Introduction
I was asked to investigate terrorist organizations in Afghanistan by a friend. I knew what I would find before I even looked. It’s too obvious. It’s a lot like Myanmar and other countries in Asia, Afrika and Latin America. Western colonialists just keep trying to overthrow the government, even though their game has become too obvious and more and more nations are refusing to fall for their tired old tricks.
Colonialism is white supremacism
On September 4, 2020 a Politico article by Betsy Woodruff Swan ran the following headline.
I almost laughed. White supremacists have been the world’s leading terrorists for the past 500 years via brutal colonization and slavery of the whole world outside western Europe. The US has always been a white supremacist nation.
The proxy war in Ukraine has brought every white supremacist country out of the closet – even causing Switzerland to drop its pretense of being neutral, and unify with the white blob in support of American white supremacist rule of Africa, Asia, East Europe, South America and the Pacific nations. There we go. That’s the bottom line on Afghanistan.
But, why would the US devote more resources to promoting terrorism in Afghanistan compared to other nearby countries? Answer? It holds a pivotal, strategic location along the proposed future development of the Chinese led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It offers a direct transit route from China to Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
And isn’t it amazing how violence has accelerated between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan recently? How did they do that? I figure put something in their water, or started selling amphetamines to the soldiers. Drugs. That’s the answer to most American ambitions, and problems.
What’s really crazy and evil is the current Ukraine proxy war is distracting practically everyone from everywhere else on earth while the US goes bonkers massively funding the terrorists all along the Silk Roads in those “little countries” people are tired of, or those nations that just don’t want to be in the news. Who really wants to advertise terrorists are running wild in their own country? How embarrassing! So, countries like Afghanistan and so many others are a free-for-all right now for US funded “democracy” (read: terrorist) groups. As every fighter knows, deception and distraction are the highest arts. Where is the money coming from? The aristocracies in the colonial nations have been hiding money for 500 years. They’ve got money to burn hidden away in off-shore shell accounts, in places like British Virgin Islands, Seychelles, Hong Kong, Belize and Panama, Caribbean Islands and the Isle of Man.
Russia and China will not be allowed to interfere with absolute white rule of the earth!
Fifty-two years after the music group Jefferson Starship released: “It's a Fresh Wind that Blows Against the Empire” in 1970, a new fresh wind is blowing against the empire, led not by freedom-loving American hippies, but by those priority nations targeted for destruction by the American empire: Iran, Russia and China. Those three nations are now the leaders of the free world as difficult as that may be to believe.
Steeped in absolute corruption, the US leadership has lost its collective mind in a ridiculous attempt to make a “clean sweep” of the world (hegemony) and rule the entire planet imperiously forever (in perpetuity).
It's not funny because tens of millions of people have already been slaughtered on the altar of white supremacy, and potentially billions more now will die if the US can possibly trigger a thermonuclear war, which would probably wipe out 90% of the world’s white people and only 30% of the people of color who largely inhabit the southern hemisphere.
Just because I’ve been a minority advocate since 1988 at my first job as a news reporter working for the Black press in the US, does not mean I have a problem with white people in general and I certainly don’t want us, or even 90% of us to be sacrificed so corporate shareholders can buy more land in Argentina and islands to survive the coming thermonuclear war they appear ready to initiate.
In regards to Afghanistan, it just happens to be located in the heart of Central Asia and is poised to play a very useful role in China’s Belt and Road Initiative. That, is a death sentence these days. Having been to Afghanistan I know most of the people there are as white as I am, but it doesn’t matter, because they’re mostly Muslim after all (a death sentence), can play a very useful role in China’s BRI (a death sentence), are rich in natural resources the US craves (a death sentence), humiliated the USA during its 20-year war there (a death sentence) and is in Asia (now, a death sentence).
Motivation for the old so-called “War on Terror”
Top nine Muslim and non-Muslim nations in the world with proven oil reserves
Muslim countries
Saudi Arabia – 269 billion barrels
Iran – 158 billion barrels
Iraq – 143 billion barrels
Kuwait – 104 billion barrels
United Arab Emirates – 98 billion barrels
Libya – 48 billion barrels
Nigeria – 37 billion barrels
884 billion barrels
Total: 1,135 billion barrels
Percent of proven oil reserves in Muslim countries: 78%
Non-Muslim countries
Canada – 171 billion barrels (but locked in oil sands)
Russia – 80 billion barrels
Total: 251 billion barrels
Percent of proven oil reserves in non-Muslim countries: 22%
Of the top ten nations in the world with proven oil reserves, 78% of those reserves are in Muslim nations. That pretty much explains the so-called “War on Terror.” Now, how about the war on Russia, dressed up as a proxy war in Ukraine?
