Empire of Oil: The Hidden History of 9/11

Empire of Oil: The Hidden History of 9/11 (Video)

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny

Empire of Oil: The Hidden History of 9/11  is a Documentary found on Google Videos, and was Produced by Aidan Monaghan. First off, I want to say that the Documentary shows the true agenda behind the 9/11 attack and the wars in the Middle East. I have written out the entire text of the film, and have attached links to the information in hopes of convincing those who might be skeptical of the findings of the 9/11 Commission's Report. Once you read this for yourself, and watch the Documentary, you will never feel the same about our government.

Editor's Note: I have added to this timeline in order to clarify or give additional information. In one instance I corrected the year of the timeline from the Documentary that was a "Typo" (The film has the date of the Iraq Invasion as January 17, 1990- it should be January 17, 1991).

Empire of Oil: The Hidden History of 9/11

"All war is based on deception"
-Sun Tzu, 'The Art of War'

March, 2003:
Bagdad, Iraq, Operation 'Shock and Awe' Begins.

In a press release, when George W. Bush is asked:
"What did Iraq have to do with the bombing of the World Trade Centers?"
Bush responds with:
"Nothing."
1953:
The CIA Topples Iran's President For Denying 'British Petroleum' Control Of Iran's Oil Wealth.

1957:
The CIA Creates A Security Force Who Torture And Murder Thousands To Ensure The Reign Of Iran's Newly Installed Pro-U.S. Shah.

  • Iran Possesses The World's 3rd Largest Oil Reserves.
"Iran, one of OPEC’s founding members, holds the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves and the world’s second-largest natural gas reserves."
- U.S. Energy Information Administration

June, 1974:
"The end of the oil age is in sight." -Shell Oil Geophysicist M.King Hubbert.
July, 1979:
The CIA Destabilizes A Pro-Soviet Afghan Government, To Draw The Soviets Into A Vietnam-Like War.

December 26, 1979:
Provoked By The CIA Destabilization Of A Pro-Soviet Afghan Government, The Soviet Union Invades Afghanistan.


1998:
"What is most important... Some stirred up Muslims, or the end of the Cold War?"
-Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former National Security Advisor
February 11, 1979:
The Pro-U.S. Shah Of Iran Is Toppled And Succeeded By Islamic Fundamentalist Ayatullah Khomeini.

1980-1988:
The U.S. Aids Iraq In Its 8 Year War Against Iran, To Inhibit Iranian Influence In The Oil-Rich Middle East.
"It is becoming increasingly clear that George Bush, operating largely behind the scenes throughout the 1980s, initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence, and military help that built Saddam's Iraq into" the power it became,....Reagan/Bush administrations permitted – and frequently encouraged – the flow of money, agricultural credits, dual-use technology, chemicals, and weapons to Iraq."                                                                            -Ted Koppel, ABC News-Nightline;  June 9, 1992





  • With Targeting Aid Provided By The CIA, 100,000 Iranians Are Killed By Iraqi Chemical Weapons During The War.
"More than 60 officers of the Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA] were secretly providing detailed information on Iranian deployments, tactical planning for battles, plans for airstrikes and bomb-damage assessments for Iraq."                                                                                       -New York Times


The New York Times (8/18/02) also reported that, according to senior military officers with direct knowledge of the secret program, U.S. officials:
"provided Iraq with critical battle planning assistance at a time when American intelligence agencies knew that Iraqi commanders would employ chemical weapons in waging the decisive battles of the Iran-Iraq war."





December 20, 1983:
Donald Rumsfeld Meets Saddam Hussein For Oil Pipeline Talks 2 Years after Hussein First Uses Chemical Weapons Against Iran.

1986:
The U.S. Center For Disease Control Provides Bio-Chem Weapons Materials To An Iraqi Bio-Chem Weapons Facility.

1988:
A Brother Of Accused 9/11 Mastermind Osama Bin Laden Finances George W. Bush's 'Harken Energy' Company.

July 25, 1990:
With Iraq Poised To Invade Kuwait, A U.S. Ambassador Suggests That Iraqi Aggression Is Acceptable.

"We have no opinion on your Arab conflicts... The Kuwait issue is not associated with America." 
- U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie to Saddam Hussein. 
Glaspie Orders Are Those Of Secretary Of State James Baker, Longtime Friend Of Then U.S. President George H. W. Bush.

