The September 11, 2001 bombing on the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in America by hijacked planes, changed the course of world history. It had claimed the lives of many innocent civilians which terribly shocked not only the United States, but also the whole international community. The unprecedented terrorists attack within the American soil was claimed by Islamic fundamentalist group, the Al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden. Ironically, Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network was funded, supported, trained, and has been integrated as well with the teachings of Islam by the CIA of the US government, funneled through the military intelligence apparatus of Pakistan. The radical Islamic group, the Mujahideen together with Osama was collectively called an “intelligence asset” by the CIA during and even after the Cold War period. The CIA was operating covertly to support the Taliban and Al Qaeda forces channeled through Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence or ISI, which serves the American geopolitical interest in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has a strategic location bordering the territory of the former Soviet Union, China, and Iran. It is also at the center of five nuclear powers namely: Russia, China, India, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan.
After the infamous 9/11 attacks, the United States government embarked on a military mission against the suspected terrorist, and those foreign government who harbor them. The Bush Administration initiated a war, a war against terrorism needed to combat the evil and even contain rogue states. Accordingly, these were just a part of a carefully designed propaganda campaign of the US government, which constitutes a legitimacy to justify the waging of the war that threatens the future of mankind. The American war is the initial staging of the so called, New World Order and the tenets of the free market system. The Saudi-born Osama bin Laden was held responsible for the terrorists’ attacks in New York and in Washington. He was recruited during the Soviet-Afghan war under the sponsorship of the CIA, to fight the Soviet invaders. This covert military operation of CIA was backed by the Pakistan’s ISI. Its primary objective was to turn the Afghan Jihad into an all out war waged by all Muslim States against the now defunct, Soviet Union. The said operation was presented to the public as a response to the Soviet aggression to Afghanistan, but evidence would suggest that it was launched prior, and not in response to the Soviet invasion. As confirmed in an interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was at that time the National Security Adviser to then President Jimmy Carter, he said that: “indeed, it was July 3,1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.” Based on this fact, the US initiated the Soviet-Afghan war that eventually led to the demise of the Soviet empire which ended up the Cold War. Consequently, it also led to the rise of the Taliban and the establishment of Islamic fundamentalists groups. The CIA’s covert operation empowered the Mujahideen guerillas in Afghanistan, which in turn boosted the opium production in the region. The US Drug Enforcement Agency didn’t pay too much attention in the drug war; instead their main goal was to do much damage to the Soviets. After the eventual break up of the Soviet Union, Central Asia became not only strategic for its extensive oil reserves, but also in heroin trade, particularly in Afghanistan alone. It has generated multi-billion dollars of revenues to business syndicates, financial institutions, intelligence agencies, and organized crime. The Taliban government had imposed a ban on poppy production, but the America’s war on terrorism in 2001 restored the opium trade. The revenues of narcotics are deposited in Western banking system.
The American War manifests therefore, a geopolitical control over the “drug routes” and the “oil routes”. The covert support of the CIA has continued despite the fall of the Soviet Union. There was also a civil war in Afghanistan, but the Taliban with the support from Pakistan instated a hard-line Islamic government. In the competition for Oil control, Russia and the United States were the major players. Russia’s main oil route transits through Chechnya and Dagestan. Despite Washington’s denunciation of the Islamic terrorism, the indirect beneficiaries of the wars in Chechnya are the British and American oil conglomerates which are vying for control over oil resources and pipeline corridors out of the Caspian Sea basin. Pakistan’s ISI, supported by the CIA has been giving aid to Insurgency groups in different parts of the world. These Insurgency groups have links to terrorists, including the Al Qaeda, thereby promoting closer ties among themselves. The US foreign policy is not geared towards curbing the tide of Islamic fundamentalism, but in fact the other way around. It has sustained rather than defeating international terrorism in order to destabilize national societies and preventing social movements directed against the growing American empire. Pakistan’s ISI played a key role in the September 11 attacks. Pakistan’s chief spy, Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmad, was in the US when the bombings occurred. He arrived even before the attacks. The nature of what has been called “routine consultations” was not made public. The result of it was to extradite Osama, but apparently failed in doing so. Yet, this failure was part of Washington’s design providing a pretext for a military intervention which was already in the pipeline. The times of India, which went unnoticed by Western media, revealed the links between Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmad and presumed “ring leader” of the WTC attacks, Mohammed Atta. The report constituted the missing link behind the attacks; it would show that the general lost his job because of the evidence that link him to one of the suicide bombers. Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the instance of Gen. Mahmoud wired the $100,000 amount to the hijacker, Mohammed Atta. The Indian Intelligence report regarding the money transfer by Pakistan’s ISI was corroborated by the FBI-led investigation in the wake of September 11. While not mentioning the role of Pakistan’s ISI, the FBI nonetheless points to a Pakistan connection and to the people connected to Osama bin Laden who are the money men behind the terrorists. The US support through the Pakistan’s ISI, to the Taliban and Osama bin Laden even after the Cold War was verified also by Congressional transcripts.
