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<\/a>"There is stunning potential here." Gen. David H. Petraeus on Afghan mineral deposits.<\/p><\/div>\n
This makes it sound like they just discovered those minerals. Don’t you think it’s safe to assume the U.S. has had its lustful eye on those minerals since before the occupation? “Terrorism” is the perennial convenient excuse, but the U.S has had an interest in that area long before 9\/11 because it wanted to secure access to the Caspian Sea oil reserves it can’t get from Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1422,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1422","url_meta":{"origin":13,"position":0},"title":"Launching the U.S. Terror War: the CIA, 9\/11, Afghanistan, and Central Asia","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"March 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"By Prof. Peter Dale\u00c2\u00a0 Scott Terror War was formally declared by George W. 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