"Dec. 22/ 2001:

"Prime Minister Hamid Karzai takes power in Afghanistan.

It had been revealed a few weeks earlier that he had been a paid consultant for Unocal (Union Oil Company of California), as well as deputy foreign minister for the Taliban for a time."

(Le Monde 12/13/01,   CNN 11/22/01)"

Hamid Karzai:

- Born 24th December 1957

- Graduated from Habibi High School in 1976

- Karzai took a postgraduate course in political science that Himachal Pradesh University in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, between 1979 and 1983.

- 1983 to 1989 supported anti-Soviet Mujahideen in their fight against Soviet occupation. Karzai reamined in Pakistan throughout the Soviet occupation

- 1992 served as as Deputy Foreign Minister in the government of Burhanuddin Rabbani (The government the Taliban fought)

- 1996 Hamid Karzai refuses to serve the Taleban as their ambassador to the United Nations. During the Taleban years of power in Afghanistan Hamid Karzai lived in exile in Quetta, Pakistan.

- 1999 the Taleban assassinate Hamid Karzai's father, Karzai is working closely with Ahmad Shah Massoud to gather support for the anti-Taleban movement.

- October 2001 Hamid Karzai is wounded in a friendly fire incident involving US aircraft in South Afghanistan.

- November 2001 Karzai flown out of Afghanistan for his own protection.

- December 2001 under the December 5 Bonn Agreement Afghan Representatives formed an interim Transitional Administration and named Karzai Chairman of a 29-member Governing committee.

- The Loya Jirga of June 13, 2002, Karzai appointed interim hold of the new position as President of the Afghan Transitional Administration.

Unocal:
- 1996 Unocal opens an office in Kandahar

- 1998 Unocal withdraws from the TAPI Pipeline Project

- 2005 Unocal ceases to exist as an operating company

So merely by checking up a few facts it can be revealed Hamid Karzai could not possibly have worked for Unocal in any capacity and was never in fact deputy foreign minister for the Taliban at any time.