By Kadir A. Mohmand on June 18, 2016
The Mass Killer of Orlando Is the Son of a Tajik War Profiteer, Who Is
Pro -Northern Alliance
…by Kadir A. Mohmand
As an American Muslim, I strongly condemn the tragic mass shooting and
killing of the people at the nightclub in Orlando. It is shameful. As any other
human being, I am asking why someone would do such a horrendous act targeting
and killing innocent people. Islam and the Afghan Pashtunwali code do not allow
such a cowardly act.
Dad visiting State Department
To figure out why the mass killer did such a cowardly and
terrible act we need to look at his family. The killer’s father, Siddique
Mateen, attended Nadria High School in Kabul with me. As I have been working
for peace in Afghanistan these past four decades since the Soviet invasion
and war, on occasion I have encountered him in a political setting during these
past 15 years.
It is suspected that the father, Siddique Mateen, has
been an agent for the U.S. intelligence agency. These past fifteen years, he
has profited from the ugly war in Afghanistan. It is well known that he is
pro-Northern Alliance. Afghans have known that he was good friends
with the war profiteer, Zalmay Khalizhad, who became extremely wealthy from
war.
It is well known that the relationship has soured. I strongly
believe that when some of Siddique Mateen’s funds from the U.S.
government were cut off, when his program, Durand Jirga, was pulled from the
Afghan T.V. channel, Payame Afghan, and when he did not receive a position
in the puppet Afghan administration, where the big money is, he became disillusioned, which
flowed over to his son. I strongly believe that the CIA and media is
covering up some of the facts behind this tragic event for this suspected U.S.
government agent and war profiteer.
A U.S. born son of one of the war profiteers has now harmed
innocent people of the United States. The war profiteering father is not Afghan/Pashtun,
which is the majority native population of Afghanistan. His family immigrated
to Afghanistan from Turkestan. The killer son was a U.S. citizen and the
father’s family were immigrants to Afghanistan.
I strongly believe that all of the U.S. funds that have been funneled
to war profiteers like Siddique Mateen to perpetuate the ugly war in
Afghanistan has caused nothing but greed, corruption and enormous loss of
innocent lives in Afghanistan and America. The FBI needs to truly
investigate this corruption and investigate the actions of these war profiteers
like Mateen, Khalizhad, James Dobbins, Senator McCain, Rep. Rohrabacher
and other U.S. congressmen who profit from war, and some U.S.
generals, who left government service to start companies that profit from war.
I strongly believe if we want the killing to stop and tragic events
like the one in Orlando not to be repeated, the U.S. government needs to
stop funneling money to these war profiteers and stop the war in Afghanistan.
War perpetuates violence. War makes the United States less safe. Instead
of war, the United States needs to use the money flowing to the greedy war
profiteers to rebuild its infrastructure (airport security, electrical grids,
power plant security, government computer networks, border security, roads
etc), which would truly make the United States more safe.
However, the United States has made the homeland less secure by
invading and waging war in Afghanistan with its puppet thugs, Northern
Alliance war lords and communist war criminals, which has created a
feeding frenzy for the greedy war profiteers.
Former Warlord Rashid Dostum
After fifteen (15) years, the U.S. government and “selected”
corrupt, puppet Afghan administrations, who consist of war profiteers,
warlords, drug traffickers and communist war criminals like Rashid
Dostum (the present first vice president) have not been able to win the war in
Afghanistan.
U.S. war policy and war strategy need to change to a “sincere”
negotiations strategy for peace. Peace cannot be achieved with the increase or
continuance of the same number of U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan as
desired by the war profiteers.
I only want true peace for the American and Afghan people. This cycle
of war cannot continue. I believe it is my patriotic duty to always support the
U.S. Constitution but to question the policies and strategies of those U.S.
government officials in power at the time when it is harming the United States
in the long term.
It is time for Afghan and American intellectuals, people who are not
war profiteers, to talk with the U.S. government and the Afghan Freedom
Fighters to figure out how to end this ugly war. After the past 15 years, I
think the United States should realize that it cannot win by force in
Afghanistan. The Afghan/Pashtun are not a threat for the United States. They do
not want to be an enemy. Do not force them to be one.
As history has shown they do fight for their independence when invaded
and a corrupt, puppet government is installed by the foreign invader. It is
time the U.S. government changes its war policy to a sincere negotiation
policy. As an American Afghan, Afghanistan is my motherland and the United
States is my homeland. Thus, I want the United States to be at peace with the
Afghan/Pashtun majority.
