Don,

Guest Mannie asked a question asking what the Afghanistan thing was about.

The answer you provided detailed the TAP pipeline project that has been a dead duck since 1998 when Unocal pulled out. TAP will not go ahead for a whole raft of reasons and is only kept "alive" by conspiracy theorists out of convenience.

What Afghanistan was about was the refusal of the Taliban Regime in Afghanistan to expell Al-Qaeda from Afghanistan and hand over Al-Qaeda's leaders to face charges connected with the attacks of the 11th September 2001.