Re: The Enron-Cheney-Taliban Connection? AlterNet

["Charles Jannuzi" <jannuzi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>     This wouldn't rule out an Enron role in the Oil pipeline, but there
> were already enough giant companies fighting each other that letting a
> new boy in doesn't make much sense.


Enron was such a mix of things that I think traditional journalism, however
earnest, is missing the forest for the trees.

Enron was a publicly traded company but clearly the guys at the top wanted
to be venture capitalists. If you go into the info. on how they were trying
to run venture capital funds, I have no doubt that somehow they ended up in
on the Afghan Caspian pipeline story. For a start, they wanted to be a big
player in any foreign access given on energy supplies for India and
Pakistan.

I didn't think there could possibly be a Carlyle Group (the venture capital
group with apparently the greatest political access because of all the
players on board) connection to the whole mess (other than the defense
contractors that CG acts as a holding company for), but when I went into the
info. on their energy global fund I found that that fund had only invested
1/10th of its hundreds of millions. In what? An obscure Norwegian oil
drilling company with, surprise, surprise, the technology to do deep sea
drilling from ships in places like the Caspian and a business plan that made
much of this ability. The things you can find doing searches at Yahoo
Norway!

Charles Jannuzi