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History and origins of the recent wave of terrorism
History and origins of the recent wave of terrorism
By Mamnoon Ahmad Khan
Introduction
I clearly remember that thirty years ago, I did not hear the word terrorism or terrorists. There was only a term used was the aggression of Israel against the Arabs and Palestinians. But after the Russian (former USSR) the invasion of Afghanistan, the scene changed. Russian brutality is not hidden to the world. They not only destroy this independent country, but destroy their future generations. In many villages after killing its people crushed the entire village with bulldozers. Even children will not forgive innocent. Toy Russians dropped bombs in the cities and villages of the helicopters and when a child found it and started playing with the explosion. As a result of many Afghan children died or became disabled.
Soviet aggression in Soviet-Afghan war
Top million Afghans were killed. January 5 million Afghans fled to Pakistan and Iran, one third of the population before the war the country. Another 2 million Afghans were IDPs. In the 1980s, one out of two refugees in the world was an Afghan. 2 Over the fatalities was 1.2 million disabled Afghans with the blessing of mine in Russia (mujahideen, government soldiers and noncombatants) and 3 million maimed or wounded (primarily noncombatants) 3.
Irrigation systems, essential for agriculture in arid Afghanistan were destroyed by aerial bombing and strafing by Soviet or government forces. In the worst years of the war of 1985, more than half of all farmers who remained in Afghanistan had bombed their fields, and more a quarter had their irrigation systems destroyed and their cattle shot by Soviet troops or government, according to a survey by Swedish relief experts 4
The population of Afghanistan's second city, Kandahar, was reduced from 200,000 before the war to no more than 25,000 inhabitants, after a campaign of months length of the carpet bombing and destroying the Soviet and Afghan communists in 1987. 5 The landmines had killed 25,000 Afghans during war and another 10-15 million land mines, most planted by Soviet and government forces, were scattered throughout the countryside to kill and maul. 6 A large amount of damage caused to the civilian population of children from landmines. A 2005 report estimated that 3-4% of the Afghan population has been disabled due to landmines and the Soviet government. In the city of Quetta, a survey of refugee women and children taken shortly after the Soviet withdrawal is over 80% of registered refugee children and infant mortality by 31%. Of the children who survived, 67% suffered from severe malnutrition, with Malnutrition increases with age. 7
Critics of the Soviet and Afghan government forces to describe their effect on Afghan culture and the work in three stages: first, the center of the traditional Afghan culture, Islam, was dropped; patterns of a second, of Soviet life, especially among young people, were imported, thirdly, to share cultural characteristics Afghanistan were destroyed by the emphasis on so-called nationalities, with the result that country was divided into different ethnic groups, without language, religion or culture in common. 8
The Geneva Accords of 1988, which ultimately analysis led to the withdrawal of Soviet forces in early 1989, left the Afghan government in ruins. The agreements had not adequately addressed the issue the post-occupation period and the future government of Afghanistan. The assumption of most Western diplomats was that the Soviet-backed government in Kabul soon collapse, however, this would not happen for another three years. During this time the Islamic Transitional Government of Afghanistan (IIGA) was created in exile. The exclusion of key groups such as refugees and the Shiites, along with major disagreements between the various mujahideen factions, never meant IIGA managed as a working government. 9
Before the war, Afghanistan was already one of the world's poorest nations. The prolonged conflict left Afghanistan ranked 170 out of 174 in the Human Development Index of UNDP, making Afghanistan one of the developed countries, at least in the world. 10
Once the Soviets withdrew, U.S. interests left Afghanistan. U.S. decided not to help the reconstruction of country and instead given to the interests of the country to U.S. allies, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Pakistan quickly took advantage of this opportunity and forged relations with warlords and later theTaliban to ensure commercial interests and routes. Since ending the country's trees through practices logging that has destroyed nearly 2% of forest cover across the country, wild pistachio substantial uprooting trees for export to its roots for therapeutic use, to opium farming, the last ten years have caused great destruction and ecological agriculture. 11
Captain Tarlan Eyvazov, a soldier Soviet forces during the war, said that the future of the children of Afghanistan is destined for war. Eyvazov said: "Children born in Afghanistan at the beginning of the war … have been raised under conditions of war, this is their way of life. "Eyvazov theory was reinforced later when the Taliban movement developed and formed from orphans or refugee children who are forced by the Soviets to abandon their homes and move their lives in Pakistan. The rapid rise to power, the youth of the Taliban in 1994, was the result of disorder and civil war that had warlords running wild due to the complete breakdown of law and order in Afghanistan after the departure of the Soviets. 12
Brutalities Israel from the Arab-Isreal 1967
According to eyewitness accounts by Israeli agents and journalists, the Israeli army – the army claims from such a a higher moral standard than other armies – executed as 1,000 Arab prisoners during the 1967 war.
