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In covering the fall of Kabul, the Western media are
mindlessly repeating seven lies of Western propaganda. By
misrepresenting the history of Afghanistan, they mask the crimes
committed in that country and make it impossible to foresee the fate
that Washington has written for it. And if the Taliban were not the most
wicked…
French President Emmanuel Macron and US President
Joe Biden addressed their nation on the capture of Kabul by the Taliban
on August 15, 2021.
1.- THE AFGHAN WAR IS NOT A RESPONSE TO 9/11, IT WAS PLANNED BEFORE THE ATTACKS
According to these two politicians, the sole purpose of the US
invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was to “pursue those who attacked us on
September 11, 2001, and to ensure that al-Qaeda could not use
Afghanistan as a base for further attacks. » [1]
Joseph Goebbels, the Propaganda Minister of the Third Reich, is said
to have said that “A lie repeated ten times remains a lie; repeated ten
thousand times, it becomes the truth.” But the facts are stubborn and,
whatever Mr Macron and Mr Biden may think, the 2001 war was decided in
mid-July 2001, when the Berlin negotiations between the United States
and the United Kingdom on the one hand and the Taliban, not the Afghan
government, on the other failed. Pakistan and Russia were observers at
these secret talks. The Taliban delegation entered Germany in violation
of the UN Security Council’s travel ban. After the failure of these
negotiations, Pakistani Foreign Minister Naiz Naik returned to his
country and sounded the alarm. Pakistan then looked for new allies. It
offered China a gateway to the Indian Ocean (what we see today with the
’Silk Road’). The United States and the United Kingdom began to amass
their troops in the area: 40,000 men in Egypt and almost the entire
British fleet in the Arabian Sea. It was only after this arrangement was
put in place that the attacks of September 11th took place.
2. AL-QAEDA IS NOT A THREAT FOR THE ANGLO-SAXONS, BUT AN INSTRUMENT
According to President Biden: “Our mission to reduce the terrorist
threat of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and to kill Osama bin Laden has been a
success.
However, it was the director of France’s foreign secret services,
Alexandres de Marenches, who proposed to his US counterpart within the
framework of the Pinay Circle [2] to provoke a Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in order to trap them there [3].
President Carter’s National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzeziński,
sought out anti-communist billionaire Osama Bin Laden in Beirut and
asked him to lead Arab mercenaries in a terrorist campaign against the
Afghan communist government [4]. Bin Laden was in Beirut to meet with former Lebanese President Camille Chamoun, a member of the World Anti-Communist League [5].
Washington chose Bin Laden for two reasons: First, he was a member of a
secret society, the Muslim Brotherhood, which allowed him to recruit
fighters; second, he was one of the heirs to the largest construction
company in the Arab world. As such, he had the men and know-how to turn
the underground rivers of the Hindu Kush into military communication
routes.
Later, the same Osama bin Laden served as a military adviser to the
Bosnian president, Alija Izetbegović, in 1992-94. His fighters followed
him there. They abandoned the name “Mujahideen” for the “Arab Legion”.
His camp was visited by Russian commandos, who were taken prisoner
there. However, before they were arrested, they had time to search his
command room and found that all the military documents were written in
English and not in Arabic. [6]
Later still, Osama Bin Laden used his fighters for one-off
operations. He solicited them by choosing them according to his needs
from his “roster”, in Arabic “Al-Qaeda” (القاعدة).
It is therefore indisputable that Osama Bin Laden was for many years
an agent of the United States. However, the latter claim that he turned
against them, which nothing, absolutely nothing, proves. In any case,
Osama bin Laden was seriously ill. He needed daily care in a sterile
room. He was therefore taken care of in the American hospital in Dubai
in July 2001, as revealed by Le Figaro [7].
This information was denied by the said hospital, but was confirmed to
me by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyane (the current President of the
United Arab Emirates) who assured me that he had visited him there in
the presence of the local CIA chief of staff. Finally, Osama bin Laden
was treated at the military hospital in Rawalpindi (Pakistan) [8] where
he died in December 2001. His funeral took place in Afghanistan,
attended by two representatives of the British MI6 who wrote a report on
the matter.
Also indisputably opposing the theory that Osama bin Laden had turned
against his CIA employers was the fact that until 1999 – i.e. after the
attacks attributed to him against the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia and
the US embassies in Nairobi (Kenya) and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) – he
had a public relations office in London. It was from this office that he
launched his Call to Jihad against Jews and Crusaders.
The fact that for ten years we have heard and seen recordings of
people claiming to be Osama Bin Laden only deceives those who want to
believe: the Swiss experts of the Dalle Molle Institute of Perceptive
Artificial Intelligence, which at the time was used by the big banks in
sensitive cases, were formal. These recordings are forgeries (including
the one released by the Pentagon in which he claims responsibility for
the 9/11 attacks) and do not correspond to the real Bin Laden. If facial
and voice recognition was a speciality at the time, it is now a common
technique. You can check for yourself with software that is available
everywhere.
