Can we just leave Afghanistan alone for a hundred years at least now?

The Taliban Retake Afghanistan in 4 days after the US military pack up and leave.

By Dark Politricks

I guess the Taliban are now the worlds best equipped army with American weapons apart from the US, considering the American army just left Bagram Airbase full of stock, leaving everything behind as they left, forgetting to tell the Afghan army they had trained, that they were leaving.

Within hours looters within hours had stolen TVs, laptops and bicycles. When the Afghan Army finally got to the base they found a junk yard of rotting food and scenes that showed how quickly the US withdrawal was with half drunk cups of coffee everywhere.

Then within days, the Taliban moved on the base and took over billions of dollars worth of weapons, guns, rocket launchers, helicopters and Humvee's as the Afghan army forgot they were supposed to be fighting them and instead handed everything over and decided to join them on their march to Kabul.

I think the US really needs to plan their exit strategy better next time so they don't end up making a rag tag army of locals into a well equipped modern army that could take most countries on.

Do any of the Taliban know how to fly a helicopter though?

I suppose it doesn't matter, the Afghan Army, who the US paid billions of tax payers $$ to train, will show them how to.

Biden said recently that Kabul would not fall because the Afghan army was 300,000 strong, and the best trained and equipped as any in the world.

Shame nearly all of them just laid down their weapons to the oncoming Taliban and joined them.

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Can you imagine if the Taliban decided they were really pissed at getting invaded all the time Russia->War Lords->US/UK/NATO and going all the way back to Alexander the Great and they went on the offensive with all their free US military hardware?

From their point of view, an invader is another invader, they have had lots over the years. Everyone just wants to bomb their weddings and blow up their homes and piss on their Korans and cause outrage around the world.

It is sad that the women will be forced back into cloth bags and 12yr old girls will be married off though.

Lets just hope they don't start blowing up more Buddhist statues and shooting people in football stadiums as they used to just before the US invaded them after 9.11, chasing shadows, and a man who was probably already dead if truly on kidney dialysis as was claimed.

In 2002 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said bin Laden had kidney disease and had two dialysis systems shipped to Afghanistan when he lived there.

I really don't understand if he was on dialysis how he managed to traverse the mountains of Afghanistan holding a drip behind him. Who knows, maybe like Saddam Hussein he could have had many doppelgangers. The photos the US showed just before every election with new speeches from bin-Laden as his hair got darker and his nose got fatter sure do seem to tell that story.

Of course all the propaganda pushed by the CIA, of bin-Laden liking porn videos and having a micro penis, were all designed to inflame the Muslim population and make him a laughing stock back home.

If only those SEAL Team 6 soldiers had turned their cameras on their helmets on when they killed bin-Laden in Pakistan. A man whose neighbour claimed on TV the very next day but never to be heard of again was NOT bin-Laden, if only they could have taken a photo of him BEFORE they shot him.

That was the US excuse for not showing a photo, it was too bloody, but as all the SEAL TEAM 6 had camera's on their helmets they should have been able to take a photo before they killed him for the world to see.

I guess it was just unlucky that all their cameras failed to work at the same time, and then 22 SEALs from the elite ‘Team Six’ unit that killed Osama bin Laden lost their lives to a "lucky shot" by RPG's fired by the Taliban. I doubt it was any kind of message to "shut you mouth" to the rest of SEAL TEAM 6 of course, that would just be conspiracy madness.....

However compare the capture and parading around of Saddam Hussein, and even the videoing of him being hanged that snuck out, to the no pics, killing of a man who was supposedly the evil mastermind behind 9.11. Osama bin-Laden, who was just tossed in the sea despite Saudi Arabia saying they would take his body.

This master of evil behind the war on terror, who Obama said had to be killed before the war would end however was not the finishing point of the pointless war. Once he was killed, did the war end. No it just moved around the globe from coups in South America and Eastern Europe, to invading Syria and bombing Iranian diplomats at Iraqi airports.

However there were reports in Saudi papers of bin-Ladens funeral in 2001, and that his son visited his grave, also Benazir Bhutto claimed on an interview that "everyone knew" bin-Laden had been dead for years - so what were the US doing in the Stan apart from protecting poppy fields and importing them back on planes just like Vietnam.

I really want to know though if he was in the Stan, how he was able to outrun the NATO forces time and time again carrying his dialysis machine behind him - oh yeah - he had that massive cave fortress, that Dick Cheney showed us in that cartoonish picture. Fitted with hospital rooms, training facilities, bedrooms, gyms, massage parlours, the whole shebang - it was a miracle mountain hide out for any James Bond villain to live in.

