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The Biggest Lie in History

“War on Terror”, Planned to Be Endless Before 9/11

by Edu Montesanti, May 26, 2013

Partially published at Truth Out (US)

Mr. Michael Sheehan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, predicted on May 16 the war against Al-Qaeda and its affiliates could last up to 20 more years, during a Senate hearing revisiting the Authorization for Use of Military Force.

In April, Gen. Joseph Dunford, the current U.S. commander in occupied Afghanistan, had already told the Senate Armed Services Committee that U.S. troops should remain in Afghanistan after 2014. Dunford said he had not made any assessments on the U.S. troop level beyond 2014. In January, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Pentagon plans to leave roughly 3,000, 6,000, or 9,000 U.S. troops in after the 2014 deadline for NATO operations in the country.

Any news? Not at all.

For over 11 years since 9/11, and the unilateral and criminal declaration of “War on Terror” by President George Bush from a Cathedral, on 9/14 – which hurts the US Constitution as a war of aggression, the civil liberties without precedent in the country, the Charter of the United Nations (UN), especially the chapter VII, and all international laws as never before since The Peace of Westphalia (signed by the European great powers in 1648, it was a treaty which introduced rules for internaional laws, based on the sovereignty of the nations) –, many revelations contradicting the official versions, faithfully echoed by the world mainstream media, have come to light so confirming innumerable evidences (evidences and revelations which the US government has never explained, even less the 9/11 Commission which ended up being a “Bush administration official speaker”).

“War on Terror” was planned even before 9/11 – and planned to be an endless occupation in the Middle East: the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), created in 1997 during the Clinton administration, was an important part of Bush agenda during the presidential campaign in 2000. This passage written in September, 2000, commissioned by Mr. Dick Cheney, guided the Bush administration:

Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor. (...) While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.

In this chapter V of PNAC, named Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century Rebuilding America's Defenses, one clearly notes, too, that US matter in Iraq was not Al-Qaeda, nor weapons of mass destructions – never found.

Over a decade, US militaries have been brutally wounded (more than 30,000 according to unofficial accounts) and killed (more than 6,400) – US government is unable to support them returning home from the battlefields suffering severe health issues, many of them losing their medical care and other benefits for life as reported last week by Democracy Now! –, about 1 million Afghans and Iraqis have been killed (most of them, innocent civilians), while those countries are under wreckages – Afghanistan continues to lead the world opium production, its economy, political system and level of corruption are catastrophic, the country lives under a social chaos, thousands of civilians have been killed as Iraq is much more divided and dangerous, as it was under Mr. Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.

However, it is long ago clear that American taxpayers, and human beings all over the world still have a long way ahead to face an unbeatable war,while US government and the intelligence community are, year by year, “failing” to provide security, to prevent “terrorist attacks”, so tightening the policy and removing civil liberties. All this for the biggest lie in history, at the expenses of American taxpayers - until now, such a big lie have costed more than U$ 1 trillion (since 2002, the US has increased the military budget as never in history, even considering the Cold War, more than U$ 6 trillion up to 2012; see chart below, 2000-2011), just to endanger the world. Well, the “War on Terror” has been totally distorted by the “world information monopoly”, as the media actually spreads propaganda and disinformation.

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Last April, The Constitution Project, a Washington, DC think tank, released a 600-page report by its “Task Force on Detainee Treatment” documenting decades of war crimes committed by US imperialism and its military and intelligence agencies. It says:

(...) The events examined in this report are unprecedented in US history. In the course of the nation's many previous conflicts, there is little doubt that some US personnel committed brutal acts against captives, as have armies and governments throughout history. But there is no evidence there had ever before been the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after September 11, directly involving a president and his top advisors on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain on some detainees in our custody.

(...) Despite this extraordinary aspect, the Obama administration declined, as a matter of policy, to undertake or commission an official study of what happened, saying it was 'unproductive' to 'look backwards' rather than forward.

Mr. Obama refuses to “look backwards” just because his policy of war abroad, and a police State in the country, is a perfect continuation of Mr. Bush policies. So “looking backwards” would mean looking the present.

Video: Witness the Bush administration press for war in Iraq. Even if you watched the news at the time, you'll be surprised.
Further discussion can be found at LeadingToWar.com

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An Endless Lie

“War on Terror” is a pretext for US global dominance, especially in the Middle East, the richest oil region in the world. So Islam is the “enemy”, created to be fought as there is not any other to justify the military expenditures and occupations, for which 9/11 has perfectly served as much as the “communist ghost” served to it, from 1945 to 1989. No enemy, no superpower; no war, no economic progress – or today, no way to get over the economic crisis without a global war.

An FBI report shows that only a small percentage of terrorist attacks carried out on U.S. soil, between 1980 and 2005, were perpetrated by Muslims. Princeton University's Loon Watch compiled the following chart according to FBI' data:

On January 6, 2010, CNN published an article entitled Study: Threat of Muslim-American Terrorism in U.S. Exaggerated, reporting that,

The terrorist threat posed by radicalized Muslim- Americans has been exaggerated, according to a study released Wednesday by researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A small number of Muslim-Americans have undergone radicalization since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the study found. It compiled a list of 139 individuals it categorized as "Muslim-American terrorism offenders" who had become radicalized in the U.S. in that time -- a rate of 17 per year.

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CIA Red Cell special memorandum on ”What If Foreigners See the United States as an 'Exporter of Terrorism'”, from February 2, 2010, released by WikiLeaks on August 25, 2010, confirmed the studies of CNN, Loon and FBI:

This CIA ”Red Cell” report from February 2, 2010, looks at what will happen if it is internationally understood that the United States is an exporter of terrorism; 'Contrary to common belief, the American export of terrorism or terrorists is not a recent phenomenon, nor has it been associated only with Islamic radicals or people of Middle Eastern, African or South Asian ethnic origin. This dynamic belies the American belief that our free, open and integrated multiculturalsociety lessens the allure of radicalism and terrorism for US citizens.' The report looks at a number cases of US exported terrorism, including attacks by US based or ﬁnanced Jewish, Muslim and Irish-nationalism terrorists.

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The trend is the Empire to be more agressive in the near future. An Empire “unable” to defeat the Taliban, as Ms. Malalaï Joya – an Afghan activist for human rights, writer and former Parliamentarian expelled from her office for denouncing corruption – stated in the interview to the Brazilian newspaper O Tempo (not published; read the original version below, at the final of this report, sent to us exclusively by Ms. Joya from Afghanistan),

The US/NATO is not serious in its fight against Taliban and plays a Tom and Jerry game with them. Everyone knows that defeating a small group such as Taliban is not hard for a superpower supported by forty other nations, but the US needs Taliban for the time being which is an excuse for them to stay in Afghanistan for long and change Afghanistan into its military base in the region so could combat Asian powers such as China, Russia, Iran etc and also follow its other economic and military strategies in the region.

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As the invasions of Syria (from 2005 to 2010, the US acted secretely through the CIA in Damascus) and Iran were part of the Bush's policy, followed today by President Barack Obama, a III World War is imminent given the present geopolitics. Deeply rooted in lies, as never before in world history.

Lies prior to 9/11.

1. History tells that the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, then the US did the same to defend democracy. Accoridng to Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, the United States began a program of covert aid to the Afghan guerrillas six months before the Soviets invaded. The White House organized and supported Mr. Bin Laden and the other originators of “Al Qaeda” in the 1970s. In an interview in Janury, 1998 to the French paper Le Nouvel Observateur, Mr. Brzezinski said (read also, CNN interview with Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1997):

Yes. According to the official version, the CIA's support for the Mujahideen began in 1980, i.e. after the Soviet army's invasion of Afghanistan on 24 December 1979. But the reality, which was kept secret until today, is completely different: Actually it was on 3 July 1979 that president Carter signed the first directive for the secret support of the opposition against the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And on the same day I wrote a note, in which I explained to the president that this support would in my opinion lead to a military intervention by the Soviets.

And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Video: Mr. Brzezinski encouraging the Afghan mujahideen (combatants) in 1979

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Front row, from left: Major Gen. Hamid Gul, director general of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Mr. Willian Webster; Deputy Director for Operations, Mr. Clair George; an ISI colonel; and senior CIA official, Mr. Milt Bearden at a Mujahideen training camp in North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan in 1987. [Source: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)]

President Ronald Reagan meets Afghan Mujahideen Commanders at the White House in 1985 (Reagan Archives)

Video: President Ronald Reagan meets in the White House the Afghan “Freedom Fighters,
the moral equivalent of our founding fathers”, as he said

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The Council on Foreign Relations noted on October 7, 2009, about schools in Pakistan, a historical US ally:

Pakistan's poor education system has increasingly become a matter of international concern. Lack of access to quality education, which in turn limits economic opportunity, makes young Pakistanis targets for extremist groups, some experts say.

(...) Except in some elite private schools, which do not follow the government-prescribed curriculum, all public schools and registered private schools have been required to teach Islamiyat, or Islamic studies, for nearly thirty years. In addition to Islamiyat, "many scholars have noted that the government curriculum uses Islam for a wide array of controversial ideological objectives," writes C. Christine Fair in the 2008 book The Madrassah Challenge.

