Canadians not letting up on the taliban.

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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=33493fce-e7b3-44ad-ae39-633785f7d635&k=56880&p=1

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The Taliban are bad for business...

Unocal was one of the key players in the CentGas consortium, an attempt to build a pipeline to run from the Caspian area, through Afghanistan and probably Pakistan, to the Indian Ocean. One of the consultants to Unocal at that time was Zalmay Khalilzad, now US ambassador to Iraq. The CentGas pipeline was not built, due to inability of CentGas and the Taliban to come to a mutually acceptable economic understanding. Shortly thereafter, the US invaded Afghanistan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unocal_Corporation