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Thread #147015 Message #3408778
Posted By: GUEST,Tony
22-Sep-12 - 03:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: Afghanistan
Subject: RE: BS: Afghanistan
quote: the USA and UK have been interfering in their lands ever since the end of WWII
Since 1908 when oil was discovered in Iran, followed shortly by the German attempt to construct a railroad from Berlin to Baghdad, and then, purely by coincidence I'm sure, World War I against Germany and its ally the Ottoman Empire (which controlled the mideast oil fields in 1914).