Afghanistan failure and dead Ipswich druggie whores

The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress which most people had never heard of before the report by the Iraq Study Group - better known as the Baker report.

A meeting organised by the Afghan group on "November 8th was led Beth Ellen Cole, coordinator of the Afghanistan Working Group at the U.S. Institute of Peace and by featured presentations by Hekmat Karzai, director of the Center for Conflict and Peace Studies in Kabul, Afghanistan; Peter Bergen, author of the best selling book Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden; and Seth Jones, a senior political scientist and expert on the insurgency at the RAND Corporation.

Seth Jones identified several anti - US forces and their objectives ;

The resurgent and apparently well financed Taliban , allies of the West against the Russians, now dominate the struggle, with their message to Afghanis of "the clash of civilizations" as the forces of Islam wage war for control against the "anti Muslim" United States it's Western allies in NATO.

The Hezb-i-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) is determined on installing its leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, as the ruler of Afghanistan. A 3 minute video surfaced on December 12th (similiar to one in Jan 2006 just prior to Eid) in which Hekmatyr claimed that the failures of the US in Afghanistan had caused the democrat victories in the mid term elections and claimed , "Very soon we will see that, God willing, American troops will leave Afghanistan and Iraq with their heads bowed down,”

See 22/12/04 “Official” Terrorist lights fires of resistance in Afghanistan Investigating Imperialism

"His forces were a main beneficiary of the 7 mujahideen groups recognised by Pakistan and US intelligence agencies for the channelling of money and arms during the 1979-89 war. Among those arms were Stinger surface-to-air missiles.....On February 19, 2003 American tolerance snapped and the US DOS designated Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as a Terrorist."

As the article prophetically said after a meeting at Mazur al Sharif in November 2004 of Hekmatyr and his pals...

"Watch this space for an announcement about troop movements from the Scotsman John Reid AKA Minister of Defence – augmenting NATO forces (now approx 500) – beefing up the response – sharing the burden – spreading the load – part of a widening response in the War on Terror – blah blah … pulling US chestnuts out of the fire – re-run history reel .. Terrorist aided by US bites the hand that feeds … Osama ? Hekmatyar ?"

For regular postings by Lord Patel on the advance of Hekmatyr and his forces in Afghanistan simply enter "Gulbuddin Hekmatyar" in the top left search box. ditto Reid, Afghanistan

Al Qaeda's foreign fighters supported by Tribal groups on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and other allied groups seek broader objectives, including complete U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East.

Criminal gangs are using the chaos caused by the insurgency and the freedom to operate the production of poppies, heroin base and increasingly pure heroin which winds it's way to the streets of Europe.

These forces operate both independently but also jointly in a confused brew of tribal, religious, criminal and regional cliques - opaque to the military mind and US and NATO forces.

Getting the Muslim's message across

Hekmit Karzai identified the increasing sophistication of the message and its transmission and promotion. The Taliban, whilst in theory espousing the modern world has readily adopted media campaigns using DVDs and websites.he Taliban have developed a video production arm equivalent to Al Qaeda's video production center, As-Sahab, which has turned out dozens of statements by Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri this year. Although distinguishing them from the products of the CIA is impossible.

Suicide terrorism

Suicide terorism , an import from Iraq has grown, and Karzai's Center has documented 83 this year, compared with 21 in 2005 and only one in 2001/2002. There were 21 in September 2006 alone. Whilst there have been successes against military forces the majority of victims are said to be Afghan civilians.

A major loyal jirga is planned for January which it is hoped will draw hundreds of Afghans and Pakistanis from the state parliaments, civil society, and tribes on both sides of the border. Both Presidents Mushariff and Karzai are scheduled to attend and the UN is supposed to monitor the event. Don't hold your breath.

Meanwhile US and NATO forces die, the poppies grow unhindered, as do the drug cargoes which finally end up being pumped into the tired limbs of young whores in Ipswich .... near the major ports of Felixstowe and Harwich, apparently @ £15 a baggie the 2nd cheapest source of heroin in the UK.