Mulla Omar vs. Bait Mehsud: A series of unfortunate events in Afghanistan

Posted on 01 April 2009. Tags: Afghan, CIA, ISI, Pakistan, RAW, USA

President Obama has just announced a the policy in Afghanistan that was supposed to focus on the Non-Military solutions in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hardly had the ink dried on the new policy when Admiral Mullen was asking for 10,000 more troops. Justifying the Banality of a brutal Occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan: The Thinktanks attempt to complete the circle of complicity between a sycophantic press, and a non-inquisitive servile public. The nation is forced to accept the only argument that it is being repeatedly inundated with

And Obama, eager to establish his tough-guy cojones, was killing civilians in Pakistan and ordering up an Afghan surge just as soon as he climbed into the Imperial cockpit. His much-vaunted “strategic review” was simply a bureaucratic exercise to determine how best to tweak and refine the policies already adopted by the Bush Administration and its military managers — all of whom were of course retained by Obama. Again, this was to be expected. After all, “continuity” has been his watchword — or rather, it became his watchword right after he was swept into office as the self-proclaimed embodiment of the public’s desperate longing for change. Beyond Here Lies Nothing, Surging Further Into the Afghan Abyss By Chris Floyd

Obama’s new strategy as confused as Bush’s was inept . The series of unfortunate events can simply be stated in a few lines.

a) The US, and NATO is losing the war in Afghanistan. It holds the ISI responsible for the defeat in Afghanistan. 80% of Afghanistan is under insurgent control. Taliban sanctuaries around Kabul thumb thier noses at ISAF, NATO & US forces. Why would Taliban need safe havens far away in Pakistan?

b) The British create a cadre of young destitute Afghan mercenaries who are used to create a blowback for Pakistan and pay back the Pakistanis in their own coin. The Indians are let loose to wreak havoc on Pakistan and to support this new cadre. Zaid Hamid video on Swat

The CIA faces its toughest test yet to prove wrong the suspicions of many within the Pakistani strategic community that some of the terrorism exported from Afghan soil into Pakistan has direct or indirect support from Washington.

The immediate test centres on Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the bandits who present themselves as Pakistani Taliban. The Americans have begun some cosmetic drone attacks on Baitullah’s territory and there are reports Washington has agreed to launch a joint operation with Pakistan against this bandit. The purpose is to assuage Pakistani concerns about the US role. In July last year, Pakistan’s military leadership confronted senior CIA and US military commanders with evidence showing Washington indirectly protecting anti-Pakistan terrorists on the ground. This newspaper broke that story on Aug. 5, 2008, with a front- page headline, “US told not to back terrorism against Pakistan.”

Mehsud is a good example. This bandit and his former leader and associate, Abdullah Mehsud, pioneered the attacks on Chinese interests in Pakistan, which was the first thing Abdullah did after being released from Gitmo in 2003. Interestingly, he was not handed back to Pakistan despite being a Pakistani citizen, but was released to Afghanistan where he went back into the custody of the US military and the Karzai government. Abdullah was killed when Pakistani security forces caught him sneaking back into Balochistan from Afghanistan, where he most probably was meeting his handlers. How he financed, armed and sustained a 25,000-strong militia remains beyond explanation. This militia continues to have quality arms and generous funding.

Until now CIA drones have never targeted Abdullah or Baitullah or any other militia that is committed to attacking Pakistan. During the operations in Bajaur, our soldiers were reportedly stunned at one point to see close to 600 well-armed terrorists come in from Afghanistan, fight the Pakistani military and then escape across the border. The CIA never attacks such “terrorists.” There has been a meteoric rise in the number of anti-Pakistan militias and fighters within our tribal belt since 2004, complete with religious brainwashing justifying the killing of Pakistanis as a first priority. This has coincided with the launch of terrorism in Balochistan and northern Pakistan, the area between Gwadar port and the Chinese border.

In order to punish the real or imaginary Pakistani tolerance for “Afghan Taliban” – the real Taliban, I must add – someone who wields power in Afghanistan decided to make Pakistan pay by grooming their own Islamic fighters who’d solely focus on fighting Pakistan (as compared to the Afghan Taliban who focus on fighting the Americans inside Afghanistan) – professional killers trained in the art of recruiting and organising death squads, Islam-focused propaganda experts fluent in Pashto, Uzbek, Arabic and, possibly, Chechen, and develop conduits for money and arms supplies from Afghanistan into Pakistan.

The US uses India to ratchet up the heat on Pakistan whenever there is a hiccup in the relationship. These days the Indian climbdown coincides with renewed signs that Pakistan’s political and military leaderships are cooperating with Washington.

