By Kadir A. Mohmand on December 18, 2015
December 18, 2015
To the Honorable Bob Corker
U.S. Senator
Chairman of the U.S. Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Chairman Corker:
On Wednesday, December 16,
2015, the U.S. Department of State’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and
Pakistan, Ambassador Richard Olson, Mr. Sampler and others, testified at a
hearing before your committee. I watched the hearing on C-SPAN.
- First,
so-called Daesh in Afghanistan is not who you are being led to believe they
are.
- Second, despite Ambassador Olson’s flowery comments that there is not any
sectarian conflict in Afghanistan, there is sectarian and ethnic conflict in
Afghanistan, which is caused by the CIA’s divide and conquer strategy
implemented these past fifteen years.
Third, contrary to Ambassador Olson’s
remarks, the Pashtun majority, the native inhabitants of Afghanistan, is being
marginalized by the corrupt national and local Afghan governments, which
consist primarily of communist war criminals, Northern Alliance, war lords,
drug traffickers and other thugs. The U.S. government has installed an Afghan
government of ethnic minorities and Pashtun communists. The Pashtun majority
and other Afghan Muslims are not represented by this government.
I strongly believe that any
so-called Daesh, ISIS or ISIL in Afghanistan are mercenaries, contractors and
just plain thugs paid for with U.S. and Afghan monies and drug trafficking
monies. Please see the attached video.
When I met with Abdullah
Abdullah in September, 2012 in Afghanistan, after showing me his extremely
expensive gold watch paid for with U.S tax dollars, he bragged that he was in
charge of the mercenaries/contractors, DAESH, ISIL ISIS.
I have known Abdullah
since childhood. Furthermore, I have been told from reliable sources on the
ground in Afghanistan any “so-called” DAESH, ISIL ISIS, fighters in
Afghanistan are really CIA and MI6 contracted thugs, and hired thugs of the
Afghan National Security Adviser Hanif Atmar, who released from jail the worst
killer and drug trafficker, Mohammad Mukhtar, to oversee these hired thugs, the
so-called Daesh. Why does there need to be the appearance that Daesh is in
Afghanistan? The American people will support the continuation of the war in
and occupation of Afghanistan if they are led to believe that ISIL, ISIS or
Daesh fighters are in Afghanistan.
The former, governor of
Paktika Abdul Karim Mateen, admitted that the Afghan government paid several
hundred thousand dollars for these mercenaries and thugs, which are the Daesh.
He was removed from his position right after that comment. So I ask you, who
the real “terrorists” are in Afghanistan? Who are they paid to terrorize?
I
strongly believe they are hired to terrorize Afghans, who reside in areas such
as Helmand Province with vast deposits of Rare Earth Elements (REEs), which are
worth trillions and vital components of defense and technology systems. It is
an intentional and systematic targeting of civilians especially Pashtun in the
REE rich areas.
As history has shown, these Afghans, mainly Pashtun, in
Helmand, fight for their independence, their land and now their REEs. They are
seen as the main roadblock to easy access and control of these REEs.
Furthermore, Afghanistan is the heart of Central Asia. After the fall of the
Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, the United States determined its new outer
defense perimeter would be located in Central Asia. The Pashtun majority are
viewed as the roadblock to the development of this outer defense perimeter and
to its new REE supply chain, and as a road block to the economic development of
the energy sector in Central Asia. The Afghan people’s natural resources will
be exported through piping of the gas and the transporting of REEs and other
mineral resources.
In the 1990s, my attorney,
G.P. Hardy of Houston, who had many big clients in the oil industry, asked if I
wanted to work for one of his clients to scout the area for the potential
construction of a pipeline which would be built through Afghanistan. I did not
take the assignment as I had a young family in the United States. I know the
history of this pipeline and Afghanistan’s vast untapped natural resources. The
Pentagon has referred to Afghanistan as “the Saudi Arabia of Lithium.”