I tried to find the comical picture we were shown on TV at the time but it's almost as if it's been wiped off the web. Now who would want to do such a thing?

The nearest I got was this image about how the US troops cleared out bin-Laden's Tora Bora mountain strong hold. Now just imagine this picture without the soldiers and lots of little rooms on 3 levels throughout the mountain, that would be more like the picture we were all shown of his hide out in the mountains.

Did we ever get to see a real life image of this massive hollowed out mountain with secret entrances and hospitals inside? I can't remember seeing anything but dusty old hollowed out tunnels, but then the US politicians such as Cheney and Powell said it existed, just like the WMD in Iraq, so I guess it must be true......

Biden said that this was not like the fall of Saigon, and you would not see helicopters rescuing American diplomats from the roof of their embassies then guess what, lots of video came out showing exactly that.

Invading other people's homeland's on any pretext just isn't right unless that country like NAZI Germany is threatening to go off and take over other countries.

If we actually DID fight for the oppressed and to help the people of the world we would be at war with China now, who are keeping a million ethnic Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking Muslims being held in Xinjiang’s concentration, oh sorry, re-education camps, according to a U.N. report released in August.

But no, war these days is about making money for the lobbyists that fill the halls of Washington, pushing for the invasion of this country or that, just so they can fleece the American tax payer some more by over charging them for weapons and kit.

We may not like the Taliban's 12 century Islamic ideals but we cannot force democracy on a country that does not want it. I think the last 20 years of a failed attempt in Afghanistan proves that point.

All the Taliban asked for was some "proof" that bin-Laden was behind the 9.11 attacks, which he wasn't, even the FBI most wanted list didn't list that crime against his name due to the lack of evidence.

However the US were too gung ho to offer another country some proof that their guest had committed the attacks when apparently after 190+ water boarding's we find out it was all KLM's idea anyway. That is of course if you don't want to really look into 9.11 and see all the Israeli and Saudi involvement in the attacks.

I think the USA should give the constant war against a word, "terror", a miss for a while.

Americans and Brits have lost liberties and freedoms that Bush claimed the Taliban hated us for, and we just handed them over to the government and said "protect us".

Therefore taking George W Bush's speech at face value, the US basically lost their war on terror as soon as the PATRIOT act was signed.

They have lost in Afghanistan, lost in Iraq, and lost in Vietnam. I guess just having the best fighting toys in the world doesn't mean a toss if you're fighting a guerrilla war against a people who one minute sit down and drink tea with you then the next are shooting at you.

All the locals see is another invading army wanting to change their customs and kill them.

From Wikipedia that 100% fact checked and totally honest log of history comes a list of invaders of Afghanistan over the years....

Afghanistan is a mountainous landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South (Southern) Asia.[1][2] Some of the invaders in the history of Afghanistan include the Maurya Empire, the Greek Empire of Alexander the Great of Macedon, Rashidun Caliphate, the Mongol Empire led by Genghis Khan, the Timurid Empire of Timur, the Mughal Empire, various Persian Empires, the Sikh Empire, the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and most recently a coalition force of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops, the majority from the United States, which entered the country in the first-ever invocation of NATO's Article 5 "an attack on one is an attack on all" following the September 11 attacks in the United States.

The country is now entitled the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and has a democratically-elected government. However since American withdrawal, the Taliban has regained 100% of the territory. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasions_of_Afghanistan

Can we just leave the country alone for a bit, I know it a key area in the Grand Chessboard, and has been used for attacks on India but really, no-one ever manages to keep the country, and they are all eventually defeated.

We can not introduce Western Values by bombing weddings and funerals and firing $500k hellfire missiles into mud huts that had already been struck multiple times by similar weapons.

The only winners in this war were the MIC, who made billions from inflated prices, arming the US military, over-charging them for bombs and guns, boots and kit.

They must be looking at a globe in their Washington offices at the moment just trying to pick out a new enemy in their never ending war OF terror.

By Dark Politricks

© 2021 Dark Politricks

From 9.11 To The COVID Pandemic

Do Major Acts of Historical Importance Happen By Accident Or Are They Planned?

By Dark Politricks

Many people believe major acts in history from great wars, to insurrections and rebellions, to terrorist acts and even the emergence of new viruses such as HIV and COVID, are just coincidences and have no "planning" by major powerful figures who have the money, power, connections and the will to make the events happen if they so wished.