1 Week Later:
Iraqi Troops Massed For Weeks At The Kuwait Border Invade Kuwait.

January 17, 1991:
The Successful U.S. War To Expel Iraq From Kuwait Begins. 100,000 Iraqis Are Killed.

February 27, 1991:
The Gulf War Ends And U.S. Bases Created In Saudi Arabia During The War, The World's Largest Oil Producer, Remain To This Day.

1992:
" I want to be the bully on the block....There is no future in trying to challenge the Armed Forces of the United States."
-Future Secretary of State, Colin Powell
June 6, 1992:
The FBI Investigates Ties Between George W. Bush And A Representative Of The Family Of Osama Bin Laden.

January, 1993:
Dick Cheney Releases 'Defense Strategies For The 1990's' Outlining Plans For U.S. World Domination.

October 11, 1996:
"Afghan Pipeline Vital to 'One of the Great Prizes of the 21st Century'                                      -The Terror Timeline-2004
August, 1997:
A FEMA Manual Depicts The 1st World Trade Center Tower Struck On 9/11 And Its Impact Point In Crosshairs.

October, 1997:
Zbigniew Brzezinski Advocates U.S. Domination Of Resource Rich Central Asia, Of Which Afghanistan Is A Part.

"An enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region."

"America... may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive...external threat."

"The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor."

-Zbigniew Brzezinski, 'The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives', 1997
December 4, 1997:
Dick Cheney Hosts Afghanistan's Taliban Regime In Texas, To Negotiate The Construction Of An Afghan Oil Pipeline.

February 12, 1998:
The Vice President Of 'Unocal' Oil Proposes An Afghan Oil Pipeline Before The U.S. Congress.
"The U.S. Government's position is that we support multiple pipelines...

The Unocal pipeline is among those pipelines that would receive our
support under that policy. I would caution that while we do support the
project, the U.S. Government has not at this point recognized any
governing regime of the transit country, one of the transit countries,
Afghanistan, through which that pipeline would be routed. But we do
support the project."

U.S. House of Reps., "U.S. Interests in the Central Asian Republics", 12 Feb 1998
March 2, 1998:
IRAQ: CAN SADDAM BE OVERTHROWN?                                                                    



           -S. Hrg. 105-444,COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
              UNITED STATES SENATE ONE
              HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS
              SECOND SESSION





August 24, 1998:
MSNBC Reveals The Ties Between The CIA And Osama Bin Laden.

Late 1998:
The FBI's John O'Neill Learns Afghanistan's Taliban Are Resisting U.S. Efforts To Create An Afghanistan Oil Pipeline.

1999:
U.S. Policy Document Reveals Willingness Of U.S. Military To Wage International War For Oil.

November, 1999:
"The Middle East with two-thirds of the world's oil... is still where the prize ultimately lies."
-Future Vice President Dick Cheney
September, 2000:
A Policy Think-Tank Recommends U.S. Military Expansion Into The Middle East, Requiring A New 'Pearl Harbor'.

"Military transformation... is likely to be a long one, absent... a new Pearl Harbor."
-'Project For a New American Century'
Group Members Include The Following Persons Tied To The 2001 Bush White House:
  1. Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Brother Of President George W. Bush.
  2. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney.
  3. U.S. Secretary Of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
  4. U.S. Secretary Of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz.
  5. Chief Of Staff For Vice President Cheney, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby.
  6. United Nation's Ambassador, John Bolton.
  7. Undersecretary Of Defense, Dov Zakheim.
January 21, 2001:
George W. Bush Becomes President And Forms A Cabinet With Many Ex-Oil Industry Figures.

  • Vice President Dick Cheney Is The Former CEO Of The Energy Services Company 'Halliburton'.
  • Condoleezza Rice Is A Former Board Member Of 'Chevron' Oil.(A 'Chevron' Oil Tanker Is Named After Her).
January 25, 2001:
Vice President Cheney Convenes A Secretive Energy Policy Meeting.

  • 7 Meeting Pages Are Revealed, All Maps Of Middle Eastern Oil Fields, Including Iraq's.
January 31, 2001:
A Government Memo Reveals Plans For A Post Saddam Hussein Iraq.

March 5, 2001:
A Pentagon Document Reveals Plans For Future Oil Exploration In Iraq.

