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conquer": pit the people against each other so that they cannot join forces against the imperial power. This violence and radical Islamism would further provide the pretext for which the US and its imperial allies could then engage in war and occupation within the region, all the while securing its vast economic and strategic conquer": pit the people against each other so that they undamentalist Islamic state. But within two months, cannot join forces against the imperial power. This e was overthrown by PDP remnants including elements violence and radical Islamism would further provide the — within the military". The Soviets also intervened in pretext for which the US and its imperial allies could order to replace Amin, who was seen as "unpredictable then engage in war and occupation within the region, all and extremist", with "the more moderate Babrak the while securing its vast economic and strategic armal".“ interests. The Soviet invasion thus prompted the US nationa security establishment to undertake the largest cover The Arc of Crisis in Afghanistan operation in history. When Ronald Reagan replaced In 1978, the progressive Taraki government in immy Carter in 1981, the covert assistance to the Afghanistan managed to incur the anger of the United Afghan Mujahideen not only continued on the path se States due to "its egalitarian and collectivist economic by Brzezinski but it rapidly accelerated, as did the policies". The Afghan government was widely portrayed overall strategy in the “arc of crisis". When Reagan in the West as "Communist", and thus a became President, his Vice Presiden hreat to US national security. The became George H. W. Bush, who, as government did, however, undertake . CIA Director during the Ford tiendly policies and engagement with This was the administration, had helped establish he Soviet Union, but it was not a emergence of the Safari Club intelligence network Communist government. and the Bank of Credit and Commerce In 1978, ns the new government came the "strategy of International in Pakistan. In the ° power, almost immediately the US tension"... campaign ° aid the Afghan egan covertly funding rebel groups rebels...BCCI clearly emerged as a US hrough the CIA.“" In 1979, Zbigniew It was the old intelligence asset" and CIA Director prezinsk worked closely with reales imperial tactic cae began use t © outside e rom the , Robert Gates (who is Mayes audis, the Pakistanis, —to run currently Secretary of Defense), in of divide and what they couldn't get through siting resident Carers STI um conquer”: pit the pug Cones: Bl preston Abe interview with ; French people against CIA director had met repeatedly" publication: “According to the wit e president of BCCI.” official version of history, CIA aid each other so that Thus, in 1981, Director Casey of © the Mujahadeen began during they cannot join he CIA worked with Saudi Prince 980, that is to say, after the Soviet Q Turki bin Faisal, who ran the Saudi army invaded Afghanistan, 24 forces against the intelligence agency GID, and the December 1979. But the reality, imperial power. Pakistani ISI "to create a foreign egion of jihadi Muslims or so- called Arab Afghans". This idea secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President ad "originated in the elite Safari Carter signed the first directive for Club that had been created by secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in French intelligence chief Alexandre de Marenches."* Kabul. And that very day, | wrote a note to the president In 1986, the CIA backed a plan by the Pakistani ISI "to in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid recruit people from around the world to join the Afghan was going to induce a Soviet military intervention." jihad". As author Peter Dale Scott pointed out in The Road to Subsequently: "More than 100,000 Islamic militants 9/11:* "For generations in both Afghanistan and the were trained in Pakistan between 1986 and 1992, in Soviet Muslim Republics the dominant form of Islam camps overseen by CIA and MI6, with the SAS British had been local and largely Sufi. The decision to work Special Forces training future al-Qaida and Taliban with the Saudi and Pakistani secret services meant that ighters in bomb-making and other black arts. Their billions of CIA and Saudi dollars would ultimately be eaders were trained at a CIA camp in Virginia. This was spent in programs that would help enhance the called Operation Cyclone and continued long after the globalistic and Wahhabistic jihadism that are Soviets had withdrawn in 1989."” associated today with al Qaeda.“ CIA funding for the operations "was funneled through Hafizullah Amin, a top official in Taraki's government, | General Zia and the ISI in Pakistan".” Interestingly, who many believed to be a CIA asset, orchestrated a Robert Gates, who previously served as assistant to coup in September 1979 and "executed Taraki, halted Brzezinski in the National Security Council, stayed on in the reforms, and murdered, jailed, or exiled thousands the Reagan—Bush administration as executive assistant of Taraki supporters as he moved toward establishing a _ to CIA Director Casey, currently Secretary of Defense. interests. emergence of the "strategy of _ tension"... — imperial tactic of "divide and conquer": pit the people against each other so that they cannot join forces against the imperial power. 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