The Taliban Maintain The Afghan Dilemma Needs True Efforts
13 January 2013
By Al-Ikhwah Al-Mujahidun
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most
Merciful.
For a few days a very warm discussion is going on
the media that the heads of the governments of
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Britain and some other
officials have met in London to strive and find a
solution for the Afghan issue.
The London conference is part of the series of
regional and international gatherings, Jirgas and
conferences which are going on for the last ten years.
But it neither played any positive role in solving the
issues of Afghans and Afghanistan nor showed any other
encouraging outcome.
According to our assessment the objectives of this
kind of conferences can be characterized as follow:
1. To divert the general attention from the basic
solution of the issue and just to exploit it for
propaganda.
2. To conceal the political and military deadlock of
occupation and the occupiers of Afghanistan from
general spectacles and to show that some activity and
progress is going on.
3. Fulfilling vested individual interests of the
political leaders and the provision of raw material
for the media channels from the big issue of peace and
prosperity of the Afghan nation.
There is always worldwide propaganda for this kind of
conferences to the extent that the distressed Afghan
nation becomes sanguine. These extraordinary meetings
are always considered positive and productive but they
are constantly unyielding. It seems that the objective
of convening this kind of meetings on the initiative
and demand of the westerners is only deception and
propagation.
The invader western countries want to show themselves
pledged for peace and solution of the Afghan issue.
They always, while pretending themselves as inviters
and mediators, try to dispose of the responsibility of
creating the problems and show themselves
irresponsible in the ongoing calamity; despite the
fact that every rational being knows that the core of
the current tragedy lies in the occupation and
presence of the western invading countries; because
the quality and quantity of issues in Afghanistan and
the region were quite less prior to their intrusion.
The inference is that after the military evacuation of
the west, causes of the problem will vanish and all
the issues will be automatically solved.
The policy makers of Britain, America and all other
countries, having used force constantly for eleven
years and facing military trounce at the end, have
reached to the conclusion that war in Afghanistan
should be terminated. But their amateurish and
irresponsible conduct regarding the solution of the
issue shows that the invaders have lost their
capability of war in Afghanistan and are not
determined to really solve the Afghan issue.
Therefore they are taking propaganda gain from the
peace slogan and are not trying to take any practical
step to fulfill the prerequisites of negotiations.
Instead of the right address and true representatives
of Mujahidin, they meet and play hide and seek with
the counterfeit and ineffective individuals and
circles. This kind of behavior not only spoils the
future of Afghanistan but also washes away the
expectations of Afghans for a peaceful Afghanistan. It
has no other outcome.
Providing a huge and extravagant setup by the western
countries under the name Peace Council to the Kabul
regime and then starting horse trading; secret and
counterfeit meeting in Dubai and some other western
countries; similarly the London conference and
likewise other international conferences and meetings;
are the real obstacles of effective and fruitful
negotiations between the factual sides. They have no
other remedy for Afghans and Afghanistan.
This process and all other deceptive maneuver not only
adjourn the genuine solution of the Afghan issue but
also damage the conviction and intention of different
directions and the Afghans in the imminent peaceful
Afghanistan.
Instead of these deceitful and propaganda maneuvers,
it is better that actual responsible countries (i.e.
the westerners) should reconsider their stance of
occupation including the reverence for the sovereignty
of Afghans and Afghanistan. They should withdraw all
their forces from Afghanistan. They should abandon the
idea of permanent interference under the cover of
strategic contracts and let the Afghan nation enjoy a
peaceful and independent life in their homeland.
As Hamid Karzai went to Norway from London to sign
another deluding paper under the title of strategic
agreement, it shows that the westerners and their
stooges are not convinced to respect the sovereignty
and national will and want to protract the calamity
instigated by the foreign interference.
In these circumstances if the Afghan crisis prolongs
and jeopardizes the life, property and dignity of
Afghans on the daily basis, only the western countries
and their stooges will be held responsible for it who
keep the propaganda war alive for their vested lusts.
They are not only reluctant to take practical steps
for a true solution of the issue but also create new
hurdles in its way.
