It appears that events in Afghanistan follow, in many ways the same pattern that lead to the collapse of the Milosevic regime and the latter eventual apprehension.
It would appear that the fingerprints of the CIA are all over the recent sequence of events in Afghanistan. The collapse of the Taliban regime has all the hallmarks of a CIA orchestrated coup. The apparent wholesale organised defections of substantial parts of Taliban forces to the Opposition explains the apparently bloodless takeover of Kabul and elsewhere. This process has snowballed to such a degree that even in the Pashtun regions of Afghanistan former supporters have defected too. This explains the apparent dramatic and rapid transfer of power from Taliban to the opposition. It would almost seem, information is so tightly restricted, that the Taliban in Islamabad has merely changed uniform --as tribal chiefs. It now appears that this process of collaboration with the CIA has penetrated right into the heart of the Taliban's natural support in the Kandahar region. Doubtlessly the relentless and intensive air strikes were a decisive factor in the disintegration of the Taliban regime. However had the organised movement of defection, in effect a coup, not occurred it is probable that the Taliban forces would have held out longer in Northern and Central Afghanistan. These defections were based, it would appear, on CIA dollars and promises. An added factor was 'rats leaving the sinking ship' phenomenon. However the fact that, it would appear, many of these Taliban defectors proceeded to take up offensive positions against their former Taliban comrades is what particularly lends truth to my coup detat thesis. The apparent welcome that the defecting Taliban forces received after defection may further confirm the thesis. As with the coup against the Milosevic regime there was much theatre involved. In many ways the ground war had all the appearances of a phoney war in the purest sense. Opposition soldiers playing volley ball, sitting around and grinning at cameras etc. Letting off a round of artillery fire with a fag hanging from the artillery man's mouth while grinning at the cameras --theatricals for the western journalists badly in need of a story and an image or two to keep themselves in a job and keep the ratings from falling. The soldiers of the Opposition were playing toy soldiers while Western journalists played toy journalism --the spectacle. The coup also involved the defection of Pakistan and Saudia Arabia from the Taliban. The key factor in the collapse of the Taliban regime was the mass internal and external defection from the Taliban --not the bombings . In the case of the defection of Pakistan bribery by Washington was a significant factor. The Afghanistan war that still has not been begun to be told. Badly needed is investigative journalism that seeks to get to the real story. Indeed the amount of misinformation, disinformation, rumour and lies has been unprecedented. Clearly the British and US counter-intelligence was busy at work putting planting the pages and screens of the media. The war in Afghanistan has been in many ways one of the best kept secrets. Yet it was presented as a war that was being well covered by the media. But this war as experienced by the Western masses is one that is pure illusion produced by the bourgeois media with the help of the CIA. This war is a war that never took place. Fact and fiction become jumbled up until they become indistinguishable. Politics and war is turned into entertainment that competes with film and sport for customers. The media was conspicuous by its failure to provide facts and information. The more this war unfold on our TV screens the more unintelligible it became. This culminates in the Northern Alliance becoming the Taliban and the Taliban the Northern Alliance. No longer were the warring parties identifiable. It becomes questionable as to were warring parties and as to what the war, if there was a war, was all about. The enemy of the Northern Alliance is no longer the Taliban but Pakistanis, Arabs and Chechens. So the Northern. This is war about which we lack the facts. It is like trying to do a jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces missing. The result is mere subjectivist speculation that renders it much more difficult that renders a correct communist approach to the war very difficult. There has been the real, but secret, war and the systematic fabrication as presented by the broadcasting and print media network. We are now being informed that only half of the 6000 fatalities really occurred in New York and Washington. The casus belli was based on a fiction. Perhaps then Bin Laden did not destroy the WTC. Perhaps the CIA knew of the attack but let it happen because of the chain reaction that it would trigger off. The role and character of the media in contributing to apparent success of US imperialism can be partly attributed to role of the bourgeois media. For instance we still have not got much of a clue as what the scale of casualties have been among the Taliban forces. Karl Carlile Be free to visit the web site of the Communist Global Group at http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/
