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Bin Laden plans Restoration of Mughalstan
Bin Laden played a major role in the liberation of
Afghanistan, fighting against the Communist Soviet
invaders. The economic collapse triggered by the
severe defeat the mujahideen inflicted upon the
Soviets, with the support of the West, led to the
break-up of the Soviet Union. The mujahideen are thus
responsible for saving the Free World from tyranny and
oppression. Subsequently, Bin Laden and his
Pan-Islamist mujahideen have fought for the oppressed
and downtrodden Muslims all across the world, playing
a major role in Bosnia, fighting once again on the
side of the West against the genocidal Serbian
Milosevich regime and later liberating Chechenya from
Russian tyranny. Now, this freedom fighter has decided
to support the oppressed Mughal-Muslims of South Asia
by restoring the historic Mughalstan.
India Today, Oct 4, 1999, Cover Story
OSAMA BIN LADEN
"We should now target India"
The world's most wanted terrorist trains his guns on
India and gives a dangerous edge to militancy in
Kashmir. Security forces scramble to meet the new
threat.
By Jason Burke in Islamabad and Harinder Baweja
Head west out of Amritsar and keep going. The drive
may not be very comfortable but at least finding the
route is straightforward. It'll take you a few hours
to Lahore and then it is a fast three-hour run along
the new motorway to Islamabad. Go on up to Peshawar,
the bustling and violent Pakistani frontier town,
through the Khyber Pass, across the border into
Afghanistan and then, keeping the Kabul river on your
right, drive for another three hours. After a 100 more
miles and a dozen checkposts you'll be threading a way
through the bazaars of Jalalabad. Turn left at the
main intersection and aim for the dusty hills on the
southern horizon. Cross a bridge and drive up to the
two Taliban tanks dug in on the crest of the ridge.
PROFILE OF TERROR
» Son of a construction millionaire, Osama Bin Laden's
commitment to the spread of Islam dates back to the
late '70s when he came into contact with cadre of
Muslim Brotherhood while studying civil engineering at
King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia.
» After his graduation, he set up the Islamic
Salvation Foundation in Saudi Arabia through which he
initially funded the Afghan mujahideen and later
became a key player in their fight against the
Soviets.
» His nationality was revoked by the Saudi authorities
on February 2, 1994, under US pressure. He took refuge
in Afghanistan in May 1996 and funded the Taliban's
successful takeover of Kabul.
» Key suspect in the August 1998 bombing of US
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224
people. Now the most wanted international terrorist,
the US has a $5 million prize on his head. Awash with
funds he has strong links with many Islamic
fundamentalist groups.
If you're sensible, you'll stop here. If you are not
then keep going along a straight flat road with lines
of tall cypress-like trees on either side. After about
five miles you'll see the overgrown orchards and
dilapidated huts of Farmihadda, once a Soviet-style
collective farm and now the place where Osama Bin
Laden -- the world's most wanted terrorist -- has
built his new home. It is from here that Bin Laden is
believed to have issued his threat of September 16,
which appeared in Jang, the mass circulated Urdu daily
published from Pakistan. Calling for an all out jehad
against India for the first time, Bin Laden declared:
"India and America are now our biggest enemies ... all
mujahideen groups in Pakistan should come together now
to target India ... we are always ready to help the
Kashmiri mujahideen."
Even before the chilling statement came from
Farmihadda -- where Bin Laden has established a new
communications, training and logistics centre --
senior Indian officials had been concerned that a
dangerous nexus may be building up between Pakistan's
Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Saudi
terrorist. During the Kargil war, there were rumours
that Bin Laden's fighters were among those pouring
fire down from the heights of Tololing and Batalik.
One Indian intelligence report claimed that Bin
Laden's personal bodyguards were at the forefront,
helping keep the supply routes open. And also that the
Stinger missiles used to bring down two Indian
aircraft may have come from his armoury. Now a senior
official in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)
says, "We don't need to hear from Farmihadda to know
that a lethal cocktail is being brewed. We already
knew. The coming together of the ISI, Bin Laden and
his hosts, the Taliban, is serious." Their worst fears
are, in fact, coming true. India appears to have
become a target of the man the Americans, and now
ironically the Russians too, see as their single
biggest security problem since the end of the Cold
War.