In 2002, the Americans were allowed to establish bases in Balochistan and CIA was given the right to recruit Pakistanis in the tribal belt. These two areas of Pakistan are now the most disturbed parts of our country. And now our territory is being used to attack the interests of Iran and China. Washington is creating conditions across our western belt that would make it impossible for China to pursue trade and energy corridors through Pakistan.

Hopefully, Mr Richard Holbrooke heard in Islamabad that we don’t accept American diktat over Afghanistan where we have our own interests to watch like everyone else. The CIA’s footprints. Thursday, April 09, 2009

c) As defeat becomes imminent the frustrated CIA launches drones on the Pakistanis to try to create trouble on Pakistani soil. Will The Algeriafication of Pakistan, & the Egyptianization of Bangladesh yield an Iranian type of revolution? Appropriate adjustements are made at the political level to install more complian rulers who would allow the CIA free reign. The US has been given the exact location of Bait Mehsud several times, but has failed to act. Afpak backstage: Bombing the ephemeral “Hindu Kush Ho Chi Minh trail” nurtures the Khemer Rouge of the Khyber– The Taliban

to see the expansion of the Af-Pak War finally, formally promulgated, and to realize what this really means, not in terms of the ludicrous political theater of Washington and the media, not in the war-game fantasies of think-tankers and armchair warriors, but in the actual costs — the death and suffering of thousands of innocent people, the ruinous chaos and the violent hatred engendered, the massive financial corruption and gargantuan debt added to our already corrupt and bankrupt system, the further coarsening and brutalization and militarization of our society, and again, because it bears repeating, the physical and emotional destruction of countless human beings whose only crime was to be born in a region targeted by the Great Gamesters of the world, the warlords in turbans and those in Brooks Brothers suits, the gangsters in the alleys and in the corridors of power — this is a bitter and sickening thing. And no amount of foreknowledge or cynicism makes it any easier to bear. The day it gets easier, the day your cynicism makes you shrug off the horror — “So what else is new?” — is the day your soul dies. Beyond Here Lies Nothing, Surging Further Into the Afghan Abyss By Chris Floyd

1) March 19th, 2007: Mullah Dadullah was relaesed in a so called prisoner exchange for Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo. Mullah Dadullah was recruited by the British to create a force to fight the “Taliban“.

The deal that the British were offering was to employ Dadullah and all 2500 of his fighters, some as militia-type forces, others for honest labor on non-opium projects. While this was going on the British were waging a psyop to disorient the local Taliban and to turn them against each other, through hired spies, they were devastating the local cadres, causing everyone to mistrust their comrades. Were Dadullah’s fighters being sent into Waziristan to target Pakistani leaders, to start the same process of sowing mistrust? Had the Brits hired these guys as an army of mercenary spies?

Are the Brits part of the same coalition who is funding the TTP? Did the TTP launch its offensive in reaction to British treachery, or led into the escalation by British influence? Considering the long-range meddling that preceded Bhutto’s assassination, it is probable that the offensive was just another manipulation by the Brits and their financial backers (the invisible financiers who produce the whole show). Dissecting The Anti-Pakistan Psyop, By Peter Chamberlin Tuesday, 31 March 2009

2) May 15th, 2007: Mullah Mansur Dadullah replaces Mullah Dadullah as the commander.

When Freedom fighters turn terrorist

Some are confused by the term “Taliban“. The Western media held hostage to Islamphobia is unable to distinguish the good, the bad and the ugly. The Western media may be unwilling to investigate the The Tafriki idealogy which declares all Muslims countries as Non-Muslims. According to the Tafrikis, a war has to be waged against them. The Bait Mehsud, the enemy of Pakistan holds Swat hostage to this philosophy of killing Muslims. Imperial blindness: Another Empire stuck in Af-Pak quagmire unable to extricate itself out of Kipling’s hell

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The wagon train with its rotting cargo keeps lurching on. A change of drivers has not meant a change in direction. As Tom Englehardt points out, in both foreign policy and on the economic front, the Obama Administration is trying frantically to preserve an imperial system that is cracking under the weight of its own immoral excesses, its own arrogance and willful ignorance. But owing to the latter, their only solution is to do more of the same things that have plunged the system into severe crisis. Beyond Here Lies Nothing, Surging Further Into the Afghan Abyss By Chris Floyd

3) Mullah Umar fires Mullah Dadullah for associating with the enemy for for attacking Pakistan.

4) On May12, 2007 a sqaud of Taliban fighters assassinate Mullah Dadullah. His son Mansur Dadullah escapes and find refuge with the British in Helmund. The British offer him free reign in Helmund. This rasies suspicions and even Hamid Karzai is mad.

5) Kabul blamed the British troops for losing control of Helmand.

