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'US ignorance fuelled terror attacks'

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September 26, 2006 - 10:23AM

Afghan President Hamid Karzai today said the United States' failure to address his country's radical religious movement before September 11, 2001, helped lead to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre towers and the Pentagon.

"You had your twin towers blown up because you in the US failed to connect that a monster in my part of the world ... could hurt you in America," Karzai said in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars, in Washington.

After the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan ended in 1989, Karzai said the international community turned a blind eye on his country as religious fundamentalism, born out of the resistance to communism, took hold.

"The West forgot about us completely," Karzai said.

"We didn't matter to international politics ... we were ignored, in spite of our warnings repeatedly."

Osama bin Laden, the leader of the terrorist group al-Qaeda, fought with the Mujahedeen against the Soviet invasion in December 1979.

Karzai said that religious extremists, and terrorists like bin Laden, took advantage of the resistance to foment their own beliefs on the population, and that that effort "still continues".

"For all of us in this world to be safe, we must remove the need for groups, organisations or state entities' ... reliance on religious radicalism as instruments of political policy," the Afghan president said.

Karzai is to meet US President George Bush at the White House tomorrow, and participate in a trilateral meeting with Bush and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday.

The two Asian neighbours have clashed recently over Musharraf's decision to strike a peace deal with tribal leaders in the Waziristan region on the border with Afghanistan - a move the US and Karzai are worried will allow the Taliban better refuge.

US and NATO forces have witnessed a sharp increase in Taliban attacks in Afghanistan over the past few months as the religious group appears to have taken control of southern Afghanistan.

DPA

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One of Bush's puppet ?

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Yep. it's always our fault.

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woiyo wrote:

Yep. it's always our fault.

Agreed

Iraqis love playing dead. They'll get up during praying times. Rolling Eyes

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The US-UN Sanctions on Iraq

August 6th, 2000 will mark the tenth anniversary of the US-UN economic sanctions imposed on Iraq. These sanctions unleashed a human catastrophe that is unparalleled in history. Since the end of the Gulf War in 1991, the regime of sanctions imposed by the Security Council on the people of Iraq constitute the most punitive measures ever to have been devised and inflicted on a member State of the United Nations. They are unprecedented and transgress the acceptable norms of international law.

The cumulative effects of the more than nine-year sanctions on the Iraqi people have been devastating. Nine years of economic, financial and intellectual isolation have caused enormous human suffering especially among the young, women, and the elderly. It has resulted in death and disease, broken lives, lost skills, violent crimes, prostitution, divorce, family desertion, and rampant corruption which has undermined the entire social and moral fabric of Iraqi society. The collapse of educational institutions have led to levels of illiteracy that are harming an entire generation of children.

The six-week long Gulf War in 1991 killed some 250,000 people and devastated all facilities essential to civilian life and economic productivity throughout Iraq. Electricity generating plants, water treatment facilities, sewage treatment plants, communication systems and transportation networks, hospitals, schools and museums, and agricultural fields were all systematically destroyed. Iraq was bombed back to the 'Stone Age'.

Because of the sanctions, Iraq has not been able to repair or replace these facilities which have a direct impact on the health and well being of its 22 million citizens. More than 1.5 million people have perished in the last nine and half years as a direct result of the sanctions.

Yet, in contrast to the Gulf War event and many other series of conflicts and catastrophes occurring the world over, this silent war virtually garners no interest from the mainstream western media; leaving many sadly unaware of the unspeakable human suffering that is unravelling in Iraq.

http://www.phmovement.org/pubs/issuepapers/hong20.html

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