French authors Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie recently published a book entitled Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth which tells of the negotiations for oil pipeline rights in Afghanistan that collapsed in August 2001 after the U.S. told the Taliban: Accept our offer of a carpet of gold or you’ll get a carpet of bombs.
check out reviews of the book on this site:
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/wot/bl_tft.htm
The authors are running a website covering information from intelligence cycles:
http://www.intelligenceonline.com
The book has no distributor in the US yet (no wonder).. but you can order it in Europe !
germany/austria/switzerland: http://www.pendo.ch
you can also get it at www.amazon.fr
more reviews:
http://www.rense.com/general17/before.htm