CIA involvement in Afghanistan and other countries under President Reagan
CIA SUPPORTED AL QUEDA TERRORISTS IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
CIA Activities In Afghanistan are now talked about in the following Wiki section as supporting 'freedom fighters, insurgents and militants'. What the CIA was really doing consisted of making a deal with terrorists and then working with them. The mujahideen 'freedom fighters' were later renamed Al Queda, after the Soviets were kicked out of Afghanistan. Now the CIA had to kill all of the terrorist Al Queda, led by Osama Bin Laden, that they had just financed, trained, given weapons to and worked with.
Wikipedia; "The supplying of billions of dollars in arms to the Afghan mujahideen 'militants' was one of the CIA's longest and most expensive covert operations.[5] The CIA provided assistance to the fundamentalist insurgents through the Pakistani secret services, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), in a program called Operation Cyclone. At least 3 billion in U.S. dollars were funneled into the country to train and equip troops with weapons. Together with similar programs by Saudi Arabia, Britain's MI6 and SAS, Egypt, Iran, and the People's Republic of China,[6] the arms included Stinger missiles, shoulder-fired, antiaircraft weapons that they used against Soviet helicopters. Pakistan's secret service, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was used as an intermediary for most of these activities to disguise the sources of support for the resistance.
...The skittish CIA had fewer than 10 operatives in the region because it "feared it would be blamed, like in Guatemala."[8]Civilian personnel from the U.S. Department of State and the CIA frequently visited the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area during this time.
CIA WORKED WITH ISI TO TRAIN WHAT EVENTUALLY TURNED INTO AL QUEDA
With U.S. and other funding, the ISI armed and trained over 100,000 insurgents. On July 20, 1987, the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country was announced pursuant to the negotiations that led to the Geneva Accords of 1988,[9] with the last Soviets leaving on February 15, 1989.
The early foundations of al-Qaida were allegedly built in part on relationships and weaponry that came from the billions of dollars in U.S. support for the Afghan mujahadin during the war to expel Soviet forces from that country.[10]
OSAMA BIN LADEN, CIA AND ISI FORMED JOINT VENTURE, WORKED TOGETHER
In Spring of 1990, ISI hopes to install Gulbadin Hekmatyar contingent on defeating the Najibullah government. Hekmatyar also acquires millions of dollars in additional funding from Osama bin Laden, thus placing ISI, CIA and bin Laden in joint venture. On March 7, 1990, Gulbadin Hekmatyar and Shahnawaz Tanai attempts a coup, with Tanai, a member of Najibullah's government, orchestrating an attack using Najibullah's own forces against Najibullah's palace, with Hekmatyar's forces to follow up from outside Kabul.
BHUTTO ASSASSINATED BY AL QUEDA, WHICH WAS TRAINED AND SUPPLIED BY US AND ISI
Note that, in a grand historical coincidence, in the investigation following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on December 27, 2007, Pakistan's Interior Ministry has laid the blame on "Baitullah Mehsud, a Taliban commander who holds sway across a large part of South Waziristan",[24] i.e. on an Al Queda-linked group, while Bhutto herself, in a letter she wrote prior to her death and subsequent to two prior attempts, laid the blame at the ISI's doorstep. In light of the above, perhaps both assertions are correct.
ISI AND CIA RESPONSIBLE FOR ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS, WHICH KILLED THOUSANDS
In the early 1980s, according to HRW, the ISI and CIA used their control over the arms pipeline to run the war and favor abusive mujahedin parties, particularly Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's faction, which used U.S.- and Saudi-financed weapons to launch indiscriminate attacks on Afghan cities, killing countless civilians.
CIA UNITS WERE THE FIRST US FORCES TO ENTER AFGHANISTAN IN 2001
In 2001, the CIA's Special Activities Division units were the first U.S. forces to enter Afghanistan. Their efforts organized the Afghan Northern Alliance for the subsequent arrival of USSOCOM forces. The plan for the invasion of Afghanistan was developed by the CIA, the first time in United States history that such a large-scale military operation was planned by the CIA.[26]
SAD, U.S. Army Special Forces and the Northern Alliance combined to overthrow the Taliban in Afghanistan with minimal loss of U.S. lives. They did this without the need for U.S. military conventional ground forces.[27][28][29]
CIA HAD IT'S OWN OPERATING 'BASE' IN AFGHANISTAN, ALSO OPERATES OUT OF FOREIGN EMBASSIES
On December 30, 2009, a suicide attack occurred at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a major CIA base in the province of Khost, Afghanistan. Seven CIA officers, including the chief of the base, were killed and six others seriously wounded in the attack. The attack was the second deadliest carried out against the CIA, after the 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, and was a major setback for the intelligence agency's operations.