Why is the U.S. government occupying Afghanistan? I strongly believe it
is not about supporting its independence or sovereignty. It is not about caring
for the Afghan people. It is not about Freedom for Afghan women terrorism,
al-Qaeda or Daesh. Afghanistan is not responsible for the tragic events of
9/11. The U.S. government’s 28 classified pages, which were referred to
recently in the media and recent lawsuits ,are pointing to Saudi Arabia. Yet
the U.S. government chose to invade and occupy Afghanistan. I think it is time
that the U.S. government reveal why it is really in Afghanistan.
Rare Earth Elements
It is all about the vast untapped Rare Earth Elements (REEs) in
Afghanistan especially in the Pashtun areas such as Helmand and about
relocating its outer defense perimeter to Central Asia with Afghanistan at the
heart. The U.S. Pentagon referred to Afghanistan as the “Saudi Arabia of
lithium…” The U.S. government needs a new supply chain for REEs instead of
relying on China to supply it with REEs.
The invasion and occupation of Afghanistan is really about the U.S. and
NATO having direct access and control over Afghanistan’s vast untapped Rare
Earth Elements (REEs), which are worth trillions. These REEs are vital to the
manufacture of technology and defense systems. The U.S. sent down geologists
with special operations forces into the REE deposits of the Helmand region at
the start of the invasion. The U.S. even knew about these REEs deposits before
the war. I believe control of the REEs is the real reason for the invasion,
continued occupation and covert war and genocide against the Afghan villagers.
The New York Times wrote an article about the REEs in 2010 in which it
referred to Afghanistan as becoming “…one of the most important mining centers
in the world, the United States officials believe.” It is not about fighting
terrorism. It is about the U.S. fighting for control of the Afghan people’s
REEs. It is obvious that the U.S. and NATO will fight anyone that gets in their
way of this goal. The Afghan villagers are in their way because this REE
rich-land is their land and as history has shown they cherish their freedom and
defend their homeland. I believe this is why genocide and other war crimes are
being committed now against the Afghan/Pashtun villagers.
Freedom for Afghan women means an Afghan woman being able to live in
her country, with her family, with her culture being respected, with her honor
in tact, with her faith being respected, and without foreign drones and
intelligence balloons flying and buzzing overhead, without puppet leaders in
Kabul, and without the constant fear of foreign soldiers invading her home and
privacy, terrorizing her and threatening her safety and honor.
In an Afghanistan occupied by foreign military and private mercenaries
who are terrorizing the villagers, with widespread drug trafficking and rampant
systemic corruption there can be no true freedom for women or anyone.
I strongly believe
if this ugly war continues, the only winners are Russia and China. Afghans and
Americans will be the losers.
U.S. Congress needs to cut the funds for Afghanistan and end this war,
which is filling the pockets of war profiteers and emptying the American
coffers.
On Wednesday, December 17, 2015, the U.S. Department of State’s Special
Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador Richard Olson, Mr.
Sampler and others, testified at a hearing before U.S. Senate committee on
Foreign Relations. I watched the hearing on C-SPAN. First, so-called Daesh in
Afghanistan is not who you are being led to believe they are. Second, despite
Ambassador Olson’s flowery comments that there is not any sectarian conflict in
Afghanistan, there is sectarian and ethnic conflict in Afghanistan, which is
caused by the CIA’s divide and conquer strategy implemented these past fifteen
years.
Third, contrary to Ambassador Olson’s remarks, the Pashtun majority,
the native inhabitants of Afghanistan, is being marginalized by the corrupt
national and local Afghan governments, which consist primarily of communist war
criminals, Northern Alliance, war lords, drug traffickers and other thugs. The
U.S. government has installed an Afghan government of ethnic minorities and
Pashtun communists. The Pashtun majority and other Afghan Muslims are not
represented by this government.
I strongly believe that any so-called Daesh, ISIS or ISIL in
Afghanistan are mercenaries, contractors and just plain thugs paid for with
U.S. and Afghan monies and drug trafficking monies.
