U.S. Using Anti-Terror War to Gain World Oil Reserves — Soviet Intelligence
Chief
MosNews
March 21, 2005 - On the pretext of fighting international terrorism the United States is trying to
establish control over the world’s richest oil reserves, Leonid Shebarshin, ex-chief of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence
Service, who heads the Russian National Economic Security Service consulting company, said in an interview for the Vremya
Novostei newspaper.
Using the anti-terrorist cause as a cover the United States has occupied Afghanistan, Iraq and
will soon move to impose their “democratic order” on the Greater Middle East, Shebarshin said. “The U.S.
has usurped the right to attack any part of the globe on the pretext of fighting the terrorist threat,” Shebarshin said.
Referring
to his meeting with an unnamed al-Qaeda expert at the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit research organization in the U.S., Shebarshin
said: “We have agreed that [al-Qaeda] is not a group but a notion.”
“The fight against that all-mighty
ubiquitous myth deliberately linked to Islam is of great advantage for the Americans as it targets the oil-rich Muslim regions,”
Shebarshin emphasized.
With military bases in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, Shebarshin said, the United States
has already established control over the Caspian region — one of the world’s largest oil reservoirs.
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