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August 17, 2006 | America identifies the network of radical Islamic fundamentalists primarily as al Qaeda, a mystical band of cave dwellers with a cause, but the origins of the network are rarely discussed. The "terrorist network", as we see it today, blossomed when the U.S (CIA), Egypt, Pakistan, France - with Saudi Arabian financial backing - organized, trained and armed extreme radical Muslim mercenaries to fight the USSR client government of Afghanistan. Former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski (under Jimmy Carter) claimed he had instigated this "Mujahidin" to draw the "Russians" into the "Afghan Trap". Bin Laden supposedly entered this network from the funding side sometime in the 1980s. The mujahidin terrorized both Afghanistan and other USSR territories north of the Afghan border until the USSR ceded and withdrew. After the USSR withdrawal, members of this same well-trained and radical element assassinated Egyptian President Sadat and in 1983 drove the U.S. military out of Lebanon. Attacks continued against such "un-Islamic governments" and embassies of supporters of such un-Islamic governments throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, Central Asia, western China, and Southeast Asia. In 1993, the terrorists attacked on U.S soil at the World Trade Center in New York. Since then, attacks worldwide have escalated dramatically. The response by the west and their client states to this violence with violence has only further frustrated both rich and poor within the Muslim world. Westerners will many times assign the motivations of this terrorist network to be resistance to imperialism and cultural values of the west, yet it is possible that such concepts are well beyond the interest of terrorists. Nor, apparently, do these terrorists care that their atrocities against innocent civilians cause potentially more harm to poor and oppressed Muslims throughout the world. The main aims vocalized continuously by the various parts to the terrorist network are "the overthrow of the corrupt and oppressive regimes" of the Arab world and support for those Muslims struggling elsewhere under oppression from un-Islamic governments. While westerners seek to assess the motivations of terrorists much deeper causes such as hatred of western values and progress in order to justify and sell violent opposition and occupation in order to "further democracy", such violence against Muslims only serves to increase the number of Muslims willing to aid or join the terrorist network in their jihad against the un-Islamic powers. [1] Whether Zbigniew Brzezinski's imbecilic braggadocio is correctly attributed or not - it seems the "Afghan Trap" has sprung on the trappers. [1] - 9-11, Noam Chomsky, Seven Stories Press, New York, Copyright 2001-2002
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