By
Sajjad Shaukat for Veterans Today
At least 50 people were killed and more than 50 others were
wounded when a gunman opened fire and took hostages at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida,
early Sunday morning (On June 12, 2016.)
Quoting several law enforcement sources, reports of the US officials and media have revealed that the
shooter has been identified as an American-born man Omar Mateen who was in
touch with the Islamic State group (ISIS or ISIL) and had pledged allegiance to
the ISIS. Marten’s parents are from Afghanistan.
Reuters reported that ISIS claimed responsibility for the Florida attack via its Amaq news agency
which said an “Islamic State fighter” carried out the assault.”
However, it is the deadliest mass shooting in the US and the
nation’s worst terror attack since 9/11.
After the terror attacks in Paris
and Belgium,
the opinion of Christians, Jews and Muslims is sharply divided in accordance
with their own peculiar religious background. Prejudice is ruining so high
against one another that by reading the name, some people of the opposite side
ignore his views. This division can be noted on the social media.
In fact, fault cannot be laid on the general masses, a
majority of whom does not have much time to go in-depth. Hence, they are swayed
by emotions, stereotypes and prejudices created by the political leaders who
keep on manipulating any crisis for their own self-interests with the sole aim
of getting their sympathies to increase their vote bank. There are equal strong
pressures from religious and nationalist forces in wake of global war on terror
which is dividing the world on religious lines.
Experience of the recent acts of terrorism
show that general masses start pointing fingers at the ISIS, without going into
depth to know as to who (Entity) is behind this outfit, as to what the aims
that entity wants to achieve, and what is the secret game in this regard. In
these terms, we need realistic analysis to detect the real culprits who were
behind the shooting at the nightclub in Florida.
However, before the November 13 terror attacks in Paris some Western intelligence agencies had warned about these
assaults and that warning was manipulated by Israel, as Tel Aviv wanted to
obtain a number of secret aims owing to various developments. In order to
revive the global war on terror, the neo-conservatives, Zionists and Israel
needed the backing of the whole Europe against the Russian-led coalition of
Iran, Iraq, the Syrian army-the National Defense Forces (NDF) and Lebanon-based
Hezbollah, which had broken the backbone of the US-CIA-assisted ISIS
terrorists, Al-Qaeda’s Al-Nusra Front and the rebels who have been fighting to
oust the Syrian President Assad’s government and against the current Iraqi
regime as part of America’s double game to obtain Israeli interests. Moscow also exposed the smuggling of oil by
ISIS-controlled regions of Iraq
to some European countries and inaction of their governments including America in this
respect.
It is mentionable that by ignoring Israeli protest, some EU
member states like France
and Belgian had officially recognizing a state of Palestine. The positive impact of this
recognition was that EU pressure was growing on Tel Aviv for the two-state
solution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and to restart a negotiation
process.
Some other developments like reluctance of NATO countries
to support America’s fake
global war on terror and acceptance of Syrian refugees by the European
countries, especially Germany
and the EU rule to boycott goods produced in Israeli settlements on the West Bank irritated the Israelis.
In this context, connections of the Israeli secret agency Mossad
are also notable. In March 2015, Iraqi Special Forces pointed out that they had
arrested several ISIS’s foreign military advisors, including American, Israeli
and Arab nationals and four foreign passports in an operation in Mosul. Last year, a senior
aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin also stated that Mossad is training
ISIS terrorists, operating in Iraq
and Syria.
Meanwhile, arrest of Israeli Col. Shahak in Iraq,
his admission, proving links of Al-Qaeda and ISIS with America and Mossad and medical treatment of the ISIS warriors in the Israeli hospitals might be cited as
instance. ISIS which was already being assisted by the CIA and Mossad was
directed to send its militants in Paris and in
connivance with the home-grown terrorists to conduct terror attacks in Paris.
Mossad links with the ISIS terrorists can also be judged
from the fact that this terrorist outfit conducted several suicide assaults and
bomb blasts in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan, including the latest one in
Beirut(On June 12). But, it did not target Israel.
