Tears ran down my cheeks that day

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While every nation of the world is discussing content and food issues, I want to share a brief story from my day. While US Congress and Burhanuddin Rabbani, Sayaf and Fahim, Dr. Abdullah and likewise other people were fighting over bombing rates against the people of Afghanistan and especially on the inheritors of Prophet SAW, this was a difficult year for many Afghan families.

On the night of 24th December after my brother narrated a story from our neighboring area which was just hit by US B52 in Qandahar, I stopped at the main NY Post Office (33rd & 8th), headquarters to the USPS "Operation Santa Claus" program. I turned to a newsstand and took a copy of 'New York Times'. While a person was having the newspaper talking to his wife as she was busy in choosing gifts for Christmas, Abruptly, I heard a person face him and say, ‘yeah, we are the righteous of all the nations, we don’t bombard the poor Afghans but it’s their leaders who are demanding an intensified bombing campaign, their  people who are under the control of terrorists. And you know our brave pilots, we are from grand canyon, hahaha, cheerup, and this Christmas would be very different for Americans.’I'm not one to easily show my emotions, but I hear stories one after another, with tears running down my face. Here is a story I chose from my brother’s phone calls.

Fathima, age 6, who lives with her father and her mom, and with 2 sisters and a brother in the Qandahar City, likes playing with friends her own age in the fields around her house. Her father works long hours to buy food for the family. Fathima, on the third day of American bombing of Qandahar city told her father to take her to Allah and she would tell Him to remove Americans from this peaceful world and destroy their airplanes, and if the father did not take her to Allah then the father was to let her  go out to the deserts to pray to Allah Almighty.

11-year-old Ahmad also asks for Shahadat (martyrdom) and says to let him go out of the home to fight the invaders when they land.

The father was unable to give an answer so he finally asked the mother to satisfy them. “You are too young for fighting filthy invaders, Ahmad! And you should wait until you get older; the age for fighting is at least 16,” the mother advised her son.

“And you Fathima, notify your demands from Allah to your father to pen it down and then he would send it to Allah’s house; Kaba e Shareef. And of course Allah will extend His Wrath over all the disbelievers.” They both got satisfied and Fathima ran and took a piece of paper with a half broken pen to her father and told her father to write; “Me, Fathima and all children of Muslims of Afghanistan are under attack of invaders, their airplanes are coming from their far away country to our land and are bombing us, they are not only the enemies of our country and our lives but also the enemies of your religion Islam, they came to remove the real Islamic Emirate from Afghanistan. And moreover, they kill the children who can neither do any good nor harm to anyone. O my Allah! Send your extreme wrath over them and over all their supporters whether they are Afghan or any others. We hate Americans and their followers, kill them all.”

After finishing the letter the father and Ahmad went to a Masjid to perform Isha (night) prayers, and a bomb hit Fathima’s house and all members of the family except Ahmad and his father were martyred. The father says that Fathima whispered into his ear in her last breath, “Don’t send the letter now, I am meeting Allah very soon and I will tell all that we are facing in our country”.

Here's the letter from Fathima in its entirety:

Written by: Waheedullah

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USZ planned 9/11 attacks to invade Middle East: Iranian commander

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A senior Iranian commander says the United States planned the 9/11 terrorist attacks to use them as pretext to invade the energy-rich Middle East.  “The US, looking for a pretext to invade the Middle East, masterminded the 9/11 incident and pointed an accusing finger at Muslim countries,” Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan said on Saturday.

Pourdastan added that following the fall of the Soviet Union, the USZ introduced itself as the world’s sole superpower and moved to instill the new world order to prove its supremacy. The Iranian commander noted that the US later found its geopolitical policies a failure and decided to follow a geo-economic policy and control the world’s energy resources, 60 percent of which was located in the Middle East.

“To achieve that goal, they launched preemptive attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, and Iran was their next target, but wise policies adopted by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei along with the unity of the Iranian nation prevented them from achieving their objective,” Pourdastan said. On September 11, 2001, a series of coordinated attacks were carried out in the United States leaving almost 3,000 people dead.

The US, under the administration of former President George W. Bush, invaded Afghanistan in 2001 after claiming that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by members of al-Qaeda harbored by the then Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The US also attacked Iraq in 2003 claiming that the Middle Eastern country was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. Washington’s wars on Iraq and Afghanistan have claimed the lives of more than a million people.

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Blackwater being illegally paid millions

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For half a decade, American taxpayers unknowingly spent millions of dollars every year to fund private security agency Blackwater’s so-called “democracy building” missions in Iraq.

A new report completed by the US State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors Office of Inspector General shines light on a travesty involving the massive misuse of public funds.

Between 2004 and 2009, millions of dollars in taxpayer monies could have been saved had the International Republican Institute — a bipartisan, non-profit organization chaired by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — used their federal funding more efficiently. Instead, however, the IRI handed over massive sums of money to the Blackwater security group so that they could send armed guards to Iraq.

While Blackwater’s presence overseas has not gone unnoticed, the latest report shows that contract were made without the IRI considering any competitors’ bids and in the end cost millions of extra dollars, all the while funding the same agency proved responsible for the massacre of Iraqi civilians.

The unclassified report, dated June 2012, describes how the IRI used $103.7 million in federal grants during fiscal years 2004-2010 to conduct democracy-building programs throughout Iraq. In only a few pages, CPA Clarke Leiper, PLLC, explains — along with the guidance of the Office of Inspector General — how millions of dollars was mismanaged by making payments to Blackwater without seeking outside bids.

“We found that the direct costs charged to the grants were reasonable for the purpose of conducting the programs. All costs were supported by invoices and other appropriate support documentation,” the report explains. “However, for the majority of the stated period, the allocation of security contract costs between the grants was not supported by a method that could be verified.

“We determined that costs for four of the eight grants exceeded their respective award budgets by a total of $4,589,952,” the report adds. “We also noted that security costs of $64,285,818 exceeded the $49,472,461 in direct costs to carry out the Iraqi democracy-building programs.”

The report’s authors write that they believe “other qualified security firms were available for contract competition,” yet the IRI did not extend offers to anyone outside of Blackwater. In addition to the overspending and poor oversight, the report also alleges that Blackwater — who today operates under the name Academi — was unable to produce documentation relating to some of the federal contracts, did not get obtain approval for some spending allocations and, at one point in the span, ordered $26,600 worth of gym equipment that was never received

“IRI agreed that additional controls could be implemented to enhance property management policies and procedures,” the report reads, continuing that, since 2010, the IRI has changed some policies related to how they manage spending such as this. For five years before that, though, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction agrees that the Institute lacked a “methodology of allocating security costs that ensures a reasonable distribution of costs,” among other faults.

“While we acknowledge the volatile security circumstances in Iraq from 2004–2009, IRI should have periodically reassessed and documented the need to continue procurement of non-competitive services from Blackwater. Overall, security costs of $64,285,818 exceeded the $49,472,461 in direct costs used to carry out the Iraqi democracy-building programs,” the audit continues.

(rt)

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