By
Sajjad Shaukat
As regards terrorism,
Machiavelli advises the rulers to have a lion-like image outwardly, and act
upon the traits of goat inwardly. He also suggests them foreign adventures and
the use of terror to obtain their goals. In his sense, a good ruler should be a
good opportunist and hypocrite. While echoing Machiavelli, Morgenthau points out
that sometimes, rulers act upon immoral activities like deceit, fraud,
falsehood and even murder to fulfill their selfish aims.
Indicating dual policy,
Morgenthau, and Palmer and Perkins opine, “Just as power became the instrument
of ambitious nationalism and state’s leaders, it has now become the tool of
ideologies. The true nature of the policy is concealed by ideological
justifications and rationalization.”
Although in the present
world of social media and Internet, such a sinister politics has been
replaced by modern trends such as fair-dealings, reconciliation and economic
development, yet by following the old strategies, American President Barack
Obama and neoconservatives who are in collusion with the Zionist Jews and
Israel are still acting upon dual policy towards Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State
group (Daesh), also known ISIS or ISIL. Even, America’s western allies are also
pursuing similar ambivalent strategy.
Everyone knows that
Al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban were created by the American CIA to fight against
the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
In this regard, former
British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook stated, “Throughout the 1980s, he [Bin
Laden] was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the
Russian occupation of Afghanistan.”
After fulfilling their
interests, Washington had left Afghanistan and Pakistan to face the fallout of
a prolonged conflict—terrorism and instability. These Mujahideen who pulled the
Russians out of Afghanistan, later become the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, the Muslim
Brotherhood, etc. They got the label of terrorists.
After the disintegration
of the Soviet Union, American former President Bush (The Senior) in connivance
with his Zionist-advisers took the Islamic fundamentalism as a great threat.
Since then, sometimes, Al-Qaeda have continuously been used by the US and some
western countries as a scapegoat to malign Pakistan for ‘de-nuclearisation,’ as
the latter is the only nuclear country in the Muslim World. Sometimes, they
accused Iran of harbouring terrorism, and to propagate against Tehran’s
peaceful nuclear progragmme—sometimes to achieve the goals of external policy
and sometimes to pacify their public including the opposition. In all cases,
the purpose behind has been to safeguard the interests of the Zionists and
Israel.
On November 13, 2009, a
Reuters report quoting Labeviere’s book “Corridors of Terror” (Released in
November 2003) points to negotiations between Bin Laden and CIA, which took
place two months prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks-at the American
Hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when Bin Laden was under a kidney
dialysis treatment.
Meanwhile, while making
Osama and Al-Qaeda as scapegoats, a number of fake video messages were telecast
on various TV channels and websites by some Zionists to obtain Israel’s
anti-Muslim goals. For example, during the November 2004 elections in the US, a
fake video tape helped the ex-president George W. Bush to get lead over John
Kerry.
It is well-known that in
a tape released on December 27, 2001, the authenticity of which is not in
question, Osama denied any involvement in the September 11 tragedy. However,
later, two video tapes appeared to validate his guilt in relation to 9/11,
because the main aims of the Bush administration were to provoke American
public against the Muslims and to justify global war on terror—the occupation
of Afghanistan and Iraq to possess energy resources of Central Asia and Iraq,
including proxy wars in other Middle Eastern countries. Besides other actions
of Bush era such as America’s state-sponsored terrorism in the volatile Islamic
countries, persecution of Muslims through torture, detentions and arrests, CIA
and FBI-operated facilities, promotion of sectarian violence and divide between
Sunnis and Shias in the Islamic World—radicalising the western Christians
against the Muslims, while providing a golden chance to Israel and India to
accelerate the systematic genocide of the Palestinians and Kashmiries by
equating the wars of liberation in the controlled territories of Palestine and
Kashmir with terrorism.
It was because of the
dual strategy of Bush through war on terror, and on the other side, response of
Al-Qaeda militants by clandestine terror attacks, as shown through a number of
the past suicidal missions such as on Indonesian resort island of Bali, Saudi
Arabia, Spain etc., and a series of bomb attacks on London’s transport network,
including those ones in other Afro-Asian countries have clearly pointed out
that Al-Qaeda was organized on world level. But, the outfit lost control on its
affiliated militant groups. Al-Qaeda’s decimated old guard may no longer be
able to mount elaborately detailed plots, executed by other trained terrorists
of various new groups which claim their links with Al-Qaeda, but, are not under
its direct command. For example, in Somalia—splitting away of a
hardliner-faction Al-Shabaab is an offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union, though
the US defined Al-Shabaab as Al-Qaida allies.