CIA ASKED TO LEAD WAR IN AFGHANISTAN BY PRESIDENT BUSH
To understand what happened in Afghanistan, one has to understand that the CIA was asked to lead, plan and orchestrate a war on Afghanistan, after 3/11, by President Bush. Need proof of this? 60 Minutes provides the evidence, through an interview with a former CIA officer, who is pitching his book. Click on the following link to see interview with the CIA agent.
Hank Crumpton: Life as a spy http://youtu.be/Kdkoqem9s1Y
Former CIA officer Hank Crumpton takes 60 Minutes on a tour through the shadowy world of the Clandestine Service and explains how the CIA toppled the Taliban after 9/11. Lara Logan reports.
The question is, how did the CIA accomplish this goal, and was it done according to the 'rules' of the Geneva Convention? According to Democracy Now, there was at least one major and illegal massacre by a CIA operative in Afghanistan.
All investigations about this mass killing of prisoners has been discouraged, suppressed and covered up by Bush and then by President Obama, who was given the information about this massacre in 2009. President Obama has not pursued anything in regard to this mass murder of prisoners by a CIA foreign operative, thus giving his tacit approval for any operations like this, conducted by the CIA in other countries.
Bottom line, a mass murderer has been elected with US support and encouragement to a high office in Afghanistan. Oddly enough, these new government officials almost immediately signed an agreement with the US to give the US military (and the CIA of course), permission to stay in Afghanistan.
DOSTUM, CURRENT AFGHAN VP, WAS WARLORD ON CIA PAYROLL - ALLEGEDLY TORTURED AND THEN MASSACRED 2,000 POW'S
As U.S.-Afghanistan Sign Troop Deal, CIA-Backed Warlord Behind Massacre of 2,000 POWs Sworn-In as VP
http://democracynow.org - Afghanistan has inaugurated its first new president in a decade, swearing in Ashraf Ghani to head a power-sharing government. Joining him on stage Monday was Abdul Rashid Dostum, Afghanistan's new vice president.
Dostum is one of Afghanistan's most notorious warlords, once described by Ghani himself as a "known killer." Dostum’s rise to the vice presidency comes despite his involvement in a 2001 massacre that killed up to 2,000 Taliban prisoners of war. The men were allegedly shot to death or suffocated in sealed metal truck containers after they surrendered to Dostum and the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance. The dead prisoners -- some of whom had been tortured -- were then buried in the northern Afghan desert.
Dostum, who was on the CIA payroll, has been widely accused of orchestrating the massacre and tampering with evidence of the mass killing. For more than a decade, human rights groups have called on the United States to conduct a full investigation into the massacre including the role of U.S. special forces and CIA operatives. We speak to Jamie Doran, director of the 2002 documentary "Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death,” and Susannah Sirkin, director of international policy at Physicians for Human Rights, the group that discovered the site of the mass graves of the Taliban POWs.
See all Democracy Now! reports on the Afghan war in our archive: http://www.democracynow.org/topics/afghanistan
The US prisons during this CIA war in Afghanistan were also full of CIA agents, who were exposed in human rights organizations exposes, for torturing prisoners held by the US military.
Of course, just like the mass killing above, no one was prosecuted, mostly because the CIA is untouchable, unaccountable and can do whatever it likes with no accountability or oversight, anywhere and anytime. Is that what democracy and freedom looks like?
Some of the people turned in or caught in Afghanistan were sent to Guantanamo or renditioned to foreign countries via CIA jets to be tortured in other countries.
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SUMMARY
The CIA and US military 'embedded' with each other for the first time in history and 'won' the Afghanistan battle 'using all means available', but the price was losing America's soul. Winning at any cost meant torturing, renditioning, mass murder, working with terrorists, assassinations, killing civilians at a rate of 10 of them for every 1 'enemy combatant', overthrowing a government, using radioactive and toxic DU weapons that also poisoned US troops and civilian cities and more.
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Along the way, the Afghan nation's infrastructure and culture history was looted and destroyed. Maybe the battle was won on a physical level of territory gained and held, but at the extreme cost of losing any moral, ethical or spiritual high ground. The 'perceived enemies' of the US in Afghanistan were killed as well.
One day someone in Afghanistan is called friend and freedom fighter, (such as Osama Bin Laden) but in the next minute, they are now a mortal enemy who needs to be 'disappeared' because they are a terrorist, via the CIA led occupation and control. Along the way so too, the soul of America disappeared. American won the battle for Afghanistan, but lost the war, where it really matters.
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CIA Conducted And Led War In Afghanistan, Asked To Do So By President Bush, Which Led To Gross Acts Of Torture, Mass Murder, Rendition And Kidnappings
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