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The Anglo-Americans and the Origins of the Taliban

The CIA Creates Al-Qaeda

In 1998, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser, said in an interview with a French publication, Le Nouvel Observateur, that the US intervention in the Afghan-Soviet war did not begin in the 1980s, but that, “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,” which precipitated the Soviet invasion into Afghanistan.[2] From the Soviet invasion, a bloody ten-year war followed.

Amazingly, “Before 1979 Pakistan and Afghanistan exported very little heroin to the West,”[3] but by 1981, “trucks from the Pakistan army’s National Logistics Cell arriving with CIA arms from Karachi often returned loaded with heroin – protected by ISI [Pakistan’s internal security service] papers freeing them from police search.”[4] This change occurred in 1981 when then CIA Director William Casey, Prince Turki bin Faisal of Saudi intelligence and the ISI worked together to create a foreign legion of jihadi Muslims or so-called Arab Afghans. More than 100,000 Islamic militants were trained in Pakistan between 1986 and 1992 in camps overseen by the CIA and [British] MI6. The SAS [British special forces] trained future Al-Qaida and Taliban fighters in bomb-making and other black arts” while their leaders were trained at a CIA camp in Virginia.[5] Further, “CIA aid was funneled through [Pakistani President] General Zia and the ISI in Pakistan.”[6]



Creating the Taliban

In the mid-1990s, an obscure group of “Pashtun country folk” had become a powerful military and political force in Afghanistan, known as the Taliban.[7] During that same time the Taliban acquired contacts with the ISI,[8] often referred to as Pakistan’s “shadow government.” In 1995, the ISI was actively aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan’s civil war against the warlords that controlled the country.[9] In addition, just as in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union in the previous decade, the ISI looked to Saudi intelligence to provide the funding for the Taliban, and the ties between the ISI and Saudi intelligence grew much closer.[10] The Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan was also aided by the CIA, which worked with the Pakistani ISI.[11]

A few years after the Taliban came to power they began a campaign to eradicate Afghanistan’s opium crops, and “The success of Afghanistan’s 2000 drug eradication program under the Taliban government was recognized by the United Nations” as a monumental feat, in that “no other country was able to implement a comparable program.”[12] In October of 2001, the UN acknowledged that the Taliban reduced opium production in Afghanistan from 3300 tons in 2000 to 185 tons in 2001.[13]

In June of 2001, a few months before 9/11, it was reported that a “recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan” was announced “by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, [which] made the United States the main sponsor of the Taliban.”[14]



Anglo-American Involvement in the Afghan Opium Trade

The World’s #1 Narco-State

Drug trafficking is the largest global commodity in profits after the oil and arms trade, consequently, “immediately following the October 2001 invasion opium markets were restored. Opium prices spiraled. By early 2002, the domestic price of opium in Afghanistan (in dollars/kg) was almost 10 times higher than in 2000.”[15] The Anglo-American invasion of Afghanistan successfully restored the drug trade. The Guardian recently reported that, “In 2007 Afghanistan had more land growing drugs than Colombia, Bolivia and Peru combined.”[16].



The British

In 2005 it was reported by the Independent that Afghanistan’s Interior Minister had resigned, “amid reports he had quit because of the involvement of senior government officials in the illegal drug trade.” He had “been outspoken over the involvement of officials in the drug trade and is believed to have had differences with President Karzai over the appointment of Provincial officials.”[17] In 2006, the Independent reported that, “British intelligence officers and military commanders accused the US of undermining British policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, after the sacking of a key British ally in the Afghan province of Helmand.” The British “blamed pressure from the CIA for President Hamid Karzai’s decision to dismiss Mohammed Daud as governor of Helmand.” Mr. Daud “had survived several Taliban assassination attempts, was seen as a key player in Britain’s anti-drugs campaign in Helmand,” and was fired after Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s President, “listened to advice from ‘other powerful Western players’.”[18]

Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, wrote in a 2007 article in the UK Daily Mail, that what has been achieved in Afghanistan is “the highest harvests of opium the world has ever seen.”[19] Murray elaborated that, “Our economic achievement in Afghanistan goes well beyond the simple production of raw opium. In fact Afghanistan no longer exports much raw opium at all. It has succeeded in what our international aid efforts urge every developing country to do. Afghanistan has gone into manufacturing and ‘value-added’ operations.” This means that Afghanistan “now exports not opium, but heroin. Opium is converted into heroin on an industrial scale, not in kitchens but in factories. Millions of gallons of the chemicals needed for this process are shipped into Afghanistan by tanker. The tankers and bulk opium lorries on the way to the factories share the roads, improved by American aid, with NATO troops.” Murray explains that this was able to happen because “the four largest players in the heroin business are all senior members of the Afghan government.” Murray stated that, “Our only real achievement to date is falling street prices for heroin in London.”[20]