A 2003 report on the state of curriculum and textbooks by the Islamabad-based independent Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) said that for over two decades, the curricula and official textbooks in subjects such as English, social studies, civics, and Urdu "have contained material that is directly contrary to the goals and values of a progressive, moderate and democratic Pakistan." It says the curriculum and textbooks include hate material and "encourage prejudice, bigotry and discrimination" toward women, religious minorities, and other nations, especially India.

(...) The 9/11 Commission report (PDF) released in 2004 said some of Pakistan's religious schools or madrassas served as "incubators for violent extremism." Since then, there has been much debate over madrassas and their connection to militancy.

(...) New madrassas sprouted, funded and supported by Saudi Arabia and U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, where students were encouraged to join the Afghan resistance. The Taliban was formed in the early 1990s by an Afghan faction of mujahideen, Islamic fighters who had resisted the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (1979–89) with the covert backing of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and its Pakistani counterpart, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate (ISI). They were joined by younger Pashtun tribesmen who studied in Pakistani madrassas, or seminaries; taliban is Pashto for "students." (source)

In 2002, The Washington Port reported:

The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books, though the radical movement scratched out human faces in keeping with its strict fundamentalist code.

Later in July 2014, the Post reminded that:

Printed both in Pashto and Dari, Afghanistan's two major languages, books such as "The Alphabet for Jihad Literacy" were produced under the auspices of the U.S. Agency for International Development by the University of Nebraska at Omaha and smuggled into Afghanistan through networks built by the CIA and Pakistan's military intelligence agency, the ISI. (...) According to at least one American scholar, these old anti-Soviet textbooks are still in circulation.

(...) The Pashto version includes such chilling entries as "T" is for "topak," or gun. How do you use the word? "My uncle has a gun," the entry reads. "He does jihad with the gun."

Other lessons instruct that Kabul can be ruled only by Muslims and that all Russians and invaders are nonbelievers.

“Our religion is Islam. Muhammad is our leader. All the Russians and infidels are our enemy,” reported Al-Jazeera in December 2014 about the jihadist textbooks sponsored by the US. “Kabul is the capital of our dear country,” reads the entry for the letter K. “No one can invade our country. Only Muslim Afghans can rule over this country.”

According to Dana Burde, a professor of international education at New York University and author of Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan, in an interview with Wyso.org in December 2014, a textbook made in USA to teach first-graders Pashto the religious war, includes:

Letter M (capital M and small m): (Mujahid): My brother is a Mujahid [combatant]. Afghan
Muslims are Mujahideen. I do Jihad together with them. Doing Jihad against infidels is our duty.

As part of its support of the Afghan resistance to Soviet invasion, the United States Agency for International Development spent $50 million on a "jihad literacy" project between 1986 and 1992.

The U.S. government paid for and approved curricular materials for small children that emphasized religious war. The books were reprinted and remained in wide circulation until the mid-2000s, when the post-invasion Afghan government introduced revised versions. But Dana Burde bought the book that contains the passage above at a market in Peshawar, Pakistan, in February 2013, informed Wyso.org in December 2014.

In 2009, not taking into account any of these facts, Ms. Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent and anchor, had asked a maddrassa teacher in Pakistan the following question: “How do you teach them [students] not to hate?”, so fulfilling the media job of disinformation spreading the idea that radicalism and religious war are a local problem to be fought by the US, not caused by Washington as they really have been.

2. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing ended up to be used as a strategy of tension by the US, as reported The New York Times on October 28, 1993:

Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast.

The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be used, the informer said.

(...) Mr. Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian army officer, was used by the Government to penetrate a circle of Muslim extremists now charged in two bombing cases: the World Trade Center attack and a foiled plot to destroy the United Nations, the Hudson River tunnels and other New York City landmarks. He is the crucial witness in the second bombing case, but his work for the Government was erratic, and for months before the trade center blast, he was feuding with the F.B.I. Supervisor 'Messed It Up'.

After the bombing, he resumed his undercover work. In an undated transcript of a conversation from that period, Mr. Salem recounts a talk he had had earlier with an agent about an unnamed F.B.I. supervisor who, he said, "came and messed it up."
"He requested to meet me in the hotel," Mr. Salem says of the supervisor. "He requested to make me to testify and if he didn't push for that, we'll be going building the bomb with a phony powder and grabbing the people who was involved in it. But since you, we didn't do that. (...)"

Video: WTC bombing FBI Foreknowledge, October 28, 1993

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3. The Bush administration met with Taliban leaders until the eve of 9/11, and worked with Al-Qaeda members (including Mr. Osama bin Laden) until three months “after” the attacks (see also Afghanistan - Politics, below).

Former FBI translator, Ms. Sibel Edmonds, translated terror-related communications for the FBI right after 9/11. In that capacity, she read communications between terrorists and other radicals.

Video: Ms. Edmonds says that Mr. Bin Laden – and his number 2 Al Qaeda lieutenant – Mr. Ayman al-Zawahiri – worked with the U.S. government for 3 months after 9/11 to coordinate destablization in the Caucus region / April, 2013 (source: Global Research)

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The New Yotk Times reported on January 15, 2005, in Inspector General Rebukes F.B.I. Over Espionage Case and Firing of Whistle-Blower:

The F.B.I. has failed to aggressively investigate accusations of espionage against a translator at the bureau and fired the translator's co-worker in large part for bringing the accusations, the Justice Department's inspector general concluded on Friday.

In a long-awaited report that the Justice Department sought for months to keep classified, the inspector general issued a sharp rebuke to the F.B.I. over its handling of claims of espionage and ineptitude made by Sibel Edmonds, a bureau translator who was fired in 2002 after superiors deemed her conduct "disruptive."

Ms. Edmonds, who translated material in Turkish, Persian and Azerbaijani, had complained about slipshod translations and management problems in the bureau's translation section and raised accusations of possible espionage against a fellow linguist.

(...) Ms. Edmonds's case has become a cause célèbre for critics who accused the bureau of retaliating against her and other whistle-blowers who have sought to expose management problems related to the campaign against terrorism.

(...) "This report confirms that the F.B.I. failed to treat this case as seriously as the situation demanded," Mr. Leahy said. "It is unacceptable, and it deeply concerns us, that in the wake of the Robert Hanssen spy case, and in the months following Sept. 11, the F.B.I. failed to vigorously investigate these grave allegations."

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4. On July 25, 1990, when Mr. Saddam Hussein was threatening to invade Kuwait, what he would do on August 8, Ms. April Glaspie, US Ambassador to Iraq, personally said (http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/23/world/confrontation-in-the-gulf-excerpts-from-iraqi-document-on-meeting-with-us-envoy.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm) to Mr. Hussein that,

I have a direct instruction from the President to seek better relations with Iraq.

(...) We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait. I was in the American Embassy in Kuwait during the late 60's. The instruction we had during this period was that we should express no opinion on this issue and that the issue is not associated with America. James Baker has directed our official spokesmen to emphasize this instruction. We hope you can solve this problem using any suitable methods via Klibi or via President Mubarak. All that we hope is that these issues are solved quickly.

(...) I received an instruction to ask you, in the spirit of friendship -- not in the spirit of confrontation -- regarding your intentions.

5. Mr. Larry Mitchell, a CIA official, visited Mr. Osama bin Laden in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where the Saudi was for a 10-days treatment at the American hospital, according to disclosures from the French intelligence first reported on October 31, 2001, by the French newspaper Le Figaro, later by The Guardian.

The CIA chief was seen in the lift, on his way to see Mr. Bin Laden, and later, it is alleged, boasted to friends about his contact. He was recalled to Washington soon afterwards.

The American hospital in Dubai emphatically denied that Mr. Bin Laden was a patient there.

Washington last night also denied the story.

The French intelligence confirmed its information after the American Hospital and US denial, also citing Mr. Brzezinski revelations years before as an evidence of CIA's ties to Mr. Bin Laden.

9/11 attacks. As much as “War on Terror”, 9/11 attacks were involved in deep “mysteries” – much before the attacks themselves. Families of 9/11 victims, specialists (firefighters, engineers, chemists, architects, and pilots), government officials (especially intelligence officials), intellectuals and activists in general are up to now protesting, writing, speaking out, in many cases presenting irrefutable proves – among catastrophic “coincidences” and failings –, never investigated, getting little or no mainstream media coverage.

What really attacked the Pentagon; why and how the Twin Towers and the World Trade Center 7 collapsed; why officials removed WTC debris so soon, not permitting any official investigtion; why flight 93, the only one which could not be sut down, was; why Standard Operating Procedures were inexplicably suspended on 9/11, what had never happend in history as the four planes flew a so long way, never intercepted by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) nor by the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC), as both have radars and task forces enough to intercept planes in few minutes; during the long contacts between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the NORAD, and between the Norad and American Airlines (speaking for some minutes to a flight attendant on the flight 11 who mentioned the hijacking, and two stabbings), why there was not, among vain and repeated questions, any call in order to activate the US Defense, which would not take more than one minute (see The 9/11 Tapes: The Story in the Air; how can 6 “hijackers” according to the FBI be alived, and why they are still included in the list of hijackers more than 12 years later, are some contradictions never answered, among many others.