Russian natural resources
Russia is ranked first in the world by gas reserves (32% of world’s reserves, 30% of world production), the second in oil production (10% share of world production), the third - in coal reserves (22 coal basins, 115 fields, including those in European Russia - about 15.6% in Siberia - 66.8% in the Far East - 12.9%, in the Urals - 4.3%). In terms of reserves of iron ores Russia takes the first place, in tin – the second, lead - the third. Russia also occupies a leading position in the world in wood provision. In 2005 Russia was the richest country in gold reserves.
https://www.advantour.com/russia/economy/natural-resources.htm
Where did all those terrorists come from?
The Taliban is listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, of course, even though the US designed the program that created them in Saudi funded madrassas in Pakistan. There were a million Afghan refugees in Pakistan in the early 1990s as the result of a civil war after the Soviet withdrawal, so a new breed of Mujahideen was needed to unify Afghanistan such that the refugees in Pakistan and elsewhere could go home. The motivation was simple.
The US provided the blueprint, the Saudis provided the curriculum (a highly truncated form of Islam focused only on killing) and the Pakistani military did the hands-on training. I know this to be true. Working as a journalist I visited one of those madrassas in November 1993 just outside of Islamabad accompanied by Pakistani military. The plan was simple. Create the Taliban to end the civil war in Afghanistan and unify the nation. It seemed like a good idea to most, but looking at their very small (redacted) Qurans and lack of any other educational materials, I suspected it would end in disaster. Fake Qurans are not the way to go.
Now, decades later, things have changed. The US is instituting a new Cold War turned hot in Ukraine, and attempting to economically and militarily surround Russia, China and Iran. Simultaneously, all of Asia except Japan and South Korea are on the US’ chopping block, with Taiwan geared up to be the next sacrificial lamb rather like Ukraine. Can the US “pick a fight” in the South China Sea? We’ll have to wait and see.
The new Cold War is on. It was unofficially launched with H. Clinton’s 2011 article: https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/10/11/americas-pacific-century/ as innocuous as it appears on the surface. The world’s number one war marketeer has done it again.
The degree to which the US will undermine all of Asia depends on those nations’ willingness to do business with Russia and China. Join the BRI? Fail. You will have a color revolution, terrorism, and economic isolation from the west. Same, same for the rest of the world. Yawn. The world is sick of it.
Look at Ethiopia. The US appears to be helping both sides in the civil war there, and the UN is standing down, not sending peacekeepers and the corporate owned western media is barely reporting on it. It’s a genocide in the north Tigray region, and it appears nobody in the international community cares. Why not? The USA just has to teach those black people there in Africa: DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH CHINA!
Got a phone call from an Ethiopian friend a couple of days ago. I said “Congratulations! There’s a new peace deal!” He seemed to think nothing changed. He still can’t go home. Tigray is still locked. He can’t get a passport. Nobody knows what’s been going on in the north. Another forgotten war.
The question really is: Does anyone have a choice? China will help development, build infrastructure, industrial parks and so on without the bloody “neo-liberal” strings (starve the poor, deny them health care, and enrich the already rich!) the US insists on.
Who are the terrorist groups in Afghanistan?
Well for one, “Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is an entity of interest although has not been found on international sanctions lists.” https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/ca-lte-23-gulbuddin-hekmatyar. Really? Why not? Take a guess.
If the US supports known specific Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) in Syria and Iraq, does that suggest they might also use those same FTOs in Afghanistan?
Does the US support FTOs in Syria and Iraq? Some pretty good evidence says yes. Take a look at the following document from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA):
That is a “smoking gun,” an admission right from the horse’s mouth. The above doc is from: https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/pgs-287-293-291-jw-v-dod-and-state-14-812-2/
I found that reference here:
From Iran, Syria and Afghanistan to Ukraine: U.S. Empire Sows Violence and Chaos Yet Again, by Daniel Kovalik, April 18, 2022
“And thus, the Wahhabists, now represented by such groups as al-Qaeda (of course founded by Bin Laden), ISIS, ISIL, Daesh, etc., are known to rape and brutally kill “non-believers”—such as Christians and other, non-Wahhabist Muslims—and to destroy churches and other religious and historic buildings and artifacts which they deem offensive.