Historian Gabby Bron wrote in Israel's Yediot Ahronot who witnessed the execution of Israeli troops from Egyptian prisoners on the morning of June 8, 1967, in the Sinai town of El Arish.
Bron said he saw about 150 Egyptian POWs detained in the airport of El Arish, where they were sitting on the floor, densely packed with hands on back neck. Every few minutes, Bron writes, Israeli soldiers Egyptian POWs an escort the group to a hearing conducted by two men in army uniforms Israeli. Then the man aside, given a spade, and forced to dig his own grave.
I've seen (one) man dug a hole about 15 minutes, Bron wrote. Later, the army (Israeli) police told him to throw the shovel away, and then one of them leveled an Uzi and shot two short bursts, each three or four bullets.
Bron says he witnessed about ten such executions, until the grave was filled. Then, an Israeli colonel threatened him with a revolver, forcing him to leave the area.
The reality is that Israel encouraged and profited from this war for many politicians and economic reasons territorial. To gain these advantages, Israel attacked Syria and captured the Golan in the last days of the war.
Slaughter at Sabra and Chatila Sep.16, 1982
Today, 27 years later, the Israeli aggression against Palestinians continues.
Scars left by the slaughter at Sabra and Shatila are indescribable.
Photo credit: Piotr_360
On September 16, 1982, members of the Lebanese Christians Phalange militia – with the approval and direct support of then-Defense Minister Ariel Sharon – Sabra and Shatila entered and launched an assault over 36 hours resulting in the deaths of thousands of unarmed Palestinian civilians and Lebanese.
The journalist Robert Fisk, who was on the scene September 19, 1982, reported have seen the "blackened bodies of babies thrown into trash heaps alongside discarded cans of U.S. Army rations, the Israeli army team empty bottles of whiskey. "
The children had been shot in the head. Some had had their throats cut. Dozens of men had been shot in the back of the head or mutilated by axes. The women had been raped. Pregnant women had babies torn from their bodies.
The United Nations, issued a formal declaration of genocide in 1982, also called the Sabra and Shatila a slaughter of the most heinous in the 20th century.
How many died is not known, but figures of around 1,000 at least 3,500, a number estimated by the late Israeli journalist Amnon Kapeliouk.
"The figure accurate (the victims) can not be determined because, in addition to the approximately 1,000 people who were buried in mass graves by the International Committee of the Red Cross or in the cemeteries of Beirut by members of his family, a large number of bodies were buried under the buildings razed by the members of the militias, " wrote Dr. Laurie King-Irani, assistant professor of anthropology at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. "Also, especially 17 and September 18, hundreds of people were taken in trucks to unknown destinations life, never to return. "
Dr. King-Irani was also the North American Coordinator of International Campaign for Justice for Victims of Sabra and Shatila, which hosted the website indictsharon.net.
However, the authors of the massacre were never brought to justice. An internal investigation called the Israeli Kahan Commission – that was political and not judicial – is Sharon indirectly but personally responsible. He resigned as defense minister but retained a seat in the cabinet of the government. He served as prime minister from 2001-2006. A case was presented in November 2001 on behalf of some survivors against Sharon and others for committing war crimes under the jurisdiction Belgian universal law was finally rejected by a Belgian appeals court.
Sharon told the Israeli parliament that the decision to send the Falangists were made at 3:30 pm on September 15. The Israeli command received instructions that the "cleansing of the fields is carried out by the Phalanges or the army Lebanese, "Dr. King-Irani writes, quoting the Kahan Commission report, p. 125.
Today, 27 years later, the Israeli aggression against Palestinians continues. Cast Lead Operation in December and January 1400 killed more Palestinians in Gaza and wounded over 5,300. constant siege Israel has tightened 1.5 million inhabitants in an inhuman and unthinkable crisis.
All the Muslims of the world should honor the victims and survivors of Sabra and Shatila keeping his memory alive. When their voices have been silenced, we must raise our voices loud and clear call for an end to the brutal occupation of Palestine and the right of refugees to return to their homeland.
The slaughter of Jenin in April 2002
A monstrous war crime that Israel has tried to cover up a fortnight has finally been exposed. Its troops have caused devastation in the center of the Jenin refugee camp, reached yesterday by The Independent, where thousands people still live among the ruins.
A residential area about 160,000 square feet about a third of a mile wide has been reduced to dust. Debris was excavator shovel piles in 30 feet. The sweet, terrible stench of rotting human bodies is everywhere, evidence that a human grave. The people who spent several days hiding in basements crowded into single rooms as the rockets hit, for example, there are hundreds of bodies buried under the dust, in a field of debris, criss-crossed by tank and bulldozer treadmarks.
