"The West have watches, but we have the time".

The magnificent Taliban!

It has been a long time since the CIA and Saudi Arabia recruited, financed, trained and armed the religious students from Madrassa (s) in Pakistan to fight the Communists in Afghanistan. But shortly after the collapse of Dr Najeebullah regime and the withdrawn of the Russian forces, the Taliban moved in to take over the regime and to end the chaos. Despite their strict application of the Shariat laws, the Americans and the Saudis continued to support the Taliban as a fierce anti-communist force until August 2001. But that has changed since the US invasion of November 7, 2001 and the toppling of Mullah Omar government. Chased by US forces from the air and from the ground, with the help of Pakistani forces, the Taliban were able to carry some antiquated weapons and to retreat to the mountains. One can’t label the Taliban as terrorists as they have no international agenda and concentrate their efforts on local issues with local support. With the increase of the foreign military presence in the country, the Taliban became a legitimate national resistance movement. At this moment and despite the lack of modern weapons, the Taliban are fighting and inflicting heavy losses on NATO forces led by the Americans and supported by the entire Pakistani army. The Taliban have perfected the use of tactics proven successful in Iraq like the use of IEDs, snipinig, ambushes, mortars, RPGs and suicide attacks. The mounting losses of the British forces have made many to question the entire war on Afghanistan and to call for a dialogue with the Taliban. While Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden are known to be outside Afghanistan, the only reason for the Americans to be in Afghanistan is the need to secure the interests of US and British Gas and Oil cartels. Taken history as a guide, the Taliban will eventually win against the later-day anti-Islamic crusaders. As one of their commanders once said "The West have watches, but we have the time".

Obama Iraqi Elephants refuse to fly!!!


The American Zombies believe whatever their government wants to tell them as it is non-patriotic criticising the President. In Iraq three poor American ‘tourists’ wandered innocently inside Iran and are ‘unfairly’ captured by the Iranians. One wonders which American tourist braves the violence in Iraq and is allowed by the US State Department and CIA agents on the ground to come close to the border of their enemy Iran. The second elephant concerns US giving green light to the Iraqi forces to attack Ashraf Camp where ‘terrorists’ anti-Iranian Mujahedeen Khalq have been launching war on US-enemy Iran and supplying the US with intelligence information from inside the country. The third elephant is the US initial denial of the start of negotiation between Saddam Baath party and State Department officials in Turkey. The US ‘tourists’ may be members of US special-forces trying to establish contacts inside Iran in order to carry out sabotage activities.

Launching them from Suleimania has an additional advantage as it aims at damaging the cosy relationship between Iran and President Jalal Al-Talibani who is a friend of Iran and a holder of an Iranian Passport. In fact most of the Kurdish trade with Iran is done through the border crossing near Halbaja. One must consider the attack on Ashraf camp not as an attack on terrorists but as a gesture towards Iran where Iraqi Vice President, Dr Adil Abdul Mehdi, is currently visiting the country. In negotiating with Saddam Baathists the US wants to wave the Baathist card in the face of the Iranians besides the threat of Israeli nuclear attack. This confused policy towards Iran is a result of the various horses pulling US foreign policy in different directions. Obama has too many elephants that refuse to fly in Iraq, Afghanistan or in Pakistan.

Adnan Darwash, Iraq Occupation Times