April 12, 2001:
An Energy Security Report Urges Review Of U.S. Policy Toward Iraq.
  • Iraq Possesses The World's 4th Largest Oil Reserves.
"The United States should conduct an immediate policy review toward Iraq...including military."
-Energy Security Report
May 23, 2001:
"What people need to hear, loud and clear, is that we're running out of energy in America."
-President George W. Bush
 June 1, 2001:
The White House Removes Shootdown Authority From Military Field Commanders Of Wayward Aircraft Over U.S. Airspace.
  • In The Ten Months Prior, Interceptors Are Scrambled Successfully On 67 Different Occassions.
  • After This Change, U.S. Interceptors Fail To Stop 4 Hijacked Planes On 9/11 For 1Hour And 52 Minutes.
June 2, 2001:
"'Before you leave the Army, you will be engaged in another war'. Be prepared to be surprised."
-Paul Wolfowitz, West Point Commencement 
"The main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were U.S. Oil Corporate Interests"
- John O'Neill, FBI 
"Everything needed to dismantle Osama Bin Laden's organization can be found in Saudi Arabia."
-John O'Neill, FBI
July 21, 2001:
The U.S. Reportedly Threatens Afghanistan Militarily If An Afghanistan Oil Pipeline Is Not Pursued.

July 24, 2001:
Larry Silverstein Purchases The World Trade Center And Insures It Against Acts Of Terrorism.

September 11, 2001:
(Twin Towers Attacked, WTC 7 Also Collapses - Larry Silverstein In A Live News Broadcast States There Was A Decision To "Pull" WTC 7).

August 22, 2001:
The FBI's John O'Neill Resigns Due To White House Obstructions Of His Investigations Into Al Qeada.

August 23, 2001:
John O'Neill Begins His New Job As Head Of Security For The World Trade Center.

September 10, 2001:
Allegedly Radical Muslim Hijackers Seek Out Prostitutes On The Eve Of The 9/11 Attacks.

September 10, 2001:
The U.S. Invasion Of Afghanistan Said To Be The Result Of The 9/11 Attacks, Is Planned The Day Before 9/11.

September 11, 2001; 8:46AM:
(The First Twin Tower Is Struck By A Plane).

March 13, 1962:
"U.S. Military Drafted Plans To Terrorize U.S. Cities To Provoke War With Cuba."
-ABC NEWS, 5/11/2001
  • 'Operation North Woods' Calls For The Use Of Remotely Controlled Drone Passenger Aircraft Duplicates.
"The Duplicate would be substituted for the actual civil aircraft... the drone aircraft meanwhile will... fly the filed flight plan."
-'Operation North Woods', 3/13/1962
September 11, 2001; 9:03AM:
(The Second Tower Is Truck By An Aircraft)

September 11, 2001; 9:59AM:
John O'Neill Dies During His 2nd Day As Security Director Of The World Trade Center, When Tower 2 Collapses.

"John became very paranoid the last year and a half of his life... There were a handful of people in D.C. out to get John O'Neill."
-PBS 'Frontline'
September 11, 2001:
(Reports Heard Of Secondary Explosions After Aircraft Had Struck)
-CNN News

"There's a bomb in the building, Start clearing out."-Firefighter on scene
"I'm sorry- you said there's a bomb?'-Pedestrian on scene
September 11, 2001:
(More Explosions Heard By Witnesses In Lower Portion Of One Of The Towers).

