U.S. IS LOSING WW3 WHICH ITS RICH CLASS JEW/CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS STARTED

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EVEN IN IMPOVERISHED AFGHANISTAN: U.S. OCCUPIERS FACE SEA OF HOSTILITY

By Leslie Feinberg

Gen. John P. Abizaid, top gun in charge of Pentagon forces in the 
Middle East, has summoned his senior commanders to a meeting the week 
of Nov. 18 at Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla. He's 
bringing together Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps generals and 
admirals to discuss strategy for combating resistance in Iraq and 
Afghanistan.

Abizaid admitted at a Pentagon media briefing a week earlier that 
daily combat operations in Afghanistan "are every bit as much and 
every bit as difficult as those that go on in Iraq." (Inter Press 
Service, Nov. 18)

Clashes between U.S.-led forces and insurgents reportedly take place 
daily in the south and east of the country.

At least one U.S. Special Forces soldier was killed and another 
injured on Nov. 14 when their vehicle was hit by explosives in 
northeastern
Afghanistan. The same day, at least three U.S. soldiers were killed 
when their vehicle struck a mine in the eastern Afghan province of 
Kunar.

U.S. military bases in the southeastern provinces of Paktia and 
Paktika have been hit with repeated rocket attacks. The outgoing 
Pentagon spokesperson in Afghanistan, Col. Rodney Davis, said that on 
Nov. 14 alone two U.S. military bases were under siege more than six 
times in 
24 hours from long-range rocket fire. David declined to discuss 
possible casualties.

A U.S. military base near the city of Khost in eastern Afghanistan 
was hit with a barrage of rocket and machine gun fire on Nov. 16. 
While the number of dead or wounded was not announced, "Witnesses 
reported seeing helicopters landing inside the base, possibly to 
airlift casualties."
(Deutsche Press-Agentur, Nov. 16)

And U.S. soldiers on patrol in the center of Kandahar, the country's 
main southern city, came under fire on Nov. 16.

Many of the roughly 11,000 Pentagon troops stationed in Afghanistan 
are highly trained Special Forces commandos. Eleven soldiers have 
been killed by hostile fire since August--almost a third of the 35 
shot down since the Pentagon unleashed war against this impoverished 
country in
October 2001.

"The situation is much more serious than a year ago," concluded Vikram
Parekh, a Kabul-based senior analyst with the International Crisis 
Group, in an interview in the Washington Post on Nov. 16.

UNITED NATIONS PACKS UP AND LEAVES

The United Nations has pulled most of its staff out of Afghanistan 
after three attacks on the organization's employees and officials 
over the period of one week. The withdrawal followed the killing of a 
French official of the UN refugee agency in the city of Ghazni, 60 
miles southwest of the capital.

The same day, a bomb blew up a UN vehicle in eastern Paktia province.
And on Nov. 11, a car bomb detonated outside UN offices in the 
southern city of Khandahar as a delegation from the Security Council 
was visiting Afghanistan.

A Western security official who spoke to the Associated Press on 
condition of anonymity said there were strong indications the three 
attacks were coordinated, marking a sea change in resistance. (Nov. 
18)

The 15-member UN Security Council voted unanimously in mid-October to 
authorize deployment of the International Security Assistance Force
(ISAF) beyond the capital city of Kabul, to which its jurisdiction 
has been restricted since the Taliban's ouster two years ago.

"But the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is leading ISAF, 
has failed to persuade member countries to add to the 5,500-strong 
force," according to Asia Times Online.

Germany and Norway have agreed on paper to send troops to a few 
specific areas outside Kabul. But the fragile Karzai government, 
hunkered down in Kabul, is still dependent on U.S. combat troops to 
keep it from being overwhelmed by the insurgency.

WHO TURNED BACK THE CLOCK?

The Pentagon is still relying on sheer terror and overwhelming high-
tech force to maintain its strategic position in Afghanistan.

The most recent casualties of U.S. Special Forces resulted during the 
second week of an offensive in the eastern province of Kunar and 
neighboring Nuristan province that includes searching homes.

Six Afghan civilians, including children, lost their lives Nov. 16 
when a U.S. warplane bombed their home in eastern Afghanistan.

U.S. troops also killed six Afghan men in eastern Afghanistan on Nov.
15. Provincial Police Chief Dawlat Khan said the men were unarmed and 
died when U.S. aircraft bombed their truck.

U.S. military commanders have begun to acknowledge that, despite this 
brutal campaign, the Taliban and other anti-occupation forces have 
made significant gains in recent months. (Asia Times Online, Nov. 18)

Despite the military and political challenges that its occupation 
faces, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell vowed that the United 
States would "stay the course" in Afghanistan, as well as in Iraq.

Powell charged that supporters of the Taliban "want to turn the clock 
back" in Afghanistan.