In this connection,
about the two bombs which blew the 18-story headquarters of the British-owned
HSBC bank and the British consulate in Istanbul in November, 2003, Turkish
officials had remarked that these were the work of homegrown extremists.
In March 2004, the
former CIA Director, George Tenet said, “Al-Qaeda has become a loose collection
of regional networks working autonomously-[they] pick their own targets, they
plan their own attacks…in this new phase of franchise terrorism, Al-Qaeda has been
described as an idea rather than an organization.”
Notably, President Obama
who had stated during his first election, “Bush has made the world the most
dangerous place”, and he would rectify the blunders, committed by his
predecessor in the name of war on terror—continued the same in their worst
form. However, Obama-led Administration went on with various techniques of
ruthless terror and extrajudicial killings of the innocent persons through
illegitimate drone attacks—assisting undemocratic forces, toppling the elected
government in Egypt, and like Iraq, creation of more collapsed states such as
Libya, Yemen, Syria etc., and covert assistance to Israel.
If the double game of
President Bush (The Senior) and George W. Bush franchised Al-Qaeda on global
level, President Obama’s dual policy franchised both Al-Qaeda and ISIS as part
of the anti-Muslim campaign and left no stone unturned in advancing the agenda
of the Zionists, Israeli lobbies and the neoconservatives in the pretext of
global war on terror. Secretly, Obama authorized CIA to create ISIS. His
perennial covert support to the Israeli atrocities on the Palestinians, silence
over the supply (Smuggling) of oil by ISIS to some European countries whose
governments have also not taken action against those companies which are
exporting oil from the ISIS-controlled regions of Iraq, CIA-assisted Al-Qaeda
(Al-Nusra Front) and ISIS militants, continued sectarian violence and prolonged
engagement of its troops (NATO) in Afghanistan might be cited as instance.
Moreover, the Middle East was deliberately thrown in worst form of terrorism
and civil wars for achieving the goal of a greater Israel.
The terrorist acts of
both Al-Qaeda and ISIS have been utilized by Obama in distorting the image of
Islam and Jihad so as to pacify American public in wake of multiple internal
and external problems like heavy cost of prolonged ‘different war’, financial
crisis, demoralization of troops in Afghanistan etc.
President Obama’s
deliberate contradictory approach could also be judged from the fact that on
February 3, this year, during his first visit to a US mosque, he condemned
inexcusable political rhetoric against Muslim-Americans, and said, “So often,
Muslim Americans are targeted and blamed for the acts of a few.”
In the recent past, some
developments like Russian successful airstrikes on the ISIS targets in the
northern Syria—its coalition with Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon-based Hezbollah
in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, retreat of the CIA-supported rebels
and mercenaries after their failure to topple his government, proving links of
Al-Qaeda and ISIS with America and Israeli, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
clear-cut statement, indicating the Zionist regime in the US and
Israel for their “fake war on ISIL”, and remarking, “NWO (New
World Order) agents and Satan worshipers simply have no clothes,” including the
first Vienna meeting on Syrian crisis, where the US Secretary of State John
Kerry agreed to keep the Syrian president in power (Contrary to previous demand
of regime change), for a unified state of Syria, not to allow ISIL militant
group to reign in Syria, and America’s decision of sending 50 special
forces to Syria to help in taking down ISIS terrorists have clearly
exposed hidden aims of the US global war on terror which is based upon dual
policy towards ISIS.
In these circumstances,
as part of the Zionist conspiracy against the West, Muslims and the patriot
Americans, Israeli Secret agency Mossad utilized the services of ISIS
terrorists in arranging the November 13 terror attacks in Paris. In the
post-Paris attacks, by producing anti-Muslim phenomena like the propaganda of
the so-called threat of Islamophobia, persecution of the Muslims in the US,
Europe and some other western countries, Israel-led America also got the
assistance of its western allies (NATO) against Russia. Now, as part of their
ambivalent approach, American jet fighters and those of its western coalition
are targeting the ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
Besides, in wake of the
presidential election-campaign, ordinary Americans are focusing on internal
problems which are the result of prolonged war on terror. Patriot Americans are
openly criticizing the Zionist-protected policies of the US. Taking cognizance,
Obama has asked Turkey to withdraw its forces from Iraq’s territories. In the
recent past, John Kerry gave ultimatum to the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
to agree for the two-state solution of the Palestinian dispute.
Meanwhile, some recent
developments have further exposed the dual strategy of the US-led west.