The Americans

In 2002, former Additional Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat of the Government of India wrote that, in regard to the failure to combat the rise in opium production, “this marked lack of success in the heroin front is due to the fact that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the USA, which encouraged these heroin barons during the Afghan war of the 1980s in order to spread heroin-addiction amongst the Soviet troops, is now using them in its search for bin Laden and other surviving leaders of the Al Qaeda.”[21]

The Hindu reported in 2008 that, “90 per cent of the heroin sold in Russia comes from Afghanistan,” and Putin was quoted as saying, “Unfortunately, they (NATO) are doing nothing to reduce the narcotic threat from Afghanistan even a tiny bit,” and that the coalition forces were “sitting back and watching caravans haul drugs across Afghanistan to the former Soviet Union and Europe.” The article then reported that, “according to unconfirmed reports the U.S. military transport aviation is used for the delivery of drugs from Afghanistan to the American airbases, Ganci in Kyrgyzstan and Incirlik in Turkey,” and that, “It has been reported earlier that the CIA is involved in Afghanistan’s opium production, or is at least protecting it.” One Russian journalist quoted anonymous Afghan officials as saying, “85 per cent of all drugs produced in southern and southeastern provinces are shipped abroad by U.S. aviation.”[22]



The British and the Taliban

Training the Taliban

The Independent reported in 2008 that “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. The plans were discovered on a memory stick seized by Afghan secret police in December.” Further, “The camp would provide military training for 1,800 ordinary Taliban fighters and 200 low-level commanders.”[23]

The article explained that, “the Afghans feared the British were training a militia with no loyalty to the central government. Intercepted Taliban communications suggested they thought the British were trying to help them.” The article further reported that, the program was bankrolled by the British,” and that, “the memory stick revealed that $125,000 (£64,000) had been spent on preparing the camp and a further $200,000 was earmarked to run it in 2008,” which “sparked allegations that British agents were paying the Taliban.” Further, “the Afghan government took issue with plans to provide military training to turn the insurgents into a defence force.” On top of that, “the memory stick revealed plans to train the Taliban to use secure satellite phones, so they could communicate directly with UK officials.” “Officially, the British embassy remains tight-lipped, fuelling speculation that the plan may have been part of a wider clandestine operation.”[24]



Who Profits from the Drug Trade?

Wall Street and Big Banks

Michel Chossudovsky describes the heroin trade as a “hierarchy of prices,” with the drug’s street price, (what it is sold for in largely Western cities around the world), is 80 to 100 times the price paid to the farmers who cultivate it in Afghanistan.[25] The IMF reported that in the late 1990s, money laundering accounted for 2-5% of the world’s GDP, and that a large percentage of the 590 billion to 1.5 trillion dollars in annual money laundering is “directly linked to the trade in narcotics.” This lucrative trade in narcotics produces profits which are “laundered in the numerous offshore banking havens in Switzerland, Luxembourg, the British Channel Islands, the Cayman Islands and some 50 other locations around the globe.” These offshore havens “are controlled by major Western banks and financial institutions” which “have a vested interest in maintaining and sustaining the drug trade.”[26]

An example of the interest of Wall Street and London bankers in the international drug trade, we can look to Colombia and the FARC rebel group. In “1999, NYSE [New York Stock Exchange] Chairman Dick Grasso traveled to Colombia and met with the leader of the FARC rebels controlling the southern third of the country.” “Grasso had asked the Colombian rebels to invest their profits in Wall Street.”[27] The Associated Press reported that Grasso told the rebel leader to, “make peace and expect great economic benefits from global investors,” and invited the rebel leader to visit Wall Street.[28] To allow for drug investment in Western financial institutions, “major banks like Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase all offer private client services for the very wealthy with very few questions asked.”[29]

It not surprising that opioid and opiate medication abuse is on the rise because people can easily get such drugs online without a prescription, not to mention the fact that heroin continues to flow into the country despite the War on Drugs.

Andrew G. Marshall is a contributor to Geopoliticalmonitor.com

All Muslims are potential terrorist
All terrorist are Muslims

God forbid
A man without integrity, very arrogant that help foist this dullard on Nigerians.

We are tired of this recycled politicians.

This is not correct. America as a country is not against polygamy.
America supporting gay Right is a shame.

Which promise.

Never trust a Muslim terrorist.

Instead of attacking innocent travellers, the irigwe militia should have mobilized and ambushed the very same Fulani's that attacked their village. That would have been great.
All is well
The hunter is now haunted.

