During a May
15 visit to Stockholm, Secretary of State John Kerry warned Syrian
ruler Bashar al-Assad that if he doesn’t begin preparations to abdicate his
office, “the opposition will be receiving additional support … and
unfortunately the violence will not end.”
Under the rhetorical conventions governing the cynical
profession called “diplomacy,” Kerry wasn’t allowed to make his threat
explicit. Fortunately, Tennessee Republican Senator Bob Corker labors under no
such restrictions.
“I do think we’ll be arming the opposition shortly,” Corker
told CBS News on May 7, referring to a
measure that will be put before the Senate next week.
While alluding to the
fact that Washington is already covertly arming the Syrian insurgents, Corker
made it clear that the military aid wouldn’t be restricted to rebel groups that
have already been housebroken, explaining that “we have to change the equation”
because “the moderate opposition groups we support are not as good at fighting”
as the more ruthless factions that specialize in terrorizing non-combatants,
executing prisoners, and whose leaders mutilate
and cannibalize the dead bodies of their enemies.
It is impossible for Washington to provide military or
“humanitarian” assistance to the Syrian insurgency without materially aiding
hyper-violent factions such as the Jabhat al-Nursah, which is listed on the
State Department’s roster of terrorist organizations.
Under federal law, providing material aid of any kind – from
money to shaving cream to ammunition – to a listed terrorist group is a
felonious offense. A few
years ago, the regime sentenced a Long Island cable TV operator named
Javed Iqbal to 69 months in prison because his cable system broadcast programs
produced by a network owned by Hezbollah.
Iqbal was imprisoned as punishment for allowing words spoken
in support of a listed terrorist group to be broadcast through his cable system
– yet high-ranking officials in the same regime that sent him to prison are
openly discussing their plans to arm Syrian Jihadists.
On May 16, the
same regime that is providing support to Syrian terrorists conducted a raid in
Boise to arrest an Uzbek national named Fazluddin Kurbanov, who
has been accused of providing material support to a listed terrorist group
called the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). As headline bait, the Feds
also charged Kurbanov with possessing components of a “weapon of mass
destruction,” which in this case appears to be a homemade hand grenade.
Federal
prosecutors, including Wendy Olson, the
hyper-ambitious legal commissarina assigned to Idaho, insist that the
public was never at danger, because Kurbanov had been under surveillance for a
long time, and the
threat he posed had been contained. This means we should anticipate the all-but-inevitable
disclosure that Kurbanov was being manipulated by an undercover operative
working as a “terrorism facilitator” on behalf of the regime.
As we should expect, the IMU is a violent group whose
objectives are not entirely laudable. This doesn’t make them a threat to our
country, however. In fact, their chief grievance is one most Americans would
find understandable: They want to overthrow a fetid police state run by a
Communist gangster.
A profile
of the group published by the Foreign Military Studies
Office at Ft. Leavenworth recounts how the IMU grew out of a private security
group that was created by Uzbek businessmen in the early 1990s. It was
originally a non-ideological, non-sectarian self-defense organization that
protected citizens and business owners against criminal syndicates that grew
out of the Communist nomenklatura.
By 1991, the group had fallen under the leadership of a
young mullah named Tahir Yuldashev, who gave it an explicitly Muslim character
and – with the help of a veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan – organized
it into a private police force. In December of that year, the group occupied
the local Communist Party headquarters in Namagan.
Thinking he could intimidate the group into dispersing,
Uzbek Communist Party leader Islam Karimov paid a personal visit to Namagan –
only to be publicly humiliated by Yuldashev, who refused to back down. This
earned the IMU the undying enmity of Karimov, who banned the group and declared
war on it when he became the ruler of Uzbekistan following the break-up of the
Soviet Union.
Karimov, a Stalin-grade despot, remains in power today. As
one would expect from a product of the Soviet ruling elite, Karimov is
sustained in his rule by secret police who were trained by the Soviet KGB. This
has made Karimov’s regime a very useful subcontractor for Washington in its war
against – well, anybody impudent enough to challenge its claims to unqualified
global supremacy. Terrorists willing to serve Washington's interests -- whether they are Syrian insurrectionists or practitioners of state terrorism, like Karimov -- enjoy protection as part of Washington's official terror cartel
The KGB-constructed dungeons in Uzbekistan have been – and, for all we know, continue to be – prime destinations for people abducted by the CIA for the purpose of prolonged detention and torture.
The KGB-constructed dungeons in Uzbekistan have been – and, for all we know, continue to be – prime destinations for people abducted by the CIA for the purpose of prolonged detention and torture.
During the reign of Bush the Lesser, Craig
Murray, the former British ambassador to Tashkent, exposed his government’s
collaboration in the CIA’s torture program in Uzbekistan. This led to Murray
losing his job and enduring the kind of focused persecution reserved for public
servants who publicly condemn the criminal actions of their employers.