The Russia-led coalition which have successfully been
achieving its objectives have broken the backbone of the ISIS terrorists,
Al-Qaeda’s Al-Nusra Front and the rebels who have vacated most of the areas of
Syria and Iraq. On February 3, this year, Syrian troops backed by Russian
warplanes cut the last supply route, linking rebels and ISIS militants in
Aleppo city. Aleppo is near the Turkish border from where with the backing of
the US-led west (Especially, UK and France), Turkey has also been supporting
the rebels and ISIS terrorists, while Saudi Arabia and some other Gulf
countries like Qatar are funding them to oust the Assad’s regime.
It is of particular
attention that the representatives of the rebels had refused to participate in
the recently-held Geneva peace talks (Held on February 1) by demanding that
first Russia should stop airstrikes. When John Kerry insisted them to “seize
the opportunity” to participate in UN-backed peace talks on Syria, they agreed
to participate. It has clearly exposed America’s dual strategy.
Taking note of the weak
position of the ISIS militants and rebels who received a greater blow, their
representatives in Geneva who first time participated in talks, demanded that
Russia-led coalition should stop siege of Aleppo city for the
success of negotiations. The UN has suspended peace talks, and now would resume
on February 25.
As part of the double
game, America and its allies, particularly France have held Russia and Syrian
President Assad responsible for the suspension of Geneva peace talks.
It is worth-mentioning
that CIA-Mossad-backed ISIS commanders who are fleeing Iraq and Syria are
taking shelter in Libya. In this context, on February 3, 2016, BBC pointed out,
“Senior commanders from so-called Islamic State (IS) have moved to Libya
from Iraq and Syria recently.”
On the one side, on
February 4, this year, a donor conference held in London where the world’s rich
countries, particularly Germany, Britain, the US and EU pledged billions of
dollars to help Syrian refugees, scattered around the world, and especially
those who have taken shelter in Europe, while on the other, they are still
backing the rebels and ISIS terrorists, and are also targeting them through
areal strikes.
Now, taking cognizance
of the weak leverage of bargaining of the US-led western countries on Syrian
question, some countries like Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Israeli are encouraging
the ISIS militants to continue terror attacks on the Shias and in Syria. Besides
previous similar assaults in Syria, ISIS claimed responsibility for a triple
bombing which killed 45 people near a Shia shrine in Damascus, on January 31,
2015.
As regards manipulation
of the Syrian crisis, notably, on February 1, this year, the Russian Defense Ministry has presented video evidence which shows
Turkish military shelling on the Syrian territory.
While, in case of
Afghanistan, there are several groups of Al-Qaeda, ISIS and Taliban like the
Afghan-based Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Some of them are being
used by secret agencies like CIA, Israeli Mossad and Indian RAW to obtain the
collective and individual designs of their countries against Pakistan and
Middle Eastern countries. India and Israel which
want to prolong the stay of the US-led NATO troops in Afghanistan which have
become the center of covert activities, are exploiting their dual policy,
particularly of America against Pakistan, China and Iran. Terrorists of TTP and
ISIS which are strategic assets of the CIA have claimed responsibility
for several terror attacks inside Pakistan, including at Charsadda’s university
of Pakistan and recent ones in Afghanistan.
By
utilizing the vicious circle of terrorism and the dual policy of America, some western countries, Israel and
India, Al-Qaeda, ISIS and TTP also employ double game. Besides working for CIA,
Mossad and RAW, these militant outfits also motivate the common Muslims for
suicide attacks and terror-related activities as part of Jihad. Otherwise,
Jihad does not permit suicide attacks. Like other religions, Islam is a
religion of peace and prohibits any sort of terrorism.
Iraq-based ISIS which
itself broke away from Al-Qaeda, proclaimed a worldwide caliphate by its leader
Abu Baker al-Baghdadi, on 29 June 2014. ISIS’s criminal actions had widely been
criticized in the world, with many Islamic communities judging the group to be
unrepresentative of Islam. One of ISIS’s goals has been to establish a radical
Sunni Islamic state in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Palestine etc. (Levant region). It
has been used by the US and Israel for distorting the image of Islam and for
inciting the feelings of western Christians and Kurds against Muslims. For the
purpose, like Al-Qaeda, it is widely known for its violent acts and propaganda
which includes Internet videos of beheadings etc. However, besides some Islamic
countries, a majority of the religious extremists (Muslims) from the western
world joined the ISIS. In this context, oblivion on the part of the west about
ISIS recruits from their countries is questionable.