This is "Coincidence Theory" vs "Conspiracy Theory", people who believe that the 20 years of wars we have now suffered fighting an enemy that cannot surrender or sign an armistice e.g we are fighting an idea or even just a word "terror", is all coincidence that led on from the 9-11 attacks. If you believe the official narrative it is itself a massive conspiracy between terrorists who up until that point their biggest attacks were truck bombs outside African embassies.. 

Then they somehow, with Saudi backing if you believe the redacted 28/29 pages of the 9.11 commission report they paid to have removed, managed to progress to entering the USA despite it's restrictive VISA policy without problem, learned to fly planes but not land them, then manage to complete complex flying feats top fighter pilots cannot even repeat. 

Also they coincidentally managed to plan their attack on a day that the US NORAD were having war games that mirrored their exact attacks, confusing an appropriate response as people didn't know whether the hijackings were real or part of the war game. They also coincidentally managed to fly into the most defended air space on earth without being confronted by US fighter jets, a policy that had been followed up until that point hundreds of times, and then hit the Pentagon on the 1st floor at 550mph, without hitting the ground first. 

Plus they managed, from the few released shots from a car park camera, as for some reason all other video evidence that may contain footage of the planes entry from garages and hotels that were quickly confiscated by the FBI and never released. To come in at a horizontal flight path to the building, and then managed to punch their light weight plane through 3 rings of the buildings wall, all without leaving the wings or the engines on the outside as you would expect if it could manage this feat.

They also managed with one plane to cause two points of attack, one which Pentagon employees are on the record as saying they saw no plane wreckage as they walked through the 3 ring hole, as well as another attack point further around the building that is lesser known, and which does show wreckage of some kind of plane outside the building. Barbara Honegger, puts the pieces together meticulously in a talk to explain how the witnesses are right as well as the hole without debris being correct. 

She explains in a talk in a video presentation on this page that a plane or drone painted in American Airlines colours DID hit the Pentagon as well as a bomb going off causing the "official impact zone" which people claimed to have walked out of this hole without seeing any plane wreckage. If you watch the Jesse Ventura video on this page it shows a Pentagon witness who was warned off by the FBI for making claims she saw no plane wreckage.

Also we have the two planes in New York that knocked down 3 skyscrapers, one, WTC-7 in which we have a video confession of a CIA officer on his death bed recalling how he planted the explosives and then whilst celebrating the team got worried that it looked too much like a controlled demolition. This building held then on collapse, destroyed, thousands of important records related to important SEC cases, CIA and FBI records, and also a cover up to the massive fire sale of Russian assets after the fall of communism called Project Hammer. The video can be found here.

If I told you I could throw a coke can as hard as possible at 3 brick walls, would you expect it to:

a) punch through those 3 walls easily?

b) hit the first wall and destroy the coke can?

This is basically the same as a plane made of aluminium being aimed at 3 rings of wall and flying at 550mph. 

This video shows you actually what would happen if a plane flying the speed of the jet hitting the Pentagon hit just one wall. It is atomized into dust with the wall remaining untouched..

So you can see why many people have questions about the official story of 9.11. Did it all happen by coincidence or was it planned by members of two states who wanted to start an endless war that could make billions for the MIC for time memorial, put the USA on a permanent war footing and allow the implementation of surveillance and anti liberty laws such as the one the new US President brags about writing, the PATRIOT ACT.

Then there were all the National Security letters such as the one that made the creator of the encrypted email system, Lavabit, that Edward Snowden used, shut his company rather than comply with impossible demands by the US to show unencrypted versions of Snowden's emails. The NDAA, the illegal wiretapping of American citizens by the NSA, denied by the head of the agency in Congress when asked and exposed by NSA agents such as Bill Binney who basically wrote PRISM to be used to spy on the USSR, then found out it had been turned around to spy on US citizens. 

It is clear that once power is given up by a fearful citizenry to it's government who then enacts laws of surveillance, monitoring of movements and contact, plus allows them to secretly bring you to court without you being able to tell anyone that they are very reluctant to then repeal said laws and return the populace back to a state of freedom and liberty.

This is very relevant today as the COVID19 response by many governments has been to shut down people's businesses, their movements, and basically imprison them with lockdown measures that even the World Health Authority said only work at the start of a pandemic. Whilst the small businesses that drive the economy are dying, our way of life is on it's last legs as pubs, and other social gathering spots close, we are being sold a bag of goods that have tenuous reasons behind them.

This is a statement from Dr David Nabarro about lockdowns during the COVID pandemic:

"We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus."

