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You see, there is a common thread running through such seemingly unconnected events as the 9/11 tragedy in the USA and other violent assaults that have been inflicted on such nations as Algeria, Somalia, Indonesia, Morocco, Egypt, Pakistan, Russia, China, India, Saudia Arabia, Yemen, and most recently, Libya, during the 21 year period of 1990 to 2011.

And so, if we are to make sense of this period of contemporary history, we have to go back to the night of the 27^th of December 1979, when some 100,000 Soviet Union soldiers ‘marched’ into the Muslim country of Afghanistan.

This event led the then US National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski to conceive of a plan to bring together militants from all over the Islamic world; to further radicalize them with an extreme ideology of Islamic nationalism; to train them in the techniques of terrorism; to arm them; and to direct them against the Soviet troops in Afghanistan. (Brzezinski also calculated that once these so-called Islamic Mujahedeen fighters had completed their "jihad" or "holy war" in Afghanistan, that they would turn their violent attention to the Muslim-majority states under Soviet Union control in central Asia.)

The US government put this evil plan into operation with the assistance of the governments of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Under the direction of the Central Intelligence Agancy (CIA), training camps were set up along the Pakistan / Afghanistan border, and with the help of US and Saudi money, well in excess of 30,000 recruits were trained in these camps during the decade of the 1980's. (And, of course, this was in addition to the massive military assistance that the US gave to their allies in Afghanisan such as the Taliban!).
Approximately one half of these recruits were from Saudi Arabia, including Osama bin-Laden, but there were also significant numbers from virtually every single Islamic country, inclusive of Libya!

The United States printed thousands of text books and training manuals which instructed these Muslim militants that it was their Islamic duty to destroy the infidel Russian invaders, and donations of weapons and some $40 Billion in cash - chiefly from the US and Saudi Arabia - were handled by the CIA.

And so, the extreme Islamic fundamentalist terrorist was manufactured, and was inculcated with the idea that he had the God-given right to determine when an offense had been committed against the "true" Muslim religion, and to destroy and remove any perceived enemy of Islam!

By 1989, the Soviet Union was defeated in Afghanistan, and the tens of thousands of battle hardened US trained Mujahedeen fighters were free to leave Afghanistan and to make their way back to their various home countries. Osama bin-laden, for example, went back to Saudi Arabia, where he promptly accused the Saudi authorities of being traitors to Islam; established his Al Qaeda organisation; and ultimately declared war on the Saudi government and their US allies.

This pattern was repeated all across the Middle East and North Africa where these returnees found governments that they disapproved of because they were not Islamic enough! For example, Algerian Mujahedeen fighters returned to Algeria, denounced the secular government and embarked on a terroristic crusade for the establishment of an Islamic state in Algeria. Other examples abound - in Chechnya, Kashmir, Bosnia, Egypt and the list goes on.

By the late 1990's Libya’s moderate Islamic regime also fell victim to the insane extremist violence of their repatriated "Afghans". In 1999, the Washington Post newspaper reported Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, as explaining that his government had been forced to repel a violent military assault by Libyan "Afghans". According to Gaddafi:- "They returned desperate and destructive, and adopted killing and explosives as their profession, according to the training they received from the American intelligence".

It is a core of these same "desperate and destructive" men - based in the city of Benghazi - that the US, France and Britain have opportunistically used against Gaddafi and the Libyan state!

Just imagine how much mayhem and suffering has been inflicted on the world compliments of the "Evil" that was manufactured by the USA.
　
　
DAVID A. COMISSIONG
President