| by Mahboob A. Khawaja
( October
8, 2012, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) “Afghanistan did not attack America on
September 11, 2001. The war on Afghanistan was already on the Pentagon’s
drawing board prior to 9/11. The US led war on Afghanistan, using 9/11 as a
pretext and a justification is illegal and criminal. The US and NATO heads of
state and heads of government from 2001 to the present are complicit in the
launching of a criminal and illegal war. Invoking article 5 of the Washington
Treaty is an illegal and criminal procedure. The (former) US and NATO heads of
state and heads of government should be prosecuted for war crimes. On October 7, people across the land in the
US, Canada and NATO countries must demand that all foreign occupation troops be
immediately withdrawn and repatriated.” (Professor Michel Chossudovsky “Was America attacked by Afghanistan
on September 11, 2001?” Global Research: 10/4/2012)
“If war is a crime what is its name? The Constitution of the United States of America calls it “Treason.” …….So all in all it appears causing unconstitutional war and genocide is a crime; the crime is Treason …..The Judges are the only ones who can achieve prevention without violence. A jurisprudential revolution can prevent war and genocide simply by thinking judicially instead of politically.” (W’Lawpsh, “And Its Name Is Treason!” Dissident Voice: 11/24/2011)
“Was America attacked by
Afghanistan on September 11, 2001?”
(Global Research: 10/4/2012), asks Professor Michel Chossudovsky. You
wonder if an ant can attack an elephant. How else can you put the answer in a
rational context? The unchallenged facts
of the contemporary history remain in tact that the wars on Iraq and
subsequently on Afghanistan and the spill-over continuing into Pakistan were
all planned by the US politicians long before the happening of the 9/11 attacks
on the US soil. With the approaching peak oil age, America and the
industrialized West Europeans desperately needed supplies of natural resources
to maintain their hegemony over the globe and to ensure unparallel supremacy in
warfare. Professor Chossudovsky analysis points out the undeniable facts that
most scholars and global citizenry would agree to:
Both the media and the US
government, in chorus, continue to point to the 9/11 attacks and the role of Al
Qaeda, allegedly supported by Afghanistan. The bombing and invasion of
Afghanistan has been described as a “campaign” against Islamic terrorists,
rather than a war. To this date, however, there is no proof that Al Qaeda was
behind the 9/11 attacks…….The Afghan government (Talaban Govt) in the weeks
following 9/11, offered on two occasions to deliver Osama bin Laden to US
justice, if there were preliminary evidence of his involvement in the attacks.
These offers were refused by Washington
In sharp contrast to analyse the
pertinent developments of the 9/11 attacks, the US government did not provide
any factual-impartial analysis of the events to the global citizens. Frank
Taylor report (Pentagon) was a home-made unilateral and secret assessment. The
call to NATO action was instant and a ready-made plan. Under the NATO article
5,
“if it is determined that the
[September 11, 2001] attack against the United States was directed from
abroad [Afghanistan] against “The North Atlantic area“,
it shall be regarded as an action covered by Article 5 of the Washington
Treaty”
Now eleven years later that “if”
and “determination” of the facts remain a political mystery. Afghanistan and
Iraq or Pakistan were not the enemy of the US or Western Europe but nations
with whom the US had interactive relations and in the recent past had military
alliance for long time to challenge the growing influence of the former USSR
led communism. If the “War on terrorism” was not a premeditated conspiracy to
attack the oil-gas enriched Muslim countries, what else was there to invoke the
insanity against the peaceful humanity?
“The War on Afghanistan had been Planned
Prior to 9/11”, explains Professor Chossudovsky:
“According to Jane Defense India had been
approached in March 2001 by US to participate in a US military operation
against Afghanistan: Insider accounts published in the British, French and
Indian media have revealed that US officials threatened war against Afghanistan
during the summer of 2001. These reports include the prediction, made in July,
that “if the military action went ahead, it would take place before the snows
started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest.”
Why did America invade Iraq and Afghanistan? There
is a critical crisis in THINKING and IDENTITY across the United States. Frank Scott (“Who Are we?” Media Monitors
Networks: 11.11.2010) offers a rational context to Who Are We?
“Under assault by a consciousness control system
that insists we are doing quite well even when evidence shows we’re on the
critical list, we have reason to be confused…..If we, the people of these
United States, are ever to be a united nation we have to penetrate the lead
curtain of misinformation in which we are imprisoned and begin thinking as a
population with a collective destiny which demands collective action. We have a
serious social identity crisis and cannot save ourselves by making war against
ourselves. But if we want a peaceful world and safe environment, we need to
break out of the mental prison in which we’ll remain as long as we are kept
separate, and unequal, by the controllers of what goes into our minds under the
false label of information.”