In a building near half ruined, destroyed by fire, is the body of a man covered with flies by a plaid. In another we found the remains of 23-year-old Ashraf Abu Hejar under the ruins of a fire-blackened room that collapsed on him after being hit by a rocket. His head is shrunken and blackened. In third, five long-dead men was under the blankets.
A quiet place. aspect sad young man called Kamal Anis led us across the desert, now filled with the remains of what were once homes, foam rubber, torn clothes, shoes, cans, toys children. Suddenly he stopped. It was a mass grave, he said, pointing.
We looked at a pile of rubble. Here, said he saw Israeli soldiers 30 bodies pile under a house in ruins. When the battery is completed, which destroyed the building, bringing its ruins down on the corpses. Then the area swept with a tank. We could see the bodies. But we could smell.
A few days ago, I could not believe Kamal Anis. But the descriptions given by the many refugees others who fled Jenin camp were understated, not, as many feared, and Israel has encouraged us to believe, exaggerations. Their stories had not prepared me for what I saw yesterday. I believe them now.
Until two weeks ago, there were several hundred well-filled houses in this neighborhood of al-Hanat Hawashim. They no longer exist.
Around the central ruins, there are hundreds of homes destroyed half. Much of the area – once home to 15,000 Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war – is falling. Each wall is stained and torn with bullet holes and shrapnel, testimony of the awesome firepower, random Cobra and Apache helicopters flying over the camp.
Building after building has been torn apart, their contents of cheap fake furniture, mattresses, white plastic chairs thrown into the road. Each building holds the other giant, charred, impact mark a helicopter missile. Last night there were many families and crying children still live among the ruins, isolated humanitarian aid. Disturbingly, there were no injuries, although there was a report of a man being rescued from beneath ruins only an hour before our arrival.
Those who did not flee the camp, or arrested by the army, have spent the bombardment in basements, enduring day after day of terror. Some were forced to quarters for the soldiers who broke into the houses through the walls. The UN says half of the 15,000 camp residents were under 18 years. As the evening silence fell over these killing fields, we could suddenly hear the children chattering. The mosque, once so noisy at the time of prayer, in silence.
Israel was still trying to conceal these scenes yesterday. He had refused entry to Red Cross ambulances for nearly a week, in violation of the Geneva Convention. Ayer continued to try to stay out.
Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank, being a closed military area, was surrounded Merkava tanks, patrols Army Jeep and armored vehicles. Reporters caught trying to get escorted. A day earlier, Israeli forces took in a few selected journalists to see disinfected parts of the camp. Just walked through the fields, flitted through an olive orchard overlooked by two Israeli tanks, and within the camp.
We were taken by hand in a gesture on the windows. Hidden, whispering people directed us through narrow alleys they thought were clear. When there were no soldiers on one finger raised in warning, or a hand that waved back. We were welcomed by people desperate to tell what had happened. Spoke executions, and bulldozers to demolish houses with people inside. This is a mass murder committed by Ariel Sharon, Jamel Saleh, 43, said. We feel hatred for Israel now than ever. Look at this child. He put his hand on the shaggy head of a child, Mohammed, the son of eight years old, from a friend. He saw all this evil. It will be recalled everything. So everyone else who saw the horror of Jenin refugee camp. Palestinians who entered the camp yesterday were almost speechless.
Rajib Ahmed of the Palestinian Energy Authority, came to trying to repair power lines. I was shaking with anger and shock. This is a mass murder. I came here to help, I found nothing but devastation. Just look for yourself. All had the same message: tell the world.
The recent Israeli aggression in Gaza
Israel has carried out an unprecedented barbaric slaughter against defenseless Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Israel's intention seems to have been not only the destruction of some places in the Gaza Strip, but the destruction of Gaza and the burial of its population under piles of rubble and lakes of blood.
The moment chosen by Israel to launch its aggression anxiety mounted among Arabs.
Worldwide concern about the deepening financial crisis, the transition period in the White House, and Hamas declaration of the end of the truce with Israel no Palestinian or Arab support that can stop the hostile intentions of Israel, all trigger anxiety that Israel is preparing for the worst to terrorize the entire region Arabic.
Israel launched its assault on Saturday, December 27, 2008 in three stages:
First stage: the aerial bombardment as of December 27, 2008 to 2 in 2009.
Second stage: ground attack from 3 to 10 January 2009.
Third Stage: From January 10 to move into big cities, that occupy territories and the establishment of more secure areas of the Gaza borders, which finally ended on 18 January.
Throughout the three stages, more than 1,300 people have died and more than 5300 injured of whom more than half are women, children and the elderly.
Blaming the victim, the offender is not
U.S. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Condoleezza Rice, accused by Hamas violence. The Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, could only express "deep concern" and where was Barack Obama? An AP photo showed her vacation "working" the Semper Fit Center at the Marine Corp Base Hawaii in Kailua, Hawaii, on Saturday, CBS News reported that he is "closely monitoring global events, including the situation in Gaza, but there is one president at a time, "said Brooke Anderson, a spokesman for the national security chief.