OSAMA'S ELVES
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen: Better known as Harkat-ul-Ansar
till it was banned by the US after it abducted foreign
tourists in Kashmir. Its cadre is trained in camps
around Khost in Afghanistan, built by Bin Laden. A
potent group in the Valley, 80 per cent of its ranks
comprise foreign mercenaries. Bin Laden has sent them
messages of encouragement.
Lashkar-e-Toiba: Nearly 90 per cent of its
well-trained and heavily armed militants are
foreigners, mostly from PoK and Afghanistan. The group
is said to be behind the recent attacks on army camps
in Kupwara. Currently the ISI's favourite, it claims
to have links with Bin Laden.
Hizb-ul-Mujahideen: Once the dreaded militant
organisation and a predominantly Kashmiri outfit, it
has now been put under the direct charge of the
Lashkar-e-Toiba.
Bin Laden's sudden declaration of jehad against India
is not being viewed as an emotional outburst. It was
delivered at a point when India and the US are adding
a new dimension to their relationship through
cooperation on counter-terrorism. Bin Laden's
statement came shortly before Ambassador Michael
Sheehan, coordinator in the US Department for
Counter-terrorism, held senior-level talks in Delhi.
Sheehan came to Delhi as a follow-up to the visit of
two senior mea officials to the US a fortnight ago to
discuss the new threat emanating from Afghanistan.
Says a US diplomat: "We were enthused by India's
willingness in the US to discuss measures that we
could cooperate on." Among the issues discussed were
swapping of intelligence and, significantly, joint
training exercises to combat terrorism. This may have
upset the arch terrorist.
Bin Laden's threat also has a direct co-relation to
India's new Afghan policy. India had always supported
the former regime headed by Burhanuddin Rabbani and
Ahmed Shah Masood and of late it has been extremely
vocal in its criticism of the Taliban. At a press
briefing recently, External Affairs Minister Jaswant
Singh had even gone to the extent of stating that
India would no longer "supinely" accept what was
happening in Afghanistan but pursue a "proactive"
policy. There were indications that India, along with
possibly Russia and Iran, had supported Masood and
Rabbani in their spirited fight-back against the
Taliban's summer offensive to dislodge them from the
Panjsher Valley. The Taliban and Bin Laden are furious
over the reversals and believe that India had a hand
in it.
The revenge for the Kargil debacle is believed to be
another major reason. Pakistan and the so-called
mujahideen, many of them Afghan mercenaries, are still
smarting under the humiliating retreat. Post-Kargil,
the ISI has already upgraded its proxy war in Jammu
and Kashmir. The militants coming in are better
trained, equipped with deadlier arms and strike in
much larger groups than ever before. The majority of
the militants sneaking in are said to be non-Kashmiris
who now dominate organised terrorism in the Valley.
Many are believed to be battle-hardened Afghan
mercenaries who may have links with Bin Laden. So
concerned has been the Research and Analysis Wing
(RAW), the country's external intelligence agency,
over the growing threat posed by Islamic
fundamentalists, including Bin Laden, that it recently
revised its six-year-old doctrine on threat
perception. The analysis of Indian intelligence
agencies shows:
A large number of Arab mujahideen involved in
Afghanistan have found it difficult to return to their
own countries and consequently a nucleus of
pan-Islamic mercenary forces has come into existence.
Their presence and acts of terror are increasingly
becoming evident in Jammu and Kashmir, apart from
other trouble-spots in the world.
Bin Laden is proving to be a rallying point for
militants operating in India and his photographs are
reported to have been found in the possession of slain
militants in Kashmir.
There is a growing nexus between Islamic
fundamentalists and the criminal fringe elements in
various countries. They include the underworld dons of
Mumbai, the smugglers of Nepal and the drug mafia in
Pakistan.
Large quantities of sophisticated arms and explosives
which have entered the country are yet to be
recovered. With reports of their dispersal to various
cities, the threat is said to be serious.
