[ppi] [ppiindia] Re: Afghanistan: Return of the jihadis

** Milis Nasional Indonesia ppi-india **
     Soal terorisme kita setuju harus diberantas oleh kita semua. 
Tapi apa yang dilakukan USA dan kawan2nya salah dan tidak tepat. 
Mengapa? Mengapa hanya memberantas AKIBATNYA saja, bukan akarnya dari 
terorisme ini.

One has to deal with the root problem of terrorism - everywhere. Be 
it in the Mid East, South East asia, the US or Europe.  Terrorism is 
an ooposing act of thsoe oppressed who have no power to mount a head-
on attack - thus they attack from the back, they attack "below the 
belt" as it were. 
terrorism in Islamic world is caused by the oppression of the rulers -
 be they are of the same origin and even religion (in Saudi Arabia)or 
by foreign powers like Israel in Palestina or American occupaying 
power in Iraq or Spanairsd in Basque.    Hence attack the oppressors, 
give the people freedom and welfare, feed them, educate them etc - 
and, voila, no more terrorism.  If you only deal with the terrorits, 
you are only treating the results, not the cause.  

Jadi hingar bingarnya kegiatan anti terroris mestinya harus ditujukan 
pada menghilangkan akar penyebabnya - ketidak adilan, kebodohan, 
kemelaratan, penjajahan oleh orang Asing dsb dsb. Kalau otrang sudah 
bebas, sehat, terdidik dan hidup mapan, mana mereka mau jadi 
terroris, bom bunh diri dsb.

Hence the billions of dollars spent by the US should have been wisely 
used to combat illiteracy, poverty, injustice by the opporessors 
(but  they are friends of the Israelis!), give the people more 
education, more food, more health -- and there will be no more Bin 
Ladens, no more al qaeda no more ETA etc and the world at large will 
be much safer. The US needs no additional Department - no need for a 
Homeland Security Department!!  The way things are done by the US, 
they will be wasting their money and there will be no guarantee of 
security.
Make peace (and love if you want), not war! 



--- In ppiindia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ambon" <sea@xxxx> wrote:
> http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/FD01Ag02.html
> 
> Afghanistan: Return of the jihadis
> By Syed Saleem Shahzad
> 
> KARACHI - With the onset of summer and the ice now melting in the 
mountains
> of Afghanistan, the most organized global struggle yet of the 
International
> Islamic Front partners has begun to defeat the United States and 
coalition
> forces at their hub in Afghanistan.
> 
> The early manifestations of this can already be seen in Uzbekistan, 
where a
> series of terror attacks over the past few days have left more than 
40
> people dead, and in the foiled terror attacks in Britain and the
> Philippines. But the real battlefield is Afghanistan, where 
Pakistan,
> already the world's backyard of radical Islam, will play an 
important role.
> 
> The Uzbek struggle
> Events in Uzbekistan, including suicide attacks and culminating in a
> shootout on Tuesday, are the bloodiest wave of violence to hit the 
former
> Soviet republic since it enlisted as a key US ally in the "war on 
terrorism"
> soon after the 2001 September 11 attacks. A US air base there 
proved an
> important strategic asset in the US aerial attacks on Afghanistan.
> 
> Some reports have blamed the Hizb ut-Tahrir, but this is unlikely 
to be the
> case, as this group, although committed to the overthrow of existing
> political regimes and their replacement with a caliphate, has 
traditionally
> been non-violent.
> 
> Rather, the violence in Uzbekistan is much more likely to be linked 
to
> Afghanistan and the struggle that is to be played out there in the 
coming
> months.
> 
> Pakistan's Central Asia connection
> In the development of Islamic radicalism in Uzbekistan, 
the "Naqshband"
> circle of Sufis emerged as an underground network during Soviet 
rule in
> opposition to the Soviet system. These Sufis believed in militancy 
against
> "tyrant" rulers. The network's first contact with Pakistan's Inter-
Services
> Intelligence (ISI) came when the Sufis began resistance operations 
against
> the Soviets after the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
> 
> In collaboration with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the 
ISI
> actively assisted the militants, and also devised a strategy to 
take the
> struggle back to USSR soil, apart from Afghanistan.
> 
> The go-between for this was the Hizb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), 
led by
> Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is now once again spearheading operations 
in
> Afghanistan. The HIA helped spread the revolutionary literature of 
the
> Muslim Brotherhood in the Central Asian republics. The aim was not 
to
> convert ordinary Muslims, but to recruit revolutionaries who would 
attack
> the Soviet system from within their own regions, including 
Uzbekistan. These
> operations were launched in the mid and late 1980s, and over the 
years a
> whole new generation has evolved committed to underground 
operations. They
> are not an isolated community, like the Pakistani tribals, who are 
easily
> identified with their links to militants. This new generation of 
militants
> is part and parcel of Central Asian urban culture, and like any 
secret
> agents, they are not easily identifiable.
> 
> Meanwhile, the Pakistan army established a special intelligence 
cell within
> the HIA for which Pakistanis and Afghans were trained. All of the 
Pakistanis
> were ISI operators. However, after 1989, at the end of the Soviet 
invasion
> of Afghanistan, the HIA began to work independently and it absorbed 
many
> Arabs into the intelligence cell, as well as Central Asian youths. 
These
> were sent to training camps in Afghanistan, where they were drilled 
by Arab
> instructors. The Central Asian recruits, therefore, forged good 
ties with
> many Arabs.
> In the early 1980s Afghanistan also served as a testing ground for 
Pakistani
> dictator Zia ul-Haq's vision, along with his chief spy master, then
> Lieutenant-General Akhtar Abdul Rehman (later a full general), for 
an
> international Islamic brigade. This matured into Osama bin Laden's
> International Islamic Front, a loose umbrella front for 
organizations that
> include al-Qaeda and independent cells in Central Asia comprising 
militants
> nurtured by the CIA-ISI nexus and trained in the HIA's Afghanistan 
camps.
> 
> In this context, the terror in Uzbekistan, which borders 
Afghanistan, cannot
> be seen in isolation, rather as the beginning of a new jihad in 
Afghanistan
> that will tap into resources, especially those in Central Asia, 
developed
> over many years.
> 
> (Copyright 2004 Asia Times Online Ltd. All rights reserved. Please 
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