Terrorist Proxies

August 18, 2014 at 2:35 PM

During the 1950’s, President Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers rebuffed Soviet treaty proposals to leave the
Middle East a cold war neutral zone and let Arabs rule Arabia. Instead, they mounted a clandestine war against
Arab Nationalism—which CIA Director Allan Dulles equated with communism—particularly when Arab self-
rule threatened oil concessions. They pumped secret American military aid to tyrants in Saudi Arabia, Jordan,
Iraq and Lebanon favoring puppets with conservative Jihadist ideologies which they regarded as a reliable
antidote to Soviet Marxism. At a White House meeting between the CIA’s Director of Plans, Frank Wisner,
and Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, in September of 1957, Eisenhower advised the agency, “We should
do everything possible to stress the ‘holy war’ aspect.”

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980,
that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until
now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for
secret aid to the opponents of the proSoviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president
in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
- http://www.counterpunch.org/1998/01/15/how-jimmy-carter-and-i-started-the-mujahideen

In late 1979, the seriously besieged PDP government asked Moscow to send a contingent of troops to help
ward off the mujahideen (Islamic guerrilla fighters) and foreign mercenaries, all recruited, financed, and well-
armed by the CIA. The Soviets already had been sending aid for projects in mining, education, agriculture, and
public health. Deploying troops represented a commitment of a more serious and politically dangerous sort. It
took repeated requests from Kabul before Moscow agreed to intervene
militarily. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/12/02/afghanistan-another-untold-story

Upon taking over Afghanistan, the mujahideen fell to fighting among themselves.  They ravaged the cities,
terrorized civilian populations, looted, staged mass executions, closed schools, raped thousands of women and
girls, and reduced half of Kabul to rubble. In 2001 Amnesty International reported that the mujahideen used
sexual assault as “a method of intimidating vanquished populations and rewarding soldiers.’”

Ruling the country gangster-style and looking for lucrative sources of income, the tribes ordered farmers to
plant opium poppy. The Pakistani ISI, a close junior partner to the CIA, set up hundreds of heroin laboratories
across Afghanistan. Within two years of the CIA’s arrival, the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderland became the
biggest producer of heroin in the world.
    
Largely created and funded by the CIA, the mujahideen mercenaries now took on a life of their own. Hundreds
of them returned home to Algeria, Chechnya, Kosovo, and Kashmir to carry on terrorist attacks in Allah’s
name against the purveyors of secular
“corruption.” https://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/12/02/afghanistan-another-untold-story

In Kosovo, we see the same dreary pattern. The U.S. gave aid and encouragement to violently right-wing
separatist forces such as the self-styled Kosovo Liberation Army, previously considered a terrorist organization
by Washington. The KLA has been a longtime player in the enormous heroin trade that reaches to Switzerland,
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Norway, and Sweden. KLA leaders had no social
program other than the stated goal of cleansing Kosovo of all non-Albanians, a campaign that had been going
on for decades. - http://www.defenddemocracy.press/the-rational-destruction-of-yugoslavia/

a little follow-up: You'll note that it was the mujahideen that initiated the first widespread poppy production,
under the direction of the Pakistani ISI and the CIA, and the heroin produced ended up in the streets of Iran,
Russia and China, as well as parts of Europe, primarily along the Balkan black-market trade routes. It was used
by the West as an economic weapon, creating all sorts of socioeconomic problems. Soon though, the tribal
leaders, or war-lords indigenous to Afghanistan, began the campaign to eliminate those largely foreign
insurgents, the mujahideen. Those tribal leaders became known as the Taliban, a Pashtun political movement
that eschews the use of alcohol and drugs, and, after gaining control of much of Afghanistan, the Taliban
banned the production of opium in the year 2000.

Maximilian Forte’s book on the Libyan war, Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa
(Montreal: Baraka Books, 2012), is another powerful (and hence marginalized) study of the imperial powers in
violent action, and with painful results, but supported by the UN, media, NGOs and a significant body of
liberals and leftists who had persuaded themselves that this was a humanitarian enterprise. Forte shows
compellingly that it wasn’t the least little bit humanitarian, either in the intent of its principals (the United
States, France, and Great Britain) or in its results. As in the earlier cases of “humanitarian intervention” the
Libyan program rested intellectually and ideologically on a set of supposedly justifying events and threats that
were fabricated, selective, and/or otherwise misleading, but which were quickly institutionalized within the
Western propaganda system. -https://www.barakabooks.com/ed-herman-on-max-fortes-slouching-towards-
sirte-not-a-humanitarian-intervention/

After the Mujahideen war in Afghanistan ended in 1989, many of those fighters went to Central Asia. And the
disease of Wahhabism spread to Xinjiang as well. From 2009 to 2015, there were a lot of terrorist attacks by
the Uyghur jihadists (here’s an example). That’s when China decided to really crack down. During the peak of
the Syrian war, about 18,000 radicalized Uyghur Muslims went to Syria and joined ISIS to fight Assad.

Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links - Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel
leader, has said jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against
Muammar Gaddafi's regime.
-http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8407047/Libyan-rebel-commander-
admits-his-fighters-have-al-Qaeda-links.html

Why There’s a War In Mali: Because We Bumped Off Libya’s Gaddafi

- http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/01/why-theres-a-war-in-mali-because-we-bumped-off-libyas-
gaddaffi.html

Al Nusra makes gains in Syria with US support - http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/its-

all-smoke-and-whiskey/2013/dec/14/al-nusra-makes-gaines-syria-us-support/#ixzz2rowFtkhN
A Short History Of The War On Syria - 2006-2014 - http://www.moonofalabama.org/2013/09/a-short-history-
of-the-war-on-syria-2006-2014.html

Afghanistan: The USSR left, the US wants to stay - http://rt.com/op-edge/afghanistan-soviet-invasion-us-199/

How the west created the Islamic State - https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-west-created-the-

islamic-state-dbfa6f83bc1f

The REAL Story Behind the Balkans … Precursor to 9/11 and ISIS
- http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/06/58763.html

The Differences Between the Taliban and Al-Qaeda - http://www.e-ir.info/2012/11/17/the-differences-

between-the-taliban-and-al-qaeda/

Some background by Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Why the Arabs Don’t Want Us in Syria - They don’t hate ‘our
freedoms.’ They hate that we’ve betrayed our ideals in their own countries—for
oil. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/rfk-jr-why-arabs-dont-trust-america-
213601#ixzz4N3H3T5LC 

Syria: Another Pipeline War - http://www.ecowatch.com/syria-anoth...

The proxy war on Syria – part 1: The Syrian conflict in historical perspective
- https://scrutinisedminds.com/2016/1...
The proxy war on Syria – part 2: The two myths about the armed opposition
- https://scrutinisedminds.com/2016/1...
The proxy war on Syria – part 3: Does Assad “kill his own people?” Deconstructing the “Assad must go”
narrative - https://scrutinisedminds.com/2016/1...

The day before Deraa: How the war broke out in Syria - http://ahtribune.com/world/north-af...

Saudi King Sanctioned Chemical Weapons Use in Syria - http://ahtribune.com/world/north-af...

Manufacturing Dissent: The Truth About Syria - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtY...

Syria - https://www.facebook.com/notes/michael-stowell/syria/10154019695706183