لراوبر ویب پاڼه لراوبر يو افغان – تازه خبرونه
America’s naked aggression against Iraq and Afghanistan and Israel’s repression of the Palestinians is telecast around the world, producing rage against Israel and its patron, the United States, and, in addition, a word-wide surge in anti-Semitism. America’s strategy and economic interests in the Muslim World Are being threatened by the agony in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine which inevitably invites terrorist attacks against U.S. interests, citizens, and their property.
The author takes the reader behind conventional headlines disseminated through self-serving government/corporate media organizations and identifies the historical, political and religious factors that are the motive-force generating Islamic hostility against the West.
An examination of British and Russian hegemony in the Middle East, Central and South Asia, which culminated in Victorian and Czarist domination during the nineteenth-century, serves as a sobering and poignant model for contemporary comparison. In addressing modern-day colonialism, marketed and justified under the rubric of the “war on terror,” author Margolis articulates how a history of economic privation, artificially-drawn borders, regime change, support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, profligate killing of innocents and pre-emptive warfare have served to energize anti-West resistance. In short, Western “divine intervention” has been earmarked as nothing more than a resource war. (8, (9)
Afghanistan, Politically Expedient Mythology:
From this tough-minded work, lingering doubts and unanswered questions prevail as to the guilt or innocence of Osama bin Laden as the principal architect of the 9/11 attack, America’s justification for interminable war. Of late, numerous “truth” organizations dedicated to the re-opening the 9/11 investigation; unaccepting of U.S. official statements of what transpired that fateful day on 9/11 have surfaced as well. We now know that the alleged individuals that commandeered the aircraft were agents of the Saudi intelligence entity known as the Mukhabarat, which raises vexing, very serious questions about Saudi Arabia, America’s staunch ally’s role and or intent. In addition, numerous investigative journalists and authors have discovered massive intelligence (CIA and FBI) failures and intra-agency conflict and rivalry which seriously undermined and compromised America’s incentive, and ability to prevent or halt the attack. During July of 2001, Osama bin Laden was receiving medical treatment in a hospital in Dubai, (UAE), and was visited by the American Counsel General and two agents of the CIA. At that time, Osama bin Laden was wanted for terrorist attacks in Africa and Saudi Arabia. Later, during September 11, 12, 13, and 14 of 2001, Osama was again in a hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, as noted by Global Research journalist Michael Chossudovsky in his article titled ‘Where was Osama bin Laden on 9/11’? (9)
Again, as in Dubai, he was visited by an American contingent, consisting of the Charge de Affairs and two CIA officers. What is fascinating about these two instances is that though the opportunity existed for the arrest and extradition of Osama bin Laden, alleged ‘mastermind’ of 9/11, no action was taken to secure his arrest and or extradition. When taken with the knowledge that Taliban emissaries were unceremoniously rebuffed in their attempt to solve the Osama bin Laden impasse by both the Clinton and Bush Administrations, we can only conclude that Sheikh Osama bin Laden represented and provided President George W. Bush with a premeditated rationale and justification for the American expeditionary forces deployment to the region. A deployment made to order for the facilitation of economic and strategic penetration. Or put another way, “security theatre against a movie-plot threat.”
Margolis contends that the initial intelligence alleging Osama bin Laden’s guilt came from Northern Alliance sources who had acquired it from Russian intelligence sources. (1) The intelligence was then passed on to the CIA. The self-serving nature of passing this so-called intelligence from the Northern Alliance to the CIA is obvious, to thereby induce the retributive wrath of U.S. airpower against their implacable enemy and host to Osama bin Laden…the Taliban. The author also avers that the video purporting to be Osama bin Laden celebrating the 9/11 attacks is a forgery.(2) Once again, the source of the video is the Russian SVB, renown and celebrated as among the world’s most accomplished producers of forged documents and documentaries. The author had met and interviewed Osama bin Laden and explained that for physiological reasons the man in the video is an imposter. The author notes that in addition a plethora of manipulated audio purporting to be Osama bin Laden engaged in fiery oratory exists. What motivation and or benefit might Moscow realize with falsely accusing bin Laden as the architect of 9/11? By drawing in the U.S., Moscow may have envisaged and strategized to keep the region in turmoil and thereby discourage competing U.S/, Saudi and other energy concerns from pipeline investment, energy exploration and or development.
