Afghanistan: The Genesis of the the Final Crusade Afghanistan: The Genesis of the Final Crusade Afghanistan: The Genesis of the Final Crusade ABID ULLAH JAN Pragmatic Publishing Ottawa Afghanistan: The Genesis of the Final Crusade Copyright © 2006 by Pragmatic Publishing, Canada Trade paperback/bound edition March 2006 All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted in any forms or by any means, electronic or otherwise, without prior written consent of the publisher — or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a license from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency — is an infringement of the copyright law. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Jan, Abid Ullah, 1965- Afghanistan : the genesis of the final crusade / Abid Ullah Jan. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-9733687-4-8 (bound).--ISBN 0-9733687-2-1 (pbk.) 1. Afghan War, 2001-. 2. War on Terrorism, 2001-. I. 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PRAGMATIC PUBLISHING Web: http://www.pragmaticpublishings.com/ Contents PREFACE 9 INTRODUCTION The Pre-planned Aggression 13 CHAPTER 1 The Motivational Force Behind The War 33 CHAPTER 2 The Architects of War 61 The Main Reason for the Crusade 70 Faith in Force or Super-fascism 75 The Fear of Khilafah, Not “Terrorism” 77 CHAPTER 3 The Real Challenge 85 CHAPTER 4 From Jihad to Crusade 113 Beginning Of the Last Crusade 125 Crusaders vs. the Taliban 132 At Odds With Islam 134 Reality Behind the Taliban-Phobia 145 Avoiding the Real Issue 153 The Taliban’s Actual Crimes 159 CHAPTER 5 The Staged 9/11: Pre-Planned Crusade Begins 165 Bush’s Involvement 176 Analysts’ Perspective of the 9/11 178 Bush Administration’s Unusual Response 183 Afghanistan: The Genesis of the Final Crusade Contrary to Commonsense 185 The Unsubstantiated Allegation Against the Taliban 187 Pre-Conceived Conclusions 200 “Inside job” Was Not Without a Reason 207 CHAPTER 6 Legitimacy of the War and Occupation 211 Building On the Crusaders’ Agenda 215 Lost Between the Fact and Fiction 219 Occupation Is Not for Humanitarian Reasons 221 Paving the Way for Dislodging The Taliban 228 Illegality of the War 232 CHAPTER 7 Extreme Intolerance: A Sign of Religious Vengeance 249 The Use of Illegal Weapons 255 War Crimes, Religion and Muslim Prisoners 261 CONCLUSION The Real Motives Confirmed 269 The Crux of the Matter 276 Consequences 288 Notes 293 Bibliography 335 Index 339 About the Author 353 Editor’s Note This is the first book of its kind that presents a compelling insider’s perspective with some valuable insight into the war and occupation of Afghanistan. Abid Jan takes you into the minds of the warriors on the bat- tle field in Afghanistan and to the heart of the decisions that put them there. In this remarkable piece of work, the author nails the tragedy and absurdity of the prep-planned war on Afghani- stan. Abid Jan has harnessed his first hand knowledge and in- depth analysis to produce a work of incantatory power in which the lies and misinformation about the Taliban are allowed to collapse by sheer weight of accumulation. This book gives the first and only clearest and most persuasive explanation of how Osama bin Laden was set up for shoulder- ing the blame of 9/11 attacks, why the Taliban become a prime target of Islamophobes and why perpetrators of 9/11 felt the need to commit this heinous crime. Written with great clarity and precision, this book exposes the extra ordinary religious motivation and political hypocrisy behind the march to war on Afghanistan. This is the first book which does more than devastatingly re- fute the mendacity of the US Afghanistan policy and proves that the war on Afghanistan is illegal and illegitimate by all standards of international law. Abid Jan presents a chilling portrait of the religious forces which have commandeered American foreign policy, revealing the arrogance, assumptions and contradictions about Islam that have had such disastrous consequences, not only for Afghanistan but the world at large. Afghanistan: The Genesis of the Final Crusade This book is dedicated to the victims of 9/11—the 3000, who lost their lives in the United States and the thousands upon thousands who died and continue to die in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan— and the truth seekers, who are trying to expose the real culprits behind the most horrible crime of our age. Preface HILE condemnations for Iraq’s occupation continue to dominate the headlines, Afghanistan has slipped beyond the radar screens of both the so-called main- Wstream media as well as the anti-war groups and independent web bloggers. For the most part critics of the American empire on the left have also approved the official story of 