Al Qaida – the Taliban
etc and the CIA
Let me at the outset state
emphatically and unequivocally that I abhor the very idea of torture,
regardless of who commits it and irrespective of the stated reasons
for it.
We recently have read
pages upon pages in the News Papers and listened hour after hour on
Radio and Television about the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and
its practice of eliciting information from captured members of the
terror organisations „al-Qaida“ and the „Taliban“ through
what euphemistically is referred to as „enhanced interrogation“
but is, in short, torture of individuals.
It is most interesting to
note that this information was gathered over 5 years and published by
the „U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence“, under the
chair of Senator Dianne Feinstein.(D)
Its release was authorised
by a vote of 9 to 6.
One must wonder in how
many other countries such a report would not have been gathered in
the first place, and if so, likely would have been swept under the
proverbial rug.
It seems to me that, in
all fairness, a few paragraphs of news space and a few minutes of air
time could, should, have been given for the reason for this
inexcusable behaviour on the part of the C.I.A.
Al Qaida as well as the
Taliban have sworn to damage the USA along with the political „West
block of Nations“ in any way and to any extent they can, with the
USA being their arch enemy.
Let me enumerate just the
major attacks, disregarding the hundreds of individual suicide
attacks in shopping facilities and on crowded roads, killing mostly
innocent native shoppers and bystanders.
December 1992: Bombs were
placed in two hotels in Aden, Yemen. Explosions in the „Gold Mohur“
and the „Aden Mövenpick“ killed and maimed a large number of
tourists. For this attack Osama bin Laden and Mohamud Khan admitted
responsibility.
November 1995: Car bombing
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed 7 wounding 60
August 1998 : Attacks against US Embassies
in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam killed over 200 and injured more than
5000 persons, mostly innocent natives.
January 2000: Al Qaida
failed in their attempt to attack the USS Sullivan.
September 2001: Five
commercial air liners were hijacked, two of them crashing into the
twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, a third crashed
into the Pentagon, a fourth in a field after a struggle between the
terrorists and passengers and crew of the plane. Over 3000
individuals were killed in the twin towers alone.
A fifth plane was
prevented from taking off. Subsequent intelligence showed that it was
scheduled for the Statue of Liberty.
March 2002: Attacks on the
Oil tanker Limburg and subsequent bombings in Mombasa, Kenia.
May 2003: 39 killed and
160 wounded in attacks by Taliban in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
And so it goes on, year
after year, attack after terrorist attack by Al Qaida and the
Taliban as well as several other terrorist organisations.
Thousands of victims dead
and tens of thousands injured.
Until the 9th
day of October 2012, when a young Pakistani girl, barely 15 years of
age rode in a school bus on her way home. She was Malala Yousafzai.
Malala had publicly protested against the Taliban's right to deny
girls the basic right of education.
A man entered the bus and
asked: „Who is Malala ?“ When other girls instinctively looked
at her, the man pulled a gun and shot Malala in the head. Fortunately
she survived this Taliban attempt to murder her and finally she
received the 2014 Nobel Piece Prize.
Yes, so it went on and on.
One killing after another in an attempt to gain power.
Who knows how many other
terrorist attacks were prevented by the work of the CIA and many
other security organisations world wide?
It is truly a shame that
the practices of torture put a stain on the defence against multiple
murder and individual executions.
Bertstravels.
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