Video: 9/11 Commission, 2004, Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta Testifies
Vice-President Dick Cheney ordered a stand down for Flight 77

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Video: In 2011, Mr. Dick Cheney admits Flight 93 was shot down on 9/11,
what totally changes the official account for this so important issue involving 9/11

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Important videos about Twin Towers and WT7 Collapse, which totally contradict the official accoumts:

PBS - Colorado broadcasts 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out (2012 documentary)

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Firefighters for 9-11 Truth, Recorded Explosion

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Firefighters for 9-11 Truth - Explosion Witness

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Video: CNN's WTC 7 Foreknowledge of Collapse

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4h10 p.m, September 11, 2001: Journalist Aaron Brown reports WTC 7 collapse

Video: BBC's WTC 7 Foreknowledge of Collapse

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5h00 p.m., September 11, 2001: Journalist Jane Stanley reports WTC 7 collapse

WTC 7 really collapsed at 5h20 p.m. on 9/11

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It is proved that the Bush administration had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks: the US intelligence community several times warned the Bush administration, and President Bush personally about the attacks of 9/11. Some evidences:

Memo: Mr. Richard Clarke informs the Bush administration that Al-Qaeda is ready to attack inside the US, January 2, 2001

Video: Mr. Richard Clarke, Former Counterterrorism Chief, Apologizes for 9/11 / September, 2011

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The Washington Post, May 19, 2002, Aug. Memo Focused On Attacks in U.S. Lack of Fresh Information Frustrated Bush (2002/PDB):

The top-secret briefing memo presented to President Bush on Aug. 6 carried the headline, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.," and was primarily focused on recounting al Qaeda's past efforts to attack and infiltrate the United States, senior administration officials said.

The document, known as the President's Daily Briefing, underscored that Osama bin Laden and his followers hoped to "bring the fight to America," in part as retaliation for U.S. missile strikes on al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in 1998, according to knowledgeable sources.

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As reported Truth Out in June, 2013, a top military intelligence analyst identified by the US government only as "Iron Man" revealed the intelligence failures leading up to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (image below), the front page of a document delivered by him to US officials in which “Iron Man” informed his warnings about attacks against the country, denouncing have been totally ignored at that time. Here, full document.

The role of the media could not be more efficient in disinforming and spreading hysteria among Americans post-9/11. On October 8, 2001, Newsweek cover story was: Biological and Chemical Terror: How Scared Should You Be?. Mr. Fareed Zakaria wrote the editorial, page 9, an article intitled “The Real World of Foreign Policy”: according to him, a new world under a constant threat should be lead by the US, to a safer and peaceful world, ending the article saying “Welcome to the real new world order”.

In “Unmsking Bioterror”, Sharon Begley alarmed,pages 11 and 14:

Terrorists are experimenting with patogens and poisons. But they failed before: daunting technical obstacles stand in the way of biological and chemical weapons.

(...) What we know for sure is that (...) operatives of Bin Laden network have tried (apparently without success) to obtain anthrax and botulinum toxin in Czechoslovakia, na FBI official tells Newsweek.

(...) If there's another attack, 42% in the Newsweek Poll fear a biological or chemical assault; 56% worry about explosives.

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On Christmas eve 2001, big American TV stations announced “imminent” biological and chemical attacks againts the country, as airproof face masks, special parachutes, clothes and gloves “terror-proof” were largely sold.

On May 9, 2002, the New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2265) said:

The DNA sequence of the anthrax sent through the US mail in 2001 has been revealed and confirms suspicions that the bacteria originally came from a US military laboratory.

The data released uses codenames for the reference strains against which the attack strain was compared. But New Scientist can reveal that the two reference strains that appear identical to the attack strain most likely originated at the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick (USAMRIID), Maryland.

The new work also shows that substantial genetic differences can emerge in two samples of an anthrax culture separated for only three years. This means the attacker's anthrax was not separated from its ancestors at USAMRIID for many generations.

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On March 11, 2002, Time magazine cover story was Can We Stop the Next 9/11?, where published an image of the World Trade Center burning.

All this was a perfect preparation for Bush's invasion of Iraq in March, 2003. On 4 August, 2003, Time cover was Could It [9/11] Happen Again Today?, the road has been paved the same way to the invasions of Syria and Iran, as we said above, and not to end the aggression aganist Afghanistan.

Afghanistan under US-Led Invasion – A Lie since 1979

Is Afghanistan worse today under the Northern Alliance, than the under the Taliban regime (1995-2001)? The answer is as certain as unfortunate: yes.

When the Taliban took the power, it imposed a cruel dictatorship based on an extreme theocratic State, to be removed as soon as possible. Afghanistan was far from a good land to live, local society were completely unhappy, afraid, and under the talibans the country would never be democratic. However, comparing the reality to these days under the Northern Alliance and foreign occupation, it can be easily said that Afghanistan is a more catastrophic country now, as the Taliban had stopped the bloody civil war, almost erradicated the opium production, and, more important, innocent civilians were not killed as they have been nowadays. An unlimited suffering: “Afghanistan lives a 9/11 everyday”, says Ms. Malalaï Joya.

Being optimistic, Afghanistan has not changed anyway, in anything let us put this way, while its society is paying an unthinkable price for this “nothing”. Let us see the fierce Afghan reality, from inside.

Economy. Financial Times reported on May 20:

The International Monetary Fund estimates Afghanistan's current account deficit at 45 per cent of gross domestic product, and has postponed the prospect of “fiscal sustainability” until after the distant year 2032.

Last year's legal exports, including fruit and nuts, handmade carpets and semi-precious stones, were estimated at $376m by the US Central Intelligence Agency – about one 17th of the value of imports.

According to the World Bank, annual aid flows of more than $15bn a year, roughly the same as Afghanistan's GDP, are a sign of extreme and growing dependence and “cannot be sustained”.

Opium Production and Trade. Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium, the raw ingredient in heroin, and last year provided about 75% of the global crop, a figure that may jump to 90% this year because of the increase in cultivation according to the UM (source: Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2013).

For many years after US invasion, Afghanistan provided more than 90% of the global crop. In 2001, before the invasion, the Taliban decreased the opium cultivation to 185 ton; in the following year, the numbers beat again the country historical records, what would happen year by year, only "decreasing" after Bush's farewell from the White House, in 2009.

(More details about opium production in Afghanistan: United Nations Office on Drugs Crime – Afghanistan, Opium Survey).

Media Disinformation. Late May, 2009, Ms. Joya granted an outspoken and long interview to the Brazilian newspaper O Tempo by e-mail, presenting all the Afghan reality from inside the country, a precious journalistic material about “War on Terror”.

However, on June 14, the Brazilian reporter, Ms. Renata Medeiros, published a report in which she totally cut and distorted Ms. Joya's statements, transformed into an unethical, a pathetic “mini-interview”. Two days later, we sent Ms. Joya an English translation from her “interview”, what really surprised her. Then, she sent us back the original one, which is the core of our book published in Brazil, Mentiras e Crimes da “Guerra ao Terror" (Lies and Crimes of “War on Terror”).

Here, some passages of Ms. Joya's words about drug trafficking, denouncing the CIA and US foreign policy role in it (full version of her interview with O Tempo, at the final of this report):

The only sector in which Afghanistan has progressed beyond imagination in the recent years is drugs cultivation and trafficking, and now Afghanistan produces 93% of world opium which shows a 4,500% increase since 2001.

One of the hidden objectives of the war in Afghanistan was specifically to restore the CIA sponsored drug trade and exert direct control over the routes of the U$ 600 billion annual global drug industry. The Afghan narcotics economy is a designed project of the CIA, supported by US foreign policy. So it is very understandable to see that since October 2001, opium poppy cultivation has skyrocketed and there are reports that even US army is engaged in the drugs trafficking.

Drug mafia is in the hold of power and supported by the West. Recently even Western media reported that Wali Karzai, brother of Hamid Karzai, runs the largest network of drugs in eastern Afghanistan and it is a fact that high ranking officials are engaged in the dirty business.
The counter-narcotics efforts are also mere lies and dramas. A former warlord called Gen. Khodiedad is minister of counter-narcotics and another former warlord and known drug trafficker called Gen. Daud is head of the anti-narcotics drive!!

These days Afghanistan is not only top producer of opium in the world but also largest producer of cannabis, another illegal crop from which marijuana is derived.

Opium poses one of the biggest dangers for future of Afghanistan.

On October 28, 2009, The New York Times reported (to very soon have it forgotten, as always), Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.:

Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president [Hamid Karzai] and a suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.

The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the C.I.A.'s direction in and around the southern city of Kandahar, Mr. Karzai's home.

The financial ties and close working relationship between the intelligence agency and Mr. Karzai raise significant questions about America's war strategy, which is currently under review at the White House.

The ties to Mr. Karzai have created deep divisions within the Obama administration. The critics say the ties complicate America's increasingly tense relationship with President Hamid Karzai, who has struggled to build sustained popularity among Afghans and has long been portrayed by the Taliban as an American puppet. The C.I.A.'s practices also suggest that the United States is not doing everything in its power to stamp out the lucrative Afghan drug trade, a major source of revenue for the Taliban.

(...) A C.I.A. spokesman declined to comment for this article.

(...)

On April 29, 2013, The New York Times reported (not linking the facts below to the already forgotten drug traffiking pointed above, three years ago) Afghan Leader Confirms Cash Deliveries by C.I.A.:

President Hamid Karzai acknowledged Monday that the Central Intelligence Agency has been dropping off bags of cash at his office for a decade, saying the money was used for “various purposes” and expressing gratitude to the United States for making the payments.

