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People's uprising can end foreign wars against world peoples
Editing by Carolyn Bennett
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ar on Afghanistan COMMANDED, LED: October 7, 2001-October
7, 2013: United States President Barack Obama; United Kingdom Prime Minister David
Cameron; Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai. Preceded by: United States President George W. Bush; United
Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair; United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown
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U.S. President George W. Bush demanded that the Taliban hand
over Osama bin Laden and expel the al-Qaeda [now the U.S. reportedly allies with al-Qaeda
against the government of Syria] network which was supporting the Taliban in
its war with the Afghan Northern Alliance [the U.S. previously also allied with
the Northern Alliance].
The Taliban [allegedly] recommended that bin Laden leave the
country… but declined to extradite him without evidence of his involvement in
the 9/11 attacks.
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he United States refused to negotiate and launched ‘Operation
Enduring Freedom’ against the people of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. The U.S. aggression was joined by the
United Kingdom and later by Germany and other western allies in attacking the
Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in conjunction with the Northern Alliance.
“The War in Afghanistan (2001–present) refers,” in the
phrasing of a Wikipedia article on this subject, “to the intervention by NATO
and allied forces in the Afghan political struggle, following the terrorist attacks
of September 11, 2001, to dismantle the al-Qaeda terrorist organization and to
remove from power the Taliban government, which at the time controlled 90
percent of Afghanistan and hosted al-Qaeda leadership.” |
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| Civilians in crossfire Afghanistan |
fghan activist, survivor of numerous attempts on her life,
former member of the Afghanistan parliament, Malalai Joya, author of A woman among warlords: the extraordinary
story of an afghan who dared to raise her voice appeared last Thursday in interview with Democracy Now leading into
the twelfth year of the United States’ invasion and occupation of Afghanistan ─
and even longer its collusion with oppressive factions (warlords, drug lords,
terrorists, fundamentalists, corrupt politicians) arrayed against the independent
rise and advancement of the Afghan people and their institutions. This is some
of what Malalai Joya said.
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| Afghan women |
War has wrought the worst
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| U.S. against its own people |
The presence of tens of thousands troops is “like hell for
millions of Afghans,” Malalai Joya said. “Women are still the most and the prime
victims” suffering “rape, domestic violence, acid attacks, burnings of the
girls’ schools.” And violence continues to rise, she said.
Together with the horror of foreign troops is the “Taliban
in different provinces doing public executions [of women], without at least bringing
them to [Afghanistan’s] fundamentalist or mafia court,” she said. “They
[Taliban] control Afghanistan day by day [and] are getting more powerful.”
Foreign troops “double our miseries and the sorrows of our people.
Unfortunately… imperialism and
fundamentalism have joined hands to lead the world toward barbarism.
“That’s why we want the withdrawal of [foreign] troops from Afghanistan as soon as possible,” she said. Withdrawing foreign troops will lessen the power of
terrorists. “If they leave at least the warlords and the Taliban,
these terrorists, will not become even more powerful,” making it for them “easier
to eliminate the democratic people of Afghanistan and increase the suffering or
killing of innocent people who survive or remain in the country.…”
Character of, call to Americans
Clearly evident in U.S. character today, Joya says, is two-facedness.
One face is “the dirty imperialist government.” Another is “the great people … who
stand up against the wrong policies of their government, the war crimes and
warmongers.”
The latter “lives in the hearts of millions of democratic
justice-loving people around the world ─ especially oppressed people of the
world. They are the heroes for my people,” she said. And Afghanistan needs
Americans’ support against the “negative role of the occupiers” and against the
“brutalities and barbarism of fundamentalists who are puppets of the United
States.”
The Afghan activist called for “the support and solidarity
of justice-loving people of the United States to join their hands with us. We
need to be united and continue our struggle against the warmongers,” she said. Whether
concerning Iran or Iraq, Palestine, Libya or Syria, “we should fight against the
warmongers.”