Also to the shock of some hoping for a magic vaccine, South Africa, has put its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on hold after a study showed "disappointing" results against its new COVID variant. Scientists say the variant accounts for 90% of new Covid cases in South Africa. The trial, involving some 2,000 people, found that the vaccine offered "minimal protection" against mild and moderate cases.

South Africa's Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said his government would wait for further advice on how best to proceed with the AstraZeneca vaccine in light of the findings. In the meantime, he said, the government would offer vaccines produced by Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer in the coming weeks. Read the BBC report here.

Recently India asked Pfizer for an independent study of it's vaccine before use, Pfizer refused and now won't sell it to the country. The most populous country on earth who should in theory have the most deaths from this virus but surprisingly don't. This is through the use of pills such as the re-use of a common anti malarial drug that has almost become a banned word in the West.

A Michigan study of patients hospitalized with a Covid19 related admission and treated early confirmed that both hydroxychloroquine alone and hydroxychloroquine plus hydroxychloroquine can significantly reduce Covid19-linked mortality. However the re-use of these existing drugs designed for anti-malarial infections if dosed correctly has become politicized that even the mention of the drug on YouTube can get you kicked off.

A recent paper came out that said nations who used hydroxychloroquine early in COVID19 treatment had a 75% lower death rate than nations that did not. The paper begs the mainstream media and politicians to stop politicizing the drug and look at the evidence. You can read the paper here.

Also an inexpensive and commonly used steroid can save the lives of people seriously ill with COVID19, a randomized, controlled clinical trial in the United Kingdom has found. The drug, called dexamethasone, is the first shown to reduce deaths from the coronavirus that has killed more than 440,000 people globally. In the trial, it cut deaths by about one-third in patients who were on ventilators because of coronavirus infection.

Don't dare to ask China for info on the Wuhan virus research laboratory that many people believe the virus either escaped from or was deliberately tested on a locked down city to prevent the spread of it across China, but allowing it to spread across the world. All so that they could take advantage of the economic crisis caused by lockdowns and western business closures to buy up Western companies on the cheap. 

They are the only country to have a GDP that has grown this year, just a coincidence, or planned economic warfare? 

Ask the new global stage player, and DAVOS key speaker, about the origins of COVID and they will just rebut you with tales of contaminated meat, something the new China owned Biden Presidency seems to be following, as China accuses the US Virginia Biological lab as the source of the outbreak. China wasn't patient zero, America was. Surely we need to find the real patient zero to prevent this sort of pandemic occurring again, isn't that the normal course of action in an outbreak?

The most commonly reported mainstream media account of the creation of the Coronavirus suggests that it was derived from an animal borne microorganism found in a wild bat that was consumed by an ethnic Chinese resident of Wuhan. However there appears to be some evidence to dispute that in that adjacent provinces in China, where wild bats are more numerous, have not experienced major outbreaks of the disease. Because of that and other factors, there has also been considerable speculation that the Coronavirus did not occur naturally through mutation but rather was produced in a laboratory, possibly as a biological warfare agent.

Several reports suggest that there are components of the virus that are related to HIV that could not have occurred naturally. If it is correct that the virus had either been developed or even produced to be weaponized it would further suggest that its escape from the Wuhan Institute of Virology Lab and into the animal and human population could have been accidental. Technicians who work in such environments are aware that "leaks" from laboratories occur frequently.

The amount of politics and censorship surrounding a health pandemic is extremely worrying and we must wonder whether just like the war on terror, a war on viruses, that continue to form and spread worldwide will be the final step in a free world where people can move about without drones following them and police fining them for not wearing masks.

Not all countries have implemented a strict lockdown self imprisonment regime to hide away from the virus. Sweden, South Korea and Japan all followed an exceptionalist idea that their counties natural character of either Asian superiority, or Sweden's liberal freedom and dislike of strict government control over their populace meant that no lockdowns were taken. Both have had spikes and dips in numbers of people catching the virus just as in every other country, but at least they kept the martial law style format many countries in the west have put their people in, away from their own citizens.

Whilst many hope that long term untested vaccines will save them from a permanent police state mentality that has already been engrained into the minds of many and taken advantage of by the billionaires and true rulers of the world with their talks at Davos and the Economic Forum about "The Great Reset", and using lockdowns in future to help with climate change. Even implementing a new stage of humanity with only the rich being able to move about freely and make money, many believe that this COVID outbreak, is just an excuse for the governments of the world to implement their globalist plans and take even more wealth away from average citizens.

