Baluchistan, Pakistan - long target of Western geopolitical interests, terror wave coincides with Gwadar Port handover to China.
February 18, 2013 (LD) - Quetta, the
capital of Pakistan's southwest Baluchistan province, bordering both US-occupied
Afghanistan as well as Iran, was the site of a grisly market bombing that has
killed over 80 people. According
to reports, the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has claimed responsibility
for the attack. Billed as a "Sunni extremist group," it instead fits the pattern
of global terrorism sponsored by the US, Israel, and their Arab partners Saudi
Arabia and Qatar.
The terrorist Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group was in fact
created, according to
the BBC, to counter Iran's Islamic Revolution in the 1980's, and is still
active today. Considering the
openly admitted US-Israeli-Saudi plot to use Al Qaeda and other terrorist
groups across the Middle East to counter Iran's influence, it begs the question
whether these same interests are funding terrorism in Pakistan to not only
counter Iranian-sympathetic Pakistani communities, but to undermine and
destabilize Pakistan itself.
The US-Saudi Global Terror Network
While the United States is
close allies with Saudi Arabia and Qatar,
it is well established that the chief financier of extremist militant groups for
the past 3 decades, including Al Qaeda, are in fact Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
While Qatari state-owned propaganda like Al Jazeera apply a veneer of
progressive pro-democracy to its narratives, Qatar itself is involved in arming,
funding, and even providing direct military support for sectarian extremists
from northern Mali, to Libya, to Syria and beyond.
France 24's report "Is
Qatar fuelling the crisis in north Mali?" provides a useful vignette of
Saudi-Qatari terror sponsorship, stating:
“The MNLA [secular Tuareg separatists], al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine and MUJAO [movement for unity and Jihad in West Africa] have all received cash from Doha.”
A month later Sadou Diallo, the mayor of the north Malian city of Gao [which had fallen to the Islamists] told RTL radio: “The French government knows perfectly well who is supporting these terrorists. Qatar, for example, continues to send so-called aid and food every day to the airports of Gao and Timbuktu.”
The report also stated:
“Qatar has an established a network of institutions it funds in Mali, including madrassas, schools and charities that it has been funding from the 1980s,” he wrote, adding that Qatar would be expecting a return on this investment.
“Mali has huge oil and gas potential and it needs help developing its infrastructure,” he said. “Qatar is well placed to help, and could also, on the back of good relations with an Islamist-ruled north Mali, exploit rich gold and uranium deposits in the country.”
These
institutions are present not only in Mali, but around the world, and provide a
nearly inexhaustible supply of militants for both the Persian Gulf monarchies
and their Western allies to use both as a perpetual casus belli to invade and
occupy foreign nations such as Mali and Afghanistan, as well as a sizable,
persistent mercenary force, as seen in Libya and Syria. Such institutions
jointly run by Western intelligence agencies across Europe and in America, fuel
domestic fear-mongering and the resulting security state that allows Western
governments to more closely control their populations as they pursue reckless,
unpopular policies at home and abroad.
Since Saudi-Qatari geopolitical
interests are entwined with Anglo-American interests, both the "investment" and
"return on this investment" are clearly part of a joint venture. France's
involvement in Mali has demonstrably failed to curb such extremists, has
instead, predictably left the nation occupied by Western interests while
driving terrorists further north into the real target,
Algeria.
Additionally, it should be noted, that France
in particular, played a leading role along side Qatar and Saudi Arabia in
handing Libya over to these very same extremists. French politicians were in
Benghazi shaking hands with militants they would be "fighting" in the near
future in northern Mali.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is Part of US-Saudi Terror
Network
In terms of Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, as well as the
infamous Lashkar-e-Taiba that carried out the 2008 Mumbai, India attack killing
over 160, both are affiliates of Al Qaeda, and both have been linked
financially, directly to Saudi Arabia. In the Guardian's article, "WikiLeaks
cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists," the US State
Department even acknowledges that Saudi Arabia is indeed funding terrorism in
Pakistan:
Saudi Arabia is the world's largest source of funds for Islamist militant groups such as the Afghan Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba – but the Saudi government is reluctant to stem the flow of money, according to Hillary Clinton.