“And, it is with these Wahhabists that the U.S. has decided to support in pursuit of world dominance. Lest one doubt this, check out the once-classified U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document of 2012 which states that the goal of the West in Syria was to partner with extremist terrorist groups [e.g., al-Qaeda (“AQI”) and the Islamic State of Iraq (“ISI”)] whose intention was to overthrow the secular and pluralistic government of Bashar al-Assad and to set up a religious Caliphate—that is, a dogmatic, theocratic state which would actively suppress non-Wahhabist religions, whether they be Muslim or Christian—in Syria and possibly in Iraq.
“Joe Biden, in 2014, similarly admitted that the Western allies in Syria were working with these radical groups which were terrorizing the country. As Biden stated, “What were they doing? They were so determined to take down Assad, and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war, what did they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad—except that the people who were being supplied, [they] were al-Nusra, and al-Qaeda, and the extremist elements of jihadis who were coming from other parts of the world.”
“Biden went on, “Now, you think I’m exaggerating? Take a look. Where did all of this go? So now that’s happening, all of a sudden, everybody is awakened because this outfit called ISIL, which was al-Qaeda in Iraq, when they were essentially thrown out of Iraq, found open space and territory in [eastern] Syria, [and they] work with al-Nusra, who we declared a terrorist group early on. And we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them.”
“[h]ere is but a partial list of the destruction that ISIS . . . has wrought in just Iraq and Syria alone: in Mosul, Iraq, ISIS blew up the Great Mosque of al-Nuri and its leaning minaret, trashed the Mosul museum as well as other museums and libraries, and dynamited Christian churches and mosques; in nearby Nineva, an ancient Assyrian city on the outskirts of Mosul, it destroyed many of the ancient ruins and antiquities; in other parts of Iraq, ISIS has destroyed the fourth century Catholic Mar Behnam Monastery, the Mosque of the Prophet Yunus, and the Imam Dur Mausoleum; in Palmyra, Syria, ISIS destroyed ancient Roman ruins, such as the Temple of Baalshamin and the Temple of Baal; and elsewhere in Syria ISIS has destroyed such treasures as the Christian Mar Elian Monastery.
“I witnessed this type of destruction first-hand in Syria where I visited twice last year. Of particular note, I visited Christian towns in Syria, such as Homs and Maaloula (one of the few cities in the world that still speaks Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ) that were the victims of the Free Syria Army’s attempt to wipe out Christianity there.
“The Free Syria Army, which the CIA backed, we were told, was a “moderate rebel” group deserving of our support. But meanwhile, the FSA terrorized these towns in Syria, and others like it, where they kidnapped nuns, killed priests and destroyed ancient Christian relics. You might be surprised to learn, as I was, that, in addition to the Syrian armed forces, it was Hezbollah which helped to defeat the FSA’s assault on these Christian towns. And, ultimately, it was Russia of course which played the biggest role in defeating the terrorist assault upon Syria.
“Lest there be any doubt that destabilization has indeed been the aim of the U.S. with regard to Russia, and specifically in regard to its use of Ukraine against Russia, check out the very telling 2019 report of the Rand Corporation—a long-time defense contractor called upon to advise the U.S. on how to carry out its policy goals. In this report, entitled “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia: Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options,” one of the many tactics listed is “Providing lethal aid to Ukraine” in order to “exploit Russia’s greatest point of external vulnerability.” This looks a lot like the U.S.’s Afghanistan strategy from the 1970s and 1980s all over again, and many Russians fear the same terrible impacts, and for good reason.
“Indeed, it is quite telling that hundreds of the jihadists the West backed in Syria, and who have been contained in the Syrian province of Idlib, are pouring into Ukraine to support the battle against Russia.
“As one news report explains, this makes total sense: “Radical Islamic terrorists in Idlib/Syria are among those foreigners seeking to reach Ukraine to fight the Russians. Radical Islam is a political ideology that has been called Islamo-fascist, and shares commonalities with the Nazi militias in Ukraine. Both the Nazis in Ukraine and the terrorists in Idlib are fighting the Russians. The terrorists in Idlib have devised a plan to send fighters to Ukraine, while also fighting the Russians in Idlib, thus hitting Russia on two battlefronts.”