The foreign and Afghan war
profiteers in the government and private sector will benefit financially from
this exploitation of Afghanistan’s resources.. The U.S. government will benefit
with a new supply chain for REEs. It will no longer have to rely on communist
China to supply it with REEs. The U.S. will win with its new outer defense
perimeter. The Afghan majority will lose.
It will be terrorized by the
“so-called” Daesh, the U.S. drones, bombs and weaponry, the corrupt national
and local warlords and government officials like First Vice President,
Communist War Criminal Rashid Dostum and their private militias and thugs, the
continuation of the divide and conquer strategy of the west, the exploitation
and theft of its resources and last but not least, the contamination, pollution
and negative health effects on the Afghans caused by the radioactive
by-products of mining REEs and the uranium tipped weaponry. The Afghan majority
will not benefit financially or in any other way from the present policies and
strategies.
Since the U.S. invasion and
occupation of Afghanistan, it has become a narco state and one of the most
corrupt countries in the world. Systemic corruption has run rampant. One would
expect this corruption to happen since during these past fifteen years, the
national and local Afghan governments, police and army primarily consist of
communist war criminals like First Vice President Rashid Dostum, Northern
Alliance war lords, drug traffickers and other thugs.
For example, I am sure you
are aware of the government officials who stole from the Kabul Bank. The
present government released the main criminal. As long as the U.S. supports and
finances this Afghan government of criminals, war lords, communists, thugs and
war profiteering technocrats, there will be this systemic corruption. I think
the United States needs to end its practice of hiring these thugs and criminals
to be its puppets and do its dirty work.
These Afghans will do
anything for money and a title. When the money stops flowing they will turn
against the United States. Dr. Jodi Vittori of Global Watch testified regarding
Afghanistan’s need for an attorney general. In the past, an inexperienced thug
was appointed as Afghanistan’s Attorney General. The interim attorney general
is the same. I am sure that practice will continue. I am still appalled that
the U.S. supports and funds the Afghan government with Afghan officials like
the communist war criminal and war lord, First Vice President of Afghanistan,
Rashid Dostum. All of the human rights organizations and the U.S. government
know exactly who he is. I believe the U.S. government should be demanding his
prosecution for his horrendous war crimes committed from the 1980s to the
present instead of propping him up, funding him and allowing him to be a member
of the Afghan government..
I think that it is time
that U.S., global and Afghan scholars meet to discuss and analyze the current
war approach, which has only escalated violence, created instability, and a
corrupt narco state. They need to evaluate ways to end the war and bring peace.
To date, I believe that the only advice that the U.S. government has been
relying upon when forming its foreign policy and war strategy for Afghanistan
has been from military think tanks, scholars with former national security, DOD
and intelligence backgrounds and careers; basically all war mongers and war
profiteers.
For example, the United
States has relied upon advice from the Kagans, the RAND corporation, and Afghan
Americans like Mr. Zalmay Khalizhad, Mr. Ali Jalali, a war profiteer and former
Afghanistan Interior Minister from 2003-05, and former Afghan communists, who
are now working for the U.S. Department of State, Voice of America, CIA and/or
Department of Defense. I believe these war profiteers will do anything for a
dollar, which is the main reason the United States is in such a mess and
Afghanistan is a narco-state and so corrupt.
I believe to stop this
bloodshed and further chaos, the United Nations, France, China, Russia, England
and the United States need to act and hold peace negotiations now with the
Afghan Freedom Fighters to reach an agreement that can lead to true peace and
stability. I think the US strategy of marginalizing and fighting against the
Afghan majority will not work. I fear that the instability and chaos will
spread throughout Central Asia and the Middle East if the United States
government does not change its strategies and policies towards the Afghan
majority.
I strongly believe this war
in Afghanistan must end now. As history has shown, Afghanistan has been the
grave yard of superpowers. As Afghanistan is my motherland and the United
States is my homeland, I want the United States to be at peace with the Pashtun
majority. I fought against the Soviet Union and the Afghan communists during the
1980s to stop communism. I know what war is. I hate war. I want to see the
Afghans themselves prosecute the war criminals, who committed crimes from 1979
to the present, in lawful tribunals.