The list of the suspected targets of militant groups
is growing: It is not just in Jammu and Kashmir but
also in Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat
where the communal cauldron can be stirred.
COUNTERING THE THREAT
Security forces are gearing up to meet the militant
menace
» Army and RAW are investing Rs 200 crore in
electronic surveillance technology to stem the flow of
armed militants. It includes sophisticated cameras and
direction finders.
» The army is importing mine-sweepers and anti-mine
vehicles to counter improvised explosive devices used
extensively by militants.
» 2,000 militants -- mostly foreign mercenaries -- are
said to have entered Kashmir in the past four months.
Two additional brigades are being deployed in the
porous Kupwara and Baramulla sectors.
» The army, which had been entirely pulled out of
counter-insurgency operations in the state during the
Kargil war, is once again returning to its former
role. Three brigades are again being deployed in the
Valley.
» The BSF too is adding to its armoury, acquiring Karl
Gustav rocket launchers and automatic grenade
launchers -- so far present only in the army's
inventory -- for pounding militants in built-up areas.
» For Jammu region (mainly militant-infested Doda) the
plan is to beef up the village-defence committees
network. The police is acquiring 10,000 self-loading
rifles and 1,500 wireless sets for these committees.
That Bin Laden is lethal as a foe has never been in
doubt. It is just over a year since two massive blasts
demolished the American embassies in Dar-es-Salaam and
Nairobi. The bombs killed more than 200 people,
injured 5,000 and catapulted Bin Laden into the front
rank of global criminals. The retaliatory US missile
strikes on his suspected hideouts established him as a
hero of sorts among millions of Muslims. Now Bin
Laden's dark eyes stare out of posters displayed
proudly in thousands of Pakistani and Afghan shops and
tea kiosks.
Son of a Saudi construction millionaire, Bin Laden,
45, became a key player in the jehad against the
Soviet-occupation of Afghanistan in the '80s. The
former civil engineer-turned militant not only
organised the flow of funds, munitions and men to the
mujahideen groups and built a number of training camps
and depots, but was also in the thick of action.
In the early '90s he was in Sudan fomenting violence.
By 1994 he was stripped of his Saudi citizenship for
dissident political activities against the royal
family. He came to Afghanistan in May 1996 with about
100 followers and is believed to have funded the
campaign that led the Taliban successfully into Kabul.
Bin Laden's relationship with the Taliban -- a key
strength -- remains good. Many of the militia's senior
commanders are old comrades. He saved their lives,
they saved his. On Fridays -- after prayers -- he goes
fishing with Mullah Omar, the reclusive, one-eyed
cleric who is the spiritual leader of the Taliban and
a good friend. Bin Laden is also a devout Muslim and
is said to be prepared to make extreme sacrifices to
achieve his aims.
Today, apart from money -- the cia estimates his funds
total almost $350 million (Rs 1,505 crore) -- Bin
Laden has a network of contacts in key Islamic
fundamentalist groups across the globe. Says a senior
Indian intelligence officer: "He continues to stay in
constant touch with important Islamic militant
organisations like the Islamic Jehad in Palestine and
the National Islamic Front in Sudan." In the
subcontinent he is suspected to have strong links with
two militant groups -- the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and
the Lashkar-e-Toiba -- that have been at the centre of
militant activity in Kashmir. Many of these militants
are believed to be trained in Khost in Afghanistan in
camps that are run by Bin Laden in collaboration with
the Taliban.
The years of jehad have prepared him well for his
present life. Bin Laden's domestic arrangements are
modest. Farmihadda is a dilapidated collection of
outhouses, barns, sheds and residential blocks with
debris-filled canals on two sides. The living quarters
are sparsely furnished. Bin Laden shuns even rugs and
carpets, preferring to squat on the floor or on a
small stool. His daily life reflects the rigours of
his surroundings. He gets up at dawn to pray and then
studies the Koran or other Islamic texts until a light
breakfast of dates, yoghurt, flat Afghan bread and
black tea. Until recently, he followed a tough
physical-training regime, with a daily ride and
exercises, but now a bad back -- possibly a result of
shrapnel wound sustained while fighting the Russians
-- has made anything strenuous impossible. He now uses
a cane to walk.
