The Sudan-Iraq-Afghanistan Alliance: and the Russian connection Americas enemies unveiled Archived J.R. Nyquist articles 17 September 2001 jrnyquist/sept17/jrn_essay.htm Due to Abu-Walids efforts, Iraq and Afghanistan agreed to a quiet alliance that would unite their military forces and intelligence services. Sudans Turabi simultaneously prepared terrorists for operations against the oil sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf. While the Iraqis held out the prospect of supporting the Taliban against Iran, Turabi and bin Laden offered honeyed words to the Iranians. The war against America, they explained, would be protracted. Many martyrdom operations would take place. There was lots of glory (and revenge) to be shared. Why quarrel? Kill Americans. In November, 1998, bin Laden openly described his strategic objectives in a note to Islamist organizers in Pakistan. He said that non-Muslims should be driven from Jerusalem and Saudi Arabia. He wrote of the day when Islamic law will be enforced in the land of God. The Jews and Christians will be pushed out, he said. As it is a religious obligation for every Muslim to support the mujahideen fighting for ... sacred places, similarly they are also obligated by their religion to support the Taliban government in Afghanistan, because by enforcing Sharia in Afghanistan, the Taliban have established the system of God on Gods land. In December 1998 the Ulema-i-Afghanistan, a key Islamic body in that country, declared an armed jihad against America, saying that this was mandatory. All Muslims are ordered to rise against America to kill Americans, said the decree, which was issued by leading Islamic clerics and scholars. It is curious that the Taliban, which is fighting Russian-supported forces in Northern Afghanistan, does not think to declare war against Russia. After all, it was the Russians who killed a million Afghans in the 1980s. It was the Russians who devastated the country and its infrastructure. In fact, it was the Americans who helped the Afghans in their struggle. But no, Russia somehow escapes the wrath of these curious agents of fanatical misdirection -- men with fishy backgrounds and unreal objectives. How do we explain Turabi and bin Ladens disinterest in Russia -- whose allies and surrogates the Taliban is ostensibly fighting? What is the real reason they have focused on America? Instead of avenging a million Islamic dead at the hands of Moscow, the Taliban looks to the other side of the globe, to Russias main enemy. How postively curious this is! Why should Turabi and bin Laden do Russia this favor? Why should they deliver crushing blows against the U.S. and not to Russia? But there it is. The madmen of Islam have been led, step by step, to turn their enmity from Moscow and declare what the Ulema-i-Afghanistan says will be a war of extermination against the people of America. To be perfectly clear, this is not merely an effort to damage U.S. interests, but a declared campaign to eradicate America entirely -- to wipe the United States from the face of the earth. ...no steps for the total elimination of America by force should be avoided, said the assembled scholars and holy men. America is an enemy of the Islamic world and should be annihilated. In recent days weve heard that Pakistan has accepted U.S. proposals to cooperate in a war against Afghanistan. But can we trust Pakistan, whose secret service has been deeply involved in bin Ladens war preparations? American strategists should think this one over. If Pakistan appears to be our ally today, the tables may turn tomorrow. Radical Islamic groups in Pakistan are deeply committed to waging a jihad against America. You would think that these groups had fish to fry next door, in Kashmir -- against India. But here we go again. The immediate enemy, the historical enemy, is left in the lurch. The far away Americans, who dont even know where these people are on the map, are suddenly the main concern. It is amazingly absurd.
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