president of Afghanistan, worked as a Unocal consultant prior to 9/11.

Urban legend. Lemme guess - Michael Moore fan?

Several sources, most notably the documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11, have reported that Karzai once worked as a consultant for the oil company Unocal. Spokesmen for both Unocal and Karzai have denied any such relationship. The claim appears to have originated in the December 9, 2001 issue of the French newspaper Le Monde. Some have suggested that Karzai was confused with U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad.

Hamid Karzai

Updated May 20, 2002
Unocal reiterates Afghanistan position at Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Unocal Chairman Charles R. Williamson told Unocal stockholders today that Unocal has no plans or interest in becoming involved in any projects in Afghanistan, including natural gas or crude oil pipelines. He made the statement in response to recent erroneous news reports about Unocal and the pipeline project in Afghanistan.

Background
Beginning in late 1997, Unocal was a member of a multinational consortium that was evaluating construction of a Central Asia Gas (CentGas) pipeline between Turkmenistan and Pakistan. Part of this pipeline would have crossed western Afghanistan. However, Unocal suspended its participation in the CentGas consortium in August 1998 and formally withdrew from that consortium in December 1998. Our company has had no further role in developing or funding that project or any other project that might involve the Taliban. The pipeline was never constructed.

Unocal reiterates Afghanistan position at Annual Meeting of Stockholders

 

[ToriLammy]

Chevron was cleared today by the FTC to buy Unocal for $18 billion so I'm guessing no story here.