“We [Afghans] suffered after the arrival of the British forces. Before that, we were fully in charge in Helmand. When our governor was there, we were fully in charge. They came and said, ‘Your governor is no good.’ I said, ‘All right, do we have a replacement for this governor, do you have enough forces?’ Both the American and the British forces guaranteed to me they knew what they were doing and I made the mistake of listening to them. And when they came in, the Taliban came Mr. Karzai in Devos

It [war] will make a difference when the Americans are clear and straightforward about this fight,” …the US should “mean what they say … [and] do what they say…Mr. Karzai

6) After Pakistan refuses to back America to attack Iran, moves are underway to destabilize Pakistan. Fixing Afpak: Inability to define exit strategy spells inevitable US military catastrophy in Kabul. A concerted effort is carried on in the media and psy-ops no the ground to smuggle away basic and necessities like what and flour. This deju vu, reminiscent of Liaqat Ali Khan’s refusal to allow the USA to attack Iran. He was assassinated under suspicious circumstances. AfPak: Solutions beyond hubris, dictation, threats, sanctions, bombings, overt invasion, covert sabotage

7) On Oct. 18, 2007 Benazir is attacked to destabilize Pakistan.

8) Britain talks with, and trains Taliban without informing Kabul. Karzai is furious. Expels two Britishers (Mervyn Patterson and Michael Semple) saying they were part of the plan to buy off insurgents. “. Karzai criticizes the British and halts the appointment of a new UN Afghan Czar Paddy Ashdown ( a darling of Washington and the UK) which would compete for power with Karzai.

9) ISI discovers destabilizing moves, panics and imposes emergency and suspends the constitution.

10) November 3, 2007 Musharraf , Army and ISI resists pressure to eliminate emergency.

11) Pakistan Army cleans up Swat. Mopping operation underway.

13) China threaten that it will not tolerate “meddling and instability in Pakistan to continue.” Peoples Daily editorial. Headlined editorials in Peoples Daily. Tehran also sends the same message on the same date. Tehran Times editorial.

14) Eviction notices are handed over to the Indians on their airbase in Tajikistan. Several small and large matters signal a chill in Indian-Russian relations. Earlier Russia approves reexport of over 500 RD-93 engines to Pakistan overruling vociferous Indian objections. India may not get Russian Aircraft carrier.

15) Pakistan blames the four Indian consulates, and 13 “information centers” for the destabilizing activity. Musharraf, Kiyani, Soomro and Ansar Burney also echo what China, Iran and Kiyani have said.

16) Iran reports that American pressure for regime change in Pakistan settles down. Under American pressure India yawns at the IPI pipeline but doesn’t quit. China shows interest in IPC (replacing India) in the Pipeline.

17) Three reports from both sides of the Atlantic are made public which essentially paint a very grim picture for NATOs Afghanistan.

18) Gates, publicly rebukes Germany and other NATO members to send more troops to fight in Southern Pashtun Afghanistan. Germany budges with 200 more troops. Canada taking heavy losses, threatens to withdraw if new troops are not sent.The USA send 300 troops, and eventually NATO coughs up 1000 more troops. But for how long?

19) December 14, 2007, the formation of the Taliban Movement of Pakistan (TTP).

20) Baitul Mehsud’s policy against Pakistan backfires. Foreign hand withdraws its support. Routed from Swat, Baitul Mehsud sues for peace and cease fire with the army. Army is taking its time to accept the cease fire offer. Mullah Omar apparently wants Baitul Mehsud and others to concentrate on Afghanistan.

21) December 27, 2007: Benazir Assasinated. Benazir is assassinated. Pre-planned rampage burns hundreds of train stations, post offices and thousands of cars. Pakistan’s spymaster Hamid, Gul, and others blame CIA.

22) Dec. 29, 2007: Taleban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed read to AFP over the telephone a statement issued by Omar that said Mullah Mansoor Dadullah was sacked “because he disobeyed orders of the Islamic Emirate’ of Taleban.” he shunned because he ordered the assassination of the popular female Pakistani politician on orders from some shady higher authority

23) The Taliban prepares for the much heralded Spring offensive against NATO. Peace deal? “Even before Thursday’s ceasefire, the Taliban’s preparations in the strategic backyard of Pakistan were well underway. This included the isolation of Mehsud and appointing a new team of commanders in the Pakistani tribal areas. Most of the new appointments are Afghans, to signify the importance of fighting a war in Afghanistan rather than in Pakistan. The two main commanders are Abdul Wali in Bajaur Agency and Ustad Yasir in Khyber Agency.

24) Failure and defeat in Afghanistan. Payback for Pakistan. “The prospect of again losing significant parts of Afghanistan to the forces of Islamic extremists has moved from the improbable to the possible.” Afghanistan Study Group. “The greater issue is whether the whole lot of us, the western coalition comprising American and Nato forces, can achieve anything worthwhile. The war with the Taliban is going badly. The rebels launched over 140 suicide bombings in 2007, with numerous attacks in the heart of the capital, Kabul. They have infiltrated many areas of the country, especially the south and the southeast, where the government is weakest.