Americans and most Europeans are
indoctrinated that Islam and Muslims are their enemies and somehow, the 9/11
attacks have come to revisit the superstitious and unthinkable episode. In reality, “terrorism” myth was manufactured
by the lobbyist-run Western political leaders and groups whereas, it has
nothing to do with Islam or Muslims. The myth is self-engineered by the former
neo-conservatives of Bush administration.
The Europeans transgressors invaded
the morally and intellectually advanced Islamic Civilization and crushed it by
military campaigns all their material and scientific progress and public
institutions. The colonization scheme of things was not outcome of the Western
democratic values to spread freedom, liberty and justice but ferocity of
violence and killings of millions and millions of human lives for the European Empires
to be built on colored bloodbaths. The European crusaders crossed the channels
and unknown time zones to subjugate the much divided Muslim people as part of
their superior nationalism perception and values that Muslims were inferior to
the European race and could be used as subjects without human identity and raw
material to build the new Empires. Many centuries past, if there was a UNO, it
would not have dared to call the European intruders as terrorists because it
would have been their own organization as Muslims
lived in slavery and denial of basic human rights and identity. They were
classified as “subjects of conquered race.” In an information age,
knowledge–driven global culture of reason, ignorance is no longer a requisite
to learn from the living history.
History speaks of the
Al-Andalusia Arab civilization as the longest advanced civilization lasting for
eight centuries in Europe. The European Renaissance and the Industrial
Revolution were the inspired outcomes of the Islamic intellectual and
scientific contributions to the Western Europe. When the Arabs followed Islam as a system of
thinking and practices, the earth felt their weight and importance and often
they had moral and intellectual superiority over others. They seem to have lost
the imperatives of Islamic values when they opted for oil-producing superficial
prosperity, exclusive materialism and political authoritarianism by negating
Islam and leadership accountability as a system of governance. The blood
suckers authoritarians killing the people striving for freedom and human
dignity have become a disgrace to Muslims and Islam. Now, the Europeans
identify themselves as civilized people but the effective date for the claim
remains a mystery. The previous Empires knew their geography and limits, but
the newly articulated American Empire in its infancy, is challenging to the
limits of the Laws of God and appears obsessed with “fear” of being replaced by
the new emerging economically productive nations of Asia such as China, India
and combination of others small nations. President George W. Bush invoked the
“War on Terrorism” as a dictum of power, not reason and wisdom, to camouflage
the prospective future with acts of barbarity and to dispel the notion of
accountability in global affairs. Historically, people and nations pursuing
this path of behavior have ended up in self-delusional and self-destruction.
The 9/11 attacks on the US were allegedly
carried out by some individuals and were not inspired or supported by the
religion of Islam or Muslims anywhere. Muslims and Islam have no animosity
toward the Western civilizations as they have lived under its continued influential
impacts. Some hourly paid intellectuals turned guardian of the approved truth,
allege that Islam breeds terrorism. The Western news media poisoned the public
thinking and perceptions of ‘radical Islam’ with enhanced ‘fear’ of terrorism
as if Arabs and Muslims were born in the eye of the storm and terrorism was an
exclusive domain of the Islamic religious precepts.
Truth is one and indivisible. The
US and its allies invaded Iraq and Afghanistan to occupy and exploit the oil
and gas resources and the “war on terror” has crossed over the borders into
Pakistan. Caroline Myss, “Dark Times
Require Transcendant Responses.” OpenEdNews: 3/21/2010) takes us on a moral
and spiritual discovery of the American landscape and points out, what has been
lost in the course of terrible confrontational history must be recovered
through self- evaluation and self- realization:
“All the great learnings that
develop a person's moral conscience, inner skills, capacity for discernment, to
appreciate the arts, to refine themselves as a human being-- are gone. These
are the thinking arts. Technology is the money art. We've removed the
thinking, refinement arts. We've replaced them with superstitious,
evangelical crap-- ... racist, filled with fear. with superstars…….Always in
the history of humanity there has been horribleness-- nightmares and waking up,
nightmares and waking up……..We have to find a higher way of looking at this or
you're going to be consumed by the negativity. I have learned to see things through
grace, because I have to. At the end of
the day... you can't reason with a crisis, a catastrophy or disease...”