Partisan Mythology:
Also of note, I found the author’s assessment of the Soviet/Afghan War of special interest. Facts established and entirely consistent with an uncontestable compilation of data produced by a number of widely acclaimed and internationally recognized historians, citing evidence and conclusions drawn therefrom and obtained from a multitude of verifiable sources. For example, when noting that the initial intelligence naming Osama bin Laden as the “mastermind of 9/11” had come from Northern Alliance (KGB/SVB) sources, the author, expressing skepticism about the veracity of the information, refers in passing to “Ahmad Shah Massoud as a longtime asset of the old KGB.” And, in addition, on page 196, author Eric S. Margolis expands upon his biographical sketch of the late Northern Alliance Guru, Ahmad Shah Massoud: An excerpt follows: (3, 8, 9)
During the ten-year jihad against the Soviets, the Tajik military leader Ahmad Shah Massoud was lionized in the West as a heroic, anti-Communist mountain warrior…the ‘Lion of the Panjshir.’ In reality, he had long secretly collaborated with the Soviet KGB, a fact recently revealed in the memoirs of retired Soviet intelligence officers from the KGB and GRU military intelligence. While pretending to fight the Soviets, Massoud actually devoted his main effort to combating the Pashtun Mujahideen, thwarting their efforts, backed by Pakistani intelligence agents, to blow up the strategic choke point of Soviet logistics, the Salang Tunnel. Massoud also intrigued to convince Moscow to ditch its current Communist puppet ruler, Najibullah, and make him the ruler of Afghanistan. (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
It is interesting to note that several American publishers rejected the manuscript, advising the author that what was wanted was a narrative that portrayed Islam as a threat to the United States. The book was subsequently published in Canada.
Eric S. Margolis, author of War at the Top of the World and Foreign Affairs correspondent for the Toronto Sun and the Afghan Post has decades of war-related reporting experience from the Middle and Near East and South Asia, and is therefore eminently qualified for the recently bestowed honorary title of “Master of the Genre.”
At times, historical references may seem outdated however any discussion of the aforementioned subjects is critical, of importance, relevant, topical as they were allied with current candidates for the highest office in Afghanistan, the Presidency. It is my fervent hope that this book finds a wide audience among policy makers for whom cognitive reasoning may have been co-opted by fabricated intelligence and incessant disinformation from self-serving members of the government, media, intelligentsia and the corporate military-industrial complex. (9)
Bruce G. Richardson
Notes:
Select Bibliography:
(1, 2, 3, 4) American Raj, Liberation or Domination, Resolving the Conflict between the West and the Muslim World**: by Eric S. Margolis, 2008, pp. 178, 196.
The author, Eric S. Margolis is an award-winning internationally syndicated columnist. His articles appear in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Times of London, the Gulf Times, the Khaleej Times, Dawn and the Afghan Post. He often appears as an expert in foreign affairs on CNN, Fox News, BBC, France 24, CTV, and CBC. As a war correspondent Margolis has covered conflicts in Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, Sinai, Afghanistan, Kashmir, India, Pakistan, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
**His book, American Raj, Liberation or Domination? Resolving the Conflict between the West and the Muslim World is available from Key Porter Books, 6 Adelaide St. East, Tenth Floor, Toronto, Canada, MSC 1 H6. It is also available from Amazon.com.
(5) Main Intelligence Directorate (MID) of the General Headquarters of the USSR Armed Forces. Title: The Lion of the Panjsher, Article No. 18, (No. 882/83-3-5-77), Fond 80, Perechen 14, Document 77), Translation of excerpts by Elena Kretova, Information Services, Moscow.
(6) Limited Contingent, by General Boris V. Gromov, Moscow, Progress Press, 1996, pp. 188-197. Text translated by Professor Ian Helfant, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Harvard University.
(7) Afghanistan, Political Frailty and External Interference, by Dr. Nabi Misdaq, pp.162, 210, 211, 212, 330N, 2006.
(8) The Pandzhsher from 1975-1990, by S.E. Grigor’ev, 1997, p.40, St. Petersburg University Press, text translated by Professor Ian Helfant, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Harvard University.
(9) For excellent, scholarly, and verifiable authoritative data and historical reference see: (Communications by Members of the Afghan Diaspora about events in Afghanistan to US Leaders, the UN and World Leaders September 21, 1979-October 7, 2013, by Dr. M. Siddieq Noorzoy, 2013.