On July 1, 2008 interview with The New York Times asked Obama whether Israel should negotiate with Hamas in Gaza. He replied that "I do not think any country would find it acceptable to have missiles raining over the heads of its citizens …. I hope the Israelis to do (everything we can to stop them )…. As for negotiating with Hamas, it is very difficult to negotiate with a group that is not representative of a nation-state do not recognize its right to exist, (and) has always used terror as a weapon. Hamas is a terrorist organization …. is difficult for Israel to negotiate with a country like that. "
Hamas was democratically elected. It is the legitimate Palestinian government. It is falsely called a terror organization, and has every right to resist an illegal occupation under international law. We observed a unilateral ceasefire for months and propositions peace enlarged on numerous occasions in the past. Israel rejected the division of Gaza and the West Bank, Mahmoud Abbas, co-opting, Fatah incitement against Hamas isolation of Gaza, and pursues a policy of aggression, killings, targeted assassinations, mass imprisonment, torture and with the full support of Washington, West, and (from his comments above) to the incoming Obama administration.
(UNRWA) of the UN Refugee Works Agency for Relief head operations for Palestinian refugees, John Ging, expressed outrage about what is happening. Previously you said: The people of Gaza has nothing of the months cease-fire. There was no "restoration of a decent existence. We had our supplies restricted (during the period) to the point that we were in a position very vulnerable and precarious, "with very little food left until it ran out.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) campaigns for Palestinian justice in the areas of civil, human and political rights according to international law. Together with the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB), the British Muslim Initiative (BMI), No War, Friends of Al Aqsa, the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), and respect, Islamic Human Rights Commission organized the London emergency protests against the Israeli Embassy on December 28 and 29 to demand an end to the siege of Gaza and aggression course. The urgency was underscored when he said: The cynicism of Israel (Is) Supported by the complicity of the West "as it called for putting public solidarity end.
For his part, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni instructed the Ministry to "take emergency measures (a) show an aggressive diplomatic campaign and international public relations, "according to Haaretz. In other words, Israel will turn their senseless aggression in justifiable self-defense and get key media help to sell.
On 27 December, The New York Times took the lead. It was reported that "Israeli air strikes attacked security facilities of Hamas in Gaza on Saturday in a crushing response to rocket fire from the group …. Israeli military officials (called the attack) a effort to force Hamas to stop rocket attacks into southern Israel. Thousands of Israelis hurried into bomb shelters amid the rain of rockets, " to make it appear that Israel appeared to London during the bombings, when in reality, attacks by Hamas are mere pin pricks and only respond to the first strike Israeli attacks.
The Times and mainstream media do not say anything about it. They continued to spread lies about Hamas spurious "officially committed to the destruction of Israel, and when he won the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006 and then "force" took over Gaza in 2007, said no recognize Israel and honor previous Palestinian commitments to it, or to end their violence against Israelis. "
All of this is false. The Times continues to report falsely. Hamas wants peace, has repeatedly been conciliatory, and its founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, said earlier that armed struggle will end "if Zionists ended up (his) the occupation of Palestinian territories and stopped killing Palestinian women, children and innocent civilians. "
Israel rejects all initiatives. More recently, Hamas offered peace and recognition of Israel in exchange for a Palestinian state within pre-1967 borders – its occupied territories is entitled under international law.
As early as 1988, the PLO under Yasser Arafat agreed to a two-state solution with the Palestinians willing to settle only 22% of its pre-1948 home – a generous offer which, if accepted, have two sovereign states living peacefully side by side as neighbors.
Israel rejects this out of control. We choose the domain on peace, violence on reconciliation, and imperial conquest over the rule of law. It is the colonization of the West Bank West, the ethnic cleansing of the population, and continues to terrorize Gaza. "The newspaper of record" is selective about "news fit to print "So uncomfortable truths are suppressed. He reported that an Israeli was killed Saturday and four others wounded, one seriously, but did not explain that the rocket attacks earlier did not cause deaths or injuries.
After many months of siege, aggravated by the continuing attacks, Gaza is severely affected, but so is the West Bank. Under the rule of Fatah, the rockets are launched, but Israel maintains a violent occupation, continues to seize Palestinian land, expanding its settlements illegal, and allows its residents to terrorize Palestinians with impunity, even in cases of indiscriminate killing and destruction of property.
U.S. administration supports the Israeli aggression against Gaza
On December 31, Associated Press reported that the Security Council held an emergency meeting on an Arab demand for a UN resolution legally binding and enforceable, to condemn Israel and trying to force the Zionist state to end its military attacks in Gaza.
The draft resolution also called for the immediate protection of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the opening of the crossings for humanitarian aid.
