MEET THE NEW AL'QAEDA SAME AS THE OLD AL'QAEDA
BY: MICHAEL VAIL

George Santayana rightly said, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." It is we who will suffer if we do not learn from history. The global monopoly men who make our leaders dance like marionettes ‘swaying to the symphony of destruction' understand history cunningly and will benefit from it. It is these death merchants who funded and trained the Mujahedeen i.e. ‘those who fight' to fight a proxy war that the soviets had no chance of winning. The Afghani fighters were trained by CIA[1] [0] and SAS[2] [0] who provided aid and comfort to some of the most malignant thugs[3] [0] known in that region.

For 17 years, Washington poured $4bn into the pockets of some of the most brutal men on earth - with the overall aim of exhausting and ultimately destroying the Soviet Union in a futile war. One of them, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a warlord particularly favoured by the CIA, received tens of millions of dollars. His speciality was trafficking opium and throwing acid in the faces of women who refused to wear the veil. In 1994, he agreed to stop attacking Kabul on condition that he was made primeminister - which he was.

Eight years earlier, CIA director William Casey had given his backing to a plan put forward by Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, to recruit people from around the world to join the Afghan jihad. More than 100,000 Islamic militants were trained in Pakistan between 1986 and 1992, in camps overseen by the CIA and MI6, with the SAS training future al-Qaida and Taliban fighters in bomb-making and other black arts. Their leaders were trained at a CIA camp in Virginia. This was called Operation Cyclone and continued long after the Soviets had withdrawn in 1989.

"I confess that [countries] are pieces on a chessboard," said Lord Curzon, viceroy of India in 1898, "upon which is being played out a great game for the domination of the world." -UK Guardian ‘What good friends left behind'

The Taliban and Al-Qaeda were used as tools by the Carter-Reagan-Bush-Clinton administrations. Each administration used and abused them for their own geopolitical ends. The current regime has used Usama Bin Laden as a mysterious Goldstein like figure who can never be apprehended in order to solidify his own power and sign Byzantine legislation that has dismantled the constitution and enthralled the republic. If we have any links to real or imagined terrorists we could face indefinite detention and lose our homes. Yet government officials who have supported terrorists and dictators for decades are lauded such as Robert Gates and Zbigniew Brzezinski[4] [0].

Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today?

Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic [integrisme], having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war? -- Le Nouvel Observateur, Interview with Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Paris, January 15-21, 1998, translated by Bill Blum

 

 

Now to add fuel to the fire SOCOM or Special Operations Command plans to finance a mercenary force in Pakistan to fight Al-Qaeda and Taliban in northwest Pakistan. Do you see the bizarre dichotomy here? First you have our government who is fighting this ‘war on terror' and at the same time supporting a dictator named General Pervez Musharraf who put his corrupt competitor and many of his Supreme Court judges[5] [0] under house arrest. So in essence you are creating a new militarized Al-Qaeda to find the old Al-Qaeda. It sounds like a stale B-movie plot but this is taxpayer money being squandered.

Now if this were a B-movie then you know how it will end, badly. In that region of Pakistan where they will be attempting to gather their new band of terrorists their ideologies are nearly exactly the same as those that they are supposed to be fighting against. While Pakistanis may have no interest in worthless Federal Reserve notes they are interested in American weaponry and training. This group will most likely be trained by Blackwater USA, Dyncorp who are currently training police in Afghanistan or Custer Battles.

This new Al-Qaeda will be used as pawns on the grand chessboard to support a dictator who can barely manage his country which is on the brink of civil war[6] [0]. Our economy is in shambles, the dollar is worth nearly nothing and yet these leaders continue to spend more money and wrack up more debt. The debt ceiling has been reached so eventually they will remove the limitations on spending. Your children or your children's children may never see the day that men like these will be accountable for the damage that Al-Qaeda has wrought. In order to see these men punished properly we most expose the puppets and the puppeteers. This dance must come to an end, one way or another.

 

 

 

 

 

1. CIA.gov. "Our First Line of Defense" Presidential Reflections on US Intelligence. 1981 cited; Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20000417001717/http://www.cia.gov/csi/monograph/firstln/reagan.html [1].http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20030216/ai_n12861112/print [2].

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1044925,00.html [3].

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-17/brzezinski1.html [4].

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [5].

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20071120story_20-11-2007_pg7_53 [6].