9/11 and the rationale behind the war and occupation of Afghanistan. For the first time in the history of nation-states, the occupation of a sovereign state has been globally accepted as fully legitimate. The silence and assumed legitimacy of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan are directly proportional to the Taliban’s presumed illegitimacy and the official story of 9/11. Many researchers are exposing the truth behind the official story. However, there is hardly anyone willing to unearth the very foundations of the Tal- iban’s presumed illegitimacy. The co-opted media and other vested interests played a pivotal role in indoctrinating minds which now consider the occupation of Afghanistan as a benevolent exercise. In fact, it is far worse than the Soviet occupation, which was, at least, reviewed and 0 Afghanistan: The Genesis of the Final Crusade condemned at the United Nations on almost a monthly basis. Today, we are witnessing a strange paradox. While support for Bush’s War in Iraq is ebbing away due to relentless pressure by the many anti-war movements, the war goes on in Afghanistan without any meaningful criticism from any quarter. Those, who criticize the voluminous lies and deceptions regarding the Iraq war, are proving themselves to be unwitting victims of much big- ger lies with regards to the war of aggression on Afghanistan. Independent researchers challenge the official story of 9/11, but hardly anyone attempts to connect the dots to see that the bloody drama of 9/11 was staged in order to create a pretext for invading Afghanistan. Like the lies about Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), 9/11 was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan. The lies about Iraq’s WMD and the official story of 9/11 are mere ruses used to wage wars which were planned well in advance. Unfortunately, despite many researchers drawing the conclu- sion that 9/11 was an “inside job,” there is hardly any move to show that 9/11 was a small part of a bigger plan. Analysts are studying facts surrounding the mysterious collapse of WTC tow- ers and the “stand down” of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). However, they ignore that the why 9/11 aspect is just as important as the how. Invasion of Afghanistan was the first military step towards in- stitutionalizing the war against a faith based on praxis, rather than theoretical theological formulations. In the case of Iraq, the motives seem slightly different due to a mix of arrogance, revenge and greed. In the case of Afghanistan, however, the motivation came from the crusading spirit, determined to never allow Mus- lims to live by Islam. There is no other explanation to the contrary. Sane minds would never commit the heinous crime of 9/11 against their own people without the hope of achieving higher objectives than mere oil and pipelines—objectives, which they may consider worth P r e f a c e 11 killing 3000 Americans, destroying the landmark buildings and hitting the Pentagon. This book digs out the facts to show the real motives behind 9/11 and the consequences of considering occupation of Afghanistan as legitimate. Even those who agree with the official story admit that the U.S. administration had “prior knowledge.” The question they ignore is that if the administration lied, if the administration ignored warnings, why did it do so? What was the motive? What did it want to gain from allowing these barbaric acts against its own people? The answer is simple: to pave the way for invasion and occupation of Afghanistan for which the administration could not come up with a convincing pretext. The answer to the next important question, “Why Afghani- stan?” lies in the explanation given in the following chapters. Furthermore, some researchers, such as A. S. Adler, are now coming to the conclusion that the United States’ “judgment of the Taliban was seriously mistaken and the overthrow of their re- gime unjustified.” In a public introductory letter about his book, As thou Goest by the Way, A.S. Adler writes: “[the Taliban] ap- pear to have been what they claimed to be: carefully observant Moslems with no interest in attacking the US or in harboring those who would commit such acts. As an Islamic government they were required by their own sense of duty to God to pro- vide a suitable judicial proceeding under Moslem law for any ac- cused before that person could be turned over for punishment. Our response to them—essentially a combination of threats and bribes—was as likely to succeed with them as using the same techniques to try to get them to eat pork in public.” Despite admitting the core reality, these researchers doubt that sanctions, attacks and war against the Taliban was religiously motivated.