New Trend Magazine (For sample copy in print call: 410-435-5000)
(Analysis and Commentary by Kaukab Siddique)
Taliban's Disciplined Withdrawal from Cities: Superb Move by Mullah
Omar
Northern Alliance Involved in Looting, Murder: 100 Pakistani POWs
Slaughtered
Pakistan Concerned about Emergence of Hostile Forces in Kabul
Bush and Putin Express Solidarity in War Against Islam
"Patiently Persevere, for thy perseverence is but with help from Allah:
nor
grieve over
them:
and distress not thyself because of their plots. For Allah is
with
those who are aware/fearful-of-Allah, those who do good (without asking
anything in return)." The Qur'an 16:127-128
{THE NEWS: The Taliban have withdrawn from most cities in
Afghanistan,
including Kabul and Kandahar. Some pockets of resistance stayed behind
in
Mazare Sharif and the garrison in Kunduz is holding out.}
{The Taliban withdrew in good order with negligible losses. Some
idea
of the disciplined withdrawal can be gathered from the fact that they
took
the charity group prisoners with them to save them from assault by
northern
alliance gangs.}
ANALYSIS: From reports in Al-Jazeerah TV and Lebanese TV, it
appears
that the withdrawal was ordered by the legendary leader of the Taliban,
Mullah Omar himself. The Mullah's strategy seems to be as follows:
1. Forces in fixed positions would undergo devastation from carpet
bombing by
U.S. B-52 bombers. As the forces of Islam do not have an air forces,
mobility
and guerrilla warfare is essential. The legendary Mullah has saved most
of
his troops (although critics say, several hundred were already wiped
out in
the massive U.S. assault.)
2. Civilian losses were rising rapidly as the U.S. ran out of military
targets and attacked hundreds of civilian targets. On November 9, the
U.S.
hit a complex of caves in which civilians had taken refuge. Several
hundred
were killed but the news got only ONE LINE on the rolling CNN news line
(under the main screen). Afghanistan is facing a catastrophe owing to
36 days
of bombing. The Mullah decided to sacrifice his conventional control of
the
cities to save the civilian population.
3. POWER VACUUM in KABUL is calculated to create divisions in the U.S.
sponsored "liberators." Pakistan is concerned that the U.S. has
actually
opened the way into Kabul for the northern alliance. If Pakistan does
not
respond, it will have been outflanked by a hostile coalition supported
by
Russia, Iran and India plus the U.S. If there is a will-to-independence
still
alive in the Pakistani military, it will have no option except to
oppose the
new regime in Kabul.
4. MULLAH OMAR and MUJAHID OSAMA want to draw U.S. and British troops
into
the mountains. If the Afghan people and the Pakistanis keep the supply
routes
open, the jihad will attract the attention of the entire Muslim world.
In
military terms, the Taliban have shortened their supply lines and are
re-grouping not to rule but to fight.
NORTHERN ALLIANCE ATROCITIES VERIFIED: Out of the 200 Pakistani
volunteers
trapped in Mazare Sharif and captured by the Northern Alliance, 100
have been
slaughtered in cold blood by their captors.
Numerous instances of looting and murder by n.a. forces in Kabul have
been
reported. We have received a photo of a civilian shot down in the
street in
Kabul by the n.a. "liberators" and left to die.
IT'S A CULTURAL WAR AS WELL: Many men in "liberated" Kabul now want to
look
like Bush and are lining up to have their beards shaved off. Some
communist
women have taken off their coverings. (Photos on Lebaneses TV, LTV.)
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AL-JAZEERAH STATION HIT BY U.S. bombers. According to news just
received, the
U.S. bombed Al-Jazeerah's Kabul unit just before the n.a. entered the
city.
The clear pictures of children killed in U.S. bombing televised by
al-Jazeerah probably led to the decision to bomb. The fate of the
al-Jazeerah
station representative in Kabul is not known. (The station is still
active in
Kandahar.)
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AN ARMED JIHAD GROUP IN PAKISTAN HAS GIVEN THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE on
this
occasion of Taliban's withdrawal and re-groupment: {Text of message
from
Lashkare Taiba in Lahore, Pakistan.}
Amir Markaz Dawa Wal Irshad Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, while throwing light
on the
latest situation of Afghanistan, said real war will start now. The
Taliban
have adopted a strategy to save their military might as well as the
people.
It will benefit the Mujahideen. He said war against Russia was also on
the
same pattern. He said it had become necessary to bring American army in
the
direct war and to trap it in the quagmire of Afghanistan.
He said the people of Pakistan must keep its morale high and prepare
itself
for jihad. This war will last for a long time. A long-term planning is
required for a long war. He said Taliban vacated the cities
intentionally
otherwise the Northern Alliance could not make an inch advancement for
33
days." Fall of Kabul is the war strategy of Taliban and it is not the
victory
of the Northern Alliance," he said. He said Pakistan has now realized
its
wrong policy.
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Postscript by our Bush Monitor: Bush's meeting first with Britain's
Tony the
dog Blair and now with Putin, the butcher of Chechnya, indicates the
tightening of a worldwide alliance against Islam. Observers say that
the
Zionists and Imperialists see Afghanistan as a symbol of international
Islamic unity. The coming together of mujahideen from all over the
world is
seen as a danger signal by Bush-Blair-Putin. (BBP).
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