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Afghans
to Launch Martyr Operations Against U.S. Troops
By
Nadeem Shaker, IOL Afghanistan correspondent & Husbanullah
Mutawakel in Peshawar
KHOST,
Afghanistan, January 14 (IslamOnline) – Two Afghan groups announced
unleashing martyr operations against American forces in the southern
east provinces of Afghanistan.
Citing
that the two groups are unknown, some observers said the announcement
was part of a psychological war against the American military presence
in Afghanistan.
In
a statement, a copy of which was obtained by IslamOnline Tuesday,
January 14, Salah El-Deen Movement exhorted the Afghan people to
declare Jihad against foreign troops in Afghanistan.
Jihad
against American forces has become a duty to all Muslims just like
prayers and fasting, said the statement circulated among residents in
east and southern Afghanistan.
“Muslims
should defy international atheism because Jews and Christians,
championed by Washington, are united against the Islamic Ummah,”
stressed the statement.
It
lashed out at the Afghan government, accusing it of being a proxy
installed by the enemies without the approval of the Afghan people.
The
Afghan people should restart to armed jihad in defense of religion,
honor and nation, stressed the statement.
Meanwhile,
the Pakistani Wahda newspaper reported Tuesday that Salah El-Deen
movement and the people of Sunnah and Jihad organization had declared
Jihad against the American forces in Afghanistan though leaflets
circulated in Pakita, Khost and border areas.
The
two groups said they trained 300 Afghan young people to carry out
martyr operations against American forces, said the paper.
The
people of Sunnah and Jihad organization groups Arab and Uzbek young
people under the command of Mohammad Taher Baldash, the right hand of
Uzbek commander Goama Namnagi who was killed in the American
bombardment of a northern Afghan province last year, according to the
Pakistani paper.
Speaking
to IslamOnline, Mutiullah Tayeb, a well known expert in Afghan
affairs, said the aforementioned statements on carrying martyr
operations against American forces would be questioned by some.
Some
people would consider such statements as merely a media war propagated
by specific individuals and unknown groups, he added.
“These
statements and the new groups that emerge every day are part of a
media war against the American presence in Afghanistan and the
region,” said the expert.
Among
the parties that benefit from such statements are Taliban, Al-Qaeda
and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, he added.
Such
statements aim at maintaining the spirit of resistance and laying
pressures on the Afghan government to adopt a more flexible approach
with provinces from where such statements emerge, Tayeb said.
Other
parties exploit such indications of anti-American sentiments to secure
more support and aid from the United States, he said, coming short of
naming any of these parties.
In
a related development, the Peshawar-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP)
reported receiving statements via fax from the Taliban, the Sincere
Mujaheedin Organization and the Muslim Youths Society.
The
Taliban and the Sincere Mujaheedin organization called on Afghan
merchants to stop delivering oil and food supplies to the American
forces in Afghanistan, said the AIP.
“Whoever
will continue to deliver such stuff (to the Americans) will be shot to
death,” said the organization statement, branding as “haram”
fueling American war planes and tanks which kill innocent Muslims.
The
organization claimed in its statements that mujaheedin put ablaze two
fuel containers delivering fuel to the American troops last week.
“We
have taken necessary preparations to destroy and burn fuel containers
delivering fuel to the enemy,” said the statement.
On
its part, Muslim Youths Society stressed that those who betrayed the
people and the nation are collaborating with the Americans and have no
right in Afghanistan and should not even call themselves Afghanis.
“They
will be treated as enemies according to the Islamic Shariaa and the
Afghan law,” said the statement.
“The
treaties concluded by those traitors with Islamic and atheist
countries have no legal ground to the Muslim Afghan people,” it
added.
The
statement urged wealthy people not to invest their money in
Afghanistan.
In
December, an unknown Afghan group distributed a statement on residents
in the border areas marking the 23rd anniversary of the Soviet
invasion urging the Afghan people to fight American forces.
Hekmatyar
had repeatedly declared continued Jihad against the foreign troops
until the complete independence of Afghanistan.
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