America’s war on terrorism actually consists of extending the global market system while opening up new “economic frontiers” for US corporate capital. The US-led military intervention was in close cooperation with Britain that responds to the interest of the Anglo-American oil giants, in coordination with America’s “Big Five” weapons producers: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and General Dynamics. The US congress had adopted the Silk Road Strategy Act, which defined America’s broad economic and strategic interest in a region extending from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. It outlines America’s framework for the development of its business empire. Under the Bush Administration, the US oil giants have gained direct access to the planning of military and intelligence operations on their behalf. The hidden agenda of the US policy was to eventually cut the Russians off altogether from the Caspian oil and gas field. With a view to weakening Moscow’s control over Caspian oil, several alternative pipeline routes had been envisaged. The Anglo-American oil giants, supported by the US military are competing with Europe’s oil giant Total-Fina-Elf associated with Italy’s ENI, which is a big player in Kazakhstan’s wealthy North East Caspian Kashagan oil fields but the key pipeline projects are largely in the hands of their Anglo-American rivals. Clear enough that America’s control of oil routes is not only against Russia, but also against European oil interest.
Since the decline of the Soviet Union, America became the only superpower nation in the world. It has already proven its military might, strong economy, and far reaching political influence. It has been the envy of the other countries. Many had aspired to be a part of this emerging empire, but America is also truly hated in parts of the world today, evidently manifested in the September 11 bombings. The Cold War, though didn’t arise in a nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, it has brought to us a long-standing effect. The detrimental effect of which was the creation of an insurmountable fear, brought by a more wide-ranging terrorist network based on Islamic fundamentalism. If it had not been supported by the US government through Pakistan’s ISI, these terrorists would not be as strong and intact as it is at present. The mentality of Islamic fundamentalists would have a religious dogma restrict human freedom and the human rights to life and the pursuit of happiness, which would condone such things as jihad, holy war, or in other words, the expansion of Islam by force, if necessary. Christian States and other States with various religious beliefs seem to be the exact opposite of that of Islamic fundamentalists. The latter take religious claims and law to be the unchallengeable foundation of the proper way of life and give religious claims legal precedence over human rights, in contrast with the former, which takes the inalienable rights of human being to be the unchallengeable foundation of a proper way of life, and give these rights legal precedence over religious laws and practices.
The dangerous effect of the US foreign policy that led to the foundation of terrorists’ network is happening these days. The ultimate example of which was the 9/11 attacks. The US ate its own dust. What it has created blows back on their face. What is more surprising and alarming to witness during the WTC bombings is when Middle Easterners were making manner of joyful noises, because some fanatic terrorists had killed infidels in God’s name. It was broadcasted in different networks throughout the globe. This violence is normal for them, it is the natural consequence of the fact that fundamentalism subordinates human rights to divine law making human rights secondary concerns, which I must stress is a dangerous thing. It gives them the license to do any number of violent things to people, as long as they can claim to be enforcing divine law that is ensuring that everyone does practice the true faith in the proper manner through their violence. Terrorism brought by these fundamentalists and extremists groups creates fear that agitates the body and the mind of every individual. Terrorism, as also discussed by several scholars, is the premeditated use of violence or any means of destruction perpetrated against innocent individuals or non-combatants, or against civilian and or government properties, usually intended to influence an audience. Its prime purpose is to create a state of fear that will aid in extorting, coercing, intimidating, or causing individuals or groups to alter their behavior, whether politically or socially. The aftermath of the bombings of the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and other related terrorists attacks in different parts of the world, met the objective of the terrorists. It is a crime against every existing national law, the international law, and most of all a crime against the humanity.
The US government must have known these consequences, and yet they still pursued their policy for the purpose of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but as evidence would show, the US government continued supporting the international terrorism even after the end of the Cold War just to serve their own geopolitical interest, especially in Central Asia, where there is vast oil resources and opium trade is rampant. America has become more imperialistic in nature than ever. It has had used the war on terrorism as its excuse for military aggression and occupation. These acts were fabricated to as a humanitarian intervention and presented to the public view as a peace-keeping operation. For how many decades, America is maintaining a large standing army which absorbs a lot of money and resources that could be better spent. Why is it that they have to worry about other nations and its people, if they have plenty of problems of their own that they cannot deal with if spending too much time looking abroad? The answer is clear; America wanted to enlarge its dominion, particularly of its federal system by destabilizing and subsequently replacing other nation’s currency, consistent with its imperialistic character. Being the only superpower in the world, as of this time, must not be viewed as a positive thing, for it entails a huge responsibility giving America an imperative international role of maintaining peace and order and thereby promoting the respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and respect to the sovereignty of nations. But, what is happening nowadays seems to be self-serving interest. It has used its being as a superpower for its own end. America has its own hidden agenda concealed in a well-crafted, well-fashioned propaganda of war on terrorism.
