[Mb-civic] FW: Islamic Extremists: U.S.-Financed,

[Michael Butler]

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Subject: FW: Islamic Extremists: U.S.-Financed,


 Vol. 14, No.  21
October 12, 1998
   <http://www.thenewamerican.com/focus/terrorism/index.htm>
Islamic Extremists:  U.S.-Financed,
Enflamed, Seeking Revenge
by William F.  Jasper
 

On August 27th, Reuters published  excerpts of an interview Osama bin Laden
had given to the French daily  newspaper France Soir in 1995. In it he
explained how U.S. and  Pakistani officers had trained the volunteers he had
recruited at his base  in Pakistan to fight the Soviet invaders in
Afghanistan. "I created my  first [military] camps, where these volunteers
underwent training led by  Pakistani and American officers," the Saudi exile
said. "The arms were  supplied by the Americans and the money by the
Saudis.... Our objective  was the Islamic Revolution, no matter who our
allies were.... American  objectives were not to play a major role."
 

Bin Laden, a complete unknown to most  Americans a few months ago, is now
recognized by most as one of our  country’s deadliest adversaries. He has
issued a fatwa calling on  other Muslims to kill Americans as their
religious duty. Circumstantial  evidence links him to a number of major
terrorist acts and plots in the  past few years.
 

Building the  Monster
 

It is common for liberal-left  commentators to cite bin Laden’s virulently
anti-American terrorist  network, and the equally radical Taliban regime in
Kabul which supports  him, as examples of "blowback" — unintended negative
fallout from U.S.  covert operations. According to this analysis, it was
our irrational, anti-communist impulse — as implemented by the "Cold
War-mentality" in the CIA — which is responsible for our present terrorism
predicament. Because of our hysterical aversion to communism, goes the
line, we are now faced with "Islamic fundamentalism," the new global  threat
we must prepare to battle.
 

Leading this chorus are the same Council  on Foreign Relations (CFR)
operatives in government and the media who have  done the most to make the
"Islamic threat" a self-fulfilling prophecy.  Some of the loudest voices
declaiming against the scourge of "militant"  and "fundamentalist" Islam
belong to the very strategists who are most  responsible for the policies
and actions (both past and present) that have  built the most fanatical,
anti-American "Islamic fundamentalist" regimes  and organizations in the
world today. These regimes and organizations are  serving a hidden — though
increasingly visible — purpose. Iran, Iraq,  Syria, Libya, Algeria, Sudan,
the Muslim Brotherhood, Taliban, and a host  of others in the extremist camp
have been built into menacing perils to,  among other things, justify the
transformation of the UN’s blue helmets  into global gendarmes capable of
enforcing UN dictates on all peoples and  nations.
 

Iran was the first  major victim in this scheme. Iran under Shah Reza
Pahlavi was the West’s  strongest ally in the region and a force for
moderation, modernization,  and advancement of human rights. But to
President Jimmy Carter and the CFR  cabal who ran his Administration, Iran
was to be the starting domino in a  chain reaction designed to usher in the
new world order. Khomeini’s "fundamentalists" didn’t overthrow the Shah, as
the media mythmakers would have you believe; Carter and  company did that.
While the Establishment media cartel smeared the  Shah as a latter-day
Hitler, the Carter Administration pulled  every deception and dirty trick
imaginable to undermine the Pahlavi  rule. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Andrew
Young  (CFR) added to the media image of Ayatollah Khomeini  (then in exile)
as a great holy man, declaring  that "he will be hailed as a saint" when he
returns to  Teheran. In the final act, General Alexander Haig (CFR) sent his
deputy  commander, General Robert Huyser, to warn the Iranian military
against  supporting their emperor.
 

Saddam the  "Savior"
 

No sooner was the U.S.-led Iranian coup  completed than the CFR brain trust
in our foreign policy establishment  cited "balance-of-power" imperatives to
justify pouring hundreds of  millions (and then billions) of dollars of aid,
technology, and military  assistance into Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The CFR
double-domes in the Reagan  and Bush Administrations assured us that Saddam
would be our protection  against the Khomeini strain of virulent Islam.
During the eight-year  Iran-Iraq War, Washington sold weapons to both sides,
but clearly "tilted"  toward Iraq. When the shooting started in Operation
Desert Storm,  President Bush’s CFR coterie had us bedding down with Assad
of Syria,  Saddam’s rival for the title of "Maximum Terrorist Leader."
 

