Britain’s Secret Deal With Taliban? Karzai Angry…
February 4th, 2008 by SWARAAJ CHAUHAN, International Columnist
I shudder at the thought when (maybe in the not too distant future) the inside story of the bloody mess created by the key players in Afghanistan and Iraq appears in public domain. For starters a recent news report: “The Afghan government claims they (can) prove (that) British agents were talking to the Taliban without permission from the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, despite Gordon Brown’s pledge that Britain will not negotiate.
“The British insist President Karzai’s office knew what was going on. But Mr Karzai has expelled two top diplomats amid accusations they were part of a plot to buy-off the insurgents.”
The Independent continues: “Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligence sources in Kabul have revealed.”
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In another article, Andreas Whittam Smith asks a pertinent quetion: “If the Afghans don’t want us, why should we stay?”
Smith’s article is a must read: “The President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, doesn’t think we (British) are doing a good job in his country. In the dangerous area where our troops are deployed we have, apparently, brought only more insecurity. Our decision to remove a brutal and corrupt governor of Helmand province was also a British error. ‘I made the mistake of
listening to them. And when they came in, the Taliban came,’ remarked Mr Karzai…
“If the coalition pulls out, the Afghan government would fall apart, we are told, paving the way for a new al-Qa’ida safe haven in that country. So what? In a recent British trial, it was shown that the men accused of terrorism had done their training in the Lake District (in England). They didn’t need to catch a plane to Kabul.
“According to the Afghanistan Study Group, a prestigious American think tank, the other day: ‘The prospect of again losing significant parts of Afghanistan to the forces of Islamic extremists has moved from the improbable to the possible’.”
As a journalist who has covered the region for nearly three decades, I couldn’t agree more. I have been writing in this blog for almost a year the futility of deploying American, British and NATO soldiers for unlimited period in Afghanistan (or even in Iraq). I had also written that knowing well the fiercely independent nature of the Afghans, the soldiers from the West will have to kill a mind-boggling number of civilians and militants. The continued presence of American and NATO forces is spawning an unending stream of militants.
Here I wish to mention about a recent post by Pakspectator in this blog. “There is a vast chasm between the West and the Pakistan. The West simply doesn’t understand what Pakistan is all about, and why despite so much aid and donations Pakistanis don’t become mellow towards it.
“Americans must understand that this war against terrorism is going nowhere, and it is only resulting in the casualties of innocent people. They simply can’t keep going on in the name of collateral damage.
“The Taliban are operating in the area known as the FATA, the tribal belt between Pak-Afghan borders. In that area there simply is no education, no modern infrastructure, no health-service — nothing. Instead of insisting on sending US troops in that area, the US should insist on sending US-facilitated computers, schools, hospitals and industrial units in that area. That will end the war and this scourge of terrorism within a year.”
But who wants to end terrorism? Merchants of arms in the Western countries who feed on terrorism and wars? If there is peace who will buy arms? If there is peace how will the powerful politicians line up their pockets from commissions offered by the rich arms-sellers? For more on this please click here… And here…
By the way who is the enemy in this so-called war-on-terror? President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan says: “Al-Qaeda’s presence in Pakistan has been so reduced that it doesn’t matter much that Osama has not been captured.” President George W. Bush also shares a similar view.
And the world thought that in this six-year-old war on terror these two “saviours of humanity” were sacrificing brave American and NATO soldiers to bring to justice Osama and his band of “criminals”!!! One wonders who excatly are the criminals!!!
In this scenario who would listen to a former CIA official who has his views on ending terrorism…pl click here….
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