The recent stock scandal related to Game Stop, where normal people who have been sold the idea of making money from the stock market for years, finally saw that the game was rigged said it all. When the apps that allowed the buying and selling of stock, like Robinhood or CashApp, stopped people from buying shares in the company at all, just so that the big banks and hedge funds who had shorted the company could make their millions weren't left without their new Yachts and Porches, those apps stepped in and prevented normal people from buying more shares, only allowing the sale of them, to allow those hedge funds not to go broke for once in the game of casino Wall St stocks.. 

As George Carlin said: "It's one big club and you aint in it".

At the recent Tory conference our Dear Leader, Boris Johnson, infused the crowd, about the changes that COVID has brought to our society. They had pledged to ban the sale of diesel and petrol cars from 2040. But this week BoJo, again without any public debate, brought the date forward to 2030. The World Economic Forum as well as China, have been promoting digital health passes raising the very real prospect that only those who have had Covid19 vaccines or negative test results would be able to leave their country, or indeed attend a sporting or cultural event at home.

Combine that with the collapse of the airline industry, the mass closure of pubs, cinemas, and all but the most expensive hotels and the advent of "smart" motorways where access can easily be restricted, and most people will be stuck in their homes. 

"Instead of being dragged on big commutes to the city," people can "start a business in their home town and bring up their children in the neighbourhoods where they grew up themselves" Boris Johnson said. Some people might like the idea of working permanently from home, if they are lucky enough to have a job, ordering everything they need online, having to have a continually updated digitalised health pass to go anywhere, owning nothing and having their biological, physical and digital identities "fused" together.. 

If this doesn't sound like a permanent lockdown with no escape then I don't know what does. It sure doesn't sound like a future I want to be living in. The subservience of the population to follow the Governments wavering diktats and hypocritical health advice they themselves don't follow, as society is reformed into one that many won't be wanting to live in if they have experienced pre 2020 freedoms, is almost sickening to think about.

Boris Johnson talks about banning the use of petrol cars by 2030, taking the act of travelling out of your local neighbourhood away from most people. He talks about people starting their own businesses in their homes, and having food, and supplies delivered. The act of being a human, socialising with other humans, is not going to be allowed from the looks of things. This COVID pandemic may have started by "coincidence" but it has been quickly used to disguise the move to a 4th stage of humanity where the the only release from a stale world without socialisation will be virtual, when that technology comes to true fruition.

Let me know what you think about the COVID pandemic, the quick use of it by Governments to use it as cover to reform society in their own making and at the same time prepare us for a world that we will never have seen. 

If you think we are going back to a pre 2020 world where we met up in pubs and travelled freely then think again. We have already been taken over to a "New Normal", either by coincidence or conspiracy. Really it doesn't matter now, but you should really think hard about how life will be after this crisis and whether it was designed to drive society this way, or just taken advantage of by the rich and powerful to remake the world in their image.

By Dark Politricks

© 2021 Dark Politricks

Terrorism is not an excuse for the loss of our liberties

Terrorism is not an excuse for the loss of our liberties

By Dark Politricks

The war on terror has been used by the UK government as a battering ram to the rights of the citizens of this country. New laws have been passed including 2 new terrorism acts (2000 and 2006) which have restricted free speech, the rights of demonstrators to protest and have given the police new powers of stop and search and lets not forget the 28 days detention and control orders.

Now you may say "well you have nothing to fear unless you have something to hide" which is a bend over attitude that leads to fascism. I am not a terrorist but nor are most people who have been affected by this new age of fighting terrorism.

Its the thin edge of the wedge which has taken advantage of peoples justifiable fears about terrorist attacks to introduce laws that if only applied to real terrorists would be fine however who can forget the 82 year old Walter Wolfgang who was dragged out of the Labour conference for heckling Jack Straw under the terrorism act in 2005. Or what about Gordon Brown invoking the terrorism act to freeze Iceland's bank accounts during 2008?

Just these two acts alone prove how our government intends to use these new powers for reasons other than fighting terrorism.

Once the public has been forced into a mindset that demands protection from unseen shadowy terrorists and that they must be dealt with severely it then allows the government to widen the scope of what actually constitutes terrorism.

One day you are a protester exercising your legal right of protest the next you are a terrorist trying to overthrow the state with subversive acts. Take a look over the pond to see how the US government is trying to class gun owners, ex servicemen and Ron Paul supporters as domestic terrorists.

It seems that the US constitution is slowly being eroded bit by bit. I never used to understand the Americans fascination with their right to bear guns however the more I have read up about Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers and their desire to protect the people against the tyranny of government it makes perfect sense. I especially love the following two quotes that Jefferson made:

"No man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not .warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

I have come to have a renewed respect for the founding fathers of America and the contemporary patriots who want the US government to return to the constitution. The world would be a quieter and probably safer place if it did.

