By
Sajjad Shaukat
Taking note of the acts
of terrorism in San Bernardino, Orlando, Paris, Brussels, Munich
and Nice, Pakistani author Sajjad Shaukat said in a detailed statement that in
his research-based book, “US vs Islamic, Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous
Shift in International Relations,” which was first published in 2005, he had
already predicted terror attacks in the US and Europe.
Shaukat elaborated that
these terror-attacks cannot be seen in isolation, as the same are part of some
other related-developments, as he analyzed in the book.
Explaining previous
developments, the author wrote that injustices of the New World Order and
anti-Muslim policies had already been started by the American former President
Bush, (The Senior) when the United States emerged as the sole superpower in the
unipolar world after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union.
Mentioning other developments
and terror-events such as the manipulation of the 9/11 tragedy by the US
President George W. Bush, neoconservatives and Israeli lobbies against the
Muslims and Islamic countries, occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq by the US-led
Western countries (NATO), their brutal tactics like heavy air bombardment and
ground shelling by the sophisticated war machinery, including special military
operations and extra-judicial assassinations which killed several innocent
Muslims in these countries and other states like Somalia, Yemen etc. where
America was indirectly involved, and exploitation of the global war on terror
by Israel and India who accelerated state terrorism in the occupied territories
of the Palestine and Kashmir, and in response, the guerilla warfare by the
Muslim radicals, exchange of firings and suicide attacks on the Western
installations and nationals in the occupied countries and in various vulnerable
Islamic countries and Philippines, Shaukat has already pointed out that it was
due to this faulty strategy which organized the Islamic militant outfits like
Al-Qaeda on global and regional level, having links with one another. Such a
policy of the US-led state terrorism also resulted into more recruitment by the
militant groups who began checking the hegemony of America—inequalities of the
US-led world’s status quo like a state actor since the 9/11 tragedy, and
counterbalanced the power of the sole superpower in another way.
In the book, the author
has also mentioned Guantanamo Bay, Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and CIA torture
cells which were set up in several Muslim countries and in ships where US
secret agencies and military personnel employed various methods of torture on
the militants and suspected persons like physical violence and even murder. And
without evidence, CIA continued indiscriminate mass round-ups of the suspected
Muslim men and women in Afghanistan and Iraq and in some Arab countries.
Shaukat wrote that the
US had planned to spark a civil war between Sunnis and Shias. In this respect, he
pointed to a report of the Rand Corporation, which was prepared on behalf of
the then US Deputy Chief of Staff for Air Force. The report advocated that
Sunni-Shia, Arab-non-Arab sectarian and ethnic divides should be exploited to
promote the US objectives in the Muslim World.
The report was first
implemented in Iraq in 2004 where a chain of Shia-Sunni clashes started. After
that experiment, more deadly pattern of sectarian violence was conducted in
Pakistan, which still continues. Now, terror attacks on sectarian lines could
also be noted in case of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria and in some African
countries.
In reaction to perennial
state terrorism by the US-led entities, a number of terror-attacks and attempts
by the militants like a series of bomb attacks on London’s transport network in
2005, and plane plot in UK in 2006 with liquid bombs, and defeat of Israel in
the 2006 war by the Lebanon-based Hezbollah are in consonance with author’s
future assessments.
The author also gave
valuable suggestions to America and its Western allies, which included solution
of Palestinian and Kashmir issues, withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan,
reforming of the UNO by giving importance to the General Assembly equally with
the Security Council, redressing the grievances of the Third World,
particularly those of the Islamic countries. He emphasized stability in
Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East, which are necessary for America and
its Western partners to promote their regional and global interests. Otherwise,
he forecast that if the US new style conflict with the Muslim factions
continued, it would assume a dangerous turn in the near future. This war would
prolong and America and its allies would have to attack a number of Muslim
countries. But, instead of rectifying America’s external policy of Bush-era,
President Barack Obama and its Western allies, particularly Europe continued
faulty policies such as maintenance of troops in Afghanistan, air strikes on
Libya, support to Syrian rebels and the terrorists of the Islamic State group
(Also known as Daesh, ISIS, ISIL), including Al-Qaeda’s Al-Nusra Front in
fighting against the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Quite contrary to
Shaukat’s positive proposals, President Obama also carried on extrajudicial
killings of the innocent people through illegal CIA-operated drone attacks in
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen etc., and toppled the democratic
government of Egypt by backing the military, including support to pro-American
dictators of some Arab states like Saudi Arabia who also assist ISIS.
