RE: Theory on Mullah Omar etc

["michael pugliese" <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Karl, you have your conspiranoid geo-politics more than a bit
awry below. Russia supported, for several yrs. before 9-11, the
Northern Alliance. See, among many sources, silly bourgeois journalist
Ahmed Tashid (has a very new one out btw entitled, Jihad!)
  Would help, if you read say the official Iranian press agency,
the IRNA, if I remember right, to get a fix on Iranian actions
and attitudes.
   The below about the Toyata land cruisers make believe retreat,
reminds me of your conjecture, on no evidentiary basis, except
an image of the an omniscient, ompipotent CIA manufacturing Peronist
mobs in Argentina. Grant people and political forces their right
to be justifiably pissed or in the case of Mullah Omar et.  al,
the ability to sincerely believe what they do. Not denying that
all political actors engage in psywar but, you really do carry
that way too far.
Michael Pugliese

>--- Original Message ---
>From: Karl Carlile <dagda@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: Communism List <communism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: 1/26/02 6:41:08 AM
>

>Substantial Taliban and Bin Laden forces may be now based in
Iran. It is
>in Iran's interests to maintain instability in Afghanistan.
A stable
>Afghanistan may mean an oil distribution network through Afghanistan
to
>Pakistan. This would relatively diminish the commercial and
political
>power of Iran. This was a large reason as to why Iran backed
the
>Northern Alliance against the Taliban. The aim was to support
the enemy
>of the Taliban to hinder the establishment of national stability.
The
>Taliban state, it must be remembered, was increasing stability
in
>Afghanistan in a way that no other force had for some time.
Russia
>supported the Taliban for the same reasons as the Iranian government.
>
>Given this it may be that much if not most of the forces of
the Taliban
>have withdrawn in tact to Iran. The so called defence of Kabul
and
>Kandahar may have been a ploy to fool Washington. Mullah Omar
may have
>been well gone when the broadcast that appeared to come from
him was
>made.His claim that he would fight to the death was again meant
to fool
>Rumsfeld and his gang. It may have been meant to fool. Some
of the
>forces that continued to put up resistance may have volunteered
such
>action in an effort to fool the enemy for as long as possible.
The
>trucks that were running up and down under cover of darkness
may have
>deliberately engaged in this activity to give the impression
that forces
>were bigger. The Taliban needed time to withdraw men and material
in an
>organised way.
>
>The various stories may have been largely all part of a plan
to deceive
>the enemy. The various Bin Laden videos may have been designed
to give
>the impression that Bin Laden was located in Tora Bora or some
cave
>complex while he was comfortably residing in Iran. His miserable
image
>on the last video may have been meant to suggest that he was
holed up in
>some miserable cave.
>
>The alleged hatred between the Taliban and Iran was said by
 silly
>bourgeois journalists to be based on a hatred between Shiite
and Sunni
>Muslims. The bitterness was based, rather, on more political
conditions.
>The Taliban, pragmatic enough when it suited them, were hostile
to Iran
>because they sought to undermine its authority. Iran was opposed
to
>them, not because they were Sunni,but because they represented
>stability --a threat to Iranian interests. Now in the new situation
the
>political configuration has changed.
>
>Furthermore concerning Mullah Omar, the Taliban and Bin Laden
the last
>place many would have thought of as their sanctuary is Iran.
Musharraf
>and others may have a vested interest in concealing their location
in
>Iran --recall his visit to Iran.This may be why he has engaged
in what
>would seem to be disinformation concerning Bin Laden's whereabouts.
>
>The abiding hostility to Washington must not be forgotten. There
is
>popular support for this among the Iranian masses. This fact
would
>created a sympathetic link with Taliban forces under attack
from the
>Great Satan.
>
>Regards
>Karl Carlile (Communist Global Group)
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>
>Regards
>Karl Carlile (Communist Global Group)
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