But the project, which was presented by Libya on behalf of the 22-member Arab League, was immediately rejected by the U.S. as "imbalanced." Despite this U.S. veto, Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian UN observer, told Associated Press that Arab nations would be working "day and night" to the Security Council adopted a binding resolution on the terms announced.
As with the 2006 war in Lebanon, the administration of President George W. Bush has strongly supported the Israeli attack on Gaza. The White House, Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman even Hamas called "nothing more than thugs." Moreover, the U.S. government has been working to block all diplomatic proposals for a cease-fire In order to give Israel the green light to increase its attacks on Gaza.
While Israeli warplanes, warships and artillery continued to destroy civilian buildings, bridges and mosques, USA Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had no hesitation in blaming Hamas for the Israeli aggression and U.S. backing was for rejection of Israel of the cease-fire initiatives of the European Union and several Arab capitals.
Washington and Israel did not accept the victory of Hamas in parliamentary elections 2006.
In June 2007, which promoted a coup to overthrow the government of national unity that Fatah and Hamas had previously set up in their negotiations in Jeddah. The coup failed and since then, the Bush administration supported the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip, which has often prevent 1.5 million Palestinians from receiving food, fuel, medicines, etc.
The objective of the blockade is to make life of the people of Gaza so intolerable that the Hamas government fall.
The United States is not only to protect Israel on the diplomatic front, but also has given Israel some weapons have been used to Palestinians, including GBU-39 missile – A new weapon to destroy bunkers.
Israel received 1,000 such missiles in early December in addition to the three billion dollars annually in aid U.S. military, including F-16 fighters and Apache helicopters and fuel and spare parts needed to keep operating.
Israeli attacks killed hundreds of Palestinians (tens of them children), while the U.S. Government continues to insist that Hamas is "responsible" for the fighting.
Senior U.S. President Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod repeats the same lies as President George W. Bush: Hamas had been the first to break the cease-fire. President of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, agreed. She issued a statement on the Israeli aggression against Gaza where she wrote, "When Israel is attacked, the U.S. must continue to stand strongly with his friend and democratic ally."
On the night of November 4, the day of the U.S. elections, Israel fired missiles into Gaza. He continued to bombard Gaza over the next six weeks, killing dozens of Palestinians. "The escalation to war could and should have been avoided. It was the State of Israel, which broke the truce, in the raid of the tunnel … Two months ago, "the Israeli peace group Gush Shalom wrote in a press release.
The army continued its incursions and assassinations calculated. The truth is that the slaughter Palestinians in Gaza is a crime against humanity for which responsibility is not only the Israeli government, but also bears a complete American.
In fact, for the U.S. to support and complicity of Israeli war crimes is that they have a much more strategic purpose. What is actually doing is to create a "new order" in the Middle East, which will ensure continued U.S. domination in the region and control over its oil resources.
Israel is only a small partner in this effort with blood. U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, threats against Iran and Syria and the Israeli war against Lebanon in 2006 are part of this application U.S. Israel's doctrine to dominate and divide the Arab and Muslim world.
In spite of all military and diplomatic support, Officials of the U.S. Government fear a possible failure of Israel, similar to what happened in Lebanon in 2006 and have urged Israel to settle a timetable and exit strategy, foreign diplomats told the Los Angeles Times.
"U.S. officials are concerned that the campaign could continue without destroying Hamas, and might even increase support for the militant group – like the Israeli campaign in Lebanon strengthened Hezbollah. You have not heard that same confidence that you made in 2006 that the Israeli army can impose a new strategic reality, "said an Arab diplomat in Washington.
According to many observers, the war is going to weaken the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and strengthen its rival Hamas, despite the fact that Israel will continue its invasion of Gaza.
The fighting has also ruined the already damaged reputation of the US-backed regimes in Egypt and Jordan, which diplomatic relations with Israel and are considered by the Arab people as corrupt and complicit in the Israeli aggression. The stability of these regimes is seriously threatened.
Some observers believe that Israel wanted to create an international crisis at a time when Obama was about to become the President U.S., in order to calibrate the new Obama administration sensitivity to the killing of Palestinians.
Israel wanted to determine the policies of Obama, even before it was decided by his administration to be complicit in their crimes against Palestinians.
presentation of Obama on Israel has been questioned by the Israeli media. In March 2007, Obama told a small group of Democratic activists in Iowa: "Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people." The comment made headlines and earned him the wrath of pro-Israel groups.
As a candidate in recent presidential elections, Obama changed his tone and said that Israel has a "right" to full sovereignty over all of Al Quds (Jerusalem), a position which ensures that there will be no lasting peace in the region, Arabs and Muslims will never give up its legitimate rights to the city.
Obama's man on the right, chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is a rabid Zionist working for the Israeli army during the 1991 [Persian] Gulf War.