"More needs to be done since Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups," says a secret December 2009 paper signed by the US secretary of state. Her memo urged US diplomats to redouble their efforts to stop Gulf money reaching extremists in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
"Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide," she said.
Three other Arab countries are listed as sources of militant money: Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has also been financially linked to the Persian
Gulf monarchies. Stanford University's "Mapping
Militant Organizations: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi," states under "External
Influences:"
LeJ has received money from several Persian Gulf countries including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates[25] These countries funded LeJ and other Sunni militant groups primarily to counter the rising influence of Iran's revolutionary Shiism.
Astonishingly,
despite these admission, the US works politically, financially, economically,
and even militarily in tandem with these very same state-sponsors of rampant,
global terrorism. In Libya and Syria, the US has even assisted in the funding
and arming of Al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist groups, and had conspired with
Saudi Arabia since
at least 2007 to overthrow both Syria and Iran with these terrorist groups.
And while Saudi Arabia funds terrorism in Pakistan, the US is well documented to
be funding political subversion in the very areas where the most heinous attacks
are being carried out.
US Political Subversion in Baluchistan,
Pakistan
The US State Department's
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has been directly funding and supporting the work of
the "Balochistan Institute for Development" (BIFD) which claims to be "the leading resource on
democracy, development and human rights in Balochistan, Pakistan." In addition
to organizing the annual NED-BFID "Workshop on Media,
Democracy & Human Rights" BFID reports that USAID had
provided funding for a "media-center" for the Baluchistan Assembly to "provide
better facilities to reporters who cover the proceedings of the Balochistan
Assembly." We must assume BFID meant reporters "trained" at NED-BFID
workshops.
Image: A screenshot of "Voice of Balochistan's" special
US State Department message. While VOB
fails to disclose its funding, it is a sure bet it, like other US-funded
propaganda fronts, is nothing more than a US State Department outlet. (click
image to enlarge)
....
Images: In addition to the annual Fortune 500-funded
“Balochistan
International Conference,” the US State
Department's National Endowment for Democracy has been busy at work building up
Baluchistan's "civil society" network. This includes support for the
"Balochistan Institute For Development," which maintains a "BIFD
Leadership Academy," claiming to "mobilize,
train and encourage youth to play its effective role in promotion of democracy
development and rule of law." The goal is to subvert Pakistani governance while
simultaneously creating a homogeneous "civil society" that interlocks with the
West's "international institutions." This is how modern empire perpetuates
itself.
....
There is also Voice of Balochistan whose every top-story is US-funded propaganda drawn from foundation-funded Reporters Without Borders, Soros-funded Human Rights Watch, and even a direct message from the US State Department itself. Like other US State Department funded propaganda outfits around the world - such as Thailand's Prachatai - funding is generally obfuscated in order to maintain "credibility" even when the front's constant torrent of obvious propaganda more than exposes them.
Image: Far from parody, this is the header taken from the "Baloch Society of North America" website.
....
Perhaps the most absurd operations
being run to undermine Pakistan through the "Free Baluchistan" movement are the
US and London-based organizations. The "Baloch Society of North America"
almost appears to be a parody at first, but nonetheless serves as a useful
aggregate and bellwether regarding US meddling in Pakistan's Baluchistan
province. The group's founder, Dr. Wahid. Baloch, openly
admits he has met with US politicians in regards to Baluchistan independence.
This includes Neo-Con warmonger, PNAC signatory, corporate-lobbyist, and
National Endowment for Democracy director Zalmay
Khalilzad.