Even though Jefferson and Washington kicked their British rulers out during the war of Independence us Brits must never forget that the father of the revolution was Thomas Paine an Englishman whose books the Age of Reasonand the Rights of Man had enormous influence on the Age of Enlightenment and the revolutions of France and America.

Two new republics were born that decreed that man had inalienable rights that could not be taken away by government. Therefore when people see their government treating their constitution as "just a piece of paper"as George Bush famously called it and trampling over their rights including the right to bear arms as if their inalienable rights were just an outdated idea that had no place in this century then I can see why they get so upset over the 2nd amendment.

Here in the UK its too late as we are currently a disarmed nation since the massacres of Dunblane and Hungerford took our guns away but then unlike the Americans we never had an inalienable right to bare arms anyway.

In fact although the UK passed the first ever bill of rights in 1689 it was never thought necessary for us to have a written constitution like the French and Americans.

I personally think it would be in our own best interests to draw up our own document as soon as possible. Yes we have the Human Rights act of 1998 which the right wing media decries and complains about almost every other day as something that has been imposed on us from Europe. However ridiculous the examples the Daily Mail and Express use to denigrate this act seem we should never feel that getting rid of that act would be in our best interest.

Civil rights have been hard fought and won through years of battle between state and its populace and any document that tries to enshrine our rights for future prosperity should be cherished and held in high esteem. We should also remember that it was British lawyers that drew up the Europen Convention on human rights in 1950, that the act is based on, after the horrors of the second world war. So we should view this act as yet another example of us Brits bringing civil rights to the world rather than Europe imposing some alien concept on us.

From the Magna Carta in 1215, through to John Lockes and Thomas Hobbes social contract between man and the state through to the first Bill of Rights and then the Human Rights act we Brits have been at the forefront of civil rights and we should not let the fear of terrorism allow any of these hard won rights to be taken away as once gone they will probably not come back unless a Liberal Democrat government gets in power which seems most unlikely.

We are slowly walking down the path to a place that I don't want to call home. When George Orwells 1984 starts to become a commentary on modern times then we must all stop and ask ourselves what the hell is going on.

By Dark Politricks

CIA and its links to the Opium trade in Afghanistan

The CIA and its links to the Afghanistan's President's brother, Hamid Karzai and his role in the Opium trade

By Dark Politricks

Another signal that the war on terror and the war on drugs in Afghanistan maybe more about controlling the very lucrative opium trade was the following article printed in the New York Times. The article details how the brother of Hamid Karzai a Ahmed Wali Karzai, who is regarded to be the biggest Opium dealer in the country, is also on the payroll of the CIA.

Now I won't even pretend to be shocked as we all know that the CIA is the biggest drug smuggler in the world and has been for some time. However for those people who are still under the illusion that our troops are dying out in the Stan for some noble cause it should be another sign that things are not always what our benevolent leaders tell us they are.

According to various sources including journalists and Russian government ministers the USA is definitely involved in the lucrative Opium trade which is severely affecting Russia with its ever increasing population of addicts. Russian journalist Arkadi Dubnov quotes Afghan sources as saying that “85 per cent of all drugs produced in southern and south-eastern provinces are shipped abroad by US aviation.”

A source in Afghanistan’s security services told Dubnov that the American military buy drugs from local Afghan officials who deal with field commanders overseeing eradication of drug production. Dubnov claimed in Vesti Novostei that the administration of President Hamid Karzai, including his two brothers, Kajum Karzai and Akhmed Vali Karzai, are involved in the narcotics trade.

We should only have to look at a simple graph that shows the levels of Opium production in Afghanistan over the years to see that when the CIA has been involved crop production has spiked. Remember it was actually a flat-line at zero up until the war with Russia and then the CIA had the brilliant idea of getting the Mujahedeen resistance fighters to grow Opium as a way of financing the guerrilla war as well as demoralising the Russian conscript army by getting them hooked to the drug.

The Opium crop only went up and up until the Taliban took over the country and then banned the growing of the poppy plant seeing it as Un-Islamic in 2001. They were actually successful at this eradication process and areas of the country controlled by the Taliban in 2001 grew next to nothing according to a UN report.


Should we be surprised that Afghanistan was then invaded later that year by the CIA and the Northern Alliance rebels it sponsored or was it just a lucky coincidence. The war was started supposedly to catch the master mind villain behind the 9.11 attacks a Mr Usama-bin-Laden who denied all knowledge or involvement in the attacks in an interview taken just afterwards.