Mr. Karzai described the sums delivered by the C.I.A. as a “small amount,” though he offered few other details. But former and current advisers of the Afghan leader have said the C.I.A. cash deliveries have totaled tens of millions of dollars over the past decade and have been used to pay off warlords, lawmakers and others whose support the Afghan leader depends upon.

(...) The C.I.A. money continues to flow, Mr. Karzai said Monday. “Yes, the office of national security has been receiving support from the United States for the past 10 years,” he told reporters in response to a question. “Not a big amount. A small amount, which has been used for various purposes.” He said the money was paid monthly.

(...) The C.I.A. payments open a window to an element of the war that has often gone unnoticed: the agency's use of cash to clandestinely buy the loyalty of Afghans. The agency paid powerful warlords to fight against the Taliban during the 2001 invasion. It then continued paying Afghans to keep battling the Taliban and help track down the remnants of Al Qaeda. Mr. Karzai's brother Ahmed Wali, who was assassinated in 2011, was among those paid by the agency, for instance.

(...)

Politics. Mr. Hamid Karzai, handpicked by George Bush as the Afghan President since 2002, has seen his administration involved in serious cases of corruption, but follows intact in power imposed by Washington – two direct elections, in 2004 and 2009, were involved in deep corruption and bloody violence. In 2009, presidential candidate Mr. Abdullah Abdullah, who got 30% of vote against 49% of President Karzai, refused to dispute the second round due to corruption.

Afghan election workers loyal to President Hamid Karzai set up hundreds of fictitious polling sites where no one voted but still registered hundreds of thousands of ballots towards the President's re-election, according to senior Western and Afghan officials.

Up to 800 fake centres existed only on paper, said a senior Western diplomat in Afghanistan who spoke on condition of anonymity. But local workers reported that hundreds, sometimes thousands, of votes for Mr Karzai in the election last month came from each of those places. Another Western official in Afghanistan confirmed this.

''We think that about 15 per cent of the polling sites never opened on election day,'' the senior Western diplomat said. ''But they still managed to report thousands of ballots for Karzai.''

Besides creating the fake sites, Mr Karzai's supporters also took over about 800 legitimate polling centres and used them to report fraudulently tens of thousands of additional votes for Mr Karzai, the officials said.

The result, the officials said, is that in some provinces, the number of votes reported in favour of Mr Karzai may exceed the number of people who voted by a factor of 10.

(...)

(source: Revolutionary Association of the Woman of Afghanistan (RAWA), September 8, 2009)

The Taliban, after meetings with Bush administration officials in the U.S. until the eve of September 11, 2001, without an agreement for the construction of pipelines that would pass through Afghan soil, to be built and operated by U.S. company Unocal, was toppled from the Afghan power by the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 (BBC was the only media which published one of these meetings, in 1997, Taleban to Texas for Pipeline Talks; Mr. Robert Sheer wrote to Los Angeles Times on May 22, 2001, about a recent meeting: Bush's Faustian Deal with The Taliban (full report here):

Ten weeks after the US invasion in Afghanistan, on December 21, Mr. Karzai was appointed Interim President until several times elected through elections completely wrapped in corruption. Once in power in 2001, one of the first Mr. Karzai's measures was authorize such pipelines construction and exploitation by Unocal (Mr. Karzai is a former consultant for Unocal in the U.S).

World Report 2011 by Human Rights Watch, noted:

Weak Rule of Law and Endemic Corruption. Afghanistan's justice system remains weak and compromised, and a large proportion of the population relies instead on traditional justice mechanisms, and sometimes Taliban courts, for dispute resolution. Human rights abuses are endemic within the traditional justice system, with many practices persisting despite being outlawed. For example Baad, where a family gives a girl to another family as compensation for a wrong, continues even though it is banned by the 2009 Law on Elimination of Violence against Women.

Prison overcrowding is extreme and increasing at an alarming rate, with the number of prisoners increasing from 600 in 2001 to 19,000 in 2011. Following the escape of 476 prisoners from Sarposa Prison in Kandahar, the government ordered the transfer of responsibility for prisons from the Ministry of Justice to the Ministry of Interior, despite international concerns that doing so would increase the likelihood of abusive interrogation and lead to gaps in training, management, and oversight.

Ms. Malalaï Joya's expulsion from the Afghan Parliament, ignored by US governments, both by the Bush and the Obama administration, is also worth of note. On December 14, 2003, a Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly, in the Pashto language) was created to to ratify the Constitution of Afghanistan. Among those elected was Ms. Malalaï Joya, representing Farah Province. On the third day, she is allowed to speak: Ms. Joya denounced warlords in the place, stating that they should be prosecuted in an international court. Her microphone is turned off, she is strongly offended and threatened, expelled from the place to never more be back (see vídeo below).

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Ms. Joya, elected to the lower house of the Afghan parliament, the Wolesi Jirga (The House of the People) on September 18, 2005, soon started to confront warlords in the place, face to face denouncing their crimes against women and their part in drug trafficking (see vídeos below).

Video: Ms. Joya denouncing drug traffickers in the Parliament, generating confusion, finally expelled / 6.5.2006

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Video: Ms. Joya speaking and insulted in the Afghan Parliament / May, 2007

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Video: Ms. Joya being attacked in the Afghan Parliament by the Northern Alliance politicians, put in power by the US

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On May 21, 2007, the parliament voted to suspend Ms. Joya after she appeared in a television interview comparing the parliament to an animal stable: she was accused of insulting other Parliamentarians. Her life was running a constant risk, as she started getting death and rape threats. So she moves until today moving from house to house on a daily basis, to avoid attacks.

Video: Afghan TV reports the expulsion of Ms.Malalaï Joya from the Afghan Parliament. Human Rights Watch urges the
Parliament for reinstating her, on behaf of free of speech; public protests in the country, supporting Ms. Joya / May, 2007

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In the particular case of Ms. Joya's suspension, after which she cannot freely transit in her country but by taxi, hidden under a burqa surrounded by 12 bodyguards strongly armed, in Geneva, 6 October 2010:

The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,

(...) Recalling the following: in May 2007, the House of Representatives suspended Ms. Joya for the rest of her term of office; even though the Deputy Speaker stated during the hearing held in October 2008 that she would be reinstated, Afghan delegations to subsequent IPU Assemblies stated that, for that to happen, Ms. Joya would have to apologize for the statements motivating her de facto expulsion; male colleagues who used offensive language against Ms. Joya and threatened her with rape and death have merely been reprimanded by the Speaker; the Supreme Court has not acted on her complaint regarding the decision to suspend her for the rest of her term; the House of Representatives has even brought a legal case against Ms. Joya, requesting that she be prosecuted for insulting public institutions,

Noting that a letter from the IPU Secretary General to President Karzai on this case has remained unanswered, as have all the Secretary General's letters to the Speaker of the House of Representatives,

Considering that, according to one of the sources, during the last sitting of the previous House of People's Representatives, several members took the floor to state that the House should rectify two unlawful decisions it had adopted during its legislative term, namely the adoption of an amnesty law and the suspension of Ms. Malalai Joya; that, however, the Speaker allowed no debate on the issue and simply left the plenary room,

Noting that Ms. Joya did not stand in the September 2010 elections,

(...) Bearing in mind that, in September 2009, the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) published a report on violence against women in Afghanistan entitled “Silence is violence”, which shows that the risk to women in Afghanistan has increased in recent years, that the pattern of violence against women in public life sends a strong message to all women to stay at home, and that the perpetrators enjoy impunity,

1. Thanks the leader of the Afghan delegation for his cooperation; nevertheless deeply regrets that the Speaker of the House has never seen fit to respond to the letters which the Secretary General has addressed to him on behalf of the IPU, let alone taken into account its concerns and considerations;

2. Notes with particular regret that the statement made to it regarding the withdrawal of the legal case of the House of Representatives against Ms. Joya has apparently remained without effect;

3. Deplores the failure of the House of Representatives to redress, at least symbolically, the injustice done to Ms. Joya and her electorate by expelling her from parliament without any legal basis and by depriving her electorate for more than three years of representation in parliament, and the fact that it has ignored appeals of its own members to rectify the unlawful decision revoking her mandate;

4. Deplores the parliamentary authorities' discriminatory treatment of Ms. Joya, as reflected in the fact that they merely reprimanded her male colleagues who had used highly offensive language against her and never asked them to apologize, while expelling her from parliament for critical statements regarding some of her colleagues;

5. Also deplores the failure of the Supreme Court to act on the complaint that Ms. Joya filed regarding the decision of the House of Representatives to suspend her mandate, thus de facto denying her the right to seek legal redress before a court;

6. Is led to believe that Ms. Joya's decision not to stand in the elections is largely due to how parliament has treated her; deeply regrets this state of affairs as it can only deter women from participating in Afghan political life and hence prolong a state of affairs that has seriously undermined respect for women's rights in Afghanistan and thus has also been detrimental to respect for human rights in general;

7. Concludes that,in the light of the information on file, it is led to condemn the Afghan authorities for having violated Ms. Joya's right to exercise her parliamentary mandate and the right of her electorate to be represented in parliament on the one hand and, on the other, for having denied Ms. Joya the right to seek legal redress and the right to equality before the law;

8. Sincerely hopes that the new parliament will ensure respect for the parliamentary and human rights of all its members, men and women alike;

9. Requests the Secretary General to convey this resolution to the parliamentary authorities, to the sources and to interested parties;

10. Decides to close this case since no further possibility remains of redressing the injustice done to Ms. Joya.

Video: Life in Afghanistan (Voice and Words by Ms. Malalaï Joya)

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US Military: War Crimes, and against Humanity. The war of aggression against Afghanistan hurts US Constitution and all international laws as we said in the beginning of this report, as hurt laws the invasion of Iraq, on the contrary to what President Obama said last week. It is a strong reason to leave Afghanistan. As if it were not enough, we have seen terrible war crimes, and against humanity in the Middle East – not to mention in Guantánamo. And an inert, totally neglectful President Obama:

In April, 2011, several tortures against civilinans by the Death Squads [see photos here (roll down the screen)] were reported this way by The Washington Times, in Afghanistan 'Death Squad' Killings Fail to Get Media, Political Attention - 2 wars, 2 scandals, 2 presidents add up to uneven coverage:

Reports of a U.S. “death squad” in Afghanistan, complete with the publication of gory photographs, have failed to attract the intense political or media attention afforded a previous war scandal — the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

In 2004, CBS News broadcast an array of photographs showing American jail guards abusing Iraqi detainees. The most famous: a forced pyramid of naked, humiliated prisoners. The depictions touched off an avalanche of media coverage. In Congress, liberals called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. Democrats launched inquiries and held a string of well-covered hearings.