The author concludes that the U.S. and its allies support several terrorist groups and are a “force for chaos and destruction in the world.”
Does the US “intelligence community” (sounds so nice, doesn’t it?) have any idea how many laws they’re breaking giving material support to known FTOs?
Well, there’s this: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339B for starters.
This little thing: https://www.state.gov/executive-order-13224/ And…
The primary prohibition on material support of terrorism is in the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), which prohibits material support to Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) designated by the Secretary of State. The AEDPA definition of material support (1) which, in addition to prohibiting provision of funds, weapons and the like, also prohibits technical advice and assistance, training, personnel and services. It was amended in 2004 (2) to provide some level of clarity to the definitions of these non-tangible forms of support. USAID refers to it in the anti-terrorism certification its grantees must sign. (3)
https://charityandsecurity.org/issue-briefs/the-prohibition-on-material-support-and-its-impacts-on-nonprofits/
If someone reads that whole article, it becomes obvious if a charity organization gives half their load to a terrorist organization to pass a checkpoint to give the rest of the aid to the intended recipients, they can be prosecuted, and possibly given a death sentence. On the other hand, it’s perfectly OK for the CIA to give material support to FTOs. Go figure! Laws, like taxes are for the “little people,” it appears.
Azov was on various FTO lists, but has since been removed.
Right now, all of Asia is on the accelerated menu of the white supremacists
Japan, and South Korea are reasonably safe from the US for the minute. But Taiwan is positioned to be the next Ukraine: A sacrificial lamb up for slaughter. In the end though, if the US does manage to trigger WWIII, Japan and South Korea will be pretty much obliterated just the same as they host substantial American military assets. More meat on the rich white man’s table!
Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos are ripe for covert action operations as they are part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) too. Singapore is probably safe for a while, as the US needs that port unharmed, but ultimately, they too are Asian, ergo not white enough by far, so it’s really just a matter of time for them too.
All the Stans, especially Afghanistan are “top of the hit list” after Russia and China and Iran. “Cut, cut, cut the BRI” chant western corporate moguls!
The US wants to totally isolate China the way they did to do to Russia. They just don’t have a good enough excuse yet. So, they’ll provoke, provoke, provoke like they did Russia.
What will the US do to further provoke China? Probably cook up some fake news to justify sinking one, two or three Chinese naval vessels in the South China Sea. “The Chinese battleship locked on us,” the American fighter jet pilot will claim.
Regime change masters NED and USAID are sending substantial funds to Afghanistan
https://www.ned.org/afghanistan-one-year-later-neds-commitment-to-afghan-partners/
https://www.usaid.gov/afghanistan
Though they say those funds are to feed the hungry, they have a long history of undermining governments and supporting the overthrow of “regimes” the US doesn’t care for, e.g., nations involved in the badly named “Arab Spring” revolutions, oil rich socialist Venezuela and of course Ukraine which led to the American backed coup in 2014.
Even if US had a close relationship with a government in Kabul, it wouldn’t matter if that government in any way did business with the BRI. The 2011 article in Foreign Policy magazine was about a pivot to Asia – all of Asia - to strangle China’s and the region’s growth and prosperity to ensure no nation or region can ever compete with the USA.
Just how many terrorist groups did Langley manage to cook up?
