Chapter Two
Facts, Rational and Political view
Those who think that the US-Afghan invasion has to do with the presence of Osama bin Laden are not supported by the facts.
1997: Kandahar. US special operation groups have been conducting raids and operations designed to weaken Taliban. The motive for these covert operations have to do with Washington’s losing control in the bidding war for the TAP (Trans-Afghan Pipeline) despite constant negotiations with the Taliban regarding the building of a pipeline (TAP) from Daulatabad, Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan, to Gwader in Pakistan.
Originally, the idea was the effort of Bridas of Argentina. Subsequently, the US government forced Turkmenistan to cut off oil and gas supplies to Bridas, forcing them into bankruptcy and out of this bidding process. Early in the bidding game, the Taliban were courting Bridas as they claim the return was greater then that from UNOCAL. Negotiations were underway through the summer of 2001. But other more secret deliberations were also taking place. At an Afghanistan conference in Berlin in June 2001, US officials advised the Pakistan foreign secretary Niaz Naik that the US would attack Afghanistan before end of October 2001.
In addition, Christina Rocca Deputy Secretary of State advised Amir Khan Mutaqi , the Taliban representative sent to Washington to discuss the Tab.” Eather you accept our carpet of Gold or we will bury you in a carpet of bombs.” the justification to attack Afghanistan due to) Osama Bin Laden dose not now stand up to scrutiny.
While US/Afghan negotiation were on going, the US State Dept removed Afghanistan from the list of terrorist nations so as to allow US business negotiations to continue as US law forbids US corporation from doing business with nations listed as terrorist nations.
Add to this the many opportunities Afghanistan provided the US to Run over Osama to them, for little in exchange.
—Bruce G. Richardson
The Taliban didn’t pay attention to the majority of ordinary people and their international and national wishes which one was the honor of Afghan women for real in obvious improper acts of men and authority against them in every step of their Real life in a community or society, nor to the expectations of Pashtun people from other tribes. The leaders in Afghanistan couldn’t control the animosity that people felt toward the innocent majority of Pashtuns, a nation caught in the middle of the fight. The Taliban’s destruction of the Buddha statue
I couldn’t tolerate that. Communists or fundamental Muslim weaken national Afghan opinion on the matter of Pashtuns and their lost land (Pashtunistan or Pashtunkhwa). The US should not have tried to destroy some places in Afghanistan by bombing it in october 7 2001, like Tora Bora, where many like tens of thousands innocent common Muslim Pashtuns died for the sake of fight together with Taliban and continue to die because of fight of US with Taliban and Osama for economical and political aim.
From the beginning of their religious task in Afghanistan, the Taliban were actually in an ethnic fight with another ethnic group called Tajik, comprised of people from different tribes in Afghanistan and their military leader was Masoud. The US government and its allies took advantage of that civil and ethnic war because they wanted to get to that place for economic purposes (oil and gas) sooner. They also wanted to weaken Al Qaida and the Taliban, and have influence in the region.
Taliban and others nationalities especially Pakistanis and Arabs are involved for ideological purpose as a small group of wahabists, at that time of ethnic war and now, and it makes a Nationalist Muslim’s duty and responsibility more to bring the world and Taliban to realization and recognition of Pashtun’s and other Afghan’s culture and national and international interests…which women’s right and human right also can be recognized and be saved as value by law and constructive culture.
US spent more money and more human life, like American lives and most Afghan lives could compare, to benefit financially from the expenses they’d amassed over the years. They also hired another Afghan, a US agent to act as chair of the Afghan government. In a country whose people were pitted against each other in a political cold war, and still are, running unreal, broad assembly that includes representatives of their own choice, because common people are not in the picture of that government. Nor is keeping people satisfied.
