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The shooting down of two Libyan planes in 1981; the bombard-ment of Beirut in 1983 and 1984; the bombing of Libya in 1986; the bombing and sinking of an Iranian ship in 1987; the shooting down of an Iranian passenger plane in 1988; the shooting down of two more Libyan planes in 1989; the massive bombing of the Iraqi people in 1991; the continuing sanctions and bombings against Iraq; the bombing of Sudan and Afghanistan in 1998; the habitual support of Israel despite its belligerence and routine torture, and condemnation of Arab resistance to it; the double standard applied to Israeli terrorism, such as the wilful massacre of 106 Lebanese at the UN base at Qana in 1996; the continued persecution of Libya, now nearing the end of its second decade; the abduction of wanted men from Muslim countries, such as Malaysia, Pakistan, Lebanon and Albania; the large military and hitech presence in Islams holiest land, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere in the Persian Gulf region...these are some of the American actions that can turn an Arab or a Muslim into a fanatic, into a terrorist, into a decrier of America, the Great Satan .

But those who feed us the platitudes know this. Theyre merely performing the time-honored public dumbshow. Mir Aimal Kansi, the Pakistani who shot five people outside CIA headquarters in 1993, told the FBI that he had done so to protest US policies toward Muslims in the Middle East, including the bombing of Iraq.6 Two days after Kansis conviction in 1997, four Americans were gunned down in Karachi, Pakistan while driving in a car. I think the linkage is quite evident, said a former CIA counter-terrorism expert about the Karachi slayings.7

The bombing of PanAm 103 in 1988 was clearly initiated by Iran as an act of retaliation for the shooting down of its own passenger plane by the United States a few months earlier, and American officials well know this. The bombing of the two US embassies in Africa in 1998 took place on the eighth anniversary, to the very day, of the arrival of the first US troops in Saudi Arabia, following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. And during the US bombing of Iraq in 1991, there were dozens of terrorist attacks against American institutions all over the Middle East and elsewhere. Did US officials and the media not pick up any hint of cause-and-effect? They did, but subsequently, when its been platitude time, they suddenly become pre-Alzheimer. As the media critic Norman Solomon observed:

When terrorists attack, theyre terrorizing. When we attack, were retaliating. When they respond to our retaliation with further attacks, theyre terrorizing again. When we respond with further attacks, were retaliating again.

Good and bad terrorists

On March 13, 1996, the United States assembled 27 world leaders in Egypt at an anti-terror conference after a wave of suicide bombers had killed dozens of people in Israel. President Clinton asserted: We must be clear in our condemnation of those who resort to terror. Violence has no place in the future we all seek in the Middle East. 8 At the very same time, in Iraq, the US was supporting with millions of dollars the Iraqi National



Accord, which was using car bombs and other bombings in Baghdad and other cities, trying to destabilize Saddam Hussein. It was estimated that the bombings had taken the lives of more than 100 civilians in Baghdad alone during the preceding few years. Two weeks after the Egyptian conference, the attending countries met in Washington for a follow-up on counter-terrorism. Among the topics discussed were the flow of funds to terrorist groups. 9

The following month, President Clinton, with much fanfare, signed the Anti-terrorism Act, which bars financial transactions between American corporations and countries accused of supporting terrorism. Four months later, the administration quietly exempted Sudan, to allow a US oil company to negotiate an oil deal. At the same time, Syria was granted an exemption, to encourage participa-tion by Damascus in the Middle East peace process.10

In February 2000, there arose a new proposal for a major international conference to combat terrorism. On this occasion the United States was quick to throw cold water on the very idea, saying it would have no practical benefits . The proposed conference was backed by the 119-member Non-Aligned Movement of Third World Nations. One of the issues the conference hoped to address was how to distinguish between a terrorist and a freedom fighter. citing the examples of the Hizbollah and Hamas groups fighting Israel. The question of state terrorism also loomed as a possible conference issue-for example, should military attacks by armed forces of any state be deemed acts of terrorism when civilians are killed? The 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia had been discussed as a case in point.11

FBI definition of terrorism

The FBI defines international terrorism as the unlawful use of force or violence committed by a group or individual, who has some connection to a foreign power or whose activities transcend national boundaries, against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives. 12

The FBI definition, although meant to describe acts directed against the United States, would seem to cover rather well countless acts of the US government itself. Many of these acts will be found in the pages of this book, under the headings of bombings, interventions, torture, chemical and biological warfare, etc.

CHAPTER 2 : Americas Gift to the World-the Afghan Terrorist Alumni

Osama bin Laden-alleged to have been the mastermind behind the bombing of two US embassies in Africa in 1998-was not always on Washingtons hate list. He and many



other Islamic fundamentalists were supremely useful during the 1980s in Washingtons war which quashed the last chance the Afghan people had for desperately needed social and economic reform and a secular society. Because of their uninhibited, sadistic cruelty directed against government and Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, the fundamentalists-the moujahedeen (Muslim holy warriors)-were good terrorists. They were our terrorists. After the success of their jihad, these forces roamed afar, carrying out grisly actions in numerous corners of the world, metamorphosing into really bad terrorists.

Forcing the Soviet Union to withdraw its military forces from Afghanistan truly went to the heads of the moujahedeen. They thought they were invincible and had a god-given mission. Allah Akbar! They seemed to place little weight upon the fact that it had been the United States, bringing its military, political and financial weight to bear, that had been the sine qua non of the victory.

In 1992, after 12 years of battle, the various factions of the moujahedeen could claim Afghanistan as all their own, albeit now fighting each other. The war had been a rallying point for Muslim zealots from throughout the world-an Islamic Abraham Lincoln Brigade-and laid the groundwork for their future collaboration and support. Tens of thousands of veterans of the war-young men from every Muslim nation, battle-hardened and armed-dispersed to many lands to carry out other jihads against the infidels and to inflame and train a new generation of militant Islamists and terrorists, ready to drink the cup of martyrdom: a virtual Islamic Foreign Legion.

In the midst of a wave of assault weapons and violence (dubbed a Kalashnikov culture ), Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto complained in 1996 that her country got stuck with this air of frenzy as a direct result of cooperation with the United States in forcing Soviet troops from Afghanistan. We are left on our own to cope with the remnants of the Afghan war, which include arms smuggling...drugs and...[religious] zealots who were leaders at the time of the Afghan war. 1

Your government participated in creating a monster, complained an Algerian sociologist to a Los Angeles Times correspondent in Algiers. Now it has turned against you and the world-16,000 Arabs were trained in Afghanistan, made into a veritable killing machine. 2 His figure may be rather low inasmuch as there are an estimated 15,000 veterans of the Afghanistan war-or Afghans as theyve come to be known all over, whether from Afghanistan or not-in Saudi Arabia alone.3

Professor of Middle East Studies Eqbal Ahmad has observed:

The propaganda in the West suggests that violence and holy war are inherent in Islam. The reality is that as a world-wide movement, Jihad International, Inc. is a recent phenomenon...Without significant exception during the 20th century, jihad was used in a national, secular and political context until, that is, the advent of the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan.4

Following are some of the highlights of the remarkable bloodied ting of the Afghans :



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