The American National Counter-Terrorism center lists the following terrorist groups operating world wide:
1. Abdallah Azzam Brigades
2. ‘Abdallah ‘Azzam Brigades (AAB)
3. Abu Sayyaf Group
4. Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
5. Al-Aqsa Matrys Brigade
6. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (AAMB)
7. al-Ashtar Brigades
8. Al-Ashtar Brigades (AAB)
9. al-Mulathamun Battalion
10. Al-Mulathamun Battalion
11. al-Qa‘ida
12. Al-Qa‘ida
13. al-Qa‘ida in the Arabian Peninsula
14. Al-Qa‘ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
15. al-Qa‘ida in the Indian Subcontinent
16. Al-Qa‘ida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)
17. al-Qa‘ida in the Islamic Maghreb
18. Al-Qa‘ida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
19. al-Shabaab
20. Al-Shabaab
21. Ansar al-Dine
22. Ansar al-Din (AAD)
23. Ansar al-Islam
24. Ansar al-Islam (AAI)
25. Ansar al-Shari’a in Benghazi
26. Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi
27. Ansar al-Shari’a in Darnah
28. Ansar al-Sharia in Darnah
29. Ansar al-Shari’a in Tunisia
30. Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia
31. Ansaru
32. Ansaru
33. Army of Islam (Palestinian)
34. Army of Islam (AOI)
35. Asa’ib Ahl al-Haqq (AAH)
36. ‘Asa‘ib Ahl al-Haqq (AAH)
37. Asbat al-Ansar
38. Asbat al-Ansar (AAA)
39. Boko Haram
40. Boko Haram
41. Communist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army
42. Communist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army (CPP/NPA)
43. Continuity Irish Republican Army
44. Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)
45. HAMAS
46. HAMAS
47. Haqqani Network (HQN)
48. Harakat Sawa‘d Misr (HASM)
49. Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami
50. Harakat ul-Jihad ul-Islami (HUJI)
51. Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh
52. Harakat ul-Jihad ul-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
53. Harakat ul-Mujahidin
54. Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
55. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
56. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Al-Nusrah Front)
57. Hizbul Mujahideen
58. Hizbul Mujahideen (HM)
59. Indian Mujahideen
60. Indian Mujahideen (IM)
61. ISIS-Bangladesh
62. ISIS’s network in Bangladesh
63. ISIS-Sahel
64. ISIS–Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISIS-DRC)
65. ISIS-Philippines
66. ISIS–East Asia (ISIS-Philippines)
67. ISIS-Khorasan
68. ISIS-Khorasan
69. ISIS Libya
70. ISIS-Libya
71. ISIS-Khorasan
72. ISIS-Mozambique
73. ISIS-Sahel
74. ISIS-Sahel (a.k.a. ISIS–Greater Sahara)
75. ISIS Sinai Province
76. ISIS-Sinai (formerly Ansar Bayt al‑Maqdis)
77. ISIS-West Africa
78. ISIS–West Africa
79. Islamic Jihad Union
80. Islamic Jihad Union (IJU)
81. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
82. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
83. IRGC
84. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
85. Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM)
86. Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM)
87. JNIM
88. Jama‘at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM)
89. Jundallah
90. Jaysh al-Adl (formerly Jundallah)
91. Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq al Naqshabandi
92. Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq al Naqshabandi (JRTN)
93. Jemmah Anshorut Tauhid
94. Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT)
95. Jemaah Islamiya
96. Jemaah Islamiyah (JI)
97. Kata’ib Hizballah (Iraq)
98. Kata’ib Hizballah (KH)
99. Kongra-Gel
100. Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) (Kongra-Gel)
101. Lashkar i Jhangvi (LJ)
102. Lashkar-e Jhangvi (LJ)
103. Lashkar-e Tayyiba
104. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT)
105. Lebanese Hizballah
106. Lebanese Hizballah
107. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
108. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
109. National Liberation Army (ELN)
110. National Liberation Army (ELN)
111. Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
112. Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
113. Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF)
114. Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
115. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
116. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
117. PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)
118. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command (PFLP-GC)
119. Real Irish Republican Army
120. Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA)
121. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC)
122. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People’s Army (FARC-EP)
123. Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front
124. Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
125. Revolutionary Struggle
126. Segunda Marquetalia's logo
127. Segunda Marquetalia
128. Shining Path
129. Shining Path (SL)
130. Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan
131. Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
Wow. They’ve been busy! Just how much American tax payer money did and does the CIA have to spend to build and sustain those kinds of armies? Billions! Hundreds of billions of dollars. There’s one preeminent terrorist group the American National Counter-Terrorism outfit forgot to mention: The CIA.
Terrorist Groups in Asia
1. Abu Sayyaf Group
2. Afghan Taliban
3. Al-Nusrah Front
4. Al-Shabaab
5. Ansar al-Sharia
6. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis
7. Al-Qa'ida Core
8. Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula Peninsula (AQAP)
9. Al-Qa'ida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb
10. Boko Haram Boko
11. Central Asia Terrorism
12. Greek Domestic Terrorism
13. HAMAS
14. Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin
15. Hizballah
16. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
17. Al-Qa'ida in Iraq/Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
18. Jaish-e-Mohammed
19. Jemaah Islamiya
20. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
21. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
22. Lord's Resistance Army Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)
23. Haqqani Network Haqqani Network
24. Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan
Canada’s list of FTOs is more interesting because it includes some neo-Nazi organizations.