Actually, it was the CIA that "turned back the clock." Afghanistan 
had a progressive revolution in 1978 that tried to carry out land 
reform and free women from feudal bondage. In the early summer of 
1979 the CIA began covertly financing and arming landlord bands 
against it, according to admissions by former National Security 
Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Then, in December 1979, the Afghan government asked the Soviet Union 
for troops. Washington could now claim it was helping the Afghans 
against a "Soviet invasion," and forked out billions of dollars to 
create an army of fundamentalists, including Osama bin Laden, that 
finally overturned the revolutionary government in 1992. After four 
years of warfare among competing Afghan factions, the Taliban won out 
in 1996. Now these former allies of Washington are in its crosshairs.

Today, as winter strengthens its grip on Afghanistan, two years of 
U.S.- led war have left the country ravaged. Hunger, homelessness and 
disease are rampant. Its infrastructure is destroyed. Some 2.5 
million refugees have returned to Afghanistan--an estimated 1 million 
more are still in Pakistan--and an estimated 500,000 people are still 
classified as "internally displaced."

SOVEREIGNS, NOT SOVEREIGNTY

The European Union on Nov. 17 publicly welcomed the adoption of a 
draft constitution in Afghanistan, saying it was "essential that the 
international community continue fully to support the Afghan 
authorities and enable them to exercise effective power over the 
entire Afghan territory and to meet the immense challenge of 
reconstruction and peace." (eubusiness.com, Nov. 18)

Afghanistan enjoys no independence.

When 500 delegates from the grand assembly meet in Kabul on Dec. 10 
to debate the draft constitution, Canadian troops will provide their 
security. (paktribune.com, Nov. 18)

The hand-picked president, Hamid Karzai, doesn't rely on Afghan 
bodyguards--it's the job of U.S. private military contractor DynCorp 
to keep him alive.

Karzai is a former consultant with Unocal, the U.S.-based energy 
giant, that had planned a multi-billion-dollar, 890-mile-long natural 
gas pipeline project across Afghanistan from Central Asia to Pakistan.

Karzai is a royalist from the same clan as the country's former king,
Mohammed Zahir Shah. "Mr. Karzai's critics have accused him of being 
an
American stooge," observed a Nov. 18 BBC report, "particularly after 
the way in which the U.S. intervened ahead of the recent loya jirga 
(grand council) to announce that the former king would not oppose Mr. 
Karzai as a candidate for head of state." That announcement was made 
by Zalmay Khalilzad--at that time the special U.S. envoy, and today 
the U.S. ambassador to the country--the "Paul Bremer" of the imperial 
occupation of Afghanistan, and another former Unocal consultant.

"As things stand now," a Nov. 17 New York Times editorial laments, 
the draft constitution "is no more than the Kabul City Charter."

Who will keep the boot heel on the necks of 25 million people who do 
not want to be U.S. colonial "possessions"?

Some 11,000 U.S. troops with unlimited firepower haven't been enough.
Nor have some 5,000 NATO troops huddled in Kabul.

The Pentagon brass say they and their allies are training a national 
Afghan army and police force. But that "national" army still numbers 
little more than 5,000.

"The army's first U.S.-trained battalion, meant to have about 600 
soldiers, has shrunk to just over 200," reported the Nov. 18 
hollandsentinel.com. Low pay and poor equipment and morale have been 
cited.

Meanwhile, a UN-backed program is attempting to disarm former 
combatants or Mujahideen. But there are an estimated 1 million 
weapons among the population. (msnbc.com, Nov. 18)

And powerful Afghan narco-landlords all have their own well-trained, 
heavily armed local militia.

In the two years since the 2001 invasion began raining ordnance on 
the cities and countryside, opium production has skyrocketed 19-fold 
and the country has become the major source of the world's heroin. 
(Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, Nov. 15) After the Taliban 
banned opium production in 2000, the 2001 crop was only 185 metric 
tons. The UN estimates that this year's crop weighed in at 3,600 tons-
-the second largest in the country's history.

The Karzai government is a fig leaf for the colonial-style occupation 
of Afghanistan.

Gary Leupp, an associate professor in Tufts University's Department of
History, offers a lesson on imperial design. "Way back in 1857," he 
wrote, "Friedrich Engels (who made some very interesting observations 
about Afghanistan, then central to 'the Great Game' played out in
Central Asia between Britain and Russia) described 'the attempt of the
British to set up a prince of their own making in Afghanistan' in 
1842, linking its failure to the Afghans' 'indomitable hatred of 
rule, and their love of independence.'

"Like most of Marx and Engels' stuff," Leupp concluded, "it's 
probably on the net now; in his leisure time, in his Kabul office, 
surrounded by his Swiss Guard, Mr. Karzai might want to peruse it."





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