Nevertheless, Israel
achieved its several sinister designs in the post-Paris attacks phenomena and
after the shooting at San Bernardino,
California. Like the drastic
aftermath of 9/11 tragedy, rulers and politicians of the US and European
countries, including their media started misguiding their general public by
creating chauvinism against the Muslims.
In this context, Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump had called
for a ban on Muslims, entering the United States.
After the Paris terror
attacks, Israel-led America
also obtained the support of its Western allies (NATO) against Russia.
American jet fighters and those of its Western coalition started targeting the
ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
But, with the acceleration of threat by ISIS, some of the European leaders began empathizing upon
the solution of the Palestinians issue. In
this connection, hours after the Paris tragedy, the Swedish Foreign Minister
Margot Wallstrom said that “to counteract the radicalization, we must go back
to the situation in the Middle East of which not the least the Palestinians see
that there is no future: we must either accept a desperate situation or resort
to violence.”
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin displayed as to
how fight the ISIS and Al-Qaeda, as Russian military compelled these terrorist
groups to vacate most of the regions of Iraq
and Syria.
On March 14, 2016, Putin’s announcement to withdraw most of the Russian forces
from Syria,
after strengthening the Assad regime, while emphasizing upon the political
solution of the Syrian crisis gave a setback to the US-led Western allies.
In these circumstances, by manipulating the warnings of the
Western intelligence agencies, on March 22, 2016, with the help of ISIS and
Mossad, Israel again targetted Europe by arranging the Brussels blasts in order
to avoid the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian issue, and to implicate
Syria-based ISIS—to thwart the UNO-backed ceasefire agreement about Syrian war
which was brokered by the major powers including Russia and the US, and to
cause a major rift between Russia and the US-led NATO, while provoking the
Western Christians against the Muslims.
After the terror attacks in Paris
and Brussels, Israel succeeded in obtaining its
clandestine designs. Europe has been put on
high alert and these subversive acts are being taken as attacks on the whole
continent. In one way or the other, European politicians, especially right-wing
leaders and their media are misguiding the general public against the Muslim
World by exaggerating the so-called threat of Islamophobia. Owing to their
irresponsible approach, right-wing parties and “Stop Islam” movement in the
Western countries, particularly in Europe are
becoming popular by largely attracting their people. Besides, Muslims in the
continent are facing severe backlash in form of attacks on them and threats (In
some countries) in wake of anti-Muslim protests. Without caring for human
rights, several Muslim refugees have been expelled from various European
countries. Although Israel
succeeded in its secret aims, yet some developments frustrated its rulers. In
this respect, besides a number of human rights groups, particularly Amnesty
International in its press release on April 1, 2016 criticized, the
controversial Turkish-EU refugee deal by pointing out, “Large-scale forced
returns of refugees from Turkey to war-ravaged Syria expose the fatal flaws in
a refugee deal signed between Turkey and the European Union…all forced returns
to Syria are illegal under Turkish, EU and international law.”
Protests and violence have become commonplace at the Greek
border, where more than 50,000 refugees have been stranded since Macedonia and
other Balkan countries shut their borders in February. On May 7, 2016, hundreds
of pro-refugee activists who came to Brenner mountain pass from other Italian
regions as well as from Germany,
Italy and Spain spurred
unrest in protest of the closure of the Austrian-Italian border. However, these
double standards of the US-led West will result into recruitment of more
terrorists by the militant groups like ISIS on
global and regional level. This is what Tel Aviv wants.
Differences have arisen among the European countries in
relation to the refugees and the asylum-seekers. Austria’s plan to build a fence along its border
with Italy has been met with
disapproval by Italy and Germany.
Besides some EU countries, UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon, while criticizing Austria’s
controversial new laws said that he was “concerned that European countries are
now adopting increasingly restrictive immigration and refugee policies…such
policies and measures negatively affect the obligations of member states under
international humanitarian law and European law.”
