Letter From Afghanistan Taliban, The Islamic Emirate To The American People!
20 February 2018By Al-Ikhwah Al-Mujahidun
The American people, officials of independent non-governmental
organizations and the peace loving Congressmen!
With the hope that you will read this letter prudently and will evaluate the
future of American forces and your profit and loss inside Afghanistan in light
of the prevailing realities alluded to in the following lines!
The American people!
You realize that your political leadership launched a military invasion of our
country 17 years ago. This invasion was not only contrary to the legal and
national norms of our own sovereign country but also a violation of all
international rules and regulations, but still the following three main points
were put forward by your authorities to justify this illegitimate invasion:
Establishing security by eliminating the so called terrorists inside
Afghanistan.
Restoring law and order by establishing a legal government.
Eradicating narcotics.
However let us analyze how successful your war-monger leaders were in
achieving the above three slogans in this illegitimate war?
Increased insecurity and fighting:
In 2001 when your ex-president George W. Bush ordered the invasion of
Afghanistan, his justification for that felonious act was the elimination the
Islamic Emirate (Taliban) and Al-Qaeda.
But despite continuing this bloody war for seventeen years and accepting huge
casualties and financial losses, your current president Donald Trump - to
continue the illegal 17 year old war in Afghanistan - acknowledged increased
insecurity and emergence of multiple groups instead of the single unified
Islamic Emirate (Taliban).
This was stated by Trump while declaring his new war strategy for Afghanistan
and South Asia on 23rd August 2017 and seventeen years later, again ordered
the perpetuation of the same illegitimate occupation and war against the
Afghan people. Since your authorities admit the presence of multiple warring
factions inside Afghanistan, it verifies our claim that by invading
Afghanistan and overthrowing a unified responsible government of Taliban, the
Americans have merely paved the way for anarchy in the country.
No matter what title or justification is presented by your undiscerning
authorities for the war in Afghanistan, the reality is that tens of thousands
of helpless Afghans including women and children were martyred by your forces,
hundreds of thousands were injured and thousands more were incarcerated in
Guantanamo, Bagram and various other secret jails and treated in such a
humiliating way that has not only brought shame upon humanity but is also a
violation of all claims of American culture and civilization.
In this lopsided war and as confirmed by your own military authorities, 3546
American and foreign soldiers have been killed, more than 20,000 American
forces injured and tens of thousands more are suffering mentally but in
reality the amount of your casualties is several times higher and is
deliberately being concealed by your leaders. Similarly this war has cost you
trillions of dollars thus making it one of the bloodiest, longest and
costliest war in the contemporary history of your country.
Chaos and the most corrupt regime:
Even though it is not the duty of America to draft laws and suggest systems
for other countries but nevertheless, the second excuse of George W. Bush for
the invasion of Afghanistan was to establish a supposed legitimate government.
But despite seventeen years of war costing thousands of American and coalition
lives and billions of dollars, such a system has taken root in Afghanistan
which has achieved the following administrative, legal, military and political
records:
Number one internationally in administrative and financial corruption.
Number one internationally in violating human rights.
Number one internationally in usurping of land and embezzling international
aid.
Number one internationally in violence against women, etc. etc.
The latest example of the corrupt regime formed in the wake of American
invasion is the presence of a two-headed system which is unparalleled in the
established laws of forming a government throughout the world.
Production and expansion of narcotics:
The third justification of George W. Bush to invade Afghanistan was the
prevention and eradication of narcotics. Let us examine the amount and levels
of production and expansion of the narcotic trade in Afghanistan after
seventeen year war effort?
According to the data provided by UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crimes) - prior to the American invasion - poppy was cultivated only on 185
hectors land of Afghanistan and only in areas controlled by anti-Taliban
forces whereas the level of heroin addiction among Afghans was next to nil.
But following the American invasion of Afghanistan, poppy cultivation
skyrocketed from 185 hectors to 328,000 hectors while under the shadow of
seventeen year occupation, the number of drug addicts has reached 3 million
people.
On 21st December 2017, the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes)
reported that drug production increased by 87% and poppy cultivation increased
by 63% during the year 2017, thus mounting the total production of narcotics
to 9000 metric tons.
The American people!
You proclaim to be a developed and civilized nation of the world. Since the
imposed government in Afghanistan is established by you therefore we leave it
to your judgment to decide - according to your logic and conscience - whether
the present system and its pertinent changes, insecurity, chaos and 87%
increase in narcotics are reforms or crimes against humanity?