Now, these measures are seen as a means to avoid criticism The influential pro-Israel lobby in Washington, which has deeply infiltrated both the U.S. Republicans and Democrats.
The initial reaction Obama to the slaughter in Gaza is "no comment." This has led many people to begin to wonder whether his self-proclaimed principles of safety and dignity is also to apply to the Palestinian people.
There is no doubt that America will pay a high price for its support of Israel's State terrorism.
Many of the demonstrators around the world are burning U.S. flags and shows their complete rejection of U.S. policies promoting the Zionist terror.
While U.S. mainstream media communication, which is under Zionist control or business, continue to distort reality on the magnitude of the Israeli aggression and occupation, and Internet channels satellite of the Muslim world are providing professional coverage of events in Palestine.
Washington's continued support to Israeli crimes take any initiative to restore its credibility destroyed in the Arab and Muslim world to fail.
How the CIA created Taliban and Osama bin Laden
Is this a call for jihad (holy war) taken from one of Osama bin Laden's notorious fatwas of fundamentalism Islamic? Or perhaps a communique issued by the repressive regime of the Taliban in Kabul?
In fact, this praise of the criminal deeds of the followers Today's arch-terrorist bin Laden and his Taliban collaborators, and their holy war against "evil empire", was issued by the United States President Ronald Reagan 8 March 1985. The "evil empire" was the Soviet Union and Third World movements fighting US-backed colonialism, apartheid and dictatorship.
How things change. Following a series of terrorist atrocities – the most despicable mass murder of over 6000 people working in New York and Washington on September 11 – bin Laden the "freedom fighter" is now lambasted by U.S. leaders and the media Western as a "terrorist mastermind" and a "thug."
However, the U.S. government refuses to admit its central role in creating vicious movement that led to bin Laden, the Taliban and Islamic fundamentalist terrorists that plague Algeria and Egypt – and perhaps the disaster that hit New York.
The media has also downplayed the origins of bin Laden and his toxic brand of Islamic fundamentalism.
Mujaheddeen
In April 1978, the Popular Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) seized power in Afghanistan in response to a crackdown by the government party repressive country.
The Data Protection Act has been committed to a radical land reform that favored the peasants, trade union rights, expansion of education and social services, equality for women and separation of church and state. The PDPA also supported strengthening Afghanistan's relationship with the Union Soviet.
Such policies enraged the wealthy semi-feudal landlords, the Muslim religious establishment (many mullahs were also big landowners) and tribal leaders. They immediately began organizing resistance to the progressive policies of the government, under the guise of defending Islam.
Washington, fearing the spread of Soviet influence (and worst government the example of the radical new) allies in Pakistan, Iran and the Gulf states, immediately offered support for the Afghan mujahideen, as against "force was known.
Following an internal power struggle PDPA in December 1979 that toppled leaders of Afghanistan, thousands of Soviet troops entered the country to prevent the new government fall. This only galvanized the disparate fundamentalist factions. Their reactionary jihad now gained legitimacy as a national liberation "struggle in the eye of many Afghans.
The Soviet Union was time to leave Afghanistan in 1989 and the mujahideen took over the capital, Kabul, in 1992.
Between 1978 and 1992, the U.S. government used at least U.S. $ 6,000,000,000 (Some estimates range as high as $ 20 billion) worth of arms, training and funds to support the Mujahideen factions. Other Western governments, as well as Saudi Arabia, oil rich, a kick in the same. Wealthy Arab fanatics, like Osama bin Laden, provided of millions more.
Washington's Afghan policy was shaped by the national security adviser to U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and was continued by his successors. Their plan goes beyond simply forcing Soviet troops to withdraw, but are designed to promote international movement disseminate religious fanaticism in the Muslim Central Asian Soviet republics to destabilize the Soviet Union.
Brzezinski's grand plan coincided own ambitions Pakistan military dictator General Zia ul-Haq to dominate the region. US-led Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe beamed Islamic fundamentalist tirades through Central Asia (while paradoxically denouncing the "Islamic revolution" that toppled the pro-American Shah of Iran in 1979).
Washington favored mujahidin faction was one of the most extreme, led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Western distaste for terrorism did not applies to this freedom fighter unsavory characters "." Hekmatyar was notorious in the 1970s for throwing acid in the faces of women who refused to take the veil.
After the mujahedeen captured Kabul in 1992, Hekmatyar's forces rained US-supplied missiles and rockets against the city – killing at least 2000 civilians – until the new government agreed to give the post of prime minister. Osama bin Laden was a close associate of Hekmatyar and his faction.
Hekmatyar was also famous for his side trade in the cultivation and trafficking of opium. Backup the mujahedeen from the CIA coincided with a boom in business drug. Within two years, the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan was the world's largest source of heroin, supplying 60% of drug users in the U.S..
