After expelling ISIS from the places it was provided with in Iraq and Syria, the United States intends to reuse some of these mercenaries for other purposes. National Security Adviser John Bolton identified new goals, new partners and new methods. However, this mechanism is kept secret, and we can only judge about it by what has already been done. Thierry Meyssan explores a new mechanism of violence.
John Bolton speaks to the Mujahideen of the Iranian people.
In 1978, President Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski proposed using the Muslim Brotherhood against the USSR. Arab militants began to be used to support the Afghan opposition in the fight against the communist regime. The Soviet army, which came to the aid of the Afghan government, was bogged down in a conflict doomed to lose.
In Afghanistan, the Muslim Brotherhood was supplying weapons to Israel, not the CIA, as Congress refused to agree to an operation of this magnitude. Thanks to their successes, the Arabs, who had gained experience in conducting subversive operations in Afghanistan, began to be used in other theaters of military operations. For example, the Muslim Brothers, equipped with weapons from Israel and Iraq, tried their luck in the Syrian Arab Republic in 1978-82. And then the representative of the Brothers, like a thread that follows a needle, ends up at NATO headquarters during the war in Kosovo.
The use of the Muslim Brotherhood as an auxiliary military force was ended at the end of the Clinton presidency, but the Brotherhood's cooperation with the CIA never stopped. It clearly manifested itself during the war against Libya under President Obama, when the ground forces of the Atlantic Alliance were almost entirely composed of members of the Brotherhood. One of them was included in the US National Security Council. And during the war against Syria, the control of the jihadist detachments was carried out by the NATO SALT Command, stationed in Izmir.
The Trump administration opposes the use of terrorist organizations by the US military, so the White House must redefine the role of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The new strategy, outlined by National Security Adviser John Bolton, is still unknown. However, some facts allow us to judge it in general terms.
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ISIS
In early 2018, US special operations forces deployed illegally in Syria pushed ISIS fighters back to the border. In May 2018, General Yahya Rahim Safavi, military adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei, accused the United States of transferring ISIS fighters to Afghanistan.
There are currently about 7,000 militants in Afghanistan. However, they no longer support the Taliban, who oppose any foreign presence, but fight against them.
According to statements by the official representative of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Qari Muhammad Yusuf Ahmadi, “American invaders and their lackeys last night (January 12, 2018) raided a Mujahideen camp located in Pani Bus, Jwand district, Badghis province, which was holding captive ISIS fighters. Our enemies' accomplices killed our guards and escaped with 40 ISIS prisoners. The American invaders, along with their accomplices from the Kabul administration, carried out this raid in order to free the captured militants. Every time the Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate (Taliban) fought ISIS, the American invaders aided ISIS and bombed the positions of the Mujahideen. And when the Mujahideen drove out ISIS from Darzab, Jowzjan district, and when they were on the verge of destruction, in August last year, the American invaders, together with the Kabul administration, airlifted 200 ISIS from the encirclement.
At this time, the Combat Anti-Terrorism Center at the US Military Academy West Point publishes a study on the differences between today's Mujahideen from those that were during the war against the USSR. This document indicates that in 1989, during the withdrawal of Soviet troops and at the very time when Ussama bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia, the Muslim Brotherhood began to accuse their commanders of not following the rules. They created a much stricter "Jalalabad school", which began to accuse both of them of wickedness and declared them unfaithful (takfir). This conflict, they say, led to the rift between al-Qaeda and ISIS.
The return to the previous positions was not able to erase from memory how the Muslim Brotherhood ruled the country, and not only among the Taliban, but also among all resisting Afghans, up to the assassination of Ahmed Shah Massoud (he himself is a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood) on September 9 2001 (two days before the attacks in New York and the Pentagon). For two decades, Afghanistan turns into a place where jihadists from all over the world and, in particular, militants from the Russian Caucasus are formed.
Brotherhood member Gulbeddin Hekmatyar is the leader of the Turkish-Pakistani armed group operating in Afghanistan.
During the war against the USSR, the Muslim Brotherhood was mainly associated with the former Prime Minister Gulbiddin Hekmatyar, who represented them in this country. On September 22, 2016, with the support of the Obama administration, the new Afghan government grants him an amnesty and he is removed from the UN terrorist list.
Taliban headquarters in Qatar.
The transfer of ISIS to Afghanistan came at a time when the Trump administration has been trying to establish contacts with the Taliban since July 2018. Preliminary meetings were held in Qatar with the participation of Mike Pompeo's assistant for Central Asia, Alice Wells. Zalmay Khalilzad chaired the negotiations in September and October, despite the concerns of the Afghan government, which sent a representative to them, but he was not accepted. Khalilzad fought alongside the Taliban, who, like him, are Pashtuns, against the USSR, after which he was granted US citizenship. Educated and becoming a neoconservative, he was appointed ambassador to the United Nations in 2007 when the Senate opposed the appointment of John Bolton.
The closed city of Manza, built by Israel between 2013 and 2015 near Tirana, is a military base of the people's mujahideen in Albania.
Mujahideen of the Iranian people
Last week, the head of the Mujheddin organization of the Iranian people (MIN), Mariam Rajani, arrived in Kabul from Tirana, where she lives. She, in particular, met with the chairman of the National Security Council and former ambassador to the United States Hamdullah Mohib. She will apparently travel to Herat, Shindan District in the coming days to establish a military base for her organization there. In October 2012, the Pentagon had already trained 2,000 people's mujahideen, according to the Pakistani newspaper Ummat.
Despite the apparent consonance, there is no connection between the Mujahideen (with one letter d) of the Muslim Brotherhood (who are Arabs and Sunnis) and the Mujahideen (with two d) from MIN (who are Persians and Shiites). The only thing that connects these two organizations is that both of them are supported by the United States and practice terrorism.
In early 2013, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the support of the United States, was transferred from Iraq to Albania. A small town was built for her by Israeli companies. However, on June 23, 2014, Mariam Rajani, in a lengthy speech to 80,000 sect members and 600 Western officials, endorsed ISIS's conquest of Iraq. It should not be forgotten that this victory was secured with the support of General Ezzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the former right-hand man of President Saddam Hussein, who, on this basis, was the patron saint of the popular mujahideen.
The first target of this terrorist alliance should be Iran, with which Afghanistan has a long and poorly defended border.
Thierry Meyssan