Blood & Honour (B&H)
Combat 18 (C18)
Proud Boys
The Base
Three Percenters
2021-06-25: Added four new entities
Added to the list Aryan Strikeforce, James Mason, Three Percenters, and Islamic State – Democratic Republic of the Congo.
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/ntnl-scrt/cntr-trrrsm/lstd-ntts/crrnt-lstd-ntts-en.aspx
Terrorist groups of particular interest in Afghanistan
HEZB-E-ISLAMI GULBUDDIN (HIG)
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of the group Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG), espouses an extreme Islamist anti-Western ideology with the objective of overthrowing the Afghani administration and creating an Islamic state. Hekmatyar has declared his intention to wage jihad against foreign troops and interests in Afghanistan until all occupation forces are driven out. He has perpetrated indiscriminate attacks against civilians, government officials and foreign officers. In 2006, Hekmatyar pledged allegiance to Al Qaida leader Usama bin Laden and vowed to join Al Qaida's holy war. On May 18, 2016, Afghanistan's government signed a draft peace agreement with HIG. In July 2016, Hekmatyar ordered his followers to fight against the Taliban in support of the Islamic State.
Canadian Listed Terrorist Entities, 2022-02-01
https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/ca-lte-23-gulbuddin-hekmatyar/
According to a Congressional Research Service report updated Apr. 19, 2022 FTOs operating in Afghanistan include:
Al Qaeda Core
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent
Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP)
The Haqqani Network
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
And a curious anomaly.
Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM).
ETIM (also known as the Turkistan Islamic Party) seeks to establish an independent Islamic state for the Uyghurs, a Muslim-majority, Turkic-speaking people in western China. In 2002, the U.S. government designated ETIM as an FTO, citing the group’s ties to AQ; in late 2020, it removed ETIM from another list, the Terrorist Exclusion List (to which the group had been added in 2004), stating that “for more than a decade, there has been no credible evidence that ETIM continues to exist.” U.N. sanctions monitors reported in February 2022 that ETIM has hundreds of fighters in northern Afghanistan and a larger presence in Idlib, Syria. The Taliban reportedly have moved Uyghur militants away from the Afghan-Chinese border in response to Chinese government concerns.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjB0tvU7Pr6AhXQzaQKHd0CCZQQFnoECAgQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsgp.fas.org%2Fcrs%2Frow%2FIF10604.pdf&usg=AOvVaw3AXqQcFqtUxuQ0kvgV7eFJ
https://crsreports.congress.gov
Would it be difficult to prove motivation for the US to support the ETIM?
Not if it can be demonstrated they used Turkey as a deniable cutout.
Celebrating the Gray Wolves, proposing US and Turkish military intervention
U.S. and Turkish officials discuss Ukraine and NATO in unannounced meeting. By Katharine Jackson, October 3, 2022
“Along with their extensive ties to Washington, the WUC and Uyghur separatist movement has maintained close connections with the Turkish far-right.
“In 2015, members of the MHP-affiliated Grey Wolves formerly led by Alparslan Türkeş attacked South Korean tourists in Turkey, mistaking them for Chinese citizens, in protest of the situation in Xinjiang.
“Turkish MHP party leader Devlet Bahçeli defended the attacks. “How are you going to differentiate between Korean and Chinese?” the rightist politician questioned. “They both have slanted eyes. Does it really matter?” Bahceli’s racist remarks coincided with the display of a Grey Wolves banner at party’s Istanbul headquarters reading, “We crave Chinese blood.”
“The Grey Wolves and Uyghur militants were blamed by Thailand’s national police and an IHS-Jane’s analyst of carrying out a 2015 bombing of a religious shrine in Thailand that killed 20 people. The attack was intended as revenge against the Thai government’s decision to repatriate a group of Uyghur Muslims to China. Beijing had claimed the Uyghurs were en route to Turkey, Syria or Iraq to join extremist groups fighting in the region such as the al-Qaeda-affiliated East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), or Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP).
“Months before the bombing, a group of 200 protesters waving East Turkestan flags attacked the Thai consulate in Istanbul in response to the Uyghur repatriation. The group was reportedly led by the Grey Wolves and East Turkestan Culture and Solidarity Association. The latter organization was headed by Seyit Tümturk, who served as WUC Vice President from 2008 to 2016 and belonged to the organization’s founding pantheon.