However the invasion went forward and once rooted in the country the invading forces seemed to ignore the chase for bin-Laden and put their full attention to destroying the Taliban instead and unsurprisingly the opium crop started rising with record levels of the drug being produced year by year. Therefore when Blair and Bush were telling us that not only were in Afghanistan to catch al-Qaeda masterminds but also to help eradicate the Opium crop were they lying on only one front or both?

The following article was taken from the New York Times website and I have re-published it in full. The original link is at the bottom of the article.

Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll

By DEXTER FILKINS, MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN
Published: October 27, 2009

KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.

The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the C.I.A.’s direction in and around the southern city of Kandahar, Mr. Karzai’s home.

The financial ties and close working relationship between the intelligence agency and Mr. Karzai raise significant questions about America’s war strategy, which is currently under review at the White House.

The ties to Mr. Karzai have created deep divisions within the Obama administration. The critics say the ties complicate America’s increasingly tense relationship with President Hamid Karzai, who has struggled to build sustained popularity among Afghans and has long been portrayed by the Taliban as an American puppet. The CIA.’s practices also suggest that the United States is not doing everything in its power to stamp out the lucrative Afghan drug trade, a major source of revenue for the Taliban.

More broadly, some American officials argue that the reliance on Ahmed Wali Karzai, the most powerful figure in a large area of southern Afghanistan where the Taliban insurgency is strongest, undermines the American push to develop an effective central government that can maintain law and order and eventually allow the United States to withdraw.

“If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves,” said Maj. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the senior American military intelligence official in Afghanistan.

Ahmed Wali Karzai said in an interview that he cooperated with American civilian and military officials, but did not engage in the drug trade and did not receive payments from the C.I.A.

The relationship between Mr. Karzai and the C.I.A. is wide ranging, several American officials said. He helps the C.I.A. operate a paramilitary group, the Kandahar Strike Force, that is used for raids against suspected insurgents and terrorists. On at least one occasion, the strike force has been accused of mounting an unauthorized operation against an official of the Afghan government, the officials said.

Mr. Karzai is also paid for allowing the C.I.A. and American Special Operations troops to rent a large compound outside the city — the former home of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban’s founder. The same compound is also the base of the Kandahar Strike Force. “He’s our landlord,” a senior American official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Mr. Karzai also helps the C.I.A. communicate with and sometimes meet with Afghans loyal to the Taliban. Mr. Karzai’s role as a go-between between the Americans and the Taliban is now regarded as valuable by those who support working with Mr. Karzai, as the Obama administration is placing a greater focus on encouraging Taliban leaders to change sides.

A C.I.A. spokesman declined to comment for this article.

“No intelligence organization worth the name would ever entertain these kind of allegations,” said Paul Gimigliano, the spokesman.

Some American officials said that the allegations of Mr. Karzai’s role in the drug trade were not conclusive.

“There’s no proof of Ahmed Wali Karzai’s involvement in drug trafficking, certainly nothing that would stand up in court,” said one American official familiar with the intelligence. “And you can’t ignore what the Afghan government has done for American counter-terrorism efforts.”

At the start of the Afghan war, just after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, American officials paid warlords with questionable backgrounds to help topple the Taliban and maintain order with relatively few American troops committed to fight in the country. But as the Taliban has become resurgent and the war has intensified, Americans have increasingly viewed a strong and credible central government as crucial to turning back the Taliban’s advances.

Now, with more American lives on the line, the relationship with Mr. Karzai is setting off anger and frustration among American military officers and other officials in the Obama administration. They say that Mr. Karzai’s suspected role in the drug trade, as well as what they describe as the Mafia like way that he lords over southern Afghanistan, makes him a malevolent force.

These military and political officials say the evidence, though largely circumstantial, suggests strongly that Mr. Karzai has enriched himself by helping the illegal trade in poppy and opium to flourish. The assessment of these military and senior officials in the Obama administration dovetails with that of senior officials in the Bush administration.

“Hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money are flowing through the southern region, and nothing happens in southern Afghanistan without the regional leadership knowing about it,” a senior American military officer in Kabul said. Like most of the officials in this article, he spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the secrecy of the information.

“If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck,” the American officer said of Mr. Karzai. “Our assumption is that he’s benefiting from the drug trade.”

American officials say that Afghanistan’s opium trade, the largest in the world, directly threatens the stability of the Afghan state, by providing a large percentage of the money the Taliban needs for its operations, and also by corrupting Afghan public officials to help the trade flourish.