“If you are put into prison in Uzbekistan,” wrote Murray
after he was purged by his government, “the chances of coming out again alive
are less than even. And most of the prisons are still the old Soviet gulags in
the most literal sense.”
A few weeks into his term as British ambassador, Murray
attended a show trial of an elderly man who had been tortured into confessing
involvement with al-Qaeda, and implicating his nephew as well. This totalitarian
auto-da-fe, he recalls, was staged “for the benefit of the American embassy to
demonstrate the strength of the U.S.-Uzbek alliance against terrorism.”
To Karimov’s embarrassment, and the discomfiture of his
invited guests, the victim refused to follow the script. Summoning the heroic
strength of an innocent man with nothing to lose, the frail defendant defiantly
told the tribunal: “This is not true. This is not true. They tortured my
children in front of me until I signed this. I had never heard of al-Qaeda or
Osama bin Laden.”
Karimov and his comrades had hoped to offer a gift to their
new patrons in Washington in the form of a broken and contrite “terrorist”
whose confession would demonstrate the efficiency of their interrogation
program. Instead they had to be content with dragging this pitiful old man
outside the courtroom to be shot.
According to Ambassador Murray, Karimov’s secret police
frequently make use of beatings, whippings, and genital mutilation. Asphyxiation,
“usually by putting a gas mask on people and blocking the air vents until they
suffocated,” is another favorite method, Murray reports as well as “rape with objects, rape with bottles, anal
rape, homosexual rape, heterosexual rape, and mutilation of children in front
of their parents.”
Murray has described the case of a man named Muzafar Avazzov,
who was submerged in boiling liquid after being beaten and having his
fingernails ripped from his hands by Karimov’s CIA-allied secret police. He was
hardly the only detainee who was murdered by being boiled alive.
After learning of these atrocities, Murray compiled a large
dossier and expressed his outrage to his superiors – only to be rebuked for
being “over-focused on human rights.” This led the ambassador to send a deputy
to the CIA station chief to deliver a formal protest. The U.S. functionary deflected
criticisms by boasting about the quality of the “intelligence that had been
extracted through torture, and by reciting the familiar claim that torture is a
trivial concern “in the context of the war on terror.”
Significantly, the
U.S. government designated the IMU a terrorist group in 2005 – at the
height (or depth) of official cooperation with Karimov’s torture-state, which
in that year conducted a bloody operation to suppress dissent that left several
hundred people dead.
None of the U.S. officials who collaborated with Karimov’s KGB-trained
torturers has been punished. It’s not clear whether that collaboration
continues today. Now that the regime in Washington simply assassinates people
through drone strikes, it may no longer have use for such crude methods of intelligence
collection.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is a violent and
dangerous group, but it has never posed a measurable threat to the safety of
Americans. The same is probably true of Fazladdin Kurbanov. However, this is
emphatically not true of the regime whose secret police operatives kept
Kurbanov under surveillance in his Boise apartment.
Following Kurbanov’s arrest, Boise-area talk radio programs
resounded with ritualistic recitals of the prescribed talking points: We must
remain “vigilant” and incurably suspicious of our neighbors – especially
dusky-skinned people with exotic surnames – because our enemies are implacable,
endlessly devious, and incurably determined to dominate us or murder everyone
who resists. We don’t yet have reason to believe this description applies to
Kurbanov. However, it does make a perfect fit for the government that is prosecuting him for the crime of seeking to undermine a ruler who is a prominent member of Washington's officially sanctioned terror cartel.
Dum spiro, pugno!
Dum spiro, pugno!
9 comments:
Well said. I'm not holding my breath waiting for the latest "revelation" that this individual was not in fact guided by the unseen hand of the FBI. The imperial security organs demand regular blood sacrifice. So if it has to go out and manufacture its victims then so be it.
I'm only surprised the Regime thugs didn't set him up to throw the grenade into a crowd somewhere. And then arrest him. Boston-style.
I read halfway through this and I still have no idea what exactly this is supposed to be about or what the point is. I will not be finishing it. Please learn to write better.
Learn to read better.
I'll help you with the big words there, anonymous.
To Anonymous - It seems you may suffer from the all too common inability to comprehend intelligent commentary. Just stick to the State-propaganda media outlets.
People these days like to be spoon fed...If they actually have to chew on it they want to spit it out..Thats one of the many reasons why our great country is going down the toilet..
What every American should know is that your government hiding behind the patriot act, can scoop you up declare you a domestic terrorist and ship you off to one these "stan" countries never to be seen or heard from again.
Kerimov may be a despot but UMI is a dangerous narco-terrorist organisation and they want to destroy secular Uzbekistan and brign shreia to make it a second Afhanistan or Iran. So Kerimov has a right to be a despot, you cannot throw flowers to radical Islamist or you cannot persuade them, in Radical Islam there's no democrasy and human rights.
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