Are Al Qaeda "Freedom Fighters" "Good Guys" or "Bad Guys"?
“ has become President of Syria, with the endorsement of
And the West applauds, celebrating the victory of
: AQS stands for . “We remain committed to bringing AQS figures in HTS to Justice”
Oops! Are these not the “same Al Qaeda bad guys” who allegedly brought down the World Trade Centre (WTC) on September 11, 2001 under the helm of Osama Bin Laden?
In the astute words of (former) Ohio Congressman and two times presidential candidate
“The American people were told a fairy tale that we were supporting [Al Qaeda] freedom fighters against a dictator. What we actually accomplished was funding the terrorists who now murder Christians, massacre Alawite villages, and impose radical Islamic rule in areas they seize.
It was a reckless intervention, driven by a geopolitical obsession with weakening Iran and Russia. It has not only destroyed Syria but it has also created a breeding ground for global terrorism”.
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia , President Interim President of Syria
Meanwhile, The IMF and the World Bank –which boycotted the duly elected Al Assad presidency– have come to the rescue of the HTS “interim government” on condition that the debts of the ousted government be duly reimbursed.
“ has emerged as the dominant force in Syria, following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime.
However, according to a core Security Council resolution on Syria adopted at the height of the civil conflict
“And what would it take [according to the UN]
Donald Trump, the Western media and the US State Department have already provided the answer
Below my article on the History of Al Qaeda and America’s role in supporting :”Jihadist Freedom fighters”. This article is a summary of detailed research conducted by the author.
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, May 19, 2025
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According to this Nouvel Observateur (1998) interview with , the CIA’s intervention in Afghanistan preceded the 1979 entry of Soviet troops.
To label this as T is a misnomer. Confirmed by Brzezinski, It is best described as the “The US started this war against , with a view to destroying a secular nation state committed to women’s rights and universal public education.
The planning of this war involving the recruitment of so-called. “freedom fighters” (good guy mercenaries) was marked by the active recruitment of
The first war in 1979-1980 was described as a “ ( see Declassified below) which consisted in funding and supporting the recruitment of
22 years later a Second War entitled was undertaken
under the leadership of (see below for details)
, December 31, 2024
Screenshot of the original article in French
: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs [“From the Shadows”], that In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
: . But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed,
: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?
: It isn’t quite that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn’t believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don’t regret anything today?
: The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.
Translation of the original article Nouvel Observateur Article in French by the late
copyright. Le Nouvel Observateur, January 1998.
It was “a pretty good idea”, says Hillary, and it remains a good idea today.
In the course of the last 45 years since the since the onslaught of the so-called Soviet-Afghan War, the US has not ceased to support and finance Al Qaeda as a means to destabilizing and impoverishing sovereign countries.
“Let’s remember here… the people we are fighting today we funded them twenty years ago… and we did it because we were locked in a struggle with the Soviet Union.
“They invaded Afghanistan… and we did not want to see them control Central Asia and we went to work… and it was President Reagan in partnership with Congress led by Democrats who said
“And great, let them come from Saudi Arabia and other countries, importing their Wahabi brand of Islam so that we can go beat the Soviet Union.
“And guess what … they (Soviets) retreated … they lost billions of dollars and it led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
“So there is a very strong argument which is… it wasn’t a bad investment in terms of Soviet Union but let’s be careful with what we sow… because we will harvest.
“So we then left Pakistan … We said okay fine you deal with the Stingers that we left all over your country… you deal with the mines that are along the border and… by the way we don’t want to have anything to do with you… in fact we’re sanctioning you… So we stopped dealing with the Pakistani military and with ISI and we now are making up for a lot of lost time.
President Ronald Reagan issued (and signed) the National Security Decision Directive 166 (NSDD 166), which de facto authorized
President Reagan and Mujahideen leaders from Afghanistan, 1980s
“Al-Qaeda (Arabic for “The Base”, i.e The Data Base of CIA recruits) grew out of and became identical with the Arab-Afghan Legion, those terrorists recruited by the United States of America, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Originally sent to Afghanistan, they fought the USSR’s army and air force following the Soviet Union’s intervention of that country.
