För den som vill förstå bakgrunden till eller bara fräscha upp sin allmänbildning kring dagens ”Krig Mot Terrorn” bör läsa följande artikel av Melissa Roddy, ”Tom Hanks Tells Hollywood Whopper in ‘Charlie Wilson’s War”, och även försöka se filmen ”Charlie Wilson’s War” med bland annat Julia Roberts i rollbesättningen.
Melissa Roddy skriver bland annat följande:
In the latter half of the movie, there is one big lie and one item of anti-Afghan propaganda. The lie is that U.S. support to the mujahiddin went only to the faction led by Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Afghan leader who was assassinated on Sept. 9, 2001. I spoke with Rep. Charlie Wilson, D-Texas, in 2002, at which time he called Massoud ”a Russian collaborator.” I find it disingenuous that Wilson and his Hollywood biographers now want to throw their arms around him. [...] if this movie succeeds in convincing Americans that the U.S. support went to Ahmad Shah Massoud alone, it will have effectively let the CIA and Wilson off the hook for their contribution to the circumstances leading up to 9/11. [...] So, if Massoud was not receiving the $3.5 billion that Congress was sending, who was?
There were seven factions based in Pakistan who were the recipients of American largesse, but about 40 percent of it went to a blood-thirsty, fundamentalist, loudly anti-American bastard named Gulbaddin Hekmatyar. he frequently used them to fight his mujahiddin allies.
It was Gulbaddin Hekmatyar who turned Kabul to rubble — not the Soviets and not the Taliban. Gulbaddin Hekmatyar regularly rocketed his own capitol during his term of office as prime minister. Hekmatyar is renowned for having killed more Afghans than Soviets. He so habitually attacked his mujahiddin allies that many people suspected he was actually a Soviet agent.
Not only is Hekmatyar anti-American, but he and another anti-American fundamentalist, Abdul Rasul Sayaf, received lots of support during the 1980s from the Saudis. That support included cash and thousands of Arab volunteers, including a wealthy young engineer named Osama bin Laden. It was Hekmatyar and Sayaf who, with bin Laden, established terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. That is why after 9/11, Wilson went on Fox News and said, ”This was as much my fault as anybody’s.”
Melissa Roddy har även gjort en egen film om Afghanistans historia från 1979 till 2001 den elfte september, ”The Square Root Of Terror”.
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