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Mon Jul 1, 2002 - Updated at 02:46 PM News Thestar.com >News Ontario Canada Nov. 27, 2001. 02:00 AM World W eather GTA Canada Opinion Mail this story to a friendPrinter friendly version USA Editorials W orld Did bin Laden have help from U.S. friends? Search TheStar.com Letters National Repor Editorial Cartoo ByThomas Walkom COLUMNIST Headlines Only Star Columnist Search the Web Careers A N INTRIGUING new book, just Classifieds published in France, details the curiously amicable relationship between Grads 2002 the regime of U.S. President George W. Bush and Afghanistan's Taliban, Stock Quotes Newinhomes.com a relationship that turned hostile only after the terror attacks of Sept. 11. Ticker Name Specials Ben Laden: La Verité Interdite(Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth) is Fallen Soldier written by former French spook Jean-Charles Brisard and journalist byFinancials.com G-8 Summi Guillaume Dasquie. Both are said to be plugged into the murky world of Around the World intelligence. During his time with French intelligence, Brisard was Race Inside regarded as something of an expert on bin Laden's finances. Future of Medicar  Community News Canada Day The nub of their argument is that the Bush regime's attitude toward the ie Cambridge Reporter New Deal for Cit Taliban - and even to bin Laden - was driven by the new president's fixation on energy. A stable regime in Afghanistan would allow Guelph Mercury Report on Beaches Marriages construction of an oil and gas pipeline from the former Soviet republics in Hamilton Spectator War Against Central Asia to Pakistan and the sea. And initially, Washington's best bet The Record for a stable regime in Afghanistan was the Taliban. Terrorism  Affiliated Sites Walkerton Traged Features From February, when the Taliban first offered to extradite bin Laden in Workopolis exchange for U.S. recognition, until August when negotiations stalled, the Archives toronto.com Bush administration and the government it later labelled a terrorist regime Photo Sales got along just fine. Newinhomes.com Classroom Connection Toronto Star TV Indeed, the book quotes John O'Neill, a former director of anti-terrorism Contests/Event eHarlequin.com for the Federal Bureau of Investigation as complaining that American and Crosswords Saudi oil interests acting through the U.S. State Department kept Metroland E-mail Newsletters interfering with efforts to track down bin Laden. Fresh Air Fund Torstar.com Horoscopes In particular, the authors say, O'Neill was irked after the State Department Torstar Corp Lottery Result refused to let his FBI team return to Yemen to investigate the terrorist Annex Publishing bombing of the USS Cole there last year. Frustrated, he quit to take a TV Listings private sector job. Unfortunately for him, that job was as head of security Thestar.com in New York's World Trade Center. O'Neill was killed on Sept. 11. Subscribe Skeptics might argue that his death proved convenient for the authors. Advertising Info Now there is no one to dispute their account of what he said. Certainly, News Releases Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truthhas the whiff of an old-fashioned Special Sections conspiracy theory starring the usual panoply of villains. Retail Promotions About Us Still, the details that Brisard and Dasquie provide (including the fact that Help / FAQs the Taliban hired the niece of former CIA director Richard Helms to Privacy Policy orchestrate their publicity) do not contradict what was already known