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A Strategy to Deter Terrorism continues....
However, Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban are sequential symptoms of a resurging political Islamic movement, adhering to Sunni or Shia fundamentals, and nurtured by powerful financial entities in Saudi Arabia, through Hizbollah sponsored by Shitte Iran. The war on terror therefore has to focus not on the proxies, like Al-Qaeda, or Hizbullah but on confronting and neutralizing the terrorist nests and incubators in the “Axis of Jihad” nations.
The Saudi Government, with the connivance of then Pakistan P. M. Benazir Bhutto, had been the principal financial underwriters of Afghanistan’s fundamentalist Taliban movement since 1996. The Taliban not only had strong backing among the public in Pakistan, but ISI was at the forefront of sponsoring and aiding the Taliban. Fuel, arms, ammunition fake currency, and even advice came from Pakistan. The madarasa-educated, semi-illiterate Taliban leadership didn’t have the experience in running the nation, so Pakistanis did it for them. When Bahamian Buddhas were blown up by the Afghan Taliban, the expertise was provided by Pakistani and Saudi engineers.
Throughout the nineties, when American targets were being attacked in many parts of the world by Al-Qaeda, most of its members used the Pakistan Port city of Karachi as a transit point to fly in and out of Pakistan and to reach Afghanistan by road. The LTTE in Sri Lanka incidentally had used this facility to mobilize weapons through the sea from Karachi.
Even if Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the then Pakistani President, was personally sincere about ending Pakistan’s support for the Taliban, the Establishment in Pakistan—especially the ISI, a deeply political Islam-influenced institution obviously has other ideas. According to Dr. Muthuswamy’s study, in December 2006, a captured Taliban spokesman had told Afghan investigators that the Taliban would never have been able to challenge Afghan military and NATO forces without the direct assistance of Pakistan’s ISI. This goes to prove that the most influential entity in Islamic Pakistan is political Islam.
Thus, “political” Islam and its core concept of jihad have spread throughout the world invigorated by the financial sponsorship of three nations: Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan, the “Axis of Jihad.
To be continued....