Looking toward the future, the “great source of hope,” Malalai
Joya sees, are “justice-loving people around the world, and especially in the United
States,” engaged in “glorious uprisings against warmongers and economic crises.”
GLOBAL TERROR 12 years on
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2013
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September 18 U.S. in Syria
“U.S. President Barack Obama has waives provision of federal
law that bans supply of ‘lethal aid’ to terrorist groups in order to arm ‘selected’
members of the opposition in Syria.”
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/09/18/324737/obama-waives-ban-on-arming-terrorists/
October 3 U.S. in Afghanistan
Bombs account for most of the estimated 1,319 Afghan civilians killed in the first half of 2013 says new United Nations report. Afghan military officials say bombs are responsible for about 50 percent of the casualties among the country’s security forces. Twelve years after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, part of Washington’s so-called war on terror, the country continues to grapple with rampant violence. According to the United Nations, civilian deaths in Afghanistan jumped 16 percent in the first eight months of 2013, while in some eastern provinces there was a 54 percent hike in civilian casualties in the same period compared with last year. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/03/327423/taliban-kill-afghan-mayor-in-helmand/
October 4 U.S. in Yemen
The United States has come under fire repeatedly for
breaching nations’ sovereignty. Protests of drone attacks continue in Yemen; people
have held many demonstrations to condemn the violation of their national
sovereignty.
Yemenis took to the streets of a northern town on Friday to
denounce the United States and Israel for interfering in the country. The
protesters held a mass rally in Sa’ada against interference by Washington and
Tel Aviv in the country’s internal affairs. Protesters again expressed anger
over assassination drone attacks by the United States inside the country. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/04/327615/yemenis-denounce-us-israel-meddling/
October 5 U.S. in Afghanistan
At least 3,385 U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan have lost
their lives since the 2001 invasion -- which was launched with the official
objective of curbing militancy and bringing peace and stability to the country.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/05/327763/rockets-hit-us-base-in-afghanistan/
October 5 U.S. in Somalia
“Foreign special forces” in Somalia have carried out a
pre-dawn attack against an al-Shabab base in a town in the south of the
country. The attack was carried out against ‘high-profile’ targets in the town
of Barawe in the early hours of Saturday, officials said. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/05/327668/foreign-forces-attack-alshabab-base/
October 6 U.S. in Somalia and Libya
Supporting U.S. Special Forces attacks on sovereign nations
and peoples of Somalia and Libya, the U.S. Secretary of State essentially said
we kill them to bring them to justice. “We will continue to try and bring
people to justice in the appropriate way with hopes that ultimately these kinds
of activities against everybody in the world will stop,” he said. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/06/327871/kerry-defends-africa-military-operations
October 6 U.S. in Libya
The government of Libya strongly condemned the military operation by the U.S. Special Forces on its soil, describing the aggression as “an act of kidnapping.”
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/06/327921/libya-blasts-us-raid-in-tripoli/
October 6 U. S. in Pakistan
Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in the
bombings and other militant attacks since 2001 when Pakistan entered an
alliance with the United States in the U.S. “global war on terror.”
Thousands more have been displaced by the wave of violence
and militancy sweeping across the country. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/06/327917/pakistan-govt-urged-to-curb-taliban/
Sources and notes
U.S. War in Afghanistan: October 7, 2001 – present,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)
“‘Imperialism and Fundamentalism Have Joined Hands’: Malalai
Joya on 12 Years of U.S.-Led Afghan War,” October 3, 2013, http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/3/imperialism_fundamentalism_have_joined_hands_malalai
Leading into the 12th anniversary
of what has become the longest war in U.S. history; while the United States reportedly
plans to pull out the bulk of its 57,000 troops in Afghanistan, U.S. Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel says the United States is seeking to sign an accord [as
they did in Iraq] to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan for an indefinite future.
Recent news reports from Press TV, http://www.presstv.ir/
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