“The WUC continues to publish articles on its website that praise and celebrate Alparslan Türkeş, the far-right, ultra-nationalist founder of the Grey Wolves and long-time MHP party leader. Its website also promotes endorsements of East Turkestan separatism by current leaders of the MHP and Grey Wolves.
“While building links with the Turkish far-right, leading WUC representatives have appealed to Turkish President Erdogan to take an interventionist role in China akin to Turkey’s actions in Libya and Syria, where it supported the regime change efforts of the US, West and an array of extremist proxy groups.
“Writing in the Wall Street Journal in 2012, Nury Turkel argued that Turkey can play a leading role in “rallying democracies” to pressure China on Xinjiang: “As a longstanding ally of the US and a neighbor of Europe, Turkey is uniquely well-situated to do this.”
“As a first step in this strategy, Turkel proposed that Turkey ‘should organize a ‘friends of Uighurs’ conference with democratic allies – similar to the ones organized for Libya and Syria – discussing Ankara’s vision and policy objectives with respect to the Uighur people in China.’”
In spite of that obvious malfeasance, it appears now, two years later, President Erdogan may be coming around to “the other side,” by not voting in favor of Sweden and Finland’s membership in NATO without preconditions Sweden cannot fulfill, despite US ongoing pressure.
Turkey has been trying to lock-in its “ascension” to the EU since 1987 without luck. Why? Possibly not white enough? Ascending is something Jesus did after visiting his disciples following his crucifixion. It’s not something fake Christians would like to see Muslims do. It was a foregone conclusion from the beginning. In any case, joining the white supremacist “Christian” EU would really be a decent into white supremacist madness the Turks should be above. Remember the bloody 1204 sack of Constantinople during the 4th Crusade? Do the crusaders ever really change?
The US is undoubtly training the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), and Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) in advanced terrorism in Afghanistan to later transition them back to China. It’s called the “catch and release program” - sort of like fishing - something top CIA guys like to do.
Turkish people, like Afghans are as white as Americans, probably whiter, but… there are far too many Muslims there, and the history of the Ottoman Empire too fresh for the EU to take them seriously. Where is the headquarters of the EU? Oh yes, Brussels, Belgium where no building can be taller than the tallest church spire in that city.
Who is the minority in Afghanistan?
At this time, it seems Afghan minority groups represent fertile grounds for CIA to nurture and train terrorist groups against the Pashto majority government. The Shi'a Hazaras are historically the most discriminated ethnic minority group in Afghanistan and have long bourn the brunt of Taliban terrorism.
https://minorityrights.org/minorities/hazaras/
Pashtun are really a minority in Afghanistan if one adds the other ethnic groups into a solid block.
· Pashtun 42%
· Tajik 27%
· Hazara 9%
· Uzbek 9%
· Aimak 4%
· Turkmen 3%
· Baloch 2%
· Others (Pashai, Nuristani, Kurds, Arab, Brahui, Pamiri, Gujjar, Qizilbash etc.) 4%
Aiding in destabilizing the Pashtun Taliban government are US supported Al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP), The Haqqani Network, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and others many or most of whom probably get all kinds of support from NED, USAID and a myriad of other American “black budget” sources.
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/2535_665405/202108/t20210813_9170845.html
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/06/09/washington-positioning-syrian-al-qaeda-mohammad-jolani-asset
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/525714-syria-aid-russia-turkey-weapons/
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/525265-syria-war-vote-foreign-peace
It almost makes sense for the “minorities” in Afghanistan to gang together and oust the Pashto Taliban leadership, except it doesn’t. The last thing Afghanistan needs is another war. There are alternatives.
The wisdom of Afghan Badshah Khan
The bottom line for Afghans may come down to a revival of interest in Badshah Khan’s philosophies of non-violence.
The killing has to stop somewhere. The Taliban leaders are older now. One doesn’t become a leader in that environment by being too impulsive or stupid. Those guys are mostly dead, however in that reasonably large country trying to enforce Kabul’s will is not going to be easy – that’s a given. Less than 1% of the women I saw in Kabul in 2015 had any education, or were participating in the wider society. That’s probably whittled down to half of one percent now, but the US didn’t do much better than the Taliban. It takes time for traditional societies to change, and attempting to ram liberalism down thier throats will obviously provoke a reaction response. Daaaa. Thanks United States of AmeriKKKa!