Later, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA, the Agency) directed them to cross the border and destabilize the Muslim republics of the Soviet Union.
Still later, the American government moved them into the Balkans to destroy Yugoslavia, and then similarly to Iraq, followed by Libya and Syria.” (attorney, author, political commentator, and former U.S. diplomat)
The promotion of “Radical Islam” was a CIA initiative () with a view to supporting the so-called “Afghan Resistance” against the Soviet Union
Among the most hideous crimes against humanity committed in Afghanistan was toreplacing them by
The number of Public education was dismantled. USAID generously financed the process of religious indoctrination, largely to secure the demise of secular institutions and the collapse of civil society.
In the Pashtun language, the word “Taliban” means “Students”, or graduates of the madrasahs (places of learning or koranic schools) set up by the Wahhabi missions from Saudi Arabia, with the support of the CIA.
“The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with
The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system’s core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books ….
‘ said Ahmad Fahim Hakim, an Afghan educator [working with] a Pakistan-based nonprofit.
An aid worker in the region reviewed an unrevised 100-page book and counted 43 pages
Published in the dominant Afghan languages of Dari and Pashtu, . The agency spent $51 million on the university’s education programs in Afghanistan from 1984 to 1994“, (Washington Post, 23 March 2002)
Textbook printing and distribution by the University of Nebraska, Omaha, in partnership with , Omaha continued in 2002 and 2003 with funding from USAID, with another 15 million copies:
An act of war by a foreign nation (Afghanistan) against a member of the North Atlantic Alliance (the USA) was considered as an act of war against all members under NATO’s doctrine of collective security.
Under no stretch of the imagination, can the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon be categorized as an act of war by a foreign country. But nobody seemed to have raised this issue.
On October 5, NATO Secretary General calls for the invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001:
“The facts are clear and compelling.
of the Washington Treaty, which states that an on one or more of the Allies in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.
I want to reiterate that the United States of America can rely on the full support of its 18 NATO Allies in the campaign against terrorism.”
(, NATO Secretary General (image Left), statement to the NATO Council, State Department, Appendix H, Multinational Response to September 11 NATO Press, http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/10313.pdf, accessed 24 November 2009, emphasis added)
In other words, on October 5, 2001, two days before the actual commencement of the bombing campaign on October 7, the North Atlantic Council decided, based on the information provided by a mysterious consultant (US Ambassador at Large) briefed the Atlantic Council
, thereby requiring an action on the part of NATO under Article 5 of the Washington Treaty (See U.S. State Gov Archive, emphasis added)
Al Qaeda “Good Guys” Again in December 2024. Al Qaeda “Liberates Syria”
The main actors in the December 8, 2024 coup d’Etat who were described by the media as “rebels” are Al Qaeda affiliated mercenaries, all of whom are supported by Western and Israeli intelligence.
According to the the BBC “democracy” is to be reinstated under the leadership Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani. of an Islamist terrorist entity entitled Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), previously affiliated to Al Qaeda. [the Data base].
Ironically, this “good guy” Al Qaeda leader Al-Jawlani is still categorized as a terrorist by the U.S, State Department.
And the West applauds, celebrating the victory of Tahir Al Sham.
Their unspoken objective is to install an Islamist State led by Al Qaeda terrorist proxies.
Oops! Are these not the “same guys” who allegedly brought down the WTC and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 under the helm of Osama Bin Laden?
See Also
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, October 23, 2024
HUMANITARIAN WARFARE: KILLING SECULAR DEMOCRACY AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS, IN TWO DISTINCT PHASES (1980s and 2001-)
Unknown to Americans, in the 1970s and early 1980s, Kabul was “a cosmopolitan city. Artists and hippies flocked to the capital. Women studied agriculture, engineering and business at the city’s university. Afghan women held government jobs”.
BEFORE THE “HUMANITARIAN WAR”
AFTER THE “HUMANITARIAN WAR”
DESTRUCTION OF AN ENTIRE COUNTRY
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