Spokesman of Islamic Emirate
Zabihullah Mujahid
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14 January 2013
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed
As soon as I heard the name Iyad Ag Ghaly in relation
to the events in Mali I began to wonder if this could
be the same man from the same country? Could it really
be him? Iyad Ag Ghaly heads up the military operations
of armed terrorist groups in northern Mali; whilst
there was a man with the same name who served as
Mali's consul in Jeddah. I called some friends and
confirmed that Iyad Ag Ghaly is indeed the same man
that I met at Jeddah's Hilton hotel less than three
years ago.
We are facing a truly strange world where those who
are legitimate today could be fugitives tomorrow.
At the time, I knew-from those who had dealt with
Ghaly as a Tuareg tribal chief and diplomatic
consul-that he was the best source to find
intermediaries to negotiate the release of hostages
taken in the Azawad region. Now, he is said to be
commander of the Ansar Dine movement fighting the
Malian army, as well as international French and
African forces.
When I read a profile about him in yesterday's Asharq
al-Awsat newspaper, I was even more confused, for this
stated that he was close to Libyan dictator Muammar
Qadhafi who reportedly sent him to fight in Lebanon.
Yet, Ghaly only recently displayed extremist
tendencies.
This kind of confusion and uncertainty has become
quite common as shown by the emergence of extremists
like Tarek al-Zomor and Mohamed al-Zawahiri on Egypt's
political scene. So how did a man like Iyad Ag Ghaly
turn from being a moderate Sunni Muslim to an
extremist armed fighter? Is it rational to suppose
that a man in his fifties, like Ghaly, should suddenly
become radicalized? This is truly hard to believe. I
sense that this may be some kind of political maneuver
where politicians have pretended to adopt extremist
ideologies in order to recruit impulsive youths. These
politicians provide these youth with funding under the
pretext of ?religious duty?, convincing them to
sacrifice their lives for a false cause in return for
a place in heaven! Since there is a general
international lack of will to fight anywhere in the
world, the French-alongside a few African states-will
fight this war on their own before realizing that
desert wars never end and withdraw. What makes matters
more complicated is that conflicts that involve
religious slogans and tribal powers can last for
decades without any side being defeated.
Our problem with those who are keen on fighting these
extremists, like the French today and the Americans
yesterday in Afghanistan and perhaps tomorrow in
Syria, is their inability to understand the
fundamental nature of the problem. These extremist
groups represent the smallest part of the equation;
rather the greatest and most important challenge is to
confront extremist ideologies. Had the West, as well
as the Arab countries involved and other relevant
parties invested their money and effort in fighting
extremist ideologies, this crisis might have come to
an end. Instead they spent billions of dollars on tens
of thousands of soldiers, advanced weaponry, and
combat drones managing to eliminate a number of Al
Qaeda's leaders; however Al Qaeda's ideology remains
the same and in fact continues to spread like a
disease. Most people find it easier to jump to easy
conclusions by laying the blame on one group or
another like Sunnis, Shi'ites, clerics, or even
religion as a whole; however all these groups were
present prior to this and were never a source of
trouble.
We are living in a different world in which political
powers are establishing and nourishing extremist
ideologies and generations. These politicians have the
project, the expertise, and the will to propagate such
extremist ideology and they are practically immune to
punishment because the wrong parties are always held
accountable. Who could have imagined that Mali would
become an international battlefield after Afghanistan?
The West is repeating the same mistake in Syria by
allowing it to fall prey to extremists who are
emotionally manipulate the general public under the
pretext that they are their only source of salvation
from the tyranny of the Assad regime. In reality, they
are the only faction active on the scene because
everybody else has left the arena.
Al
Rashed is the general manager of Al -Arabiya
television. He is also the former editor-in-chief of
Asharq Al- Awsat, and the leading Arabic weekly
magazine, Al Majalla. He is also a senior Columnist in
the daily newspapers of Al Madina and Al Bilad. He is
a US post-graduate degree in mass communications. He
has been a guest on many TV current affairs programs.
He is currently based in Dubai.
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