Every beginning has its end. It
is just that most transgressors do not know about it when they cross over the
limits of the Laws of God. The Roman, Austro-Hungarian and British Empires
collapsed after they violated the limits. Nazis claimed to run the world for
thousands of years, but ended up in just 12 years after killing millions of
human beings throughout the Western hemisphere. Fascism met resistance at its
early stages. The beginning envisions the end. The USSR was defeated, the day
it raided the destitute people of Afghanistan and disturbed the dead in
graveyards with continuous bombing. The American and British surrendered the
day international community learned about the Guantanomo Bay prisoners and
photos of the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. Since March 2003, an estimated three
million civilians have been killed by the American-British war in Iraq. After
the facts, the American and British apologists would put up the explanations
that the soldiers had social and mental disorders. The US media reports
indicate that approximately 19 - 25 of their war veterans at home and troops
commit suicide every day on the war fronts.
A century earlier C.E, M. Joad
(Guide to Modern Wickedness), captioned the human tragedy in these words:
“….Human nature is at least in part wicked and in part foolish, how can
human beings be prevented from suffering from the results of their wickedness
and folly? ….Men simply do not see that war is foolish and useless and wicked.
They think on occasion that it is necessary and wise and honourable, for war is
not the work of bad men knowing themselves to be wrong, but of good men
passionately convinced that they are right.”
After waging a decade old bogus wars
of terrorism in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, American and some of its hired
European allied policy makers and military strategists appear to have lost
their rational thinking and miserably failed to understand or differentiate
between the myth of power and realities on the ground that they cannot win any
wars against Islam and Muslims. The war on terror lacks purpose and meaning. Of
all the forbidden truth that the Western news media does not exhibit and the
political leaders failed to grasp is that the US and its former imperial allies
do not have the will nor weapons to fight against God and Islam. They have done
all they could to instigate and perpetuate animosity against the Faith and
People who enjoin peace in thoughts and practices and their daily prayers start
by sending peace and blessings Prophet Abraham and his progeny - Moses, Jesus
and Mohammad. Are there any technologically advanced weapons to fight against
God? If time and history could reawaken their lost conscience and give them an
opportunity and a slot for self-reflection and self-consciousness, would the US
- Europeans ever learn this compelling reality from the undeniable history of
the Nature of things?
Future must be anew, not the
repetition of the past. Future making does not lie with the aggressors nor with
the failed international institutions, it is with the will and resolve of
conscientious and well informed global community to oppose the warlords and to
articulate anew and a more people-oriented feasible future for the mankind to
co-exist in peace and harmony. While the
planned wars and military aggressions have failed to achieve any strategic
goals except causing large scale deaths and environmental destruction of the
human habitats, political thinkers and intellectuals and experts in conflict
resolution should envision new strategies to avert the futuristic wars. One of such rational approach would be to organize
interactive rational dialogues between the Muslim scholars and the American-European
intellectuals to assess and to know where we are and what wrongs and cruelties
have been done to the mankind, and how best we could come out of the prevalent man-made
foolishness and drudgery and deception?
Dr. Mohammad Iqbal, a great poet, thinker and philosopher of the East and
the visionary of Pakistan once noted:
“Nations are built by thinkers, intellectuals, poets, artists and
philosophers but destroyed by politicians.” America and its European allies
are disconnected with the POWER of REASON and priorities of the 21st
century surviving mankind. Now, it is up to the new thinkers and intellectuals of
the global humanity to work for ANEW vision of the world where these
belligerent Western nations have flunked, indeed, the trump card rests with the
educated and spiritually enriched visionary and proactive intelligent thinkers
and problem-solving experts of the Islamic world to show courage, imagination
and take initiatives and to help build a new world of human dignity, rights and
justice for the missing global peace and co-existence.
“Afghanistan did not attack America on September 11, 2001. The war on Afghanistan was already on the Pentagon’s drawing board prior to 9/11. The US led war on Afghanistan, using 9/11 as a pretext and a justification is illegal and criminal. The US and NATO heads of state and heads of government from 2001 to the present are complicit in the launching of a criminal and illegal war. Invoking article 5 of the Washington Treaty is an illegal and criminal procedure. The (former) US and NATO heads of state and heads of government should be prosecuted for war crimes. On October 7, people across the land in the US, Canada and NATO countries must demand that all foreign occupation troops be immediately withdrawn and repatriated.”
(Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in global
security, peace and conflict resolution with keen interests in
Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and author of
several publications including the latest: Global Peace and Conflict Management:
Man and Humanity in Search of New Thinking. Lambert Publishing Germany-May,
2012)
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