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| Afghans to Launch Martyr Operations Against U.S. Troops |
| 2003-01-14 |
| Two Afghan groups announced unleashing martyr operations against American forces in the southern east provinces of Afghanistan. Citing that the two groups are unknown, some observers said the announcement was part of a psychological war against the American military presence in Afghanistan. More likely posturing and face-making by groups the Pak fundos are trying to set up. They're still cheesed that Afghanistan isn't an Islamic paradise anymore... In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by IslamOnline Tuesday, January 14, Salah El-Deen Movement exhorted the Afghan people to declare Jihad against foreign troops in Afghanistan. Oh, golly! Has anybody ever suggested such a thing before? Jihad against American forces has become a duty to all Muslims just like prayers and fasting, said the statement circulated among residents in east and southern Afghanistan. âMuslims should defy international atheism because Jews and Christians, championed by Washington, are united against the Islamic Ummah,â stressed the statement. It lashed out at the Afghan government, accusing it of being a proxy installed by the enemies without the approval of the Afghan people. 'Course, they did seem pretty happy at the time... The Afghan people should restart to armed jihad in defense of religion, honor and nation, stressed the statement. Apparently the guys in charge of such things don't think they've suffered enough yet... Meanwhile, the Pakistani Wahda newspaper reported Tuesday that Salah El-Deen movement and the people of Sunnah and Jihad organization had declared Jihad against the American forces in Afghanistan though leaflets circulated in Pakita, Khost and border areas. The two groups said they trained 300 Afghan young people to carry out martyr operations against American forces, said the paper. Significantly, this training was reputed to have taken place in Pakistan... The People of Sunnah and Jihad organization groups Arab and Uzbek young people under the command of Mohammad Taher Baldash, the right hand of Uzbek commander Goama Namnagi who was killed in the American bombardment of a northern Afghan province last year, according to the Pakistani paper. They're referring to Juma Namangani, who decided to take a little nap in the dirt last November. He got bombed at the same meeting where Mohammad Atef departed this vale of tears. Juma was military commander of the Uzbekistan Islamic Movement, a wholly-owned al-Qaeda subsidiary. Speaking to IslamOnline, Mutiullah Tayeb, a well known expert in Afghan affairs, said the aforementioned statements on carrying martyr operations against American forces would be questioned by some. Some people would consider such statements as merely a media war propagated by specific individuals and unknown groups, he added. âThese statements and the new groups that emerge every day are part of a media war against the American presence in Afghanistan and the region,â said the expert. Among the parties that benefit from such statements are Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. All the lo-o-o-o-o-osers in Afghanistan, in fact... Such statements aim at maintaining the spirit of resistance and laying pressures on the Afghan government to adopt a more flexible approach with provinces from where such statements emerge, Tayeb said. Other parties exploit such indications of anti-American sentiments to secure more support and aid from the United States, he said, coming short of naming any of these parties. That's implying, and I should have thought of this myself, that at least some of the agitation in the area's inspired by the Pak government, rather than by the fundo parties, for the purpose of grabbing a few more Merkin dollars in aid... In a related development, the Peshawar-based the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported receiving to statements be fax from Al-Taliban and the Sincere Mujaheedine organization and the Muslim Youths Society. Fundo organizations are popping out of the woodwork lately, aren't they? Despite my suspicions of the Pak government, I still put it down to the Qazi and Fazl boys having taken over in NWFP and Baluchistan. They're now trying to expand west, into the rest of what they see as Pashtunistan... The Taliban and the Sincere Mujaheedin organization called on Afghan merchants to stop delivering oil and food supplies to the American forces in Afghanistan, said the AIP. âWhoever will continue to deliver such stuff (to the Americans) will be shot to death,â said the organization statement, branding as âharamâ fueling American war planes and tanks which kill innocent Muslims. Not too sure how much jet fuel we buy in the market at Kabul... I don't think it's much, though. The organization claimed in its statements that mujaheedin put ablaze two fuel containers delivering fuel to the American troops last week. âWe have taken necessary preparations to destroy and burn fuel containers delivering fuel to the enemy,â said the statement. They'll keep trying, anyway. And every time their agents get caught, they'll continue to whine and cry and protest their innocence... On its part, Muslim Youths Society stressed that those who betrayed the people and the nation be collaborating with the Americans have no right in Afghanistan and should not even call themselves Afghan. âThey will be treated as enemies according to the Islamic Shariah and the Afghan law,â said the statement. "Yar! We'll kill 'em all, just like we used to..." âThe treaties concluded by those traitors with Islamic and atheist countries have no legal ground to the Muslim Afghan people,â it added. The statement urged wealthy people not to invest their money in Afghanistan. Actually, it looks like a better investment than it did a year ago. But as we see, the Paks are working on depreciating it... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 A lot of the fundie activity is stirred up by the Paks and/or their military intelligence agency, ISI, both to teach Hindus in Pakistan to keep their heads down, and to keep Islamic fundies in India at a rolling boil, thereby tying up many Indian resources, such as half their military force and all of their government's attention, which otherwise could be used to give the Paks back some grief. |
| Posted by: Fran 2003-01-14 16:05:21 |