Sajjad Shaukat who
thoroughly analyzed secret strategies of the sovereign states in his book, says
that If President Bush franchised Al-Qaeda, President Obama and its European
allies franchised both Al-Qaeda and ISIS. It was owing to their irresponsible
approach or double game that especially ISIS has become more dangerous
terrorist group in the world, which conducted terror assaults in Indonesia,
Afghanistan, Turkey, Syria, Yemen, Libya and in some other African countries,
and has, now, enveloped the US and Europe. While, various terror attacks on
Christians in Nigeria and some other African countries by Al-Qaeda and its
affiliated groups are also noteworthy.
After the terror-related
incidents which occurred in the US and Europe, Western think-tanks and
researchers have, again, been focusing on the causes of the suicide attacks. In
this context, the author wrote in the book that besides other causes, the most
important cause behind the suicide attacks is that when real brothers, sisters,
sons, daughters, parents and the fellows of the Muslims, demanding independence
from the US-led neo-imperialism are being killed due to state terrorism,
extremism develops in the concerned persons who feel psychologically compelled
to commit violent acts and the political objectives they espouse are only a
rationalization. Psychologically speaking, when a person crosses the
stage of fear towards non-fear in these adverse circumstances, the previous one
can never be achieved and in such a case, even a coward person becomes bold to
commit suicide or any violent acts. A number of suicide missions in Iraq
(During occupation), Afghanistan, Israel and the Indian-held Kashmir verify
this fact. Particularly, some events of women committing suicide also testify
this fact. It is because of these reasons that human lives themselves become
bombs, supplying the requisites of new style deterrence.
Shaukat who clarified in
the book that like other religions, Islam is a religion of peace and Jihad does
not permit acts of terrorism or suicide assaults. By updating his observation,
he said that just as, the US-led major developed countries misused the global
war on terror to impose the agenda of neo-colonialism and neo-imperialism on
the Islamic countries, terrorist outfits such as Al-Qaeda, ISIS and their
affiliated groups also misinterpret the concept of Jihad to motivate the common
Muslims to join their outfits to target Christians, Westerners and especially
Americans. He also stated that it is religious fervour, created by Trump
against the Muslims and some irresponsible politicians of Europe, which will
further endanger the world in general and the US and Europe in particular.
Shaukat already opined
that the states and these stateless warriors could cause a major war in the
Middle East and South Asia by exploiting the terrorism phenomena. This actually
happened when there was likelihood of war between Pakistan and India, after the
Mumbai terror-attacks of 2008. Similarly, besides previous tension between
Syria and Israel, present one between Russian-led coalition of Iran, Iraq,
Syrian forces, Hezbollah and the US-led West, especially Europe are also in
accordance with author’s future assessments, as he also predicted that the
Islamic radical factions have the power to disturb a regional balance in their
favour and to give a setback to the peace processes. On the other hand, state
actors like Israel and India who are being encouraged by the double standards
of America and Europe also manipulate the opportunity to fulfill their selfish
interests, as noted in case of Syrian war and Kashmir.
The author indicated
that equation of wars of liberation in Afghanistan, Kashmir and Palestine with
terrorism have also resulted in manipulation of the terrorism-phenomena by the
militant outfits like ISIS.
Shaukat wrote that
millions of Muslims are living in the US and Europe. Some of extremist Muslims
might have been cooperating with the Islamic extremists. In this respect, the
twin bombings in the Boston Marathon (USA) which killed three people on April
15, 2013 were carried out by two Chechens who were from Chechnya. Similarly, in
a barbaric attack on May 22, 2013, two terrorists killed one British soldier in
London with knives. One of the killers was a British citizen of Nigerian
origin. Three days after that incident, a French soldier was stabbed in the
throat by an unknown terrorist in Paris. French investigations pointed out that
these two brutal acts show similarities and connections among the extremist
Muslims. Besides some terror assaults such as at US military facilities in
Chattanooga by a Kuwaiti citizen Abdulazeez, on July 16, 2015 are notable, as
ISIL claimed responsibility for these terror attacks.
Citing references of
history of Europe and secret strategies of the power-theorists like
Machiavelli, Hobbes, Morgenthau and Henry Kissinger, which are being followed
by the US and Western countries, Shaukat said in light of his book that
terrorism-related incidents of San Bernardino, Orlando, Paris, Brussels,
Munich and Nice were false flag operations, because some state actors like
Israel and America and their intelligence agencies such as CIA and particularly
Israeli Mossad were in collaboration with the ISIS which has, itself, used
home-grown Muslim extremists of America and Europe in arranging these terror
assaults. Washington and Tel Aviv wanted to obtain several aims through these
false flag terrorist attacks. In this context, they wanted to keep the US and
Europe united against Russian-led coalition in relation to Syrian war, to
divert the attention of American and European public from the prolonged war in
Afghanistan, to avoid the two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian issue—exaggeration
of the so-called Islamophobia, persecution of the Muslims in their countries
and to ensure the pro-Israeli and pro-Indian Donald J. Trump-the Republican
presidential nominee’s success in the coming presidential elections of
the United States, as he is well-known for his anti-Muslim rhetoric and in
manipulation of the terror incidents which occurred in America and Europe.