In recent months, another wartime embarrassment has emerged. The Army charged five soldiers with murder in the deaths of Afghan civilians in what amounted to a “death squad.” The German magazine Der Spiegel published several digital photos of soldiers posing with the dead last month.

(...)

Video: Afghan Bombshell: WikiLeaks 'War Diary' exposes US cover-up / Russia TV / July, 2010

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Russia TV comments WikiLeaks new revelations: US Military killing civilians, as the White House and the media hold back the facts

An airstrike killed six civilians and wounded 14 others in Afghanistan, on July 16, 2009: “I was at home last night when our house was bombed," a Shah Wali Kot resident who identified himself as Mohammadullah told Reuters television”.

Video: Ms. Malalai Joya, “US acts like Rambo killing already dead Bin Laden” / Russia TV, June, 2011

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Video: Afghan Antiwar Activist, Ms. Malalai Joya Calls for an End to the war / Democracy Now!, March, 2011

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In March, 2001, Nine Afghan Boys Collecting Firewood Killed by NATO Helicopters. The world media did not pay attention to this terrible crime, as US position was to “apologize the mistake”.

(...) Gen. David H. Petraeus, said the boys had been misidentified as the attackers of a NATO base earlier in the day. News of the attack enraged Afghans and led to an anti-American demonstration on Wednesday in the village of Nanglam, where the boys were from. The only survivor, Hemad, 11, said his mother had told him to go out with other boys to collect firewood because “the weather is very cold now.”

“We were almost done collecting the wood when suddenly we saw the helicopters come,” said Hemad, who, like many Afghans, has only one name. “There were two of them. The helicopters hovered over us, scanned us and we saw a green flash from the helicopters. Then they flew back high up, and in a second round they hovered over us and started shooting. They fired a rocket which landed on a tree. The tree branches fell over me and shrapnel hit my right hand and my side.”

The tree, Hemad said, saved his life by covering him so that he could not be seen by the helicopters, which, he said, “shot the boys one after another.”

(...) We are deeply sorry for this tragedy and apologize to the members of the Afghan government, the people of Afghanistan and, most importantly, the surviving family members of those killed by our actions,” he said. “These deaths should have never happened.

(...)

Video: US attack against a village, massacring inocent civilians in the province of Farah / Afghan TV, May 5, 2009 (subtitled in English)

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Video: Afghan Women: Far From Equal / Global Pulse, Press TV (Iran), 8.21.09

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Social Chaos. Ms. Joya told O Tempo (not published) about social chaos in her country, too (see full original version below, sent to us exclusively by Ms. Joya from Afghanistan):

• Over 95% of Afghan women suffer from depression.

• Every 28 minutes a woman dies in Afghanistan during childbirth.

• The life expectancy for Afghan women is only 44 years.

• 70% of Afghans - about 18 million people - suffer from acute food insecurity.

• only 2% of Afghan people have access to electricity.

• Afghanistan still stands 175th out of 177 countries in the UN Human Development Index.

• The official rate of unemployment is over 40%.

• Afghanistan is ranked as one of the world's most corrupt countries by Transparency International.

• 60% Afghans said Integrity Watch Afghanistan in 2007 that President Karzai's government is more corrupt than that of the Taliban, the mujahedeen or the Communist regimes.

• In Afghanistan, 1,600 women die of complications out of every 100,000 live births, one of the worst rates in the world.

• Of every 1,000 newborn babies, 128 will not live beyond a year.

• 60 percent of families surveyed stated that almost half their children were involved in some kind of labour.

• Afghanistan has about 800,000 people with disabilities.

• More than 70% of women do not receive medical care during pregnancy, 40% have no access to emergency obstetric care, and 48% suffer from iron deficiency.

• About 92 percent of Afghanistan's estimated 26.6 million population do not have access to proper sanitation.

• Out of 169 countries in the World Press Freedom Index, released by Reporters Without Borders, Afghanistan is put low on the list in the 142th....

• According to UNIFEM, 65% of the 50,000 widows in Kabul see suicide as the only option to get rid of their miseries and desolation.

• Over 8500 Afghan civilians – mostly women and children- have been killed by the US/NATO since 2001.

RAWA's website reported, in Unsafe Housing Puts Kabul Residents at Risk):

Most people in the Afghan capital Kabul live in illegal, unplanned and sub-standard houses that are prone to natural disasters and lack water and sanitation facilities, according to government officials,” said on July 15, 2009, Abdul Wahab Sadaat, deputy director of city services at the Kabul Municipality, told IRIN. Today, the Afghan situation is not so different – just a little worst. He also ponits that,

Of the [estimated] five million people currently living in Kabul, at least three million are residing in illegal and unplanned houses. These houses - which make up about 75 percent of the houses in Kabul - are also vulnerable to earthquake, floods and other natural disasters.

World Report 2011 by Human Rights Watch, noted that,

Rising civilian casualties, increased use of “night raids” by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), and abuses by insurgents and government-backed militias widened the impact of the war on ordinary Afghans. Stability was further undermined by a political crisis following parliamentary elections and panic caused by the near-collapse of the country's largest private bank.

The Armed Conflict. The armed conflict escalated in 2011. The Afghan NGO Security Office (ANSO) reported that opposition attacks increased to 40 a day in the first six months of the year, up 119 percent since 2009 and 42 percent since 2010. ANSO also reported a 73 percent increase since 2010 in attacks against aid workers, which included a fatal mob attack—sparked by the burning of the Koran by an American pastor in Florida—against a United Nations office in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Insurgent attacks reached previously secure areas including Parwan and Bamiyan as the war spread to many new parts of the country.

Civilian casualties rose again, with the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) recording 1,462 conflict-related civilian deaths in the first six months of the year, a 15 percent increase since 2010. Some 80 percent were attributed to anti-government forces, most commonly caused by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Most IEDs that the ISAF encounters are victim-activated devices detonated by pressure plates, effectively antipersonnel landmines, which the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty—to which Afghanistan is a party—prohibits.

The death of 368 civilians in May was the highest monthly toll since UNAMA began tracking figures in 2007. The use of “night raids” by international forces—nighttime snatch operations against suspected insurgents widely despised by Afghans because of their infringement on family life—increased to a reported 300 per month. While pro-government forces succeeded in reducing the number of civilian deaths directly caused by their operations, more could still be done to protect civilian lives.

The NATO mission aimed to train a 134,000-strong police force and 171,600 soldiers by October 2011 to replace foreign forces. But the effort faces serious challenges, including attrition, insurgent infiltration, and illiteracy and substance abuse among recruits. In multiple incidents, trainees attacked and killed their international mentors. One in seven Afghan soldiers, a total of 24,000, deserted in the first six months of the year, twice as many as in 2010.There are concerns that the buildup of the armed forces is moving too fast for necessary training and vetting, and that the size of the force will be financially unsustainable.

In an effort to combat insurgency the Afghan government continues to arm and provide money, with little oversight, to militias in the north that have been implicated in killings, rape, and forcible collection of illegal taxes. As part of its exit strategy, the United States is backing “Afghan Local Police” (ALP), village-based defense forces trained and mentored primarily by US Special Forces, which have been created since 2010 in parts of the country with limited police and military presence. In its first year ALP units were implicated—with few consequences for perpetrators—in killings, abductions, illegal raids, and beatings, raising serious questions about government and international efforts to vet, train, and hold these forces accountable.

A campaign of assassinations of public figures by the Taliban in the north and the south seeks to destabilize the government. Prominent figures killed included the mayor of Kandahar, Ghulam Haidar Hameedi; a northern police commander, Gen. Daud Daud; and President Karzai's half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, a key southern powerbroker. Shifting power structures have led to the appointment of individuals implicated in serious human rights abuses, including Matiullah Khan as Uruzgan police chief and Abdur Rezaq Razziq as Kandahar police chief. The Taliban and other insurgent groups continue to target schools, especially those for girls. The Taliban also use children, some as young as eight, as suicide bombers.