After the infamous 9/11 attacks, the United States government embarked on a military mission against the suspected terrorist, and those foreign government who harbor them. The Bush Administration initiated a war, a war against terrorism needed to combat the evil and even contain rogue states. Accordingly, these were just a part of a carefully designed propaganda campaign of the US government, which constitutes a legitimacy to justify the waging of the war that threatens the future of mankind. The American war is the initial staging of the so called, New World Order and the tenets of the free market system. The Saudi-born Osama bin Laden was held responsible for the terrorists’ attacks in New York and in Washington. He was recruited during the Soviet-Afghan war under the sponsorship of the CIA, to fight the Soviet invaders. This covert military operation of CIA was backed by the Pakistan’s ISI. Its primary objective was to turn the Afghan Jihad into an all out war waged by all Muslim States against the now defunct, Soviet Union. The said operation was presented to the public as a response to the Soviet aggression to Afghanistan, but evidence would suggest that it was launched prior, and not in response to the Soviet invasion. As confirmed in an interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was at that time the National Security Adviser to then President Jimmy Carter, he said that: “indeed, it was July 3,1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.” Based on this fact, the US initiated the Soviet-Afghan war that eventually led to the demise of the Soviet empire which ended up the Cold War. Consequently, it also led to the rise of the Taliban and the establishment of Islamic fundamentalists groups. The CIA’s covert operation empowered the Mujahideen guerillas in Afghanistan, which in turn boosted the opium production in the region. The US Drug Enforcement Agency didn’t pay too much attention in the drug war; instead their main goal was to do much damage to the Soviets. After the eventual break up of the Soviet Union, Central Asia became not only strategic for its extensive oil reserves, but also in heroin trade, particularly in Afghanistan alone. It has generated multi-billion dollars of revenues to business syndicates, financial institutions, intelligence agencies, and organized crime. The Taliban government had imposed a ban on poppy production, but the America’s war on terrorism in 2001 restored the opium trade. The revenues of narcotics are deposited in Western banking system.
The American War manifests therefore, a geopolitical control over the “drug routes” and the “oil routes”. The covert support of the CIA has continued despite the fall of the Soviet Union. There was also a civil war in Afghanistan, but the Taliban with the support from Pakistan instated a hard-line Islamic government. In the competition for Oil control, Russia and the United States were the major players. Russia’s main oil route transits through Chechnya and Dagestan. Despite Washington’s denunciation of the Islamic terrorism, the indirect beneficiaries of the wars in Chechnya are the British and American oil conglomerates which are vying for control over oil resources and pipeline corridors out of the Caspian Sea basin. Pakistan’s ISI, supported by the CIA has been giving aid to Insurgency groups in different parts of the world. These Insurgency groups have links to terrorists, including the Al Qaeda, thereby promoting closer ties among themselves. The US foreign policy is not geared towards curbing the tide of Islamic fundamentalism, but in fact the other way around. It has sustained rather than defeating international terrorism in order to destabilize national societies and preventing social movements directed against the growing American empire. Pakistan’s ISI played a key role in the September 11 attacks. Pakistan’s chief spy, Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmad, was in the US when the bombings occurred. He arrived even before the attacks. The nature of what has been called “routine consultations” was not made public. The result of it was to extradite Osama, but apparently failed in doing so. Yet, this failure was part of Washington’s design providing a pretext for a military intervention which was already in the pipeline. The times of India, which went unnoticed by Western media, revealed the links between Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmad and presumed “ring leader” of the WTC attacks, Mohammed Atta. The report constituted the missing link behind the attacks; it would show that the general lost his job because of the evidence that link him to one of the suicide bombers. Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the instance of Gen. Mahmoud wired the $100,000 amount to the hijacker, Mohammed Atta. The Indian Intelligence report regarding the money transfer by Pakistan’s ISI was corroborated by the FBI-led investigation in the wake of September 11. While not mentioning the role of Pakistan’s ISI, the FBI nonetheless points to a Pakistan connection and to the people connected to Osama bin Laden who are the money men behind the terrorists. The US support through the Pakistan’s ISI, to the Taliban and Osama bin Laden even after the Cold War was verified also by Congressional transcripts.