September 11, 2001; 9:37:
"From my close up inspection, there's no evidence of a plane having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon... There are no large tail sections, wing sections, fuselage- nothing like that anywhere around which would indicate that the entire plane crashed into the side of the Pentagon."
- News Correspondent
  • Vertical Columns Still Intact Inside Impact Hole (Of The Pentagon)
  • Windows Still Intact Inside Impact Hole (Of The Pentagon)
September 11, 2001; 10:06AM:
"I've seen the pictures- it looks like there's nothing there except for a hole in the ground.            -News Correspondent
"Ah, Basically that's right, the only thing we could see from where we were, uh, was a big gouge in the earth and some broken trees." -Witness
"Any large pieces of debris at all?' -News Correspondent
"No, there was nothing...nothing that you could distinguish that a plane had crashed there."         -Witness
"How big would you say that hole was?" -News Correspondent
"From my estimates, I would guess it probably was from 20 to 15 feet,... you couldn't see anything, you could just see dirt, ash, and people walking around." -Witness
  • Aircraft Debris From 9/11 Attack Has Never Been Formally Identified By The NTSB.
  • The Accused Hijack Pilots Of American Airlines Flight 11 And United Airlines Flight 175:
"A flight instructor said...'In the plane they were Dumb and Dumber'."
-Washington Post 9/24/2001
  • The Accused Hijack Pilot Of American Airlines Flight 77:
"Mr. Hanjour... he could not fly at all."
-New York Times 5/4/2001
"Whoever is behind this, put together an incredibly sophisticated program, and this is the part that confounded me, and we touched on this... how do you as a terrorist have the level of sophistication to take over the controls of a sophisticated Airliner Jetplane- to be able to fly accurately into targets like hitting dead center into the Pentagon, which is a... low building."      
-ABC News, September 11, 2001
September 11, 2001; 1:47PM:
"No Warnings."
- Ari Fleischer, White House Press Secretary
37 Days Before 9/11:
"Bin Laden Determined To Strike U.S."
-Presidential Daily Brief
December 15, 2003:
"Howard Dean recently seemed to muse about whether you had advanced knowledge of 9/11. Do you agree or disagree with the RNC that this kind of rhetoric borders on political hate speech?"  -news reporter
"Yeah, Look, there's time for politics...and uh, you know.....it' just time for politics...it's an absurd insinuation." -George W. Bush, Presidential news conference
May 23, 2003:
The 9/11 Commission Hearings:
Did Vice Cheney Order U.S. Interceptors to 'Stand Down' On 9/11, Allowing The Attacks To Succeed?
"During the time that the airplane coming in to the Pentagon, uh, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President, 'the plane is fifty miles out- the plane is thirty miles out-' and when it got down to 'the plane is ten miles out'...um, the young man also said to the Vice President, 'Do the orders still stand?' and the Vice President turned and,....whipped his neck around and said, 'Of course the orders still stand- have you heard anything to the contrary?'"
-Norman Mineta, Transportation Secretary 
The Evening Of September 11:
White House Staff Are Placed On A Regimen Of The Antibiotic Cipro, Which Can Defend Against Anthrax Affliction.

One Week Later:
U.S. Army Anthrax Laced Mail That Targets Senators Tom Daschle And Patrick Leahy Is First Sent.
September 15, 2001:
"The alleged Hijackers listed their address... as the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla..."          -Newsweek
September 17, 2001:
"Bush: Bin Laden Prime Suspect."
-CNN
September 30, 2001:
The Bin Laden  Family Flee The U.S. Via Private Aircraft As Other U.S. Aircraft Are Grounded After 9/11.

October 2, 2001:
The 'Anti-Terrorism' Patriot Act Is Introduced To Congress.

October 5, 2001:
Mailed Anthrax Matching U.S. Army Strain Claims it's first victim.

October 7, 2001:
The U.S.-Afghan War, Planned The Day Before 9/11, Finally Begins.

October 9, 2001:
After Senate Opponents Are Targeted By U.S. Army Anthrax Laced Mail, 'The Patriot Act' Becomes Law.

December 22, 2001:
A Former 'Unocal' Oil Consultant Is Installed As Afghanistan's New Prime Minister.

February 22, 2002:
"U.S. Military Bases Line Afghan Pipeline Route."
-The Terror Timeline-2004


  May 30, 2002:
"Afghan Pipeline Given Go-Ahead"
-BBC News

  July 17, 2002:
"There was no way we could have got the public consent to have... launched a campaign on Afghanistan but for...September 11th."
-British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
October 7, 2002:
As Capital Hill Considers War With Iraq, A Gulf War Veteran Claiming To Be A CIA Asset Begins A 3 Week Shooting Spree That Kills 10 In The Washington D.C. Area.
'Prime Suspect In U.S. Sniper Shootings...Boasting Of Being A CIA...Sharpshooter.'               -Associated Press 10/26/2002

June 1975:
CIA Mind Control Programs Are Revealed Before Congress.

October 11, 2002:
After The Start Of The 'Beltway Sniper' Shootings, Congress Approves The White House Iraq War Plans.

October 18, 2002:
The Longest Pause In The 'Beltway' Sniper Shootings Occurs, with 9 Persons Killed, 11 Persons Wounded, And 1 Missed.
                        OR ......  9-11-01

February 3, 2003:
CNN Reveals The Ties Between The '9/11 Commission' Head And Family Of Osama Bin Laden.