Is the US plan to attain hegemony in perpetuity going to work?
There is no way it can work. True, they have, and will continue to cause havoc temporarily in most of the nations they target, but when the fires die down, the people in those nations need development and the Chinese-led global BRI is the only entity doing that without ruthless capitalist poison pills attached. If the US thinks thermonuclear war is the best option, there will be no western civilization remaining. That would represent a fait accompli for the people of the world, who finally will be free of western colonialism once and for all. A fresh wind indeed!
Besides all that, Russia and China have planned for thermonuclear war ever since the US decided to test atomic weapons on Japan after Japan had already lost the war. There was no strategic advantage in nuking Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The US just wanted to test those weapons. The US has no plan for WWIII, whereas Russia and China have, no doubt, prepared.
Thus, the American leadership really should consider radically downscaling its military industrial complex, and heeding advice in the Book of Isaiah: "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more," before its too late, and that time is nearly upon us all now.
As for Afghanistan, they have little to worry about. The US probably won’t target them with nuclear weapons. Those in Afghanistan working with the Americans now however, do have cause for worry. Incidentally, the newer, deadlier COVID variants the US is cooking up target South Asians (Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam), not central Asians. How exactly those viruses are to be stopped at the borders of those nations the US particularly dislikes is something of a mystery.
https://virutron.com/us-scientists-create-new-lethal-covid-variant/
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/04/ecohealth-alliance-lab-leak-nih-grant/
https://www.rt.com/news/564864-boston-covid-variant-lethal
At the beginning of this article, I mentioned a fresh wind blowing against the empire. It isn’t just Iran, Russia and China. It appears India and the Arab states have started to figure out they’re not white either. How so? They’re not toeing DC’s line. The Arab states are cutting back oil production to the fury of the US, and India is joining trade blocks like BRICs and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Why? It’s just good business, unlike anything the US is up to these days.
The bottom line is this. The US works to divide and conquer, while Russia and China help trying to build the peace and develop underdeveloped countries via energy supplies and infrastructure. Iran is just doing its best to prevent having US tanks on all its borders, just like Russia.
In its vain attempt to rule the world forever, the US has isolated itself and now totally alienated its last remaining friends in Western Europe.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out how this will end. Probably this latest American insanity will lead to its own economic failure, as happened in 1929, the last time it decided to implement wide-scale trade protectionism. Then, only the Chinese stable economy and global supply chains will have any hope of reviving the world economy. Socialism may yet win the day, in spite of the rabid capitalists’ best and bloody efforts to the contrary.
Now, were is James Gordon Meek?
A black site? Ashes? Hiding somewhere? Forget First Amendment rights, SCOTUS decisions, the free press and democracy. They’ve been dead for decades.
Are the white supremacist nations’ leaders possessed by a collective death wish? Total rule of earth forever or the end of civilization and potentially all of humanity? The jury is out on that.
As for Afghanistan? Hang in there brothers and sisters. Cutting US money to the American backed terrorists may well happen when the bloated American stock market crashes, hard. One cannot hold the entire world hostage for long without some kind of blowback.
Advice? Hang in there. The US can change, God Willing, before WWIII. If not, kiss your kids and life on earth, goodbye, unless you’re a billionaire that owns land in Argentina, South Africa, New Zealand and several islands not on maps, in addition to a fast jet.
For a link list to great alternative news publications, and country by country and topic based summaries of alt-news articles, see my site:
It is no doubt one of the most heavily censored sites on the internet, so it’s about impossible to find doing a Google search. It can however be useful for those interested in what’s really going on in the world. I’m a reasonably good reviewer of alt-news because I’ve lived in so many countries for so many decades and have friends in a remarkable number of places. I’ve started updating that site recently because I was quite busy moving several times during the past couple of months. Still, it’s a one-of-a-kind site and the link-list to other alt-news sites is very useful. That list, I continuously update and it’s growing, in spite of government and corporate censorship, harassment, thefts, and so on. The summaries in the file: “War on Journalists and Alt-News” are particularly disturbing indicating just how dead the American democracy really is.
Give peace a chance.
Above is Orthographic projection of Afghanistan, Shahid Parvez - Own work based on: India (orthographic projection).svg by Ssolbergj