High level officials like
Rashid Dostum should not be allowed to apologize for his war crimes and partake
in reconciliation and be part of the Afghan government. Rashid Dostum is
a documented war criminal. He was the subject of articles in the Time
magazine and Newsweek. As reported in the Time on November 19, 2001, and in
Newsweek, on November 5, 2001, Dostum and his group raped many
Afghan women and children, “…Dostum’s marauders chopped off breasts
and tied the toes of women behind their
heads…” Instead of prosecuting this criminal, my U.S. government
ignores his war crimes, supports and keeps him on the payroll. The United
States government needs to follow the rule of law and international law.
Instead it is covering up these war crimes and helping him commit new war
crimes against the Afghan/Pashtun like recently in Faryab Province.
In
addition, the Afghan majority has not forgotten about the war crimes committed
by Dostum against the Pashtun in November 2001 at Dasht-e-Leili
even though the United Nations and the United States has. When the UN asked the
Afghans to surrender the Afghans did, and Dostum cowardly massacred them
while he was partnering with the United States.
Afghans have suffered
enough these past four decades because of war, occupation and corruption. The
Afghan children have suffered enough. Stop killing and terrorizing Afghans.
Change the war strategy to a “sincere” negotiations strategy for peace.
Pakistan cannot be involved in these negotiations because it is a known
condition that the Afghan Resistance will not accept; the United States knows that
the Afghan Resistance will not come to the table if Pakistan is involved.
Therefore, I strongly believe that peace negotiations must be held without
Pakistan’s involvement.
Sincerely,
Kadir Abdul Mohmand
Former Representative for
North America of the Afghan Freedom Fighters in the 1980s
6147 Old Log Trail
Kalamazoo, MI 49009
Abdul Kadir Mohmand
was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. He currently resides at Kalamazoo, Michigan. He
graduated from Kabul High School. On an UNESCO scholarship, Mr. Mohmand studied
at Sofia University, Bulgaria from 1976 until 1978 when his studies were interrupted
by the Communist seizure of power in Afghanistan. The new Afghan Communist
government ordered the Bulgarian government to return him to Afghanistan
because he was anti-communist. Mr. Mohmand requested political asylum. With the
help of the United Nations and the U.S. Embassy, he arrived to Italy and then
the United States in 1979.
Mr. Mohmand returned to his studies and earned his B.S. in 1983 from Western
Michigan University. He found employment in various positions in the
engineering business. For many years, he worked for BFI and was country
operations manager for BFI Italia. Currently, Mr. Mohmand owns a shopping
center and develops commercial properties.
During the 1980s, Mr. Mohmand was the Representative of the Afghan Mujahideen
for North America. During the 1980s, Mr. Mohmand returned to Afghanistan to
fight as a freedom fighter against the Soviets and Afghan communists. Through
an arrangement with Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Mr. Mohmand would
bring back wounded Afghan children and Mujahideen for medical treatment at
Borgess and recuperation in his home in Kalamazoo. He formed and was president
of a nonprofit, Aid for Afghanistan.
In the 1980s, Mr. Mohmand also worked with the Committee for a Free Afghanistan
in Washington D.C to bring wounded Afghans to the United States for medical
treatment.
For the past four decades Mr. Mohmand has dedicated his life to working to
achieve true peace and stability in Afghanistan.
A few years ago, Mr. Mohmand organized educated Afghans intellectuals across
the world who drafted a comprehensive plan for peace. Presently, he has united
many different Afghan peace organizations under one umbrella. The goal of this
network is to unite Afghans to bring true peace in and the independence of Afghanistan.
This network wants to be the bridge between the Afghan freedom fighters and the
silent Afghan majority, and the Western World in any peace negotiations.
Mr. Mohmand wants true peace and stability in Afghanistan. As a veteran of war,
Mr. Mohmand hates war...
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