A rift has been created between the West and Turkey, the
close ally of NATO. On May 8, 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has
kept up his rebuke of European nations, accusing them of dictatorship and
cruelty for keeping their frontiers closed to migrants and refugees fleeing the
Syrian conflict. He clarified that “Turkey would not meet a EU demand
for his country to reform its anti-terrorism legislation.”
And on February 10, 2016, President Erdogan lashed out at
the US over its support for Syria’s main Kurdish group, saying, “The failure
to recognise the Democratic Union Party (PYD) as a terrorist group is creating
a “sea of blood” in Syria.
He explained, “The PYD, on which the US
relies to battle so-called Islamic State (ISIS or Daesh) in Syria, is an
offshoot of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party.”
In the meantime, in March, this year, Syrian fighters with
the support of popular volunteer combatants liberated more towns from
the ISIS militants’ control like the Thayyem Oil Field, especially the ancient
city of Palmyra,
and may recapture the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate-capital in Raqqa.
As part of the US
double game, Syrian rebel groups on April 12, 2016 launched a major offensive
on positions of the ISIS in Syria’s
northern province of Aleppo. In order to show to the international
community and Western public that America
is fighting against the ISIS terrorists, US
has accelerated air strikes on the ISIS-controlled regions. As per CIA
directions, in Aleppo
city, shell and mortar attacks by the Al-Nusra Front, ISIS and the rebel groups
have continued on the Kurdish neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsoud. ISIS has also
continued firing rockets across the border into the Turkish town of Kilis. In the pretext,
the Turkish military is retaliating with shell fire.
It shows that the US and Israel have created a very
complicated situation in Syria and in the vulnerable countries of the Middle
East including Turkey by making a vicious circle of terrorism; so that
American-Israeli covert aims in Syria could be justified, which could also get
the favour of the Western countries which are already biased against Assad’s
government.
It is noteworthy that the US-led West, especially Europe
has already started a new Cold War with Russia. The US has decided to station permanently additional
troops in Eastern Europe as part of NATO move to defend the continent against
the presumed threat of Moscow.
In response, Moscow
also responded that it would send 30,000 Russian troops along its western and
southern borders.
Although Cold War has revived between the US-led West and Russia, yet some recent developments have
further disheartened the Zionist-Israeli-led America.
On May 2, 2016, US
Secretary of State John Kerry who opened a second day of talks in Geneva, stated, “The United States and Russia have
agreed to make sure that there is more accountability to enforce the cessation
of hostilities on a day-to-day basis.” On May 3, 2016, after negotiations, Moscow and Washington
agreed for a ceasefire in Aleppo.
While as part of American dual strategy, fighting continued
in Aleppo, because Israeli Mossad and American
CIA did not forbid the ISIS terrorists and the
rebel groups from attacking the Syrian army. At the same time, Kerry changed
American previous stance to keep Assad in power and warned Syria’s
government on May 3, 2016 that they face an “August 1 deadline for starting a
political transition to move President Assad out, or they risk the consequences
of a new US approach toward ending the 5-year-old civil war.”
The US and Israel think that before Syrian forces-backed by
Russia occupy more territories, especially Aleppo which is strategically
important and is industrial capital of Syria, rebel groups and ISIS should be
given a free hand to continue fighting.
Besides, movement of the left-wing parties which welcome
the refugees is also becoming popular in the West, particularly Europe in response to the far right-wing groups.
British Prime Minister David Cameron had sparked a furious
row over the contest for the May 5, 2016 election of London
mayoralty after he accused Labour candidate Sadiq Khan of sharing a platform
with Islamic extremists and a supporter of the ISIS.
During the debate in the House of Commons, Angry Labour MPs accused Cameron of
racism. Despite it, Londoners elected their first Muslim mayor of Pakistan’s
origin Sadiq Khan by defeating the Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith-a wealthy
Jew.
The TTIP leak by Greenpeace on May, 2, 2016, relating to
a sweeping free trade agreement under negotiation by the EU and the US has shown how
US can pressure EU to compromise health and the environment under trade deal.
