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> We weren't talking about evidence, only motive.

Here is both. Have you heard of the Afghanistan oil pipeline? I would hope you know about the one built recently in Iraq.

There is some evidence that America could have had an economic motive for replacing the government in Afghanistan. Did this influence America's decision to invade Afghanistan and replace the government?

Oil pipeline?

The Afghanistan Oil Pipeline was a project proposed by several oil companies to transport oil from Azerbaijan and Central Asia through Afghanistan to Pakistan or India.



The Afghanistan oil pipeline project was finally able to proceed in May 2002. This could not have happened if America had not taken military action to replace the government in Afghanistan.

3rd November 1998 - attacks stop US oil pipeline:Up to 80 cruise missiles were fired at Afghanistan and Sudan in August An American-funded training project in Afghanistan has closed down as a result of the US cruise missile attack on the country in August. The programme was funded by the American oil company, Unocal, which was once hoping to be involved in building a gas pipeline across the country from Turkmenistan to Pakistan.BBC News,

"US attack closes US project", 3 November 1998.)

BBC News, "Race to unlock Central Asia's energy riches", 29 December 1997.
"American oil companies, together with Pakistan, have shown strong interest in an alternative route that would carry Turkmen gas, via Afghanistan, to the Pakistani port of Karachi."
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/analysis/43219.stm)
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The Guardian, The new Great Game, 20 October 2003.
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2003/oct/20/oil

Lutz Kleveman (2003), The New Great Game, Atlantic Monthly Press.


AMERICA DEPLOYED MILITARY FORCE TO INSTALL AN "INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED"(I.E. PRO-AMERICAN) AFGHAN GOVERNMENT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1556588.stm

The American-driven invasion of Afghanistan swiftly captured of the country's capital Kabul, enabling the removal of the former Afghanistan government and the establishment of a new government.

Afghan capital, Kabul, conquered by U.S.-led invasion force, November 2001.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1654182.stm

U.N. Conference discusses future of Afghanistan, November 2001.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1662487.stm

U.S. Congress in Washington debates future of Afghanistan, November 2001.

[U.N. appoints leader of new Afghanistan government, December 2001]
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1693379.stm)

U.S. Government, State Department website documents installation of new Afghan government.

United Nations website documents installation of new Afghan government.