Your authorities proclaim that tens of billions of dollars have been spent on
various reconstruction projects in Afghanistan. Of course this is the same
money which is collected from you as taxes and revenues, but here it has been
distributed among thieves and murderers.
Do you agree that the hard earned money of your labor should be wasted on such
a corrupt system where in only one criminal case, $900 million were stolen
from Kabul Bank by corrupt officials?
Do you consider it the rule of law in American culture and lexicon where the
first deputy of a government is a person involved in the felonious act of
sexual assault on a 70-year-old man besides hundreds of other crimes against
humanity?
Is this the civilization, modernity and rule of law proclaimed by you in the
world?
Were your 3546 forces killed in Afghanistan to establish and empower such a
system?
Can your scholars, intellectuals and unbiased analysts produce an answer to
our questions?
You must understand that our people are living, watching and closely analyzing
all these calamities and that is why the regime working under the shadow of
your military support and the corrupt elements assembled therein are not
looked upon as a legitimate government rather they are considered a band of
usurpers, looters, mafia warlords and drug-dealers while at the same time, the
resistance against them is considered their legal, moral and national
obligation. The people working alongside you to impose this system are
committing treason against our nation and national interests. On the other
hand, the people who waging armed resistance against your corrupt regime are
the defenders of their homeland, national interests, sovereignty as well as
their dignity and they are revered by the Afghan masses as their heroes. That
the American media is propagating against the Afghan resistance and labelling
them as foreign terrorists instead of Afghan freedom fighters, all of this is
baseless propaganda aimed at concealing their own humiliating defeat. To
repudiate this propaganda, we only want to say that had there been any chance
of success in Afghanistan with foreign support, the American invaders and
their coalition forces would definitely have succeeded due to enjoying the
political and military support of a powerful country like the United States of
America as well as the support of a well-equipped military alliance like NATO.
The People of America!
We would like to summarize our message to you in the following words:
The Afghans who are fighting your forces and any other invader today, this is
their legal, religious and national obligation. However mighty and
well-equipped your forces might be, even if supported by the entire world,
this resistance will be sustained by the Afghan people due to their religious,
legal and national obligation. This resistance is considered by Afghan masses
as a sacred responsibility of defending their creed and country. To relinquish
this sacred obligation is considered by them as abandoning Islam and all human
values and this disgrace is never acceptable for any valiant Muslim Afghan
individual.
Afghans have continued to burn for the last four decades in the fire of
imposed wars. They are longing for peace and a just system but they will never
tire from their just cause of defending their creed, country and nation
against the invading forces of your war-mongering government because they have
rendered all the previous and present historic sacrifices to safeguard their
religious values and national sovereignty. If they make a deal on their
sovereignty now, it would be unforgettable infidelity with their proud history
and ancestors.
Afghanistan is a country which has maintained its independence throughout its
several thousand year history. Even in the 19th and 20th century when most
Muslim countries were occupied by the then European imperial powers,
Afghanistan was the only country in the region to preserve its independence
and despite an eighty year imperialistic endeavor, the British failed make
them accept occupation. It is the same inherent zeal and historic succession
in the hearts and minds of Afghan masses which presently inspires this
empty-handed nation to continue protracted resistance against your occupying
forces. This is not exaggeration rather irrefutable reality that today the
valiant Afghan self-sacrificial attackers are competing among themselves to
carry out martyrdom seeking attacks against your invading forces.
This national religious resistance of the Afghans is not a futile war, rather
it is progressing everyday as various parts of the country are liberated. At
this moment the head of SIGAR (Special Inspector General for Afghanistan
Reconstruction) acknowledged that sixty percent of Afghan territory is under
the control of Taliban (Islamic Emirate).
In 2001 during the American invasion of Afghanistan, a number of world
countries came under the influence of misleading propaganda by your officials
and supported the warring strategy of the then president George W. Bush. But
today we see that your government has lost that international support as a
number of your coalition partners have withdrawn their forces from our country
by discerning the prevailing realities and they are currently seeking a
political solution. The international community at large is now backing our
justified resistance against the illegitimate American occupation. If your
government is still insisting on perpetuating the war in Afghanistan by
conjuring excuses, it will further undermine American prestige in the world.
The People of America!
In the American society where the main source of power is the masses and the
authorities are elected by public votes, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -
as representatives of the will of Afghan nation - asks the American people and
the peace loving Congressmen to put pressure on your authorities and demand an
end to the occupation of Afghanistan because stubbornly seeking the
protraction of this war and existence of a corrupt and ineffective regime here
in Kabul will have dreadful consequences for the region and particularly for
the stability of America herself.