It is of particular attention that US internal
problems such as curtailment of liberties, failure of the Obamacare, criticism
of Hilary Clinton about contributions of election-campaign from Wall Street
backers, email-scandal etc. disappointed the Obama Administration. While in
wake of the election-campaign, Republicans and American public have also been
criticizing the government of Democrats and CIA for America’s
(NATO) longest war in Afghanistan,
facing defeatism, useless proxy wars under the cover of global war on terror
and US
heavy cost of war which caused serious financial crisis, adding to the dilemmas
of Americans.
Owing to its confused policies, Obama Administration was
pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree for the two-state
solution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. A majority of the intellectuals
and analysts of the West have also been emphasizing upon the settlement of this
dispute.
In a speech to the Israel
advocacy group J Street,
American Vice President Joe Biden remarked on April 18, 2016, “I firmly believe
that the actions that Israel’s
government has taken over the past several years…the steady and systematic
expansion of settlements, the legalization of outposts, land seizures…are
moving us and…Israel
in the wrong direction.”
Even, a debate has started between the Zionists and
non-Zionist Jews for the two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
On March 21, 2016, in a speech in Utah,
the only Jewish Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders had sparked controversy by
saying, “The US should be even-handed and must not always say that Netanyahu is
right.” He criticized Israel’s
treatment of Palestinians, condemning the expansion of West Bank settlements
and blasting Prime Minister Netanyahu’s withholding of tax dollars from
Palestinian authorities and called for an end to the economic blockade of Gaza. Earlier, in an
interview with the New York Daily News on April 1, 2016, Sanders remarked about
Israel with blood libel in relation to the August 2014 Israeli war in the Gaza
Strip by explaining that Israeli forces bombed apartment houses and hospitals
and “killed 10,000 Palestinian civilians…Israel’s force was more indiscriminate
than it should have been.”
Here, it is also of particular attention that since the
fundamentalist party BJP led by the Indian Prime Minister Narindra Modi came to
power in India, it has been implementing anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan agenda.
India which has strategic partnership with Israel has perennially been manipulating the
double standards of the US-led West regarding world phenomena of terrorism in
connection with Pakistan and
Afghanistan,
while exploiting their anti-Muslim approach to obtain Indo-Israeli secret
designs. Both Tel Aviv and New Delhi have been
equating the ‘wars of liberation’ in Palestine
and Kashmir with terrorism. Their main purpose
is to divert the attention of the West from their own atrocities, while
employing delaying tactics in the solution of these issues.
Meanwhile, with the help of Pakistan,
a series of meetings were held in Islamabad and Kabul among the representatives of Pakistan, Afghanistan,
China and the US to develop an understanding for the earliest
possible resumption of stalled talks between the Afghan government and the
Taliban with view to ending nearly 15 years of bloodshed in Afghanistan.
Trust deficit has deepened between Pakistan
and the US since May 21,
2016, when the CIA-operated drone strike killed the Chief of the Afghan Taliban
Mullah Akhtar Mansour in Pakistan’s
province of Balochistan. However, CIA, Mossad and
Indian RAW succeeded in sabotaging the peace process between the Afghan
officials and representatives of Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan, as the latter refused
to continue peace talks.
India and Israeli want to prolong the stay of the US-led NATO in
Afghanistan, as their
desperation in Afghanistan
had increased in the backdrop of growing engagements of Islamabad,
Kabul, Beijing
and Washington.
Particularly, fast growing economic power
of China coupled with her rising strategic relationship with the Third World,
and especially Pakistan—after signing of the agreement, ”China-Pakistan
Economic Corridor” has irked the eyes of Americans, Indians and some major
European countries.