America’s war on terrorism actually consists of extending the global market system while opening up new “economic frontiers” for US corporate capital. The US-led military intervention was in close cooperation with Britain that responds to the interest of the Anglo-American oil giants, in coordination with America’s “Big Five” weapons producers: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and General Dynamics. The US congress had adopted the Silk Road Strategy Act, which defined America’s broad economic and strategic interest in a region extending from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. It outlines America’s framework for the development of its business empire. Under the Bush Administration, the US oil giants have gained direct access to the planning of military and intelligence operations on their behalf. The hidden agenda of the US policy was to eventually cut the Russians off altogether from the Caspian oil and gas field. With a view to weakening Moscow’s control over Caspian oil, several alternative pipeline routes had been envisaged. The Anglo-American oil giants, supported by the US military are competing with Europe’s oil giant Total-Fina-Elf associated with Italy’s ENI, which is a big player in Kazakhstan’s wealthy North East Caspian Kashagan oil fields but the key pipeline projects are largely in the hands of their Anglo-American rivals. Clear enough that America’s control of oil routes is not only against Russia, but also against European oil interest.
Since the decline of the Soviet Union, America became the only superpower nation in the world. It has already proven its military might, strong economy, and far reaching political influence. It has been the envy of the other countries. Many had aspired to be a part of this emerging empire, but America is also truly hated in parts of the world today, evidently manifested in the September 11 bombings. The Cold War, though didn’t arise in a nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, it has brought to us a long-standing effect. The detrimental effect of which was the creation of an insurmountable fear, brought by a more wide-ranging terrorist network based on Islamic fundamentalism. If it had not been supported by the US government through Pakistan’s ISI, these terrorists would not be as strong and intact as it is at present. The mentality of Islamic fundamentalists would have a religious dogma restrict human freedom and the human rights to life and the pursuit of happiness, which would condone such things as jihad, holy war, or in other words, the expansion of Islam by force, if necessary. Christian States and other States with various religious beliefs seem to be the exact opposite of that of Islamic fundamentalists. The latter take religious claims and law to be the unchallengeable foundation of the proper way of life and give religious claims legal precedence over human rights, in contrast with the former, which takes the inalienable rights of human being to be the unchallengeable foundation of a proper way of life, and give these rights legal precedence over religious laws and practices.
The dangerous effect of the US foreign policy that led to the foundation of terrorists’ network is happening these days. The ultimate example of which was the 9/11 attacks. The US ate its own dust. What it has created blows back on their face. What is more surprising and alarming to witness during the WTC bombings is when Middle Easterners were making manner of joyful noises, because some fanatic terrorists had killed infidels in God’s name. It was broadcasted in different networks throughout the globe. This violence is normal for them, it is the natural consequence of the fact that fundamentalism subordinates human rights to divine law making human rights secondary concerns, which I must stress is a dangerous thing. It gives them the license to do any number of violent things to people, as long as they can claim to be enforcing divine law that is ensuring that everyone does practice the true faith in the proper manner through their violence. Terrorism brought by these fundamentalists and extremists groups creates fear that agitates the body and the mind of every individual. Terrorism, as also discussed by several scholars, is the premeditated use of violence or any means of destruction perpetrated against innocent individuals or non-combatants, or against civilian and or government properties, usually intended to influence an audience. Its prime purpose is to create a state of fear that will aid in extorting, coercing, intimidating, or causing individuals or groups to alter their behavior, whether politically or socially. The aftermath of the bombings of the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and other related terrorists attacks in different parts of the world, met the objective of the terrorists. It is a crime against every existing national law, the international law, and most of all a crime against the humanity.
The US government must have known these consequences, and yet they still pursued their policy for the purpose of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but as evidence would show, the US government continued supporting the international terrorism even after the end of the Cold War just to serve their own geopolitical interest, especially in Central Asia, where there is vast oil resources and opium trade is rampant. America has become more imperialistic in nature than ever. It has had used the war on terrorism as its excuse for military aggression and occupation. These acts were fabricated to as a humanitarian intervention and presented to the public view as a peace-keeping operation. For how many decades, America is maintaining a large standing army which absorbs a lot of money and resources that could be better spent. Why is it that they have to worry about other nations and its people, if they have plenty of problems of their own that they cannot deal with if spending too much time looking abroad? The answer is clear; America wanted to enlarge its dominion, particularly of its federal system by destabilizing and subsequently replacing other nation’s currency, consistent with its imperialistic character. Being the only superpower in the world, as of this time, must not be viewed as a positive thing, for it entails a huge responsibility giving America an imperative international role of maintaining peace and order and thereby promoting the respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and respect to the sovereignty of nations. But, what is happening nowadays seems to be self-serving interest. It has used its being as a superpower for its own end. America has its own hidden agenda concealed in a well-crafted, well-fashioned propaganda of war on terrorism.
