News:
U.S. and Britain have admitted owning and administering private and covert prisons in Afghanistan after thirteen years of bloody war. Before this breaking news, former prisoners, general masses and some of humanitarian organizations had posed allegations against US, Britain and NATO for running private covert prisons, but the Defense Ministers of both these countries and NATO Spokesman used to strongly condemn and deny such claims. Along with West’s most subservient Afghan Government, some Western media sources such as Times, Washington Post and Associated Press have published a number of reports regarding this heinous crime which has become a sizzling topic in Afghan media outlets.
Comment:
Last month, an American official on the condition of anonymity told Associated Press that there are more than 20 secret prisons run by American army in Afghanistan. He further added that these prisons are run and administered under strict supervision of Anti-Terrorism Command in Bagram. These events have emerged at a time when Barak Obama had promised during his election campaigns to shut down prisons like Guantanamo Bay which were created during Bush’s declared war against the Ummah. He had given assurance to general public that his government will halt such atrocious practices. He had also reviled C.I.A.’s scorned practices of torturing of prisoners such as water-boarding, electrocuting and other physical and psychological torture techniques.
Under the financial and military assistance of US, Britain and NATO, the puppet regime of Afghanistan has appointed Ghulam Farooq Barakzai as Head of the commission to investigate these secret dungeons after emergence of these degrading reports. So far, the commission has discovered only six dungeons in Afghanistan that include three prisons in Helmand and the other three in Kandahar Province. These secrete prisons are discovered to be run by US army in the Lederinic Camp, by British army in Boston camp and by ISAF forces in Cam Caf camp.
On the other hand, on 2nd May, a British court nullified the decision of arresting and imprisoning British soldiers in Afghanistan. The court was hearing the case of Sardar Muhammad, who was arrested and remained under custody of British troops on the suspicion that he was a Talib fighter. He was behind the bars for over hundred days in the British camp. When he came out of prison he filed a case against British troops for illegal detention under the pretext of Human rights violation. But the Defense Minister of Britain Philip Hammond said that the European convention of Human rights cannot be applied in war situation, because this can tie up the hands of our troops.
Taking in consideration the above-mentioned points, it becomes obvious that the colonialist crusaders have neither value nor respect for any Muslim in the world. Their only purpose and mission is to secure their colonial interests, in the way to ensure their interests. The crusaders pay no attention and do not consider even the so-called international laws and globally accepted ethics. Thus, they consider and ensure human rights only for westerners and their puppet rulers in the Islamic lands. Therefore the West exceptionally deals with the Muslims and adopts illegal procedures in torturing and ill-treatment of all Muslims in their prisons, including thousands of civilians.
The US recently has played a game with Afghan puppet government in transferring the responsibility of Bagram Prison to Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). Because the US did not act honestly with their local partners, as the Bagram Prison case was just used as a tool in order to provide proper legitimacy to the government in public opinion and to deviate the attention from tens of other concealed and hidden prisons. That is why most Afghans are unable to know the whereabouts of their abducted relatives and loved ones. Thus, it proves that the US has thousands of Afghan Muslims behind the bars in their secret prisons, in a way that even the puppet Afghan government has no information regarding their location, numbers, etc.
In addition to this the Afghan interpreters and Army personal revealed some astonishing information about the way the invaders are arresting young Afghans as Taliban fighters and after sexual harassment and torture they are sent to different part of Afghanistan with the help of Helicopters along with heavy explosives. There they are handed over to the private security and intelligence companies to send them to public places, Masajids, Hospitals, Schools etc and are exploded using remote control devices. This is done in order to malign political Islam, Jihad and the overall concept of a Mujahid. In these barbaric crimes, the Afghan prisoners are used by MI6, CIA and their contracted companies, Blackwater, Remand Davis network and Michal Sample network etc.
Moreover, the former head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan created and supported ideas like, local police, the National Revolution Project, and Afghan Special Forces, whose exact numbers are not known to the Afghan government. These assignments are launched under the command of the former Intelligence Head, Asadullah Khalid, funded directly by U.S. embassy. Using these projects Scholars, Tribal elders, real Mujahedeen are targeted and rifts are created amongst people to weaken armed resistance against colonialists. Parallel to this, media groups and analysts are also being funded so that they link all this to Islam and associate all these negativity to Islam. These are the people who are known to everyone and their meetings with U.S. and UK officials are talk of the town.
The launch of Crusade by Bush Junior under the pretext of ‘War against Terrorism’, the contradiction between Obama’s words and actions by following the footsteps of his predecessor, the recent anti-Muslims and anti-Islam statement by Tony Blair, the clear confession of the former British Army Chief General Richard Dennett and other such revelation by the Kuffar and their imposed puppet and criminal regimes upon the Ummah, are all points to the fact that a paradigm shift and radical ideological change is the need of the day, which is the reestablishment of the Islamic Khilafah. In fact, what the enemies say and manifest them in their actions is far less than what is hidden in their hearts against the Muslims and Islam.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ لاَ تَتَّخِذُواْ بِطَانَةً مِّن دُونِكُمْ لاَ يَأْلُونَكُمْ خَبَالاً وَدُّواْ مَا عَنِتُّمْ قَدْ بَدَتِ الْبَغْضَاء مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَمَا تُخْفِي صُدُورُهُمْ أَكْبَرُ قَدْ بَيَّنَّا لَكُمُ الآيَاتِ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ
“You who have iman! do not take any outside yourselves as intimates. They will do anything to harm you. They love what causes you distress. Hatred has appeared out of their mouths, but what their breasts hide is far worse. We have made the Signs clear to you if you use your intellect.”
(Ali-Imran: 118)
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Saifullah Mustanir
Kabul – Wilayah Afghanistan