The Taliban handed to the Pashtun people a tribal ethnic fight without end, and the Pashtuns now either suffer from the Taliban’s mere existence or die still under their own name because of big plat against them by Northern Allience or some country that wanted shatter the back bone of Afghanistan. These people are living in their own land, practicing their pure culture. Other than a differing religious ideology, the Taliban shared the some culture with the Pashtuns and even lived under the Pashtun name now and then to save them self. Because of this sharing of the ethnic name, thousands of Pashtuns died, and many are dying daily due to US bombing of the Taliban in pashtun population’s centers.
Pashtuns fought for national reasons, compared to those who were Taliban. few thousand Pashtuns were the Taliban’s followers because Mujahedeen failure in keeping peace, unity and security ,and also Arabs and Pakistanis were among them, but the government was made up of only a few hundred real Taliban, different people from Afghanistan who were chosen to lead for their ideology (Wahabism),
Generally, Pashtuns or all Afghans don’t want others to take their share of their land Pashtunistan, and its people, by force. For years, they had political conflict with Pakistan, and England; for 100 years, they also faced conspiracy, discrimination, mental abuse and crimes against humanity committed by other countries and the Northern Alliance that wanted to cause division and hate among people unlawfully. They (northern Allience) hated the Taliban more because most there were Pashtuns fighting, not because of extremisms. , because they had some radicals, beside Communists, among them, too like Rabani, Sayaf and Masoud himself and people from setam and parcham, two farsi talkers communist groups. In this way, they denied and fought Pashtuns, and forgot the Taliban’s Wahabism in fact.
Also denied was the nature of Afghan government, just as the Iranian nature of government was a Fars or the nature of Pakistani government that most was run by majority. Pashtuns were also discriminated against and bothered by the US, who had and has good relationships with old warlords and other tribes that recreated power one after other. The US was behind those powers directly; they couldn’t change the lives of people hit by war during those years, and instead brought more misery and crimes against humanity to all people. The US was supporting the Northern Alliance in the war, and was helping them in any way possible during the time in which they negotiated with Taliban about the oil pipeline—until July or August of 2000.
The main group to create ethnic hatred and divisive policy among Afghan people during the Afghan-Russian war, and pushed the idea of civil war more than before, the people who caused long-term hate, doubt and separation, and pushed the idea of war and killing, were and are a pro-Russian and pro-China group called Setamies, under the name of minority’s rights always they were meddling. The idea was adopted by Masoud first, then Rabani, Qanooni, Fahim and Dr. Abdullah (of the Jamiet-e-Islami party)Tajik ethnic leaders, Uzbek ethnic militia and warlord Dostum and minority warlords such as Hazara, ethnic people like Ali Mazary and Khalili and Mohaqique— brought Afghan society to the edge of a bloody civil and ethnic war with help of other countries.
On the other hand, Rabani declined to hand power over to the next Mujahedeen leaders after he failed to runn the government successfully. Rabani turned the victory of the Afghan people, represented by multiple Mujahedeen leaders, to bloodshed. President Rabani and his warlords, including Commander Masoud, were the main culprits in the Afghan civil war.
Hekmat yar from Pashtun, a fundamental person, is the main resistor against Rabani’s illegal government and the other culprit of civil war, but the thing is that Hekmat yar chose the harsh military way of conduct. The city of Kabul got distracted and ruined by Rabani’s man (Masoud) (Shora-e- Nezar), Hezb-e-wahdat (party of Wahdat), Hezbe-e-Islami ( Islamic Party) and Communist militia such as Dostum, who supported Rabani after he supported Communists in their time and Hekmat Yar. On the other hand, that pro-Rabani government was supported by the US, Russia, India, Iran, Turkey, Israel and European countries like France. Hekmat yar was supported by Pakistan not at a level that would allow him to take power in Kabul, but at a level sufficient to continue the civil war, he then joined Rabani’s government as prime minister, and both lost the battle with the Taliban, who were also the product of civil and ethnic war, between Rabani, Masoud, Dostum and Ali Mazari with Gulbudeen Hekmat Yar. The Taliban and Northern Alliance once again brought Afghan society into turmoil, and brought the feet of America and NATO to South Asia and Afghanistan by their free choice in the matter of economic and political affairs.