A non-materialist approach on the war

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One Year After the Attack on Afghanistan: Victories, Defeats and Lessons
Analysis by Buut Shikan (Idol Breaker)

New Trend Magazine - Internet edition -
"An Independent Forum for the Oppressed"
http://www.newtrendmag.org/ntmframe.html

There is a simplified version of the attack on Afghanistan, October 7, 2001: The Taliban harbored the terrorist organization, Al-Qaida. The United States attacked and swept the Taliban away. A "progressive" government has been installed in Kabul.

The facts which will sustain scrutiny are quite different.

1. AFGHAN HONOR VINDICATED FOREVER: The Taliban demanded that the U.S. provide them evidence against Osama bin Laden. The U.S. refused to do so. The Taliban urged that the evidence could be presented in a third country court. The U.S. was adamant that the only course open to the Taliban was to hand over Osama. The Taliban would not surrender a guest. Such surrender would have dishonored Afghan and Islamic honor forever. This was a moral victory for the Taliban. They accepted self-destruction rather than surrender of their highest values.

2. MILITARILY THE WEAKEST FACING THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL FORCE: The Afghans had nothing with which they could fight the Americans. Military equivalence was not relevant. The Americans could bomb at will and the Taliban were not able to reach anywhere near the B-52s and the F-16s.

3. DECISION TO GIVE UP GOVERNMENT SAVED THE COUNTRY FROM CATACLYSM: The bombing patterns of the U.S. have become well-known now. They bombed up and down and across the country to create mass movement of the population. The theory seems to have been that a guerrilla force like the Taliban is difficult to dislodge if it remains within a supportive population. So remove the population and the guerrillas are left high and dry. The Taliban realized this as heavier and heavier American bombs rained down. The decision to leave the government and withdraw from the cities saved Afghanistan from a disaster which would have been ten times greater than the present suffering.

4. WERE THE TALIBAN JUSTIFIED IN WITHDRAWAL? The New York Times and National Public Radio have admitted that civilian deaths from U.S. bombing in Afghanistan number "in the thousands." A U.S. researcher has documented 4076 deaths from bombing. However, most deaths from the bombing cannot be documented. Pakistani observers say that an estimated 60,000 civilians were killed. The style of U.S. attacks can be guaged from the relatively recent bombing of a wedding party by the U.S. which was justified by the U.S. on the claim of alleged firing from the ground at U.S. planes. If the Taliban had refused to evacuate the cities, entire cities would have wiped out. [Reports indicate 4000 bombs were dropped on Kandahar before the Taliban withdrew.]

5. WHO KILLED AHMED SHAH MASOOD? A major weakness of the Taliban was the inability to make peace with Ahmed Shah Masood. A couple of days before 9.11, Masood was assassinated. Neither the Taliban nor Al-Qaida took responsibility for the murder. However, the U.S. insisted that Masood was killed by Al-Qaida, thus making bloodletting between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance inevitable. A non-partisan inquiry was needed. Masood was wary of "Arabs" working for Al-Qaida against him. Why he would allow two of them to interview him and not search their camera (the most elementary aspect of security) remains a mystery.

6. "DEAD OR ALIVE!" FAILURE OF U.S. POWER: Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Mullah Omar have not been captured. In fact their whereabouts are unknown. Pakistan's Musharref says Osama is dead. Saudi intelligence said as late as October 4, 2002 that Osama is alive. Most sources agree that Mullah Omar is alive. The news of al-Zawahiri is even murkier. One rumor has it that he was killed in Tora Bora (with Osama) but more factually, this summer, he married the two widows of a mujahid leader killed in the fighting following the death of Zawahiri's own family in the bombing. [Marriage with widows of martyrs is highly praised in Islamic teachings.]

7. CAPTIVES: A VERITABLE UNITED NATIONS OF ISLAM: There are nearly 500 alleged Al-Qaida captives in U.S. hands in Guantanamo Bay. Another 350 are held in Kandahar. Bits and pieces of information published in various news sources indicate that other than India, just about every Muslim community in the world was represented among those who did the hijrah to work with Osama bin Laden. This UMMAH-concept is the biggest challenge to the Israeli-U.S. dreams of worldwide hegemony. It appears that Osama was able to get Muslims to cross racial, national, color and ethnic lines to join the jihad.