Detainee Transfers. Torture and abuse of detainees in Afghan jails in 2011 led the ISAF to temporarily suspend the transfer of prisoners in eight provinces. Abuses in these jails documented by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan include beatings, application of electric shock, threats of sexual assault, stress positions, removal of toenails, twisting and wrenching of genitals, and hanging detainees by their wrists. Inadequate due process protections for detainees held within the parallel US-administered system and for those prosecuted under Afghan law following US detention also continue to be a serious concern.

Violence and Discrimination against Women and Girls. Attacks and threats against women continue, frequently focusing on women in public life, school girls, and the staff of girls' schools. The incarceration of women and girls for “moral crimes” such as running away from home—even when doing so is not prohibited by statutory law—also continues to be a major concern, with an estimated half of the approximately 700 women and girls in jail and prison facing such charges.

A government-proposed regulation in 2011 would have prevented NGOs from independently operating shelters for women and jeopardized the existence of Afghanistan's few existing shelters. Afghanistan at present has 14 shelters, each able to house an average of around 20 to 25 women and their children. This does not meet even a small fraction of the need in a country where an estimated 70 to 80 percent of marriages are forced and 87 percent of women face at least one form of physical, sexual, or psychological violence or forced marriage in their lifetimes. Although the regulation was significantly improved following strong domestic and international criticism, it exemplifies the hostility felt by many parts of Afghan society, including within the government, to women's autonomy and ability to protect themselves from abuse and forced marriage.

Below, original interview. Ms. Malalaï Joya, from Afghanistan, to the Brazilian paper O Tempo, not published by the media – another evidence of how Works the world media on the “War on Terror”:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Renata Medeiros (...) @ (e-mail)
Date: Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: Interview (brazilian newspaper)
To: Defense Committee for Malalai Joya mj(at)malalaijoya.com

Dear Malalai Joy, [sic]

it was very nice talking to you last Friday. As we talked on the phone, I am sending you the questions for the interview (I hope they are not too much). I am sorry I did not send it before, but I had to work on the weekend and the days were really busy. Well, I would like to know if would be possible for you sending me the answers until Wednesday at 8 A.M. in Brazil (what it is going to be 5 p.m. for you). So, I can call you in case I have any doubt. What do you think about it? I would like to introduce you the website of the newspaper I work for. It is www.otempo.com.br

Thank you very much

With my regards

Renata Medeiros

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From: Defense Committee for Malalai Joya mj(at)malalaijoya.com
Date: Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: Interview (brazilian newspaper)
To: Renata Medeiros (...) @ (e-mail)

Dear Renata,

Here comes the answers to all of your questions. (attached)
Hope it is not too late. Please acknowledge its receipt.

Regards,

DCMJ

www.malalaijoya.com

Dear Renata Medeiros

Sorry that I took a long time to answer your questions and hope the answers are satisfactory and not too long.
As I answered the questions in rush, so forgive me for any grammatical errors or any repetition of points in my answers.
Please let me know if you have any further questions if you want any point to be explained.
You'd better to write me through email as talking over the phone is not always easy to understand each other.

Much respect

Malalai Joya

Original interview below

1) When, how and why did you join the political career?

In Afghanistan, in the past 30 years, we have many generations of war, I am one of them. Ongoing tragedy in Afghanistan engaged even Afghan children in some degree in politics. I was interesting in social activism and working for women's rights when I was very young in school. I used to read many books. But it was during the time of the Taliban when I returned from refugee life to Afghanistan and worked as social worker with an NGO to teach women and girls in secret classes. Seeing horrible plight of Afghan women and men under the brutal rule of the Taliban and other fundamentalist bands even further encouraged me to engage myself in politics and working for democracy, women's rights and social justice in Afghanistan. And finally in 2003 after being elected for Afghan Grand Assembly, where Afghanistan's new constitution was to be approved, I found the opportunity to voice the cry of my people in a short speech, which changed my life and direction of political and social activism. Later when I was elected to the Afghan parliament, it gave me more opportunities to work for my people and challenge enemies of our country.

2) Two years after being elected, you were expelled from parliament. How did you feel when it happened? How was that moment for you?
It was not a surprise for me, when I entered the parliament, I knew that I have a tough time ahead, as I wanted to challenge some brutal and infamous men in the parliament. I knew that this is not a democratic parliament, and many of these men occupied the parliament using their gun, money and foreign relations. Many of them are anti-democratic and anti-women to the morrow of their bone and used to only speak with the language of gun and all they know is to kill and to destroy.

There were only few like-minded MPs in the parliament but majority were drug-lords, warlords and known criminals who had a very dark past.

From the vey first day in the parliament I was facing threats, insults and pressure. But I was not ready to compromise my principles and wanted to use my position in the parliament to expose the real nature of the Afghan parliament, the puppet regime of Hamid Karzai and crimes and treacherous policies of the US/NATO in my unfortunate country.

So I knew that they can't bear me for long, first they tried to censor me inside the parliament and don't give me much chance to take part in discussions, when they could not stop me, their next move was to expel me from the parliament.

I regard it my victory, it is my success that in parliament where the most powerful and brutal men were there, they could not stop me from becoming the voice of my people. But it was their weakness as they could not face the truth and resorted to expelling me in undemocratic and fascistic way, and then even could not face me in the court and despite international condemnation; they kept silent and never did a hearing on my case in the court.

3) What kind of threats did you receive when you were expelled from parliament and what kind of threats do you receive nowadays?
There have been a number of assassination attempts on my life, even inside the parliament I had to bear the verbal threats and abuses of warlords, once when a crowd of them attacked me in the parliament, one of them shouted "Take and rape her!". It was very common to call me "whore", "prostitute" etc., inside the parliament!

I still receive threats by phone, by email and have to live in hiding. I change my house every few days and even can't live with my family and husband all the time. When I give interview to journalists or when I meet visitors, I am protected by my personal bodyguards and when move from place to place; I have to wear the disgusting Burqa to hide my identity.

The fundamentalist warlords are writing many cheap articles against me on their web sites and publications. They are trying to discredit me among people and do much negative and false propaganda against me.

As my enemies have their private armies, billions of dollars, connection with drug mafia and support of the US government and the West, I have to be careful and use many different techniques to continue my struggle against them and also to be alive. For them killing a human being is as easy as killing a bird. Some of them are in the list of war criminals of the Human Rights Watch. One of them is Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf, a dreaded warlord responsible for killing thousands of our people and even a UN report documented one of the massacres ordered by him, saying this men "kill everyone, don't leave anyone alive"!

4) I would like to know about your routine. How is your day? What do you do? What kind of difficults do you suffer nowadays?

Unfortunately, the past few years, security problems have restricted me from meeting people and traveling to different parts of Afghanistan, but still I try to be connected with the people and especially women and victims, so I have tried to accept visitors in different secret locations and note their cases and try to help them through my supporters and friends. I also try to publicize their problems and through international media so everyone know what is going on in under the so-called "democratic" regime that has been donated by the US to Afghanistan.

I receive many phone calls from across Afghanistan and people come to meet me and share their problems with me. Despite security risks, I spend much of my time in Afghanistan meeting these people and hearing their stories. The sad and painful stories of their plight usually even further encourage me to carry on my fight for justice and against fundamentalists and puppet regime.

I also run a clinic in my hometown to provide free medical care to women and children. Although I can't visit the center all the time, but I tried to use any means to raise fund for it as it is not being supported by any funding agency or any government and I have to rely on individuals' donations to keep it running.

Since I was expelled from the parliament, life is very difficult for me inside Afghanistan, I have been restricted from free movement and meeting people in different parts of Afghanistan, so I tried much to also advance my efforts through international tribunes and use any opportunity to expose the US strategy in Afghanistan and the truth behind its so-called "war on terror" and to unmask the nature of the so-called "democratic" regime the US and allies has created in Afghanistan.

Fortunately I have many supporters around the world and receive many invitations from different countries. I have established good connection with anti-war movement and progressive groups and individuals. So I spent also much of my time touring different countries and giving speeches, interviews and lectures on Afghanistan.

As over 40 countries are involved with the US war in Afghanistan, I think it is very essential to inform people of these countries that their governments are misleading them with their propaganda through media and their involvements only serve the regional, strategic and economic interests of the US government and adds to the suffering of Afghan people, so they should raise their voice against the wrong policies of their governments.

5) The fact of being a woman bring "problems" for you? Is it still hard for a woman in Afghanistan to study, have a career and to be respected?

Yes, in a male-chauvinistic society being a woman itself is a sin and social activism for women bears extra problems and boundaries to cross. For our fundamentalists, a woman is regarded half a man and weak creature. They think politics is the job of a man and not woman, so when they are challenged by a woman, it is not bearable for them and when they are exposed by a woman, they become rabid and try to silent her. They think a woman is weak and when threatened soon she can be silenced, but with my stanch stand against such enemies I tried to teach them that women have nothing less than a man have and they have the guts to challenge brutal men and fight for their rights.

Unfortunately Afghan women are still facing many of the problems that they used to face under the brutal regime of the Taliban. Only a small percentage of women in big cities can find job, and women and rural areas have no job opportunity at all. Still 70% Afghan girls have no opportunity to attend school. Only a small percentage of girls can attend universities. 80% of Afghan women suffer domestic violence, 60% of marriages are coerced, and half of women are married before the age of 16. Due to sever pressure and problems, the self-immolation among Afghan women has gone so high in the past few years and every years hundreds of cases are reported across Afghanistan.
Rape of women by warlords is another crime very common in today's society. However, "rape with impunity" better describes this phenomenon because in the rapists are not prosecuted.