The Obama administration has repeatedly vowed to crack down on the drug lords who are believed to permeate the highest levels of President Karzai’s administration. They have pressed him to move his brother out of southern Afghanistan, but he has so far refused to do so.

Other Western officials pointed to evidence that Ahmed Wali Karzai orchestrated the manufacture of hundreds of thousands of phony ballots for his brother’s re-election effort in August. He is also believed to have been responsible for setting up dozens of so-called ghost polling stations — existing only on paper — that were used to manufacture tens of thousands of phony ballots.

“The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone,” General Flynn said.

In the interview in which he denied a role in the drug trade or taking money from the C.I.A., Ahmed Wali Karzai said he received regular payments from his brother, the president, for “expenses,” but said he did not know where the money came from. He has, among other things, introduced Americans to insurgents considering changing sides. And he has given the Americans intelligence, he said. But he said he was not compensated for that assistance.

“I don’t know anyone under the name of the C.I.A.,” Mr. Karzai said. “I have never received any money from any organization. I help, definitely. I help other Americans wherever I can. This is my duty as an Afghan.”

Mr. Karzai acknowledged that the C.I.A. and Special Operations troops stayed at Mullah Omar’s old compound. And he acknowledged that the Kandahar Strike Force was based there. But he said he had no involvement with them.

A former C.I.A. officer with experience in Afghanistan said the agency relied heavily on Ahmed Wali Karzai, and often based covert operatives at compounds he owned. Any connections Mr. Karzai might have had to the drug trade mattered little to C.I.A. officers focused on counterterrorism missions, the officer said.

“Virtually every significant Afghan figure has had brushes with the drug trade,” he said. “If you are looking for Mother Teresa, she doesn’t live in Afghanistan.”

The debate over Ahmed Wali Karzai, which began when President Obama took office in January, intensified in June, when the C.I.A.’s local paramilitary group, the Kandahar Strike Force, shot and killed Kandahar’s provincial police chief, Matiullah Qati, in a still-unexplained shootout at the office of a local prosecutor.

The circumstances surrounding Mr. Qati’s death remain shrouded in mystery. It is unclear, for instance, if any agency operatives were present — but officials say the firefight broke out when Mr. Qati tried to block the strike force from freeing the brother of a task force member who was being held in custody.

“Matiullah was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Mr. Karzai said in the interview.

Counter-narcotics officials have repeatedly expressed frustration over the unwillingness of senior policy makers in Washington to take action against Mr. Karzai — or even begin a serious investigation of the allegations against him. In fact, they say that while other Afghans accused of drug involvement are investigated and singled out for raids or even rendition to the United States, Mr. Karzai has seemed immune from similar scrutiny.

For years, first the Bush administration and then the Obama administration have said that the Taliban benefits from the drug trade, and the United States military has recently expanded its target list to include drug traffickers with ties to the insurgency. The military has generated a list of 50 top drug traffickers tied to the Taliban who can now be killed or captured.

Senior Afghan investigators say they know plenty about Mr. Karzai’s involvement in the drug business. In an interview in Kabul this year, a top former Afghan Interior Ministry official familiar with Afghan counter-narcotics operations said that a major source of Mr. Karzai’s influence over the drug trade was his control over key bridges crossing the Helmand River on the route between the opium growing regions of Helmand Province and Kandahar.

The former Interior Ministry official said that Mr. Karzai was able to charge huge fees to drug traffickers to allow their drug-laden trucks to cross the bridges.

But the former officials said it was impossible for Afghan counter-narcotics officials to investigate Mr. Karzai. “This government has become a factory for the production of Opium because of corruption and injustice,” the former official said.

Some American counter-narcotics officials have said they believe that Mr. Karzai has expanded his influence over the drug trade, thanks in part to American efforts to single out other drug lords.

In debriefing notes from Drug Enforcement Administration interviews in 2006 of Afghan informants obtained by The New York Times, one key informant said that Ahmed Wali Karzai had benefited from the American operation that lured Hajji Bashir Noorzai, a major Afghan drug lord during the time that the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, to New York in 2005. Mr. Noorzai was convicted on drug and conspiracy charges in New York in 2008, and was sentenced to life in prison this year.

Habibullah Jan, a local military commander and later a member of Parliament from Kandahar, told the D.E.A. in 2006 that Mr. Karzai had teamed with Haji Juma Khan to take over a portion of the Noorzai drug business after Mr. Noorzai’s arrest.

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