The questions about Pakistan’s war on terrorism revolve
around secret connections that undercut the war effort, whether the Army is
seriously fighting a war or simply putting on a show to convince the doubters. Are
Pakistan’s militants really backed by a consortium of intelligence agencies,
and if so, then who is in this consortium? Are any Pakistani agencies involved
in this operation taking place under their own noses?
If the Army is serious in its operations to eliminate these
militants, then why do they make it possible, even comparatively easy, for them
to drive away from the offensive, on unguarded roads, to freely carry out
attacks in North-West Frontier Province
(NWFP)? The daily war upon the innocent citizens of Peshawar is ample testimony
that all is not right with the war plan that Army generals have designed to
control or eliminate the militants.
How could an incredibly competent military (when it comes to
fighting against India) in possession of an excellent Air Force, fight a war
against thousands of militants for nearly a year and end-up doing nothing more
than chasing them back and forth? There is so much circumstantial evidence
proving that Pakistan still supports the militants that it once trained, that
it is impossible to believe that they are seriously waging against them today,
on sequestered battlefields. We are asked to believe the Army when it claims
that several hundred militants have really been killed (even though they have
produced no casualty lists, bodies, or even notified next of kin) and that none
of the dead were leaders.
Much is read into the killing of militant leader Baitullah
Mehsud, but that should be seen as nothing more than the continuation of a
pattern of killing the prime leaders of S. Waziristan that began in 2003 -- Mullah
Dadollah, Nek Mohammed, Baitullah Mehsud. When Bush dumped the Afghan war in
Musharraf’s lap, the secret Pakistani Taliban operation began in S. Waziristan,
making use of Taliban assets who had relocated there, after being saved from
Northern Alliance troops in the “Kunduz airlift.” This intervention by the
Pakistani Air Force, under the watchful eye of America’s Air Force, is the
first of many such instances.
The issue of “fake wars” fought against the Taliban within
Pakistan, have been primarily in S. Waziristan, centered around these militants
who later formed TTP, who were also allegedly trained by Army
instructors in 2004. Now that they are carrying-out bombing operations
against civilians, police and even the military itself (that have only been
made possible because of faulty military operations), is it proper to question
the Army’s sincerity in their pursuit of them now?
The heavily restricted Pakistani press cannot question
military involvement in the terror attacks that wrack Peshawar each day, but it
does question Indian and Israeli support for the attackers, based mostly upon
evidence seized in S. Waziristan. Reporters cannot question the Saudi angle of
support for the Pakistani Taliban, because to do so implicates mostly Pakistani
hands and madrassas, covering up the Taliban’s primary financiers. It is
obvious to the world that the armies of Mehsud require far more than a
percentage of opium profits to fund and equip armies of 10,000 or more paid
militants.
The question is not whether the militants of S. Waziristan
are the creation of spy agencies and foreign powers, but which spy agencies are
behind them?
The spy game playing out in Peshawar and vicinity is a risky
gamble, bearing high collateral costs. In a new type of CIA warfare, designed
to wage war indirectly against the Russians in Afghanistan, armies of highly trained
ideological warriors (“holy warriors”) were created in secret, to secretly
fight our wars for us. America’s “Islamists” defeated the Russians for us,
without incriminating us for war crimes in the process. They have continued to
fight America’s little wars all over the world since then, always under CIA
control. The CIA hand in the creation of sectarian warfare outfits is still
there, still ordering the attacks upon Shi’a and other “unbelievers” in the
Wahabi doctrine, promoted as “Shariah.”
America’s secret Islamists wage war for us today, only this
time, they are killing our allies in Pakistan, opening the gates to an outright
American invasion, to protect the land routes into Afghanistan. None of this
would be possible without America’s proxies in the area, cooperation between
the government there and the governments who send them.
Peter Chamberlin may be contacted at peter.chamberlin@naharnet.com.