In 1995, the former head of CIA operations in Afghanistan was unrepentant about the explosion in the flow of drugs: "Our primary mission was to make the much damage as possible to the Soviets … There was a fall in terms of drugs, yes. But the main objective was accomplished. The Soviets left Afghanistan. "
Made in USA
According to Ahmed Rashid, correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, 1986 CIA chief William Casey committed CIA support to a long standing ISI proposal to recruit worldwide to join the Afghan jihad. At least 100,000 Islamic militants flocked to Pakistan between 1982 and 1992 (some 60,000 attended fundamentalist schools in Pakistan without necessarily taking part in the fighting).
John Cooley, a former journalist with the U.S. ABC television network and author of Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism, has revealed that Muslims recruited in the U.S. for the mujahidin were sent to Camp Peary, the CIA spy training camp in Virginia, where the young Afghans, Arabs from Egypt and Jordan, and even some African-American "black Muslims" were taught "sabotage skills."
On 01 November, 1998, British Independent reported that one of those charged with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Ali Mohammed, had trained "bin Laden operatives" in 1989.
These operations "were evaluated in the Al Kifah Refugee Center in Brooklyn, New York, paramilitary training in the area of New York and then sent to Afghanistan with U.S. assistance to join Hekmatyar's forces. Mohammed was a member of the elite U.S. Army Berets Green.
The program, reported The Independent, was part of a Washington-approved plan called "Operation Cyclone. "
In Pakistan, recruits, money and equipment were distributed to the mujaheddin factions by an organization known as Maktab to Khidamar (Office of Services – MAK).
MAK was a front for the CIA in Pakistan, the Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate. The ISI was the first recipient of the largest the CIA and Saudi covert aid to the Afghan contras. Bin Laden was one of three people who ran MAK. In 1989, became a total charge of MAK.
Among those were trained by Mohamed El Sayyid Nosair, who was jailed in 1995 for killing Israeli rightist Rabbi Meir Kahane and plotting with others to bomb New York landmarks, including the World Trade Center in 1993.
The Independent also suggested that Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian religious leader jailed by the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, was also part of Operation Cyclone. He entered the U.S. in 1990 with the approval of the CIA. A confidential report The CIA concluded that the agency was "partly culpable" for the 1993 World Trade Center blast, the Independent.
Bin Laden
Osama bin Laden, one of 20 children of a billionaire construction magnate, arrived in Afghanistan to join the jihad in 1980. An austere religious fanatic and business tycoon, bin Laden specializing in the recruitment, financing and training of the 35,000 non-Afghan mercenaries who joined the mujahidin.
Bin Laden's family is an important pillar of the ruling class of Saudi Arabia, with close personal, financial and political ties for the royal family of pro-US country.
Bin Laden senior was appointed Saudi minister of public works as a favor to King Faisal. The new minister awarded contracts of their own construction companies lucrative to rebuild Islam's holiest mosques in Mecca and Medina. In the process, the company Bin Laden family in 1966 became the world's largest private construction.
Osama bin Laden's father died in 1968. Until 1994, he access to dividends from this ill-gotten business empire.
(Bin Laden junior fortune often referred to, staff from U.S. $ 200-300 million has been reached by the Department U.S. State dividing the net present value of the Bin Laden family – estimated at U.S. $ 5,000,000,000 – By the high number of bin Laden sons. A fact rarely mentioned is that in 1994 the bin Laden family disowned Osama and took control of his party.)
military and business adventures in Afghanistan had Osama's blessing of the bin Laden dynasty and the reactionary regime of Saudi Arabia. His close relationship with MAK also meant that the CIA had full knowledge of their activities.
Milt Bearden, CIA chief of station in Pakistan from 1986-1989, admitted on January 24, 2000, The New Yorker, but do not know personally with bin Laden: "I knew he was there?" Yes, I did … Boy [like] bin Laden were bringing $ 20 – $ 25 million a month from other Saudis and Arab Gulf war funding. And that's a lot of money. It is an extra $ 200 – $ 300 million a year. And this is what bin Laden. "
In 1986, Bin Laden brought heavy construction equipment from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan. With his extensive knowledge of construction techniques (which has a degree in civil engineering) built "training camps", some dug deep into the hillside, and built roads to reach them.
These camps, now known as "terrorist universities" by Washington, were built in collaboration with the ISI and the CIA. Afghan fighters against, including the tens of thousands of mercenaries recruited and paid by bin Laden, were armed by the CIA. Pakistan, U.S. and Britain provided military trainers.
Tom Carew, a former British SAS soldier who secretly fought for the Mujahideen, said on August 13, 2000, British newspaper The Observer: "Americans were willing to teach the Afghans the techniques of urban terrorism – car bombing, etc – so they could attack the Russians in major cities … Many of them are now using their knowledge and experience to make war on everything they hate. "
Al Qaeda (The Base), bin Laden's organization, was established in 1987-88 to run the camps and other business enterprises. This is a good capitalist management holding company – albeit one that integrates the operations a force of mercenaries and other logistical services with "legitimate business operations."
