ISLAMABAD,
October 8 (IslamOnline) - In an open letter to the President of the U.S.
Democratic Party and its members in the U.S. Congress, former Afghan
Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar criticized the “war-mongering
policies of American President G.W. Bush.”
He
warned that Bush’s policies, if not stopped, would “entail
irreparable loss and catastrophic consequences for the whole world in
general and for the Americans in particular.
Hekmatyar
dismissed the “American unjust and illegal aggression against
Afghanistan, the ruthless genocide of civilians, blind aerial
bombardment of towns, villages, mosques, and imposition of a corrupt and
despotic minority with a dark history of war crimes,” as the main
reasons for the “deep hatred and hostility of Afghans against the
Americans” which, he said, has “gradually led to an armed
resistance.”
By
installing in power in Afghanistan the pro-Russian Northern Alliance,
Bush has accomplished “a job which the Russians and their regional
allies were unable to carry out,” he said.
“Today,
Afghanistan is in the hands of pro-Russian groups and not under the rule
of the Americans”, he said, asserting that “the real conqueror of
Kabul is Putin not Bush.”
He
asserted that the Afghan people see the Americans as enemies to Taliban
and Al-Qaeda but also “every Afghan mujahid and Muslim.”
According
to Hekmatyar, American troops in Afghanistan “are out to apprehend,
crush and wipe out all those people and forces in Afghanistan which
believe in freedom and independence of their country.”
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“Afghans
must be left to decide their future and solve their problems amongst
themselves,” he stressed.
Lashing
out at Bush and his army generals, Hekmatyar accused them of deceiving
the American public into believing that American troops in Afghanistan
are being welcomed with “open arms and bouquets of flowers.”
“Is
it possible for a nation whose 25000 defenseless citizens have been
brutally murdered to welcome the murderers of their sons; love the
killers of their beloved ones; and receive with flowers those whose
hands are red with the innocent blood of their near and dear ones?”
Hekmatyar wondered.
Bush
wants to be “The Conqueror of the World”, he said, accusing him of
pursuing the hegemonic policies of Hitler and Brezhnev.
In
reference to the U.S.-installed Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Hekmatyar
said: “Mr. Bush should realize that only he and those as naïve as
himself can believe that such puppets, who were not only imposed by
Americans through sheer force but need also constant presence of their
masters even for their personal security, are the real rulers of
Afghanistan.”
Taking
up “systematic rocket attacks” on U.S. bases in Afghanistan and
routine ambushing of U.S. patrols, he asserted that these attacks, which
have intensified in the past three months, are not “organized by
Taliban nor by Al-Qaeda but they are revengeful acts carried out by
those Afghans who have lost their near and dear ones in the barbaric
bombardments by Americans.”
“With
his threats of war against Iraq, Mr. Bush wants to make the world
believe that his war against Afghanistan was a resounding victory which
could be repeated elsewhere,” wrote Hekmatyar to Democrats in the U.S.
Congress.
“If
Mr. Bush is really concerned about the future of the Americans he should
have been sincere and straightforward with them, confessing that his
real aim of invading Iraq is to occupy the second largest oil reserves
of the world,” he concluded.