After Bin Laden’s death, Ayman al-Zawahiri became the emir of Al
Qaeda. He still holds this position. The latter – who had supervised the
assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat – lived for several
years after 2001 in the US embassy in Baku (Azerbaijan). [9] He
was, at least in that period, the only person who could be considered a
terrorist. He was, at least during this period, protected by the US
Marines. His current whereabouts are unknown, but there is no reason to
believe that he is no longer under US protection.
3- THE US DOES NOT FOCUS ON “COUNTER-TERRORISM”, BUT FUNDS AND ARMS TERRORISM
President Biden explained at length, during his speech on the fall of
Kabul, that the United States was not there to build states, but only
to fight terrorism.
The phrase ’fight against terrorism’ has been repeated for twenty
years, but that does not make it more meaningful. Terrorism is not a
flesh-and-blood opponent. It is a method of combat. All the world’s
armies can use it in certain circumstances. During the Cold War, the two
blocs used it extensively against each other.
Since President George W. Bush (the son) declared the ’war on terror’
(i.e. the ’war on war’), the use of this military technique has been
increasing. Westerners first think of attacks in a few large cities, but
the worst has been achieved with the creation of small terrorist states
in the wider Middle East up to the sinister ’Islamic State of the
Levant’ (Daesh) and now the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Afghans, Iraqis, Libyans and Syrians initially believed the US
narrative of events, but they are under no illusion. After 20 years of
war, they have understood that the United States does not want to do any
good. Washington does not fight terrorism, but creates, finances and
arms groups that practice terrorism.
4- THE TALIBAN DID NOT FIGHT A WAR, THEY TOOK WHAT THE US GAVE THEM
Presidents Macron and Biden are playing dumb about the Taliban’s
“takeover of Kabul”. According to them, “Afghan political leaders have
given up and fled the country. The Afghan army has collapsed, sometimes
without even trying to fight. But how did they flee, if not with Western
military aircraft? And the Afghan army did not “sometimes seek to
fight”, it was the other way round: it only “sometimes” sought to fight.
The Afghan borders were among the most secure in the world. US soldiers
recorded everyone’s identity with electronic means, including iris
recognition.
The Afghan army consisted of 300,000 men – more than the French
armies – who were very well trained by the US, France and others. It was
over-equipped with sophisticated equipment. All its infantry had body
armour and night vision systems. It had a very capable air force. In
contrast, the Taliban has no more than 100,000 men, which is three times
less. They are hooligans in sandals and armed with Kalashnikovs. They
had no air force – they suddenly have one today with trained pilots from
who knows where -. If there had been fighting, they would have been
defeated for sure.
The regime change was decided under President Donald Trump. It was to
take place on May 1st. But President Joe Biden changed that timetable
to change history. He used the delay to set up military bases in the
neighbouring countries and send at least 10,000 mercenaries. He has
mobilised the Turkish army, which is already present in the country, but
which no one is talking about. The latter has already recruited at
least 2,000 jihadists living in Idleb (Syria) and continues to hire
them.
It is important to remember that during the war against the Soviets,
the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was already a member of the
Muslim Brotherhood and the leader of a militia, the Millî Görüş (the
one that today opens mosques in Germany and France). It was in this
double capacity that he came to kneel before Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the
Afghan leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and future Prime Minister.
Hekmatyar subsequently pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda, which did not
prevent him from running in the 2019 Afghan presidential election under
US protection.
The allies began repatriating their nationals several months ago.
They thought they would have time before September 11th, or at worst
before midnight on August 30th. But Washington decided otherwise by
choosing August 15th, the date of India’s bank holidays. This was a
warning to New Delhi, which does not appreciate the fact that President
Ghani’s Pashtuns are being replaced by those of Emir Akhundzada, even
though they support other ethnic groups.
The scenes of panic we saw at Kabul airports reminded us of those in
Saigon during the US defeat in Vietnam. It is indeed quite the same. The
Afghans clinging to the aircraft are not mostly translators from
Western embassies, but agents of “Operation Omega” set up under
President Obama [10] .
They are members of the Khost Protection Force (KPF) and the National
Directorate of Security (NDS), counter-insurgency auxiliaries, like the
Vietnamese of “Operation Phoenix”. They were responsible for torturing
and killing Afghans opposed to the foreign occupation. They committed so
many crimes that the Taliban were like choirboys [11].
Soon we will see a completely different landscape in Afghanistan.
5. THE US DID NOT LOSE AFGHANISTAN TO CHINA, BUT FORCED CHINESE COMPANIES TO ACCEPT ITS PROTECTION
The US has not lost anything in Afghanistan because it does not want
to establish peace there. They don’t care about the one million deaths
they have caused there in 20 years. They just want that region to be
unstable, that no government can control the exploitation of the natural
resources there. They want companies, from whatever developed country,
to be able to exploit them only by accepting their protection.
This
is the Hollywood-popularised scheme of the globalised world, protected
by a compound, with special forces going abroad to monitor exploitation
sites in wilderness areas.
This strategy was developed by Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush’s
Secretary of Defense, and Admiral Arthur Cebrowski, who had already
computerized the US military. On September 11, 2001, it became the way
of thinking of the US military staff. It was popularised by Cebrowski’s
deputy, Thomas Barnett, in his book The Pentagon’s New Map [12].