8. THE TALIBAN ARE re-EMERGING: Slowly but surely, the Taliban are making a comeback. Incidents are reported from Afghanistan almost every day, especially from the Pashtun areas which were the stronghold of the Taliban. Some reports indicate that 65% of Afghanistan is back in Taliban hands. Also, the Taliban seem to have learned from the immensity and speed of American firepower. They hit back with great care to make American firepower ineffective. These are mere pinpricks for the U.S. military might, but if the pinpricks continue, the U.S. forces will soon be bleeding from hundreds of tiny needle shots.

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THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON of the ATTACK: The U.S. and Israel will not tolerate the existence of any independent Muslim government, let alone an Islamic government. The Taliban were destroyed because they had formed an Islamic government and were asserting their independence. [Iraq too is under attack because it has an independent government with potential for Islamic support.]

I DISAGREE WITH THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENT: Many observers believe that the real issue is economics and the pipeline the U.S. wants to construct through Afghanistan figured in the assault.. These observers do not realize that the real issues are ISLAM, ISRAEL and U.S. hegemony. No country can keep its economic wealth to itself. Iraq, for instance, would be happy to let the U.S. have oil at reduced prices if the sanctions were removed. A pipeline could have been built through an Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban. Note that the Taliban accepted the demand to stop the production of drug-related crops.

THE REAL ISSUE IS THE OPPOSITION OF ISRAEL TO THE RESURGENCE OF ISLAM. With America under Zionist control, America's interests have been submerged under Jewish programs and plans. Israel's dilemma is that if ISLAM BECOMES DOMINANT IN ANY ONE COUNTRY, that country will become the rallying point for the liberation of Palestine and the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Arabia and the Gulf. Hence, an ISLAMIC GOVERNMENT, even in a poverty-stricken, 4th world country like Afghanistan is a problem for the Zionists [both Jewish and Christian Zionists].

With the collapse of the Taliban and the coming attack on Iraq, there will be NOT ONE COUNTRY left whose government is concerned with the victory of the Muslim world and the liberation of Kashmir, Palestine and Chechnya. Muslims will not be represented by ANY government. In a strange kind of way (Allah is the best of planners, as the Muslims say), the grounds are being cleared for the Ummah's unity. The governments are irrelevant. The Muslim people will have to take responsibility for the struggle for freedom and victory. Look at the INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTT OF JEWISH BUSINESSES. It's happening without any government getting involved. Muslims are gradually becoming politically aware of their responsibilities and their power as a community of 1.5 billion. [Polls show that 75 to 80% of Muslims from Morocco to the Philippines support Osama bin Laden. More than 90% opposed the bombing of Afghanistan but were peaceful in their approach.]

In every Muslim country, a small but wealthy enclave of westernized people has been planted, starting from colonial times. These people oppose Islam as a socio-political force and support western powers. Some of these people can be won over through da'wah; however, most of them will have to be opposed and stopped from their constant endeavor to "americanize" the Muslim world. There is a cultural war going on against the Muslim world led by these westernizers (such as the Pakistani Ahmed Rashid who wrote a clever book called The Taliban). Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin were overt examples of these alienated types. The Muslim masses have been very kind to these "sahibs" (Black Englishmen). There is a need to realize that these are agents of a repressive and exploitative culture.

BASIC ISSUE FOR MUSLIMS: Every Muslim must face the fundamental question: Is my loyalty to Allah and His messenger or is it to the government under which I live? Am I citizen of the world which belongs to Allah, or am I a citizen of Pakistan, Egypt, Nigeria, Indonesia etc.

PAKISTAN'S HONOR AND FUTURE IS AT STAKE: The most disgraceful aspect of the American attack on Afghanistan was the treachery of the Pakistani government led by Pervez Musharraf. For a couple of billion dollars, he sold out the Islamic basis of Pakistan and committed breach of trust with the fraternal people of Afghanistan. There was no threat to Pakistan from America (one of Musharref's excuses on this issue). It was just a matter of Musharref's consolidation of his own power with American money and intelligence (FBI). Pakistan's existence as an Islamic nation has been put on the line by Musharref. There is enough corruption, factionalism and sectarianism within Pakistan to make Musharref's opportunism successful. There is a real tough test for the Islamic movement in Pakistan which could be the key to the situation in the entire region. Will Jamaate Islami, the reform movements, the Jihad movements, Tablighi Jamaat and various independent mosques be able to come closer and unite to stop secularization? or will each continue its own way and thus help the pro-U.S. (indirectly pro-Israel) regime to continue?

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Source:
New Trend Magazine - Internet edition -
"An Independent Forum for the Oppressed"
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