The author mentioned
that preplanned scheme of the CIA-Mossad is also inspiring the Christians and
Muslims against each other. Some terror-related assaults in America and Europe
are the result of self-resentment, conducted by the individuals, having no
links with the ISIL. For example, the teenager Ali David Sonboly who killed 9
people in Munich had no connection with the ISIS. Police investigation revealed
that he was a mentally troubled person and police also discovered extremist
material, linked to the attack by Andres Behring Brevik, the white supremacist
who murdered 77 persons in Norway in 2011. Likewise, an Afghan refugee attacked
people with an ax-and-knife in a German train near Bavarian city of Wuerzburg,
leaving five people severely injured. Although, the ISIS claimed responsibility
for the attack on the German train, yet the German authorities disclosed, “It
appears the 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who was killed by police have
self-radicalized and had no direct link to the extremists.” Regarding mass
shooting at the night gay club of Orlando, even, President Obama stated on June
12, 2016, “Federal authorities had made no definitive judgement on the killer’s
motivation, and whether he was inspired by or directed by Islamic State or
other terrorist groups. Obama made it clear by elaborating, “Shooting was the
result of Mateen’s personal resentment in relation to the gay club.”
On July 25, this year, a
priest has been killed in an attack by two armed men in a church of France near
the city of Rouen. ISIL claimed responsibility for the assault. However, CIA
and Mossad are radicalizing the Christians and the Muslims. In one way or the
other, all these events were false flag terror attacks.
Nevertheless, the author
added that all these terror-events verified his future observations. In this
connection, Shaukat has also used the term of “intermixing of races” for the
Western multicultural societies and explained that in America and Europe, it
provides a successful cover to the Muslim activists, including CIA and Mossad
in keeping them anonymous.
Sajjad Shaukat remarked
that when Iraq-based ISIS which proclaimed a worldwide caliphate by its leader
Abu Baker al-Baghdadi on June 29, 2014, its 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 and 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 the
Muslims. For the purpose, like Al-Qaeda, it is widely known for its violent
acts and propaganda which includes Internet videos of beheadings etc.
Nonetheless, besides some Islamic countries, a majority of the religious
extremists (Muslims) from the Western World joined the ISIS. In this regard,
oblivion on the part of the West—especially the US and Europe about ISIS
recruits from their countries is questionable.
The author pointed out
that despite their vast resources, technical intelligence e.g. satellites,
unmanned aerial vehicles and human intelligence—extraordinary long-range aerial
military capacity, the ability to strike at will from the space at any point on
the globe, America and its major European allies, including their secret
agencies failed in destroying the networks of ISIS and Al Qaeda, and in
stopping acts of sabotage in the US and Europe.
He wrote in the book
that line between official and non-official terrorism has been blurred in this
‘different war,’ owing to the US-led major European countries who consider themselves
rational actors, but take the weak-small Muslim countries as irrational actors,
while these big states act upon irrational policies.
The author has warned in
the last chapter of the book that if new system for world peace is not being
evolved by reconciling realism (power factor) with idealism by taking
cognizance of the collective interests of humanity—big and small states,
without discrimination, and if poverty is not being eliminated in the poor
countries, the international community could divide on religious lines,
culminating into clash of civilizations. He indicated that in case,
Israeli-Palestinian issue and Kashmir dispute remain unsettled due to the
silence of America and its major European partners, and NATO states keep
presence in Afghanistan, these countries would remain breeding grounds of
militants. He has also proposed to deploy UN forces between Israeli and
Palestinian territories and to set up no-fly zone. But Israeli-led America did
not agree. In light of analysis, mentioned in the book, Shaukat also emphasized
on the solution of the Syrian crisis.
In the book, Shaukat has
said that after the failure of power factor by America and its allies, more
state terrorism would result into more terrorism led by the militant outfits.
He has predicted more terror attacks in the US and Europe by opining that if
America and its Western allies, especially European partners continued their
present irresponsible policies in connection with Syria, Afghanistan, Kashmir,
Palestine, ISIS etc.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on
international affairs and is author of this book.
Email:
sajjad_logic_pak@hotmail.com
Courtesy Veterans
Today.
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