The Afghan masses feel pity for the whole American nation because they are
being sacrificed and are losing respect through the world with each passing
day solely due the war-mongering policies of a few war-mongering officials.
Your intellectuals, peace loving Congressmen and independent chiefs of civil
organizations should question your authorities as to why the American people
are so insecure and detested at home and abroad despite their international
prestige?
For how long will your modern country and your children continue to be
sacrificed for the war-mongering policies of a few war-mongering officials?
And what eventual benefit will these warring policies bring for your country?
The American People!
Your president and his military and political officials following his war
policies still speak the language of war in Afghanistan. They intentionally
release fake statistics for the sake of their vested interests and misguide
you and the world by throwing dust in your eyes. The reality is that in
contemporary world, the use of force and arms has been replaced by peaceful
dialogue and wars cannot be won with lies.
Only in past September - in accordance with Trump's new strategy - American
forces used all their new powers and carried out 751 air strikes. You should
ask your Generals that despite using such force, have you retaken even a
single inch of land from the Taliban or have they become even more powerful.
If you do not understand the inexperienced policies of president Trump and his
war-monger advisors, then look no further than his irrational decision of
shifting the American embassy to from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem which brought
America in opposition with 128 countries of the world.
Truly it is humiliating for a civilized people like you to be confronted with
such a decisive international majority. It was only due of the pursuit of
policies of force which pitted majority of the world countries against
America, and your authorities are still insistent upon that ridiculous
policy!!
The Islamic Emirate had asked America from the very beginning to solve her
issues with the Islamic Emirate through talk and dialogue. The use of force
has adverse consequences, and you might have now discerned the bitter
consequences of American aggression against Afghanistan. If the policy of
using force is exercised for a hundred more years and a hundred new strategies
are adopted, the outcome of all of these will be the same as you have observed
over the last six months following the initiation of Trump's new strategy.
According we still believe that it is not too late for the American people to
understand that the Islamic Emirate - as representative of its people - can
solve its problems with every side through healthy politics and dialogue.
Needless use of force only complicates the issues by creating new dimensions
which gradually move out of the realm of control. The Islamic Emirate is a
regional power with deep roots which cannot be subdued by sheer force. The
chances of dialogue however are not exhausted. The American people must
understand that the Islamic Emirate understands its responsibility and can
play a constructive role in finding a peaceful solution for issues but this
can never mean that we are exhausted or our will has been sapped. It is our
policy that logic should be given a chance before the use of force. Whatever
can be achieved by logic, should not be relinquished due to the use of force.
It is the moral obligation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to inform
you, the American masses, about these realities.
We must state that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan undertakes legitimate
efforts for the independence of our homeland. Having a sovereign country free
from any foreign occupation is our natural and human right. Seeking freedom of
our homeland and establishing an Islamic system conforming to the creed of our
people can never be called terrorism by any law of the world. It is worth
mentioning that we have no agenda of playing any destructive role in any other
country and we have practically proven over the past seventeen years that we
have not interfered in any other country. Likewise we will not allow anyone
else to use Afghan territory against any other country. War is imposed on us,
it is not our choice. Our preference is to solve the Afghan issue through
peaceful dialogues. America must end her occupation and must accept all our
legitimate rights including the right to form a government consistent with the
beliefs of our people. After gaining independence, we would like to have
positive and constructive relations with all countries of the world including
our neighboring countries. We welcome their assistance and support in the
reconstruction and rehabilitation of our country. We want to play a beneficial
role in regional and world peace and stability, provide high standard
education and employment opportunities for our people and guarantee all human
and legal rights of every child, woman and man, secure our youth from drugs
and all other moral indecencies, provided job opportunities to every
individual such that they not leave their homeland or seek refuge abroad.
In brief, insisting on prolonging the war in Afghanistan and maintaining
American troop presence is neither beneficial for America nor for anyone else,
rather it endangers the stability of the entire world. This is irrefutable
reality which is only rejected by your arrogant authorities. If you want
peaceful dialogue with the Afghans specifically and with the world generally,
then make your president and the war-mongering congressmen and Pentagon
officials understand this reality and compel them to adopt a rational policy
towards Afghanistan!
This will be the most constructive step for the stability of your people, the
Afghans as well as the whole world.
Our only obligation is to convey (the message) to you!
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
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