Married with three wives and 13 children who, like
him, divide their time between Farmihadda and his home
in a disused barrack at the airport near the southern
desert city of Kandahar -- the headquarters of the
Taliban -- security concerns seem to dominate his
life. He travels constantly and rarely spends two
nights at the same place. Roads in Afghanistan are
appalling and a 200-mile journey can take days. Bin
Laden frequently drives for a while in one convoy and
then walks or rides for a distance before switching to
a second set of vehicles. His satellite phones are
often carried in a third convoy. Instead of using them
personally -- he believes that the Americans tracked
signals from his phone to pinpoint his location for
their missiles last year -- Bin Laden usually dictates
his message to an aide who relays it over telephone
from a separate location.
There have been two reviews of his security in the
last 10 months -- both prompted by fears of betrayal.
Soon after the US attack, he sacked almost two-thirds
of his 200-strong bodyguards. Many of those who
survived the first purge were Afghans, former comrades
from his days with the mujahideen. But recently most
of them were fired too and Bin Laden now relies on a
select group of mainly Arab fighters to protect him.
And his eldest son, Mohammed, who is believed to be
around 16.
Bin Laden's organisation is now known as the
"International Islamic Front for Jehad against Jews
and Crusaders" and is effectively an umbrella group
for all the terrorists currently holed up in
Afghanistan. Experts believe that in the absence of
the means to genuinely control a vast web of
inter-linked terrorist cells, Bin Laden's strategy may
be to create the leadership and motivation that might
galvanise individual, independent units into action.
If they then claim to be part of Bin Laden's
organisation it's good for him. More publicity means
more recruits. The major input that Bin Laden may make
to Kashmir militancy is through funding fundamentalist
groups operating in Pakistan, which in turn patronise
militant outfits in the Valley.
The role of Pakistan in all this is unclear. There is
a strong body of Bin Laden supporters among the army
and the intelligence services and also, obviously,
among the increasingly powerful clergy. However, there
are also many moderate politicians who realise that
Pakistan cannot jeopardise its relationship with the
US, and the continuing drip-feed of IMF and World Bank
loans, by overtly obstructing their efforts to capture
the man. Caught in the middle, as ever, is Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif who is trying to tread a careful
path among domestic opinion, political lobbies and the
demands of the West.
In Kashmir, Bin Laden's jehad call has received a
mixed response. Wary of offending the US, the
All-Party Hurriyat Conference is downplaying any links
its supporters have with Bin Laden. "What can Laden do
for us when he himself is in hiding?" asks Hurriyat
chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Adds senior leader
Professor Abdul Ghani: "Kashmiris don't need Ladens.
We can sustain the struggle on our own. It is a bogey
raised by India to win the US support on Kashmir."
There may be some element of truth in that. Also a
certain amount of hype by the ruling BJP to keep
security at the forefront since the Kargil war has
been a major factor in the parliamentary elections.
But there is no doubting the threat Bin Laden poses.
Especially in Kashmir where there is growing
disenchantment with the Farooq Abdullah Government.
Says state police chief Gurbachan Jagat: "Kashmir is
now the theatre to whip up the Pan-Islamic fervour
that Laden is funding."
Bin Laden's jehad may revive the ideological basis of
Kashmiri militancy that had been on the wane. The
Indian government is beefing up security measures,
including bringing the army back into the
counter-offensive grid. Security experts expect
Pakistan to soon make Kashmir a flashpoint again,
especially with reports that over 2,000 well-trained
militants have sneaked into the Valley in the past
three months. India just cannot afford to ignore the
threat from the world's most infamous terrorist holed
up in Farmihadda, Jalalabad.
In this, Bin Laden's plan for the establishment of a
Mughalstan is indirectly in support of the Dalits,
Assamese, Dravidians, Mizos and other suppressed
nationalities of South Asia. For, the establishment of
a Mughalstan necessarily implies the dismemberment of
the Indian Union - the Brahminist Empire, which in
turn implies the automatic establishment of Dalitstan,
Dravidistan, Mizoland, Nagaland and Rajputstan.
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