In case of Afghanistan,
there are several groups of Al-Qaeda, ISIS and
Taliban. Some of them are being used by CIA, Mossad and RAW to obtain the
collective and individual designs of their countries against Pakistan, China,
Iran and the Middle East. The
terrorists of ISIS and TTP which are strategic assets of the CIA, RAW and
Mossad in Afghanistan have
claimed responsibility for several terror attacks inside Afghanistan and Pakistan. While in some cases, with
the help of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan
(TTP) and ISIS, Mossad and RAW are collectively arranging terror attacks in Afghanistan to create further lawlessness in that country because
it suits their clandestine interests.
Like Russian-led forces in Syria,
Pakistan’s
Armed Forces broke the backbone of the militants through military operation
Zarb-i-Azb—killing thousands of insurgents including foreign terrorists.
Therefore, this development has also surprised CIA, Mossad and RAW whose agents
have well-established their networks in Afghanistan
and are determined to thwart the success, achieved by Pakistan’s
armed forces against terrorists.
It is worth-mentioning that America’s anti-Muslim, pro-Israeli
and pro-Indian Donald Trump has become the nominee of the Republican
Party which has still to confirm his candidacy.
Trump’s opposition to Muslim refugees, especially from Syria is
well-known. During his appearance with the National Border Patrol Council’s
Green Line radio show on May 15, 2016, Trump
has predicted that refugees with ISIS-funded cell phones will conduct another
9/11-like terrorist attack in the US. During a GOP debate in
December, 2016, he had already expressed similar thoughts by giving “Americans
wakeup call about border security and to take it seriously,” elaborating that
he had “no doubt, the attackers were already entering the country.” On
February 14, 2016, CIA Director John Brennan warned that ISIS attacks on “U.S. soil is
inevitable.” However, the purpose these warnings were exploited by
Mossad and its affiliated CIA operatives to target the night club of Florida.
Unlike the presidential nominee of the Democrats Hillary
Clinton, Donald Trump suits the interests of Israeli. But, leaders of his own
parties are opposing Trump’s nominee due to his extremist statements during the
election-campaign in wake of secret documents, leaked by the Panamanian law
firm Mossack Fonseca, which pointed out on that Trump empire is linked to 32
offshore companies, and thus, avoided taxes. In such situation, like the 9/11
type, Israel needed a new
terror attack in the US
to ensure the success of Trump in the forthcoming presidential elections.
After the shooting at the gay night club in Florida, Donald Trump
repeated his call for the President Obama to resign, slamming him for having
“disgracefully refused to even say the words “Radical Islam.” Calling on Clinton to get out of the
general election race for the same reason, Trump said, “Because our leaders are
weak, I said this was going to happen…we cannot afford.” Trump again remarked
that he would decrease immigration from the Middle East because “since 9/11,
hundreds of migrants and their children have been implicated in terrorism in
the United States.”
He, once again, asked for the ban of any Muslims, entering the U.S.
Nonetheless, we can conclude without any doubt that CIA,
RAW and Mossad might be in collaboration in conducting shooting at the
nightclub in Florida by using the ISIS militant so as to obtain the collective interest of
their countries. Israeli Mossad could also be in connivance with Indian RAW in
this respect. And most probably, by availing the vicious circle of
terrorism, Mossad might have arranged this massive shooting due to differences
among the EU countries, refugee crisis and to fortify the US alliance with the
Western countries, particularly Europe, to divert the attention of American
public from internal problems, prolonged war on terror etc., and especially to
avoid the solution of the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
Therefore, in the post-Florida terror attack, instead of
repeating the 9/11 aftermath like the anti-Muslim rhetoric, while pursuing
secret states’ strategies of the past in the modern era, the US leaders and
policy makers must follow realistic approach by thinking on these lines. They
need to detect especially the role of Mossad which would continue to target the
innocent Americans by conducting more terror attacks through the ISIS terrorists. They must also seek solution of the
Syrian and Palestinian crises, including the Kashmir
dispute. While, loyalist Americans, non-Zionist Jews and peace-loving
citizens of every other religious community should play their positive role for
world peace by stopping the division of the international community on
religious and cultural lines.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on international affairs and is
author of the book: US
vs Islamic Militants, Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in
International Relations
Email: sajjad_logic_pak@hotmail.com
