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The Final Crusade / Abid Ullah Jan 1 Afghanistan: The Genesis of the INTRODUCTION Afghanistan: Final The Genesis of the Crusade the Final Crusade ABID ULLAH JAN Pragmatic Publishing Ottawa 2 Copyright © 2006 by Pragmatic Publishing, Canada Trade paperback/bound edition March 2006 Contents 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 PREFACE ............................................................................................. 4 Copyright Licensing Agency — is an infringement of the copyright law. INTRODUCTION The Pre-planned Aggression ........................................... 6 Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication CHAPTER 1 The Motivational Force Behind The War .................... 15 CHAPTER 2 The Architects of War ..................................................... 27 Jan, Abid Ullah, 1965- The Main Reason for the Crusade ................................. 32 Afghanistan : the genesis of the final crusade / Abid Ullah Jan. Faith in Force or Super-fascism ..................................... 34 Includes bibliographical references and index. The Fear of Khilafah, Not ―Terrorism‖ .......................... 35 ISBN 0-9733687-4-8 (bound).--ISBN 0-9733687-2-1 (pbk.) CHAPTER 3 The Real Challenge............................................................. 38 1. Afghan War, 2001-. 2. War on Terrorism, 2001-. I. Title. CHAPTER 4 From Jihad to Crusade ....................................................... 48 DS371.412.J35 2006 958.104‘6 C2006-900587-7 Beginning Of the Last Crusade ...................................... 53 Crusaders vs. the Taliban ............................................... 56 All sources have been referenced and acknowledged. The author and publisher At Odds With Islam ........................................................ 56 welcome any information enabling them to rectify any error or omission in future editions. The Reality Behind the Taliban-Phobia ........................ 61 Avoiding the Real Issue .................................................. 64 PRAGMATIC PUBLISHING Web: http://www.pragmaticpublishings.com/ The Taliban‘s Actual Crimes .......................................... 66 CHAPTER 5 The Staged 9/11: Pre-Planned Crusade Begins........... 69 Reprinted and Published in Pakistan by: Bush‘s Involvement ............................................ 73 MARKAZI ANJUMAN KHUDDAM-UL-QURAN Analysts‘ Perspective of the 9/11 ....................... 74 36-K, Model Town, Lahore Bush Administration‘s Unusual Response ......... 76 Under Authorization Contrary to Commonsense ................................. 77 Email: [email protected] Nov. 2007 3 The Unsubstantiated Allegation Against the Taliban ............................................ 78 Editor’s Note Pre-Conceived Conclusions ............................. 83 ―Inside job‖ Was Not Without a Reason ........... 86 This is the first book of its kind that presents a compelling insider‘s CHAPTER 6 Legitimacy of the War and Occupation ............ 88 perspective with some valuable insight into the war and occupation of Afghanistan. Building On the Crusaders‘ Agenda ................. 89 Abid Jan takes you into the minds of the warriors on the battle Lost Between the Fact and Fiction .................... 91 field in Afghanistan and to the heart of the decisions that put them Occupation Is Not for Humanitarian Reasons ....... 92 there. In this remarkable piece of work, the author nails the tragedy and absurdity of the prep-planned war on Afghanistan. Abid Jan has Paving the Way for Dislodging The Taliban ...... 95 harnessed his first hand knowledge and in-depth analysis to produce Illegality of the War ........................................... 96 a work of incantatory power in which the lies and misinformation about the Taliban are allowed to collapse by sheer weight of CHAPTER 7 Extreme Intolerance: A Sign of Religious accumulation. Vengeance .......................................................... 103 This book gives the first and only clearest and most persuasive The Use of Illegal Weapons .............................. 106 explanation of how Osama bin Laden was set up for shouldering the blame of 9/11 attacks, why the Taliban become a prime target of War Crimes, Religion and Muslim Prisoners ... 108 Islamophobes and why perpetrators of 9/11 felt the need to commit CONCLUSION The Real Motives Confirmed ........................... 111 this heinous crime. Crux of the Matter ........................................... 114 Written with great clarity and precision, this book exposes the extra ordinary religious motivation and political hypocrisy behind Consequences ................................................... 118 the march to war on Afghanistan. Notes ........................................................................... 120 This is the first book which does more than devastatingly refute the Bibliography ........................................................................... 146 mendacity of the US Afghanistan policy and proves that the war on Afghanistan is illegal and illegitimate by all standards of About the Author ......................................................................................... 148 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. 4 Preface HILE condemnations for Iraq‘s occupation continue to dominate the headlines, Afghanistan has slipped beyond W the radar screens of both the so-called mainstream media as well as the anti-war groups and independent web bloggers. For This book is dedicated to the victims of 9/11—the 3000, who lost the most part critics of the American empire on the left have also their lives in the United States and the thousands upon thousands approved the official story of 9/11 and the rationale behind the war who died and continue to die in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan— and occupation of Afghanistan. and the truth seekers, who are trying to expose the real culprits For the first time in the history of nation-states, the occupation of a behind the most horrible crime of our age. 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 Taliban‘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 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 bigger 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 5 in advance. Taliban was seriously mistaken and the overthrow of their regime unjustified.‖ In a public introductory letter about his book, As thou Unfortunately, despite many researchers drawing the Goest by the Way, A.S. Adler writes: ―[the Taliban] appear to have conclusion that 9/11 was an ―inside job,‖ there is hardly any been what they claimed to be: carefully observant Moslems with move to show that 9/11 was a small part of a bigger plan. no interest in attacking the US or in harboring those who would Analysts are studying facts surrounding the mysterious collapse commit such acts. As an Islamic government they were required of WTC towers and the ―stand down‖ of the North American Air by their own sense of duty to God to provide a suitable judicial Defense Command (NORAD). However, they ignore that the why proceeding under Moslem law for any accused before that person 9/11 aspect is just as important as the how. could be turned over for punishment. Our response to them— Invasion of Afghanistan was the first military step towards essentially a combination of threats and bribes—was as likely to institutionalizing the war against a faith based on praxis, rather succeed with them as using the same techniques to try to get them than theoretical theological formulations. In the case of Iraq, the to eat pork in public.‖ motives seem slightly different due to a mix of arrogance, revenge Despite admitting the core reality, these researchers
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