The bombing of New York City’s World  Trade Center signaled the rise of a
new terrorist center — Kabul,  Afghanistan. The Arab bombers in the case,
who were tied to Sheik Omar  Abdul Rahman, received their training during
the Afghan War from  mujahedeen groups trained and supplied by the CIA. The
Sheik has been  closely allied with Gulbaddin Hekmatyar, leader of one of
the most radical  anti-American elements of the Afghan mujahedeen, and the
one most favored  by U.S. intelligence.
 

President Carter’s  ousting of the Shah and the installation of Khomeini in
February 1979 was  the signal that set in motion the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan later  that year. Of the seven mujahedeen parties that made up
the Afghan allied resistance, U.S. aid flowed overwhelmingly to the three
most virulently anti-Western, anti-American parties: Hez-i-Islami (Party  of
Islam), led by Gulbaddin Hekmatyar; Jamiat-i-Islami (Islamic Society),  led
by Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani and his military commander Ahmed Shah
Masood; and Ittehad Islami (Islamic Unity), led by Professor Abdul Rasul
Sayyaf. All of the above had become involved in the radical "Pan-Islam"
movement of the Ikhwan ("Muslim Brotherhood") during the 1960s and ’70s at
Kabul University.
 

The forces of Hekmatyar and Masood not  only received the lion’s share of
Western aid (as well as assistance from  Khadafi and Saddam Hussein), but
were the undisputed favorites of the U.S.  Information Agency (USIA) and the
CFR-controlled media. Sibgratullah  Mojadidi, a respected Islamic theologian
and religious leader who was  elected president of the Afghan
government-in-exile by the mujahedeen  during the Soviet occupation, tried
repeatedly without success to warn  U.S. leaders of this "folly." Mojadidi
complained bitterly that the  lopsided support for Hekmatyar was immoral and
counterproductive since  Hekmatyar was murdering his mujahedeen "allies,"
collaborating with the  communists, and undermining the authority of the
mujahedeen  government.
 

Independent observers and journalists  like Kurt Lohbeck, author of the
important 1993 book Holy War, Unholy  Victory: Eyewitness to the CIA’s
Secret War in Afghanistan, also  warned repeatedly against the U.S.
favoritism toward Hekmatyar. He was  repeatedly told that the favoritism
would end. It didn’t. Lohbeck records  in his book a meeting he had with
then-U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Robert  Oakley (CFR) in 1988 at which
Oakley assured him that aid to Hekmatyar  would cease. One year later at a
press briefing Oakley stated  categorically that Hekmatyar’s aid had been
stopped completely. About one  week later, Lohbeck followed a 50-truck
convoy of U.S. weapons and  supplies from the Peshawar airport — to
Hekmatyar’s camp.
 

After the Red Army pulled out in 1989,  the Soviets continued massive
support for their surrogate regime under  Najibullah and his "militia" of
brigands commanded by General Abdul Rashid  Dostam. The U.S. cut off aid to
the mujahedeen — with the exception of  Hekmatyar’s group, even though by
this time Hekmatyar’s double-dealing and  assassination of fellow mujahedeen
leaders had thoroughly discredited him  even among many of his erstwhile
admirers in the Western media.
 

In 1992, following the fall of the hated  Najibullah regime, Masood joined
forces with General Dostam’s KGB-backed  militia to drive his long-time
rival, Hekmatyar, from Kabul. Masood  installed his mentor, Burhanuddin
Rabbani, as president, and himself as  Minister of Defense. At the same
time, Pakistan was providing support  (from the U.S., Russia, and China) to
the rising Taliban, which now  effectively controls most of Afghanistan.
Mullah Mohammad Omar, Taliban’s  equivalent of Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini,
has been closely associated with  Osama bin Laden and is reportedly married
to bin Laden’s 18-year-old  daughter.
  
      
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