Since occupation of Afghanistan by the US under the name of "liberation women" and "democracy", only some cosmetic changes were made. While Afghanistan is still facing a women's rights catastrophe, but the Western media, through its lies try to cover up it and by fabricated news show their situation much better than the reality.

When some sworn enemies of women's rights are in power and have their hold on legislation, executive and judicial bodies and are free to pass any anti-women laws easily, how can we expect any positive change in the conditions of Afghan women?

6) What can we say about the political situation in Afghanistan nowadays? In the country, who are the people who in power?

Eight years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, our devastated country is still chained in the fetters of the fundamentalist warlords, Taliban, occupation forces and their puppet regime and is like an unconscious body breathing its last. We are living under a jungle law today, the rule of gun and drug-mafia is practiced across Afghanistan.

The US and allies overthrown the barbaric regime of the Taliban in 2001 and imposed the Northern Alliance fundamentalists on Afghan people and supported and brought to power those criminals who have a history full of crimes and are as ignorant and anti-women as Taliban. In fact, the US has replaced one undemocratic fundamentalist regime with another and from the first days our people knew that they have been truly betrayed under the name of democracy and liberation and the new administration will bring nothing positive for them.

But today even some incredible international sources confirm that Afghanistan is a fail state and run by drug-mafia.

Corruption and fraud in the government directs billions of dollars to the pockets of officials and their related NGOs. Despite receiving Billions of dollars in aid, the government still could not provide electricity, food, water for people and gross majority are living under the line of poverty.

Human Rights Watch in a statement on Sep. 27, 2006 writes: "Warlords with records of war crimes and serious abuses during Afghanistan's civil war in the 1990s, such as parliamentarians Abdul Rabb al Rasul Sayyaf and Burhanuddin Rabbani, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, and current Vice President Karim Khalili, have been allowed to hold and misuse positions of power, to the dismay of ordinary Afghans".

7) How is the life of people in Afghanistan? What are the biggest problems of the country?

Every sector of life in Afghanistan today is a complete tragedy, from women's rights to security, law and order, economy and domination of drug-mafia. Women are especially badly suffered due to the non-existence of justice.

To describe, I just give you few statistics:

• Over 95% of Afghan women suffer from depression.

• Every 28 minutes a woman dies in Afghanistan during childbirth.

• The life expectancy for Afghan women is only 44 years.

• 70% of Afghans - about 18 million people - suffer from acute food insecurity

• only 2% of Afghan people have access to electricity

• Afghanistan still stands 175th out of 177 countries in the UN Human Development Index

• The official rate of unemployment is over 40%.

• Afghanistan is ranked as one of the world's most corrupt countries by Transparency International.

• 60% Afghans said Integrity Watch Afghanistan in 2007 that President Karzai's government is more corrupt than that of the Taliban, the mujahedeen or the Communist regimes

• In Afghanistan, 1,600 women die of complications out of every 100,000 live births, one of the worst rates in the world.

• Of every 1,000 newborn babies, 128 will not live beyond a year

• 60 percent of families surveyed stated that almost half their children were involved in some kind of labour.

• Afghanistan has about 800,000 people with disabilities.

• More than 70% of women do not receive medical care during pregnancy, 40% have no access to emergency obstetric care, and 48% suffer from iron deficiency.

• About 92 percent of Afghanistan's estimated 26.6 million population do not have access to proper sanitation.

• Out of 169 countries in the World Press Freedom Index, released by Reporters Without Borders, Afghanistan is put low on the list in the 142th....

• According to UNIFEM, 65% of the 50,000 widows in Kabul see suicide as the only option to get rid of their miseries and desolation

• Over 8500 Afghan civilians – mostly women and children- have been killed by the US/NATO since 2001.

- Occupation, rule of warlords, drug-mafia, Taliban insurgency, awful corruption, sever poverty, none existence of rule of law etc. are some of the major problems Afghanistan faces today.

8) Nowadays, who are your "enemies"? Why?

Afghan people are facing three main enemies: Taliban are terrorizing our people from one hand, the Northern alliance bands carry on their crimes and brutalities from another and the occupation forces headed by the US continue their war crimes and killing our innocent civilians in its so-called war on terror.

The US government has joined hands with the most brutal enemies of Afghan people and installed some infamous and corrupt people in the key posts of its puppet regime to advance its regional interests in Afghanistan. Besides criminal warlords, even some former puppets of Russian are now in the service of the US and they are once again imposed on our people. Now they are also trying to negotiate with Taliban and terrorist band of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and share power with such fascist groups.

Unfortunately the neighboring countries such as Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Russia and others are also sending support and arms either to the Taliban or warlords.

9) What kind of consequences did the war, which started in 2001, bring to your country? How did it affect the economy, political and social life in Afghanistan?

The US and allies used the plight of Afghan women as an excuse to legitimate its occupation of Afghanistan and "bring freedom to Afghan women". Soon after the overthrown of the Taliban Mr. Bush announced that "Afghan women are free now".

But this is just a lie and throwing dust on the eyes of people of the world. In reality the conditions of Afghan women not changed to positive, but they are suffering more then ever.

Drug mafia is in the hold of power and supported by the West. Few days ago Housing Minister of Afghanistan Mr. Yousif Pashtun announced that four million hectors of land have been occupied by powerful men and they can do nothing as the mafia is involved in it and he named Qasim Fahim (a savage warlord, who was recently named by Karzai as his first vice president for coming election) as head of the land-mafia.

Powerful imperialistic institutions such as IMF, Word Bank, WTO and others have free hand in Afghanistan and they are directing Afghanistan's economy towards the direction they want. Privatization of government assets and looting of Afghanistan's natural resources have devastating consequences on poor Afghan people. While over 80 % people don't have enough to eat, a small minority have their gape on the whole country and fill their pockets with billions of dollars and looting the riches of the country and also grab the foreign aid.

In the name of "democracy", many jokes are made to our people. Apparently we have "democratically elected" president, "democratic" parliament and "democratic" constitution, but in fact even Afghan children know that these elections were disgusting shows and full of fraud, intimidation and the results were not decided by the vote of people but according to warlords and their Western masters in the White House decisions.

While the West supports enemies of Afghan people, pro-democracy and progressive organizations and individuals are under constant pressure and they are not being supported by any one. The US and its Afghan puppets are trying to stop emergence of mass pro-democracy and progressive movement as it is the only alternative to mobilize Afghan people and to work for an independent, democratic and secular Afghanistan. Only such a group can rescue Afghanistan from the current disasters.

Afghan people are deeply feed up with the situation and in the verge of rising up against it.

10) Does the Taleban still have power in the country? How do they act? How do they "show" their power to people? Do you believe the war has been helping the group to get stronger? The relationship between them and Al-Qaida worries you?

Now even some Western officials confess that since 2001, Taliban have become more powerful and they have their presence in a large part of the country. They are still being supported by Pakistan, Iran and some other countries. They still impose their middle Ages rules on people in the areas under their domination; carry on public executions and suicide bombings.

Poverty and joblessness and opposition to the rule of warlords and corruption in the Afghan government push many young people into the ranks of the Taliban, who pay their men more than what Afghan govt. pays to its police force. Official figures show that Taliban get at least 500 millions USD from the opium income, by which they can recruit people.

The US/NATO is not serious in its fight against Taliban and plays a Tom and Jerry game with them. Everyone knows that defeating a small group such as Taliban is not hard for a superpower supported by forty other nations, but the US needs Taliban for the time being which is an excuse for them to stay in Afghanistan for long and change Afghanistan into its military base in the region so could combat Asian powers such as China, Russia, Iran etc and also follow its other economic and military strategies in the region.

The US government alone spends over U$ 100 million every month in its military actions in Afghanistan, but where all the money goes while Taliban are getting powerful? If a small part of the money is truly spent on changing the lives of Afghan people, the situation of Afghanistan can be changed.

Even there are some suspicious news that foreign troops are providing arms and ammunitions to Taliban.

11) What is your opinion about President Barack Obama's plans for Afghanistan? What is your opinion about the foreign invasion in your country?

While Obama took office with much hue and cry, but his first news for Afghan people was more war and conflict and continuation of the wrong policy of the Bush administration and even worse. Obama plan to surge forces in Afghanistan will only add to problem and miseries of Afghan people and even larger number of our suffering and innocent people will be killed during their air raids. Only few weeks back over 150 innocent civilians were massacred in the US raid on a village in my hometown of Farah, many more such tragic incidents have taken place in the past few months.

Secondly Obama administration is planning on decorating some of the brutal and barbaric Taliban and terrorist party of Glubuddin Hekmatyar as "moderate" and share power with them while there no moderate Taliban exist. This is a dreadful policy for Afghan people. In 2001, the US and allies imposed the criminal warlords on our people, which was the first critical mistake and main cause of the current disaster and deadlock in Afghanistan, but when another bunch of terrorists and brutal bands are also included in this collection, then the future of Afghanistan will be even worse and bloody than today.

My suffering people have been well and truly betrayed over the past seven years, the US is not concerned with the suffering and disastrous conditions of our people; the US policy-makers put our people in danger as long as their own regional and economic interests are met. Unfortunately other US allies and the European countries are not trying to do anything contrary to the US wrong policies and exactly follow the footpath of the US government.