25) ”While aid has contributed to progress in Afghanistan, especially in social and economic infrastructure – and whilst more aid is needed – the development process has to date been too centralised, top-heavy and insufficient. As a result millions of Afghans, particularly in rural areas, still face severe hardship. Conditions of persistent poverty have been a significant factor in the spread of insecurity”.Oxfam Assessment

26) “Karzai’s refusal to allow the hare-brained American plan to eradicate opium poppies by crop spraying; his warming up to Musharraf; his refusal to review the decision to expel the two EU and UN diplomats, despite heavy diplomatic pressure from London; his insistence on friendly feelings toward Tehran; his spats with Britain; his pouring cold water on the candidacy of Ashdown (knowing full well it was a joint Anglo-American decision at the highest level) – surely, a pattern has emerged. Bhadrakumar

27) “Today we risk repeating the classic mistake that dooms many counterinsurgencies: a failure to appreciate the difference between tactical success and a winning strategy. The fatal consequence, all too familiar to those of us who lived through Vietnam, is that you can win every battle, but fail to win the war.” Senator John Kerry

”If the Afghans don’t want us, why should we stay?”Andreas Whittam Smith

‘We’re doing all we can,‘ British ministers David Milliband, the Foreign Secretary Karzai

28) Afghanistan fubar: A crumbling alliance? NATO finds 1000 troops for Afghanistan for baby sitting duties. Europeans do not want to play tourist or fight.“In truth we cannot do anything worthwhile in Afghanistan for which the life of a single British soldier should be sacrificed. Britain must make its excuses and leave. After all, Mr Karzai, it seems, would be glad.”Editorial Independent UK. Kabul: The Final assault begins. How long can NATO hang on? Will NATO buy the Obama Doctrine? What’s in between the lines? Does Obama have the courage to implement the real solutions to Obama’s Vietnam (AfPak)

29) “Britain and its Nato allies are in danger of undermining Afghan president Hamid Karzai by cutting their own side-deals with local leaders.Agreements such as the appointment of a former Taliban commander as the mayor of a key strategic town on the recommendation of the British were undercutting President Karzai’s authority. IISS director general John Chipman warned that the tensions between Nato and the Afghan government were surfacing at a time of “worrying fragility” in the alliance’s commitment to the continuing mission in Afghanistan. “President Karzai lacks the authority to govern in all areas,” he said. “He has sought an accommodation with moderate Taliban as recognition of the fact that they have some political constituency. But he has been frustrated by other ‘deals’ brokered by international allies.” The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

Rand report: End GWOT. Defeat Al-Qaeda with police & Dollars

30) “Karzai was hitting back at Washington and London. Make no mistake about it. He was retaliating against a systematic Western attempt to undercut his political stature and his authority. How much of the Western game plan stems from a well-thought out strategy aimed at replacing Karzai is difficult to tell at the moment. But, without doubt, there is an attempt to browbeat him and to discredit Karzai’s own endeavor in the recent period to distance himself from his Western backers. A Times

31) The wave of terror expanded to the major cities: Jan 10 Suicide Bombing in Lahore killing 60. Jan 15, Jan 15 Sararogha Fort Waziristan attacked. On Jan. 29 the CIA launched its Predator war upon Pakistan. June 10, 2008, American Predator attacks Pakistani outpost at Gora Prai, resulting in the deaths of 11 paramilitary troops of the Frontier Corps. On July 12, 2008 after a strategic meeting between US and Pakistan military leaders, an open rift was exposed between the two sides for all the world to see, at that time, the Predator war against Pakistan went into high gear US/Pakistan Showdown/Throwdown July12

President Obama claims to want to turn the situation around in “Af-Pak.” If he is serious about this claim then the first thing he will do is put an end to the ongoing psyop against Pakistan and take control of targeting for the Predator flights away from the CIA or any other western agency and offer it to Pakistani Army chief Gen. Kayani. If Pakistan wants to use these air assets in a war against the militant network, then that should be Pakistan’s decision to make, not ours. Dissecting The Anti-Pakistan Psyop, By Peter Chamberlin Tuesday, 31 March 2009.

32) The election for the next president of Afghanistan is not ’till next year, but Karzai may be headed out sooner than later. Fixing AfPak expedites the inevitable union between Pakistan and Afghanistan

SOLUTION: Let the Nato forces withdraw. Hand over the Pashtun areas to Pakistan.Saving the Pashtuns of Afghania from the chaos of Afghanistan. A Pakistan Afghan confederation was proposed and agreed upon by Liaqat Ali Khan and the late Afghan King. The confederation was scrapped after the assasination of Liaqat Ali Khan.