At a time when we are dealing with so many other important global issues like the CCP and Covid .

Let me be absolutely clear. The international community, and in particular the United States, is completely abandoning Afghanistan (despite any attempt by the State Department to gaslight Afghans), just like in 1989 when the Soviets left. Sadly, because of this, we’re going to have to get used again to hearing the phrase “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”, just like between 1996 and 2001.

Because once again, we’re going to see the horrendous state of women’s and girl’s rights. Forbidden from going to school and getting lashed for the crime of showing an ankle. Do I really need to go into any more detail about the scale of abuse that was unleashed upon half the Afghan population during the Taliban first reign. Taliban reign this time is not gonna be any different.

Once again, the death penalty will be given for people who are gay. There was an article a while ago about Taliban ‘debates’ over which method of execution would be the best, the most humane for them. Give me a fucking break.

Once again, we’re going to hear about the (Tali)bans on TV, radio, card games, chess, music and more. And of course the lashings, beatings, and executions in football stadiums for those who dare to break these strict edicts.

Once again, we’re going to have the massacres and the ethnic cleansing, despite the Taliban attempt to portray itself as a more unified force. For instance, the Hazaras (who promote democracy, religious pluralism and tolerance, and universal education), are at the lowest rung of the totem pole for the Taliban. Thousands of them were massacred by Taliban.

Once again, we’re going to have the expansion of the drug trade that will have major consequences in cities all around the world. Of course, ordinary Afghans consuming any kind of drugs (which includes alcohol) will be met with swift punishment. But growing opium to export heroin all over the world, is the best thing ever, because they get to finance their operations, and they get to inflict misery in the decadent West.

We also need to think about the increase of Chinese influence. Apparently this abandonment is being done to have more resources to counter China, do people not realize that China is very much interested in the region? Do people not realize that the Taliban and China are playing footsie?

Once again, we’re going to see increased regional and global instability. This would involve the spread of radical Islamic ideology (not just to the West, but to the Middle East, Central and South Asia); as well as another refugee crisis.

And of course, once again a safe haven for terrorist groups like al-Qa’ida. Because as the UN has found, contrary to their statements, the Taliban relations with al-Qa’ida have never been stronger. This is after decades of intermarriage and mingling together. The few thousand troops that were there, were an insurance policy against another 9/11. Now that those are going, it’s harder to get intelligence, harder to do special ops, harder to do airstrikes. So al-Qa’ida will reconstitute, and will start to plan and do mass-casualty attacks in the West and all over the world. I don’t need to go more in detail about this aspect, do I?

Let’s share a thought also, for all the Afghans who were interpreters, translators, or participating with international NGOs. The Taliban are probably making lists of these people who they want to go after.

In every single way, the return of a fascist, theocratic state that we already know has been horrible, should not be even close to becoming a reality. Seriously, what timeline are we living in? All of this really does feel surreal, precisely because it feels like we’re engaging in a repeat of a phase of history (that I might have a few very vague, very fuzzy memories of) that is preordained to ‘not go well’ for millions of people.

International political and social analyst have accused the united States of America of abandoning the people of Afghanistan in order to save funds to counter China. In a white house press release the President of the united States of America President Joe Biden had stated" After 20 years — a trillion dollars ( $1trillion) spent training and equipping hundreds of thousands of Afghan National Security and Defense Forces". Analyst alleged that the unwarranted withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan is a result of the devastating effect of covid 19 on world economy and China's growing dominance in the world, conservative and key policy makers In America believe the fund spent is a waste of US resources and should rather have been channeled into growing America's economy and military budget in order for America to maintain and retain its world super power position. More especially since America has achieved its aim with the death of Osama and decimation of al Qaeda. As America exerts its presence in world politics the gradual decline of China is eminent.

Taliban is an ideology.
Same as bokoharam.
The best solution to terrorist is death , Swift death.

The Hunter is now hunted

Patanmi is a bastard. Bihari's fagg

Obatala7Kronos:
True!

You too have studied these children of abomination from the East of the Niger?

This is why I don’t have any of them as friends. They will never take corrections no matter their level of education & exposure.

To them, only their own worldview is right and other’s wrong.

Have you ever seen any one of them condemning their brothers trafficking cocaine? Never!

They would rather generalize, saying things like “Afrikans stop disgracing us or Nigerians are too desperate“ but let the criminal or felon be from other ethnicity like Fulani or Yoruba, that is when you will see all manners of derogatory names such as “O-femmanu, Gebegiri & Ewedu people, Afonja, Tiger-clawed face, Cows, Almajiri.