No question that Afghanistan needs international support to get into track and rebuild itself, but we don't want occupation, Afghans have a long history of opposing foreign invasion. And more importantly we witnessed in the past couple of years that foreign invasion even further complicated Afghan crisis and pushed us from the frying pan into the hot oven.

History showed that no nation can or want to bring liberation to another nation, it is the obligation and responsibility of our own people to fight for their freedom and to bring democracy, people of other countries may only give us a helping hand. So now majority of our people are against the occupation forces and ask for their withdrawal. If they did not voluntary pull out, then they may face resistance from people of Afghanistan.

12) During his administration, Bush mostly concentrated in Iraq, and "forgot" Afghanistan. Do you believe that the change of focus came too late?

The "focus" of Obama on Afghanistan is all in negative way and they are focusing to include Taliban in power and to increase its forces and to change Afghanistan into a military base. We don't need such "focus" and Afghans wish the US and allies once again "forgot" Afghanistan and let us alone to solve our problems ourselves! They are only complicating our problems and making our enemies stronger.

13) What about the production of opium in Afghanistan? Is this another problem to the country?

The only sector in which Afghanistan has progressed beyond imagination in the recent years is drugs cultivation and trafficking, and now Afghanistan produces 93% of world opium which shows a 4,500% increase since 2001.

One of the hidden objectives of the war in Afghanistan was specifically to restore the CIA sponsored drug trade and exert direct control over the routes of the U$ 600 billion annual global drug industry. The Afghan narcotics economy is a designed project of the CIA, supported by US foreign policy. So it is very understandable to see that since October 2001, opium poppy cultivation has skyrocketed and there are reports that even US army is engaged in the drugs trafficking.

Drug mafia is in the hold of power and supported by the West. Recently even Western media reported that Wali Karzai, brother of Hamid Karzai, runs the largest network of drugs in eastern Afghanistan and it is a fact that high ranking officials are engaged in the dirty business.

The counter-narcotics efforts are also mere lies and dramas. A former warlord called Gen. Khodiedad is minister of counter-narcotics and another former warlord and known drug trafficker called Gen. Daud is head of the anti-narcotics drive!!

These days Afghanistan is not only top producer of opium in the world but also largest producer of cannabis, another illegal crop from which marijuana is derived.

Opium poses one of the biggest dangers for future of Afghanistan.

14) You have received several awards and was indicated to the Nobel Prize of Peace. Things like these make the fight worthy? How do you feel about it?

My fight is for freedom, democracy and human rights in Afghanistan, not receiving awards. But when some human rights and peace-loving groups and organizations kindly nominate me for some awards and honor me with any prizes, then of course I accept them. With each award I get, I find wider audience around the world and it gives me an opportunity to reach a larger number of people to spread the word about the plight of Afghan people.

I've so far dedicated all the awards to my suffering people and any monetary income from these awards also go towards helping Afghan women and children in my humanitarian projects. I always say these awards do not belong to me but to hundreds of thousands of unnamed heroes and heroines of my country who lost their live in the fight for freedom and democracy but no one remember or honored them.

Of course these awards and encouragements put extra responsibilities and obligations on my shoulders to fight against discrimination, injustices and brutal fundamentalists in my country with more determination and power.

15) I would like to know about your goals, your wishes. What is your dream to Afghanistan?

For the time bring my first goal is to bring to justice some top war criminal of Afghanistan who are still in power. I've collected many documents of their brutalities and crimes and have established contacts with some of my supporters and peace-loving groups in different countries to work on brining some of these brutal men to an international court of justice, because in the time being there is no justice in Afghanistan to prosecute them inside our own country.

I think as long as some top Afghan war criminals are not put on trial, we can not guarantee peace and justice in future of Afghanistan. The era of impunity these criminals enjoy in Afghanistan today, further encourage them and others to brutalize our people.

I dream a free, democratic and prosperous Afghanistan where women are considered human being and equal with men and they are given chance to play their role to rebuild their country. I dream of Afghanistan where people live under a secular democracy and no extremist group is allowed to misuse religion for their sinister objectives, a prosperous Afghanistan where everyone have equal chance to live and share the beauty of the nature.

Below, “Mini-Interview” published by O Tempo

(*As mentioned in this piece, this matter is the core of our book published in Brazil. After our publication, O Tempo removed from its page on the Internet this “Mini-Interview” with Ms. Joya, so we do not link it here)

Mini-Interview

Malalai Joya, an Afghan militant, and former Parliamentarian in Afghanistan

[1] "In the Parilament I heard several times 'rape her'. Being a woman itself is a sin". In 2007, you were expelled from Parliament. Why did it happen?

The Parliament is not democratic. It is led by those who have money and guns. When they realized that they could not stop me saying inside the Parliament, I got threats from them, who expelled me from there.

[2] Did the fact of being a woman also influence it?

Yes. The fact of being a woman is considered a sin. They think that politics is the job of a man. Today, 70% of the Afghan woman do not attend school, only a small percentage of woman have a job and many of them are victims of rape, impunity practiced.

[3] Do you still receive threats nowadays?

Inside the Parliament, several times I heard "rape her". They called me prostitute. I still get death threats. I need to go out in a burqa and never stay a long time in the same house.

[4] How is your militant job?

People come to meet me and I try to reveal to the world, through the international media, the reality in Afghanistan. I also run a clinic to provide free medical care to women and children. I have collected documents that prove the brutalities of those in power, and I want to bring this material to an international court of Justice.

[5] What are the biggest problems faced by Afghans?

Only 2% of the Afghan people have access to electricity, and 8% have access to proper sanitation. The life expectancy for Afghans is 44. Afghans suffer under poverty, opium traffic and under a lawlees country.

[6] Who causes these problems in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan has three enemies: The Taliban, which oppresses, the warlords, and the US occupation, which continues killing civilians.

Blog's Contents (with links)

PÁGINA INICIAL

l. MATEANDO COM EDU - Perfil, Comentários e Literatura

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lI. TERCEIRA PÁGINA - Crônicas / Questões Internacionais

III. NO PIQUE DA VIDA - Reflexões

IV. ARQUIVO - Os Noticiários Mundiais

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Página 2

V. TERRORISMO DE ESTADO - A Invasão Norte-Americana ao Iraque

VI. O 11 DE SETEMBRO DE CADA DIA DO AFEGANISTÃO

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VII. SANEAMENTO PÚBLICO - ONDE JOGAR TANTO LIXO HUMANO?

VIII. ANISTIA INTERNACIONAL - Uma Questão de Liberdade

IX. ÉTICA NA TV - Uma Questão de Liberdade

X. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - Uma Questão de Liberdade

XI. GOLPES MILITARES NA AMÉRICA LATINA

XII. HISTÓRIAS MUNDIAIS

XIII. ENAS NAFFAR: OLHAR SOBRE O ORIENTE MÉDIO - Visão Palestina no Blog

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XIV. CULTURA & ARTE AFEGÃ

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XV. O BRASIL NO ESPELHO - Crônicas

XVI. Especial: TERRORISMO

Grupos

Estados

Mídia

Religiões

Polícia

Trabalho

XVII. IDIOMAS

Inglês

Espanhol

Alemão

Italiano

Francês

Sueco

Português

XVIII. WIKILEAKS

Brasil (Página 1)

Brasil (página 2)

América Latina

Estados Unidos, Europa, África e Ásia

Oriente Médio

XIX. MALALAÏ JOYA - A Mulher Mais Corajosa do Afeganistão

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Página 2

Página 3

Página 4

XX. PÁTRIA GRANDE PORTENTOSA - Paisagem & Cultura Latina

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XXI. AVÓS DA PRAÇA DE MAIO - Uma Voz por Liberdade na Argentina

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XXII. MISSÃO CUMPRIDA, POR EDU MONTESANTI

XXIII. PALAVRAS DO CORAÇÃO - Poemas

XXIV. MEIO AMBIENTE, ESPORTE & SAÚDE

XXV. CONTRACAPA: CURTINHAS - Notícias Nacionais

XXVI. CONTRACAPA: CURTINHAS - Notícias Internacionais

XXVII. MENTIRAS E CRIMES DA "GUERRA AO TERROR", E O JORNALISMO BRASILEIRO MANCHADO DE SANGUE

XXIX. ARQUIVO: CONTRACAPA - Nacional

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XXX. ARQUIVO - CONTRACAPA - Internacional

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Página 2

XXXI. EDU MONTESANTI IN ENGLISH: A MATTER OF FREEDOM

News & Opinion

News & Opinion - Archive 1

News & Opinion - Archive 2

Special Story: The Biggest Lie in History

XXXII. EDU MONTESANTI EN ESPAÑOL - UNA CUESTIÓN DE LIBERTAD

Noticias & Opinión

Serie Especial de Reportajes: Mayor Mentira de la Historia

Derechos Humanos

Opinión y Noticias - Archivo

XXXIII. DIAS PARA MUDAR O BRASIL - Onda de Manifestações ou Primavera Brasileira?

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Página 2

XXXIV. SOMOS TODOS SANTA MARIA - Por Memória, Verdade e Justiça

Página 1 - Documentos

Página 2 - Documentos

Página 3 - Artigos

Página 4 - Série de Reportagens

XXXV. ANÁLISES DA MÍDIA

XXXVI. REVOLUÇÃO BOLIVARIANA NA VENEZUELA

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