Taliban Defiant Response: Statement Regarding Obama’s New
Strategy
5 December 2009
By Al-Ikhwah Al-Mujahidun
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
The American President Obama has announced his
strategy after months of dithering. The essence of the
strategy shows that the needs and wants of the
American people have been overlooked during the
framing of this strategy and it has been formulated
under the pressure of (army) generals of Pentagon, the
American Neo-conservatives and the wealthiest few of
America and for the protection of their interests.
Hence it is a strategy of colonialism aimed at
securing interests of the American capitalists and it
seems America has vast and protracted but wicked and
hostile plans not only for Afghanistan but for the
whole region.
There is neither a new point in the Obama’s strategy,
nor it contains any solution for the Afghan issue.
Obama wants to kill two birds with one stone. He wants
to lessen the sensitivities of the Afghans about the
surge of 30,000 troops through the ploy of ostensibly
starting troops withdrawal in 2011. He also intends to
decrease the opposition of the American public (to the
troops surge) and encourage his Allies at world’s
level to send more troops. But this stratagem will not
pay off. The reinforcement will result into ( their)
fatalities. Similarly, the Afghans, the public of the
world particularly, the people of America now know the
realities and they are not going to be deceived by
Obama’s juggling of words.
2. Throughout the history of Afghanistan, the Afghans
have not been subjugated through deceits, ploys,
materials power, troop’s reinforcement and military
might of the foreigners. Therefore, the reinforcement
of the American troops and other tactics will not have
impact on the status quo. But the reinforcement will
provide better opportunity for the Mujahideen to
launch offensives. On the other hand, it will deepen
the crisis of the American economy which is already in
shambles.
3. The Obama’s assertion to increase and train more
soldiers and police for the Kabul Administration is
pointless and not result-oriented. The Islam-loving
and freedom-loving people of Afghanistan consider the
Kabul Administration and the forces working under this
Administration as corrupt and surrogates of the
invaders. Such schemes have already resulted into
bringing in losses to the invaders. The Afghans and
the public of the world saw that the more they
increased the number of troops and sped up training
the forces, the more the Mujahideen gained strength
and spread their influence into the ranks of the
(surrogate) forces. Furthermore, the people’s support
with the Mujahideen has increased in parallel.
4. We neither have bases in Pakistan nor we need such
bases outside Afghanistan. We have control over vast
swathes of land in the country and do not face any
problem about our activities and residence.
They raise the issue of our residing in Pakistan in
order to distract the attention (of the world) from
our capability and strong resistance in Afghanistan.
5. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has frequently
said that we have no intention of harming any one.
Therefore, the presence of foreign invading forces in
Afghanistan has nothing to do with the security of the
world. Obama sometimes calls this war, a war of
necessity; sometimes he calls it a war for the defense
of the West and some times, a war being waged for the
security of the world. These are his efforts to
mobilize the opinion of the world in favor of this war
and encourage other countries to support it in order
to justify the unlawful invasion and use other
countries for his benefit.
6. The Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate have worked
out a vast strategy and prepared for strong resistance
to foil the illegal, anti-Islamic and anti-Afghanistan
conspiracies of the internal and external Allies and
counter them in every part of the country with full
strength and put up a protracted resistance. The
Mujahideen have high morale and complete readiness and
believe that Obama’s new strategy will fail like it
did previously. It will face fiasco.
We deem it necessary to remind the American rulers if
you persist in your aggressive policy, America will
end up being disintegrated itself instead of
maintaining the occupation in Afghanistan. The history
of the arrogant invaders speaks volume for this fact.
We want to point out that the Muslim people of
Afghanistan want to lay down their lives and
properties willingly but are never ready to give up
their faith and freedom. You have already seen the
reaction of the Afghans in the shape of national
Islamic upheaval in response to your blind
bombardment, brutal torture, operations and frequent
reinforcement in the past eight years, you must wait a
more severe reaction in the years to come.