When I met with Abdullah Abdullah in September, 2012 in Afghanistan,
after showing me his extremely expensive gold watch paid for with U.S tax
dollars, he bragged that he was in charge of the mercenaries/contractors,
DAESH, ISIL ISIS. I have known Abdullah since childhood. Furthermore, I have
been told from reliable sources on the ground in Afghanistan any
“so-called” DAESH, ISIL ISIS, fighters in Afghanistan are really CIA and
MI6 contracted thugs, and hired thugs of the Afghan National Security Adviser
Hanif Atmar, who released from jail the worst killer and drug trafficker,
Mohammad Mukhtar, to oversee these hired thugs, the so-called Daesh. Why does
there need to be the appearance that Daesh is in Afghanistan? I believe it is
because the American people will support the continuation of the war in and
occupation of Afghanistan if they are led to believe that ISIL, ISIS or Daesh
fighters are in Afghanistan.
The former, governor of Paktika Abdul Karim Mateen, admitted that the
Afghan government paid several hundred thousand dollars for these mercenaries
and thugs, which are the Daesh. He was removed from his position right after
that comment. So I ask you, who the real “terrorists” are in Afghanistan? Who
are they paid to terrorize? I strongly believe they are hired to terrorize
Afghans, who reside in areas such as Helmand Province where vast deposits of
Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are located. These deposits are worth trillions and
vital components of defense and technology systems. I strpngly believe it is an
intentional and systematic targeting of civilians especially Pashtun in the REE
rich areas. As history has shown, these Afghans, mainly Pashtun, in Helmand,
fight for their independence, their land and now their REEs.
The Pashtun majority are seen as the main roadblock to easy access and
control of these REEs. Furthermore, Afghanistan is the heart of Central Asia.
After the fall of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, the United States
determined its new outer defense perimeter would be located in Central Asia.
The Pashtun majority are viewed as the roadblock to the development of this
outer defense perimeter and to its new REE supply chain, and as a road block to
the economic development of the energy sector in Central Asia. The Afghan
people’s natural resources will be exported through piping of the gas and the
transporting of REEs and other mineral resources.
The existence of Afghanistan’s valuable resources have been known by
the superpowers for many years. In the 1990s, my attorney, Mr. G.P. Hardy of
Houston, who had many clients in the oil industry, asked if I wanted to work
for one of his clients to scout the area for the potential construction of a
pipeline, which would be built through Afghanistan. I did not take the
assignment as I had a young family in the United States. I know the history of
this pipeline and Afghanistan’s vast untapped natural resources. The Pentagon
has even referred to Afghanistan as “the Saudi Arabia of Lithium.”
The foreign and Afghan war profiteers in the government and private
sector will benefit financially from this exploitation of Afghanistan’s
resources.. The U.S. government will benefit with a new supply chain for REEs.
It will no longer have to rely on communist China to supply it with REEs. The
U.S. will win with its new outer defense perimeter. The Afghan majority will
lose. It will be terrorized by the “so-called” Daesh, the U.S. drones, bombs
and weaponry, the corrupt national and local warlords and government officials
like First Vice President, Communist War Criminal ,Rashid Dostum and their
private militias and thugs, the continuation of the divide and conquer strategy
of the west, the exploitation and theft of its resources and last but not
least, the contamination, pollution and negative health effects on the Afghans
caused by the radioactive by-products of mining REEs and the uranium tipped
weaponry. The Afghan majority will not benefit financially or in any other way
from the present policies and strategies.
In addition, the drug trafficking attracts war profiteers to
Afghanistan. The war profiteers want to see the war continue where corruption
runs rampant. Since the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, it has
become a narco state and one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
Systemic corruption has run rampant. One would expect this corruption to happen
since during these past fifteen years, the national and local Afghan
governments, police and army primarily consist of communist war criminals like
First Vice President Rashid Dostum, Northern Alliance war lords, drug
traffickers and other thugs. For example, I am sure you are aware of the
government officials who stole from the Kabul Bank.
The present government released the main criminal. As long as the U.S.
supports and finances this Afghan government of criminals, war lords,
communists, thugs and war profiteering technocrats, there will be this systemic
corruption. I think the United States needs to end its practice of hiring these
thugs and criminals to be its puppets and do its dirty work. These Afghans will
do any thing for money and a title. When the money stops flowing they will turn
against the United States. Dr. Jodi Vittori of Global Watch testified regarding
Afghanistan’s need for an attorney general. In the past, an inexperienced thug
was appointed as Afghanistan’s Attorney General. The interim attorney general
is the same. I am sure that practice will continue.