Bin Laden has simply continued to do the job was asked to do in Afghanistan during the 1980s – fund, feed and train mercenaries. All that has changed is its main customer. Then it was the ISI and, behind the scenes, the CIA. Today, their services are used primarily by the reactionary Taliban regime.
Bin Laden only became a "terrorist" U.S. eyes when he fell to the Saudi royal family over its decision to allow more than 540,000 U.S. troops to be stationed on Saudi soil following Iraq's invasion Iraq from Kuwait.
When thousands of U.S. soldiers remained in Saudi Arabia after the end of the Gulf War, Bin Laden's anger turned to outright opposition. He declared that Saudi Arabia and other regimes – such as Egypt – In the Middle East were puppets of the U.S., as the PDPA government of Afghanistan had been a puppet of the Soviet Union.
He called for the overthrow of these client regimes and declared the right of all Muslims to U.S. unit outside the Gulf States. In 1994, he was stripped of his Saudi citizenship and forced to leave the country. His assets were frozen.
After a period in Sudan returned to Afghanistan in May 1996. The refurbished the camps he had helped build during the Afghan war and offered facilities and services – and thousands of his mercenaries – to the Taliban, which took power that September.
Today, the private army of bin Laden of non-Afghan religious fanatics is a key plank of the Taliban regime.
Before the devastating September 11 attack on the twin towers of World Trade Center, the U.S. of the ruling class remained unrepentant about the consequences of their dirty refers to the likes of bin Laden, Hekmatyar and the Taliban. Since the terrible attacks, have been downright hypocritical.
In an August 28, 1998, the report published on MSNBC, Michael Moran quotes Senator Orrin Hatch, who was a senior member of the Commission Senate Intelligence approved U.S. relations with the mujahedeen, saying he would do "the same call again", even knowing what bin Laden would become.
"It was worth. Those were very important, the key issues that have played an important role in the downfall of the Union Soviet. "
Hatch today is one of the most enthusiastic voices demanding military retaliation.
Another face that has appeared repeatedly in television screens since the attack has been Vincent Cannistrano, described as a former head of the CIA "operations to combat terrorism."
Cannistrano is certainly an expert on terrorists like bin Laden, and who directed their "work." He led the Nicaraguan contras backed by the CIA during the 1980s. In 1984, he became the supervisor of covert aid to the Afghan mujaheddin for the U.S. National Security Council.
The last word goes to Zbigniew Brzezinski: "What was more important in the world view of history? The Taliban or the fall of the Soviet empire? Some woke up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War? "
Conclusion
A moment's reflection will show that any invasion that replaced the Taliban with a western puppet in Kabul would merely restore the Taliban as champions of Afghan sovereignty. Sponsored Americans to be just a puppet in the 1980s, the financing of some 60,000 foreign mercenaries to join them against the Russians. Intervention reap what you sow.
Americans do not want to admit their mistakes, but about real estate [now Americans] have to see the Taliban as the illegitimate child. It was the ISI of Pakistan with the blessing of the CIA, who brainwashed Taliban when they were young children living in tents in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan near Afghanistan. They were taught to hate the Russians. They were taught to fight, and no teach them anything else. Then they were only children growing up in Pakistan. And they are the ones that became very religious and they are the ones that made them terrorists. Them are to teach them to kill people and do not teach anything else.
Now America is killing its own was brutally ruthless Taliban as they do not are living beings. These murders are composed of the Taliban and a large number of Pakistani and Afghan civilians.
America has extended the circle of his attacks drone in Pakistan Administered Tribal Areas in doubt the Taliban hideouts. Resulting in great loss of civilian life, composed of women and innocent children while little or no causalities Taliban. The remaining members of these families having disastrous fire of revenge in his heart became suicide bombers. These bobbers commonly known as suicide terrorists, Pakistani forces attack civilians and causing great loss of life and property. Pakistan is paying a price intolerable for killing his own people (American Taliban did) in the War on Terror. America has injected terrorism in the form of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in an effort to defeat Russia. Now, this genius of Aladdin (Taliban) is out of the lamp while U.S. and Pakistani forces not enough can put this genie back in the lamp. If military operations against the Taliban managed to restore law and order in the region will not be lasting. Dialogue and a policy of tolerance is the only way to win the hearts of these Pukhtoons, otherwise history has shown us that are born fighters and military power is able to subdue them. In light of all the historical facts I have come to the conclusion that Israel, Russia and the United States are equally responsible for the recent wave of terrorism that has taken over most of the Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan. If American policy makers do not react in time then these acts of terrorism can occur anywhere in the world!
Notes
- ^ Death Tolls of the great wars …
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