It was this paradigm shift that President Bush called ’War Without
End’. By this he meant that the US would forever be fighting terrorism,
or rather forever instrumenting terrorist groups to prevent political
organisation in these regions.
Yes, Chinese companies are already mining in Afghanistan, but from
now on they will have to pay a price to the US or be subjected to
terrorist attacks. So what if it’s a racket?
6- WESTERNERS DO NOT DEFEND THE ENLIGHTENMENT AGAINST OBSCURANTISM, BUT RATHER INSTRUMENTALISE IT
The first lady of the United States, Laura Bush, made us all cry by
telling us the story of little girls massacred by the Taliban because
they dared to wear nail polish. But the truth is quite different.
When President Carter, Zbigniew Brzeziński and Alexandre de Marenches
supported the Afghan Islamists in 1978, they were fighting the
communists who were opening schools for girls. Because for them the
fight against the USSR’s allies came before human rights. Similarly
today, President Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken support
the Taliban because, for them, controlling access to the natural wealth
of the wider Middle East comes before human rights. And they are doing
the same in Iraq, Libya and Syria.
The US has not only supported Islamists in war-torn countries. For
example, it put General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, a member of the Muslim
Brotherhood, in power in Pakistan to use his country as a rear base for
anti-Soviet fighters. He overthrew democracy, hanged President Zulfikar
Ali Bhutto and re-established Sharia law. President Bhutto’s daughter,
Benazir Bhutto, who was Pakistan’s prime minister in the 1990s, was also
assassinated by the Taliban.
There is no need to go back over the crimes of the Western
counter-insurgency, the panic of their collaborators at Kabul airports
is enough.
If Islamism and secularism have been used to manipulate the Afghans
and to smoke out the West, political life in Afghanistan is not based on
these concepts, but first and foremost on ethnic divisions. There are
about fifteen of them, the largest of which, the Pashtuns, are also
strongly represented in Pakistan. It is still a tribal country and not
yet a nation. Other ethnic groups are supported by other countries in
the region because they are also present there.
7- FRANCE HAS NOT ALWAYS SUPPORTED US CRIMES IN AFGHANISTAN, BUT ONLY SINCE PRESIDENT SARKOZY
According to President Emmanuel Macron: “President Jacques Chirac, as
early as October 2001, decided that France should participate in
international action, in solidarity with our American friends and allies
who had just suffered a terrible attack on their soil. With a clear
objective: to combat a terrorist threat that was directly targeting our
territory and that of our allies from Afghanistan, which had become the
sanctuary of Islamist terrorism”. [13]
It is a distracting way to erase a characteristic French conflict. In
October 2001, President Chirac violently opposed the participation of
the French army in the Anglo-Saxon occupation of Afghanistan. He only
authorised deployment under UN Security Council Resolution 1386. The
French soldiers were indeed under the orders of Nato, but as part of the
International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF). They were only
involved in reconstruction assistance. They did not take prisoners, but
eventually arrested fighters and immediately handed them over to the
Afghan government. It was President Nicolas Sarkozy who changed this
status and made France complicit in the crimes of the United States. It
is because of this change that France is currently exfiltrating members
of the Khost Protection Force (KPF) and the National Directorate of
Security (NDS). And it will probably pay the price.
[1] “Remarks by Joe Biden on Afghanistan”, by Joseph R. Biden Jr., Voltaire Network, 16 August 2021.
[2] « Les gentlemen du Cercle Pinay », Réseau Voltaire, 11 mars 2004.
[3] Dans le secret des princes, Christine Ockrent & Alexandre de Marenches, Stock (1986).
[4] “Brzezinski: “Yes, the CIA entered Afghanistan before the Russians …” ”, by Zbigniew Brzeziński, Translation Bill Blum, Nouvel Observateur (France) , Voltaire Network, 15 January 1998.
[5] “The World Anti-Communist League: the Internationale of Crime”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Anoosha Boralessa, Voltaire Network, 12 May 2004.
[6] Author’s conversation, in 2003, with a KGB officer who took part in this operation.
[7] La CIA a rencontré Ben Laden à Dubaï en juillet », par Alexandra Richard, Le Figaro, 31 octobre 2001.
[8] « Hospital Worker : I Saw Osama », CBS Evening News, 28 janvier 2002.
[9] Classified Woman : The Sibel Edmonds Story : A Memoir, Sibel Edmonds (2012).
[10] Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster (2010.
[11] « Armed Governance: the Case of the CIA-Supported Afghan Militias », Antonio De Lauri & Astri Suhrke, in Afghanistan:
Militias Governance and their Disputed Leadership. Taliban, ISIS, US
Proxy Militais, Extrajudicial Killings, War Crimes and Enforced
Disappearances, Musa Khan Jalalzai, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd (2020).
[12] “The Rumsfeld/Cebrowski doctrine”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 25 May 2021.
[13] « Allocution d’Emmanuel Macron sur l’Afghanistan », par Emmanuel Macron, Réseau Voltaire, 16 août 2021.
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