Wales Tourism and Visit Planning

sounds - British troops and oil pipelines...

It was recently announced that yet more British troops are heading for Afghanistan. George Bush and his malleable sidekick, Tony Blair , have decreed that in their crusade to save the world (especially the USA and UK) from the far-reaching tentacles of terrorism - and heroin[ism] - Afghanistan must be tamed.

British troops are being stationed in the southern territory of Helmand, with the expectation that some 3,300 of them will be deployed there by late summer. This UN-sanctioned intervention has a multi-pronged purpose: Helmand is considered to be a lawless region; under the control of drug lords, the Taliban, and an alleged al-Qaeda stronghold. Added to this, the area is fertile ground for poppies, estimated at yielding a trade in heroin valued at 650 million per year.

Holiday In Wales Military bigwigs spout the well worn soundbite that interrupting the flow of the regions narcotics trade will deprive al-Qaeda of lucrative funds, and therefore keep the threat of terrorism away from our shores. Helmand, roughly the size of Wales, is considered by the militarists to represent a fertile training ground for insurgency. What everyone still seems to be avoiding mentioning, however, is the subject of oil.

To access these records, please visit www.originsnetwork.com and login to your account, or visit the sign up page to start a subscription. Northamptonshire on The England and Wales 1841 Census The Origins Network is proud to announce that a further county is now available on the England and Wales 1841 census on British Origins (www.britishorigins.com)

Holiday Wales Specifically, the Caspian Sea Pipeline Project. Not so back in 1998, when Dick Cheney was enthusing, I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian. However, in order to make this pipe-dream of pumping black gold all the way back to the Mediterranean a reality, Afghanistan was vital.

* There’s no better way to experience historic Lexington and Concord than aboard the Liberty Ride. Seasonal. Visit this historic landmark and see the hole left by a British musket ball from 1775. Seasonal. Visit the house where Paul Revere rode to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the arrival of British troops. Seasonal.

Cottage Holiday In Wales Then came the slightly convenient 9/11, and shortly afterward troops moved in, removed the Taliban and the pipeline was back on. So frantic were the US to have things run smoothly, Congress lobbied for the overturning of sanctions against Azerbaijan, in order to allow the proposed pipe to run through that territory.

We start on the Morlancourt Ridge, where British troops advanced on the high ground north of the Somme, seeing the battlefield cemeteries.

Iain Mackay