March 17, 2003:
The U.S. Invasion Of Iraq Begins. (George W. Bush Gives Saddam Hussein And His Sons 48 Hours To Leave Iraq Or Face War)

"The terrorists attacked us and killed 3000 of our citizens, before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East.." -George W. Bush
"What did Iraq have to do with the bombing of the World Trade Centers?.." -News reporter
"Nothing..." -George W. Bush
September 6, 2003:
"This war on terrorism is bogus... The overriding motivation... is that the U.S. and UK are beginning to run out of ... energy supplies."
-Michael Meacher, British Prime Minister Of State
April 7, 2005:
U.N. Weapons Inspector Of Iraq Says War Motivated By Oil.

"Blix Says War Motivated By Oil"
-Associated Press

August 15, 2005:
"Exclusive: CIA Commander; 'U.S. Let Bin Laden Slip Away'."
-Newsweek
October 25, 2005:
The U.S. Reportedly Plans For Invasion Of Venezuala.
December 12, 2005:
 President Bush Admits To The Deaths Of 30,000 Iraqis Since The Start Of The Iraq War.

December 30, 2006:
Iraq's Saddam Hussein Is Executed For Crimes Against Humanity.
January 1, 2007:
U.S. Military Sustains Its 3,000th Iraq War Casualty, Exceeding The Death Toll Of 9/11.

April 18, 1946:
"The common people don't want war... it is alays a simple matter to drag the people along...tell them they are being attacked... it works the same way in every country."                                    -Hermann Goering, 3rd Reich
"The advance of freedom is the calling of our time."
"The terrorists attacked us, and killed 3000 of our citizens...."                                                 -George W. Bush
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."        -Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

" We think that there should be a North American border pass: a card that we can use to enter any of the three countries without going through the normal procedures for questioning either at airports or at the border with biometric identification. We think that we should be on the fast track to complete labor mobility in North America, first between Canada and the United States, that it no longer makes sense to say to Canadian or U.S. businesses that you may not hire the best people in those two countries. You can only hire nationals of your own country, unless you’re able to get through a complex series of obstacles to enhance what is known as the NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement] visa, so that it’s more open and more accessible— more readily accessible. Any of you who do business outside of the United States or across the border will know some of the issues that you have to deal with in trying to explain to an immigration official what it is you’re all about. These are things that really are antiquated in a modern world in which, in North America, we need to move beyond as we begin to be more comfortable with the steps that are taken towards security."                                                      -John Manley, May 27, 2005 
  1. Gharar Field, Saudi Arabia. 75-83 Recoverable Barrels (Billions-Past, Present, Future)
  2. Burgan Field, Kuwait.         66-72 Recoverable Barrels (Billions-Past, Present, Future)
  3. Zagheh Field, Iran.              7-9     Recoverable Barrels (Billions-Past, Present, Future)
  4. Sugar Loaf Field, Brazil.      25-40 Recoverable Barrels  (Billions-Past, Present, Future)
  5. Cantarell Field, Mexico.      18       Recoverable Barrels  (Billions-Past, Present, Future)
  6. Bolivar Coastal Field, Venezuala  30-32 Recoverabl Barrels (Billions-Past, Present, Future)
  7. Azadegan Field, Iran           26       Recoverable Barrels  (Billions-Past, Present, Future)
  8. Tupi Field, Brazil                 5-8     Recoverable Barrels  (Billions-Past, Present, Future)
  9. Safaniya-Khafji Field, Saudi Arabia, 30 Recoverable Barrels (Billions-Past, Present, Future)
  10. Esfandiar Field, Iran.           30       Recoverable Barrels  (Billions-Past, Present, Future)
See Full List 
           
  • These Countries Are Those Occupied By U.S. Forces, Or Are Those In Which U.S. Forces (Interests) Will Be In The Near Future.
"Oil wars are certainly not out of the question,"
says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. - The Vancouver Sun: Get ready for oil supplies to dwindle, experts warn

"Dependence on imported oil, particularly from the Middle East, has become the elephant in the foreign policy living room, an overriding strategic consideration composed of a multitude of issues. .... Taken in whole, the National Energy Policy does not offer a compelling solution to the growing danger of foreign oil dependence. ... Future military efforts to secure the oil supply pose tremendous challenges due to the number of potential crisis areas. ..... Economic stagnation or catastrophe lurk close at hand, to be triggered by another embargo, collapse of the Saudi monarchy, or civil disorder in any of a dozen nations." - America’s Strategic Imperative A “Manhattan Project” for Energy




















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