Dr. Wahid Baloch considers
Baluchistan province "occupied" by both the Iranian and
Pakistani governments - he and his movement's humanitarian hand-wringing gives
Washington the perfect pretext to create an armed conflagration against either
Iran or Pakistan, or both, as planned in detail by various US policy
think-tanks.
There is also the Baloch
Students Organisation-Azad, or BSO. While it maintains a presence in
Pakistan, it has coordinators based in London. London-based BSO members include
"information secretaries" that propagate their message via social media, just as
US and British-funded youth organizations did during the West's operations
against other targeted nations during the US-engineered
"Arab Spring."
Image: A screenshot of a "Baloch Human rights activist and
information secretary of BSO Azad London zone" Twitter account. This user, in
tandem with look-alike accounts has been propagating anti-Pakistani, pro-"Free
Baluchistan" propaganda incessantly. They also engage in coordinated attacks
with prepared rhetoric against anyone revealing US ties to Baluchistan terrorist
organizations.
....
And while the US does
not openly admit to funding and arming terrorists in Pakistan yet, many across
established Western policy think-tanks have called for it.
Image: Why Baluchistan? Gwadar in the southwest
serves as a Chinese port and the starting point for a logistical
corridor through Pakistan and into Chinese territory. The
Iranian-Pakistani-Indian pipeline would enter from the west, cross through
Baluchistan intersecting China's proposed logistical route to the northern
border, and continue on to India. Destabilizing Baluchistan would effectively
derail the geopolitical aspirations of four nations.
....
Selig Harrison
of the convicted
criminal, George Soros-funded Center for International
Policy, has published two pieces regarding the armed “liberation” of
Baluchistan.
Harrison’s February 2011 piece, “Free
Baluchistan,” calls to “aid the 6 million Baluch insurgents fighting for
independence from Pakistan in the face of growing ISI repression.” He continues
by explaining the various merits of such meddling by stating:
“Pakistan has given China a base at Gwadar in the heart of Baluch territory. So an independent Baluchistan would serve U.S. strategic interests in addition to the immediate goal of countering Islamist forces.”
Harrison would follow up his frank call to carve up Pakistan by
addressing the issue of Chinese-Pakistani relations in a March 2011 piece
titled, “The
Chinese Cozy Up to the Pakistanis.” He states:
“China’s expanding reach is a natural and acceptable accompaniment of its growing power—but only up to a point. ”
He
continues:
“To counter what China is doing in Pakistan, the United States should play hardball by supporting the movement for an independent Baluchistan along the Arabian Sea and working with Baluch insurgents to oust the Chinese from their budding naval base at Gwadar. Beijing wants its inroads into Gilgit and Baltistan to be the first step on its way to an Arabian Sea outlet at Gwadar.”
While aspirations of freedom and independence are used to
sell Western meddling in Pakistan, the geopolitical interests couched behind
this rhetoric is openly admitted to. The prophetic words of Harrison should ring
loud in one's ears today. It is in fact this month, that
Pakistan officially hands over the port in Gwadar to China, and Harrison's
armed militants are creating bloodshed and chaos, attempting to trigger a
destructive sectarian war that will indeed threaten to "oust the Chinese from
their budding naval base at Gwadar."
Like
in Syria, we have a documented conspiracy years in the making being carried
out before our very eyes. The people of Pakistan must not fall into the trap
laid by the West who seeks to engulf Baluchistan in sectarian bloodshed with the
aid of Saudi and Qatari-laundered cash and weapons. For the rest of the world,
we must continue to
uncover the corporate-financier special interests driving these insidious
plots, boycott and permanently
replace them on a local level.
The US-Saudi terror racket has spilled
blood from New York City, across Northern Africa, throughout the Middle East,
and as far as Pakistan and beyond. If we do not undermine and ultimately excise
these special interests, their plans and double games will only get bolder and
the inevitability of their engineered chaos effecting us individually will only
grow.
River to Sea
Uprooted Palestinian
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