I am still appalled that the U.S. supports and funds the Afghan
government with Afghan officials like the communist war criminal and war lord,
First Vice President of Afghanistan, Rashid Dostum. All of the human rights
organizations and the U.S. government know exactly who he is. I believe the
U.S. government should be demanding his prosecution for his horrendous war
crimes committed from the1980s to the present instead of propping him up, funding
him and allowing him to be a member of the Afghan government..
I think that it is time that U.S., global and
Afghan scholars meet to discuss and analyze the current war approach, which has
only escalated violence, created instability, and a corrupt narco state. They
need to evaluate ways to end the war and bring peace. To date, I believe that
the only advice that the U.S. government has been relying upon when forming its
foreign policy and war strategy for Afghanistan has been from military think
tanks, scholars with former national security, DOD and intelligence backgrounds
and careers; basically all war mongers and war profiteers.
For example, the United States has relied upon advice from the Kagans,
the RAND corporation, and Afghan Americans like Mr. Zalmay Khalizhad, whose
family’s wealth has increased in billions, Mr. Ali Jalali, a war profiteer and
former Afghanistan Interior Minister from 2003-05, and former Afghan
communists, who are now working for the U.S. Department of State, Voice of
America, CIA and/or Department of Defense. I believe these war profiteers will
do anything for a dollar, which is the main reason the United States is in such
a mess and Afghanistan is a narco-state and so corrupt.
I strongly believe this war in Afghanistan must end now. As history has
shown, Afghanistan has been the grave yard of superpowers. As Afghanistan is my
motherland and the United States is my homeland, I want the United States to be
at peace with the Pashtun majority. I fought against the Soviet Union and the
Afghan communists during the 1980s to stop communism. I know what war is. I
hate war. I want to see the Afghans themselves prosecute the war criminals, who
committed crimes from 1979 to the present, in lawful tribunals.
High level officials like Rashid Dostum should not be allowed to
apologize for his war crimes and partake in reconciliation and be part of the
Afghan government. Rashid Dostum is a documented war criminal. He was the
subject of articles in the Time magazine and Newsweek. As reported in the Time
on November 19, 2001, and in Newsweek, on November 5, 2001, Dostum
and his group raped many Afghan women and children, “…Dostum’s
marauders chopped off breasts and tied the toes
of women behind their heads..” Instead of prosecuting this
criminal, my U.S. government ignores his war crimes, supports and keeps him on
the payroll.
The United States government needs to follow the rule of law and
international law. Instead it is covering up these war crimes and helping
him commit new war crimes against the Afghan/Pashtun like recently in Faryab
Province. In addition, the Afghan majority has not forgotten about the war
crimes committed by Dostum against the Pashtun in November 2001
at Dasht-e-Leili even though the United Nations and the United States
has. When the UN asked the Afghans to surrender the Afghans did,
and Dostum cowardly massacred them while he was partnering with the United
States.
Afghans have suffered enough these past four decades because of war,
occupation, drug trafficking and corruption. The Afghan children have suffered
enough. Average Americans have suffered enough because of this war. The war
profiteers are the only ones benefiting. Change the war strategy to a “sincere”
negotiations strategy for peace. To do so, Pakistan cannot be involved in these
negotiations. The United States knows that the Afghan freedom fighter will
not come to the table if Pakistan is involved.
Therefore, I strongly believe that peace negotiations must be held
without Pakistan’s involvement. American Afghans are willing to be the bridge
in these negotiations. I along with members of our peace group are willing to
be the bridge. I strongly believe the first step in this peace process is to
withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan. Maintaining or increasing troops will
only continue and even escalate this war. I ask you for your help so that this
ugly war can end in an honorable way for the United States and Afghanistan and
true peace can be achieved in Afghanistan. Afghans are not a threat to the
United States. War is.
This ugly occupation of and war in Afghanistan needs to end. War only
perpetuates violence. Afghans have had enough war and violence these past four
decades. War profiteers have made enough money.
Sincerely,
Kadir A. Mohmand
Former Representative for North America of the Afghan Freedom Fighters
in the 1980s
6147 Old Log Trail
Kalamazoo, MI 49009
Orlando Killer’s Father “Knew Obama”? Schmoozed In Washington, Sought Afghan Presidency | Zero Hedge from Options News’s Tweet
/https://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/content/dam/thestar/news/canada/2021/09/25/huawei-executive-meng-wanzhou-receives-warm-welcome-upon-return-to-china/_1_meng_wanzhou_2.jpg)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.