These people are so predictable & brain-dead.

Anytime I feel like catching cruise, I’d just browse threads on Nairaland involving them, showcasing their foolishness, stupidity & hypocrisy and begin to laugh my ass off.

We thank Sango that these despicable people are no longer laying claims to Lagos - calling it a no man’s land since we systematically purged & flushed them out of every elective Political Office in Lagos (such as the LG Chairmen and State Assembly).

Now, their focus is on Obigbo and Porthacourt.

Their arrogance & braggadocios were taken to the high heavens simply because we accommodate them & treat them to warm hospitality.

They thumped their chests like the gorillas & chimpanzees they are that they will rule & govern Lagos State at all cost and subject we (the indigenous inhabitants) to indenture servitude in our lands.

That was when it occurred to us that our real enemies are not necessarily domiciled in the North but right in our midst.

Imagine for one moment, a Yoruba man or Hausa/Fulani man contesting for the office of the Governor in Anambra, Imo, Abia or Enugu?

These abominable osu children from the East would butcher them at night, cook them in them morning, distribute their roasted meats to their clans at noon before eating them in the twilight - just like their cannibalistic ancestors did during the colonial era.

They derive maximum joy in dishing out to others, things they can never condone.

Every Country in the world are jealous & envious of them.

My brother, I could go on and on, but let me stop here before they start accusing me of tribalism, hatred, envy & jealousy.

They went to South Afrika and triggered Xenophobia - They said the South Afrikans are envious of them because the South Afrikan women prefer them to their husbands at home.

They migrated down to Yorubaland and insulted Awolowo (our revered elder statesman) day & night and when we responded in kind - They said we are jealous of their industrious nature & achievements.

They went to Ghana and subverted the Ghanian Traders in the market through armed-robbery, kidnapping & cocaine-trafficking, the Ghanian Authorities banned them from their markets - They said the Ghanians are lazy & envious of their successes.

Their ancestors went to Kano State and called the Hausa/Fulanis mumu & cows just like they’re doing today and in 1956 , the Hausa/Fulanis butchered THEIR ANCESTORS IN KANO STATE and took over all their properties at Sabon-Gari & then drove the remainder back to their erosion-ravaged & landlocked regions in the East.

Now, decades later, these incorrigible children of abomination have returned back to Kano State to amass lots of properties in Real Estates (of course with the proceeds of their drug-trafficking) and yet, they are crying more than everybody in Nigeria that they want BIAFLA OR DEATH.

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

When the time comes, woe betides any bagger from the East that shouts “genocide" because this is an action film and it won't end quickly.

We do not compete with any group, tribe or ethnicity but we, the children of Oduduwa share traits of Lions & Lionesses in our DNA.

“The Lion teaches to avoid confrontation, but to stand up fiercely when necessary. It is through the strength of love, gentleness, and patience that the Lion holds its community together.”

Not through gri-gri, gra-gra and insulting other people of diverse ethnicity.

I wish everybody a Beautiful Weekend Package of Peace, Love & Joy!

Bless you. Nothing but the truth

God punish buhari and ipob join together may they suffer pain all the days of their life. Just disturbing good productive people of Nigeria.

Money is good.
Hustle
Make this money don't suffer on earth and end up in hell.
Fela---- calls it double wahala for deady body.

Recall that some Fulani's were alleged to have attacked a village in bassa LGA of plateau state.

Now travellers [Fulani's] on their journey who knew nothing about the previous attack are attacked by miscreants as a pay back. Life's have been lost. So sad!!!


May you not be punished for a sin you personally no nothing about.

And some useless , god forsaken idiots are still supporting this failed government.

Well there is plurality of OPINION.

MY TAKE BUHARI \ APC ARE HERE TO STEAL, KILL AND DESTROY.

when laws don't work for all and injustices hugs the land, and prosperities becomes the luxury of the few, not the masses thats this APC and buhari for you.


Failed government. Useless dullard

APC preparing to foist the drug Baron on Nigerians 2023

But it will end in tears.

Tinubu can never, will never be president.

God punish this APC government and their propaganda.
Defending the defenseless

They have a right to self determination but not by violence.

Two unless mannequins . The drug Baron and the certified dullard.

The queen of England wants me to be the heir to the throne.

Madness

Dreaded

Failed politicians
As a senator are you focused and do you eschew negative tendencies (corruption)

Advising people whose future you and your colleague's have robbed.

The lack of money is the root of evil.

Ipob are setting themselves up for a big disgrace.
Elections will hold that's certain.
This Ekpa (fool) is a fool.
He Doesn't an idea about politics.