On the fraudulence of the "War on Terror":

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The “war on terror” is a mockery, and so is the U.S. support of the present government in Afghanistan, which is dominated by the Northern Alliance terrorists. The U.S. government is fighting the Taliban under the name of the “war on terror” but is working with and helping the Northern Alliance terrorists who are just as much dark-minded killers and rapists as the Taliban. It was the Northern Alliance leaders like Burhanuddin Rabbani, Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf, and others who gave shelter to Arab terrorists in Afghanistan for the first time. But today the U.S. government tries to paint them as being “democratic-minded” and “liberators of Afghanistan”!

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On what Afghanistan needs and what it doesn't need:

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Today we need security and liberation, but in the name of security, the foreign troops deprived us of our liberation. We need international support, but we don’t want occupation. Sadly, today Afghanistan has become an occupied country, and the U.S. government is pursuing its regional and economic interests there, while the well- being of the Afghan people seems to be of no value. The U.S. nourished and empowered the Northern Alliance even though they are more a danger than the Taliban, as President Karzai himself confessed.

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On whether the US is serious in its fight with the Taliban. This is an interesting view that I've not come across before. Comments?

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We should remember that it was the U.S. who originally supported the Taliban and built them up, and the U.S. also supports the Northern Alliance. The U.S. could easily get rid of the Taliban if it wanted to do so. It seems strange to the Afghan people that a superpower is unable to red rid of a bunch of medieval-minded, illiterate and ignorant people like Taliban. Actually, the U.S. is not serious in its fight against the Taliban and just needs an excuse to prolong its presence in Afghanistan to threaten Iran, China, Central Asia and other Asian powers.

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On assistance and where the money is going:

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One Member of the Bundestag said that the German government has been supporting projects for change, such as schools. But they didn’t give me a chance to say that most of the money is going to the warlords, and the Taliban is burning schools and killing school children. I wanted to tell them that Mr. Karzai’s government is the most corrupt in the world. Even officials accept that fact. I wanted to tell them that even the defense officials in the US and in Britain estimate that up to half of all aid in Afghanistan is failing to reach the right people. A Pentagon official said thousands of cars and trucks intended for use by the Afghan police had been sold instead. (Sunday Telegraph, January 29, 2007)

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