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Recently, Wayen Madsen in his article titled The CIAs Islamist Terrorist Network published in Strategic-Culture Organizations online journal expose CIA links with the terrorist groups. He stated, The Central Intelligence Agency cobbled together the forerunner of the present Muslim jihadist terrorist network in the late 1970s to battle Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
Throughout the next three decades, the CIA continued to maintain links with the jihadist groups, using them as allies for certain operations and attacking them when Americas commitment to the war on terrorism required a propaganda boost in the worlds media. Of late, Steve Colls, in his famous book, Ghost Wars:
The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 offers revealing details of the CIAs involvement in the evolution of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the years before the September 11 attacks. From the beginning, Coll shows how the CIAs on-again, off-again engagement with Afghanistan after the end of the Soviet war left officials with inadequate resources and intelligence to appreciate the emerging power of the Taliban. He also demonstrates how Afghanistan became a deadly playing field for international politics where Soviet and U.S. agents armed and trained a succession of warring factions.
While comprehensive, Colls book may be hard going for those looking for a direct account of the events leading to the 9-11 attacks. The CIAs 1998 engagement with bin Laden as a target for capture begins a full two-thirds of the way into Ghost Wars, only after a lengthy march through developments during the Carter, Reagan, and early Clinton Presidencies.
It is important to mention here that this is not the first time that the CIAs links with Taliban exposed. A report published in Times of India (March 7, 2001) noted, In the 1980s, the CIA provided some $5 billion in military aid for Islamic fundamentalist rebels fighting the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan, but scaled down operations after Moscow pulled out in 1989. However, Selig Harrison of the DC-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars told a conference in London that the CIA created the Taliban monster by providing some $3 billion for the ultra-fundamentalist militia in their 1994-6 drive to power.
The bizarre fact is that the practice of buying the Talibans protection is not a secret. It is an accepted fact that that the US militarys contractors are paying insurgents to protect American supply routes.
These funds add up to a huge amount of money for the Taliban. Its a big part of their income, one of the top Afghan government security officials told US based newspaper The Nation in an interview. In fact, US military officials in Kabul estimate that a minimum of 10 percent of the Pentagons logistics contracts--hundreds of millions of dollars--consists of payments to insurgents.
Furthermore, Gretchen Peters, in his report titled How Opium Profits the Taliban writes the tale of the CIAs payments to Ahmed Wali Karzai. Its been widely speculated that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai, was deep into the drug game.
Peters said, Ive been shown intelligence reports indicating hes worked with a major drug trafficker connected to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. In the same way, the Afghan trucking industry, key to logistics operations, is often tied to important figures and tribal leaders.
One major hauler in Afghanistan, Afghan International Trucking (AIT), paid $20,000 a month in kickbacks to a US Army contracting official, according to the officials plea agreement in US court in August. AIT is a very well-connected firm: it is run by the 25-year-old nephew of Gen. Baba Jan, a former Northern Alliance commander and later a Kabul police chief. In an interview, Baba Jan insisted he had nothing to do with his nephews corporate enterprise.
But the heart of the matter is that insurgents are getting paid for safe passage because there are few other ways to bring goods to the combat outposts and forward operating bases where soldiers need them.
By definition, many outposts are situated in hostile terrain, in the southern parts of Afghanistan.
The security firms dont really protect convoys of American military goods here, because they simply cant; they need the Talibans cooperation.
There cannot be two opinions that the US presence in Afghanistan to root out Al-Qaeda is very much in consonance with the global policy that it has chalked out for itself as the only super power in the World.
One can clearly make out that why US is in Afghanistan. Is it for Al-Qaeda or so called GWON or some other reasons. The most rationale answer is that the US prime objective is to create a world economic empire under its aegis and not to foster peace and stability in Afghanistan.
Throughout the next three decades, the CIA continued to maintain links with the jihadist groups, using them as allies for certain operations and attacking them when Americas commitment to the war on terrorism required a propaganda boost in the worlds media. Of late, Steve Colls, in his famous book, Ghost Wars:
The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 offers revealing details of the CIAs involvement in the evolution of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the years before the September 11 attacks. From the beginning, Coll shows how the CIAs on-again, off-again engagement with Afghanistan after the end of the Soviet war left officials with inadequate resources and intelligence to appreciate the emerging power of the Taliban. He also demonstrates how Afghanistan became a deadly playing field for international politics where Soviet and U.S. agents armed and trained a succession of warring factions.
While comprehensive, Colls book may be hard going for those looking for a direct account of the events leading to the 9-11 attacks. The CIAs 1998 engagement with bin Laden as a target for capture begins a full two-thirds of the way into Ghost Wars, only after a lengthy march through developments during the Carter, Reagan, and early Clinton Presidencies.
It is important to mention here that this is not the first time that the CIAs links with Taliban exposed. A report published in Times of India (March 7, 2001) noted, In the 1980s, the CIA provided some $5 billion in military aid for Islamic fundamentalist rebels fighting the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan, but scaled down operations after Moscow pulled out in 1989. However, Selig Harrison of the DC-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars told a conference in London that the CIA created the Taliban monster by providing some $3 billion for the ultra-fundamentalist militia in their 1994-6 drive to power.
The bizarre fact is that the practice of buying the Talibans protection is not a secret. It is an accepted fact that that the US militarys contractors are paying insurgents to protect American supply routes.
These funds add up to a huge amount of money for the Taliban. Its a big part of their income, one of the top Afghan government security officials told US based newspaper The Nation in an interview. In fact, US military officials in Kabul estimate that a minimum of 10 percent of the Pentagons logistics contracts--hundreds of millions of dollars--consists of payments to insurgents.
Furthermore, Gretchen Peters, in his report titled How Opium Profits the Taliban writes the tale of the CIAs payments to Ahmed Wali Karzai. Its been widely speculated that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai, was deep into the drug game.
Peters said, Ive been shown intelligence reports indicating hes worked with a major drug trafficker connected to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. In the same way, the Afghan trucking industry, key to logistics operations, is often tied to important figures and tribal leaders.
One major hauler in Afghanistan, Afghan International Trucking (AIT), paid $20,000 a month in kickbacks to a US Army contracting official, according to the officials plea agreement in US court in August. AIT is a very well-connected firm: it is run by the 25-year-old nephew of Gen. Baba Jan, a former Northern Alliance commander and later a Kabul police chief. In an interview, Baba Jan insisted he had nothing to do with his nephews corporate enterprise.
But the heart of the matter is that insurgents are getting paid for safe passage because there are few other ways to bring goods to the combat outposts and forward operating bases where soldiers need them.
By definition, many outposts are situated in hostile terrain, in the southern parts of Afghanistan.
The security firms dont really protect convoys of American military goods here, because they simply cant; they need the Talibans cooperation.
There cannot be two opinions that the US presence in Afghanistan to root out Al-Qaeda is very much in consonance with the global policy that it has chalked out for itself as the only super power in the World.
One can clearly make out that why US is in Afghanistan. Is it for Al-Qaeda or so called GWON or some other reasons. The most rationale answer is that the US prime objective is to create a world economic empire under its aegis and not to foster peace and stability in Afghanistan.