Saudi Arabian rulers who
have already been funding the ISIS against Iran and Syria, have been fighting
for survival of their kingship. In accordance with Israel-led American secret
strategy, Saudi Arabia has chosen the path of leading unrest in the Middle East
by promoting sectarian violence. Notably, the US decided to revive the phony
war on terror through Saudi Arabia. American President Obama knew that much
resentment is found in the Muslim countries against the US and Israel. Therefore,
he directed Saudi Arabia to form an alliance of the Sunni countries to wage a
war against the ISIS. On December 15, 2015, Riyadh which also wanted to protect
its monarchy in the pretext of fighting the ISIS terrorists, announced a
34-state Sunni-based military alliance. Washington immediately welcomed the
alliance.
It is noteworthy that
like the drastic aftermath of 9/11 tragedy, rulers and politicians of the
US-led western countries, especially of Europe are again misguiding their
general public by creating chauvinism against the Muslim World by exploiting
the critical situation, after the Paris disaster and the shooting at San
Bernardino, California. In fact, fault cannot be laid on the ordinary citizens
who are swayed by stereotypes and prejudices created by the political leaders
who keep on manipulating any crisis for their own self-interests with the sole
aim of getting their sympathies to increase their vote bank. There are equal
strong pressures from religious and nationalist forces in wake of global war on
terror which are dividing the world on religious lines.
As regards the
anti-Muslim policy, on January 18, 2015, British
Prime Minister David Cameron announced that Muslim women who fail to learn English to a high
enough standard could face deportation from Britain. He also suggested
that poor English skills can leave people “more susceptible to the messages of
groups like Islamic State (IS).”
Cameroon was quickly
criticized by Andy Burnham, the shadow home secretary, Sayeeda Warsi, the Tory
peer and former party co-chairman for singling out Muslim women as the main
group. They said, “His clumsy approach to challenging extremism is unfairly
stigmatising a whole community...evidence suggests [Racial] gang culture,
Islamophobia, [and] responses to foreign policy are greater drivers of
radicalisation” than failure to learn English.”
Earlier,
Donald Trump, the leading contender to become the Republican Party’s nominee
for US presidential candidate had called for a ban on Muslims, entering the United States in
response to the San Bernardino shooting.
In the
past few days, tensions over Europe’s migrant crisis led to violence in Sweden
and the UK, with a masked mob calling for attacks on foreigners in Stockholm,
and nearly 100 men gathered on January 29, resulted into clashes between
pro-and anti-migrant demonstrators in the British town of Dover.
And under the threat of
ISIS, especially European governments and EU have been expelling the immigrants
from their countries, while discouraging more Syrian refugees. On the other
side, they are also trying to resolve the Syrian crisis. However, it shows
contradictory policy.
On
January 25, 2016, The EU’s law
enforcement agency Europol revealed that ISIS have set up special forces style training
camps in Europe, as they plot mass casualty civilian strikes on the continent.
Nevertheless,
it is due to the dual policy of the US-led western world that ISIS which is
most dangerous terrorist group than Al-Qaeda is rapidly spreading its tentacles
to all over the world. On January 14, 2015, multiple blasts and gunfire killed seven people and jolted the
Indonesian capital Jakarta. The ISIS claimed responsibility. The Indonesian
investigative agency disclosed that the ISIS carried out the attacks with the
help of home-grown terrorists. On October 4,
2015, ISIS-affiliated militant outfit Boko Haram claims responsibility for
Nigeria’s deadly suicide bombings which killed 18 people on October 4.
Despite
widespread protests across the country in recent days, the French government
confirmed on February 3 that it would seek a three-month extension of the state
of emergency it declared after the Paris attacks. It indicates that if ISIS
conducts more terror attacks in France and other European countries, they would
move towards autocracy.
Nonetheless,
either Muslims are being massacred by terrorist groups in Syria, Iraq and
Pakistan or Christians in Nigeria or anywhere—or they are targeted by
racialists, all these acts are strongly condemnable, as they are all human
beings. Hence, instead of pursuing dual strategy about ISIS which is proving extremely
counterproductive, the US and its allies must better agree for an international
coalition to fight this militant outfit and Al-Qaeda.
In this
regard, President Putin has said on January 11, 2015, “The West of exacerbating
international crises that had contributed to it...we are faced with common
threats, and we still want all countries, both in Europe and the whole world,
to join their efforts to combat these threats.”
If dual policy towards
Al-Qaeda and especially ISIS continues by the US-led western countries, it will
create chaos in the Middle East, enveloping the entire world, and may culminate
into “Clash of Civilizations.” Any major war or such a clash will take the US
and Europe to the era—from 1511 to 1648 when Europe witnessed a prolonged arena
of barbarism, religious bigotry and intolerance, resulting into beastly
violence.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on
international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants,
Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
Email:
sajjad_logic@yahoo.com
Courtesy: The Veterans
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