Brown’s Lies Exposed: Justifies War against Taliban in Public but Issues Secret Instructions to Bring Them Back into Afghan Government
Gordon Brown has justified Britain’s continued involvement in Afghanistan by publicly announcing that “we are in Afghanistan because we judge that if the Taliban regained power, al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups would once more have an environment in which they could operate” — but at the same time he has issued secret instructions to try to “re-integrate” the Taliban back into the Afghani government.
At a speech at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet at Guildhall tonight, the text of which was provided in advance to the media, Mr Brown defended British military involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan, saying that the campaign to topple the Taliban was critical to preventing al-Qaeda from exploiting its “extensive recruitment operation across Africa, the Middle East, Western Europe and the UK.”
However, in leaked Foreign Office documents revealed by the BBC last week, Mr Brown’s government proposed a “reconciliation between the Afghan government and some Taliban leaders in the next two years.”
The document — which could not have been issued without Mr Brown’s knowledge or approval — also said that the “reconciliation” must include the so-called Quetta Shura leadership, which directs the Taliban’s activity.
According to the Foreign Office document, the proposal would include removing “reconciled Talibs” from the UN sanctions list. Any reconciliation would also include Taliban foot-soldiers and local commanders, the memo continued.
The memo was first reported by the German magazine Stern and by Hasht-e Sobh, a newspaper in Kabul.
The memo calls for an Afghan-led, internationally backed process that works on three levels. Firstly “tactical”, involving reintegrating foot soldiers and their immediate commanders. Secondly “operational”, involving the reintegration of the Taliban’s “shadow governors”, senior commanders and their forces and finally, what is called “strategic” — described as “reconciliation — a settlement with (most of) the Quetta Shura.”
The document goes on to make the laughable claim that such “re-integrated” Taliban personnel can be directed into “moderate Islamic parties” in a new government.
In public, Mr Brown did not mention any of these plans to bring back the al-Qaeda-supporting Taliban into the Afghani government. Instead, he continued to justify the war — and hundreds of British deaths — on the basis that it was “preventing terrorism in Britain.”
“We are in Afghanistan because we judge that if the Taliban regained power al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups would once more have an environment in which they could operate,” Mr Brown said. He also reminded his audience that since 2001, nearly 200 Islamists have been convicted of terrorist or terrorist-related offences in Britain.
“So I vigorously defend our action in Afghanistan and Pakistan because al-Qaeda is today the biggest source of threat to our national security — and to the security of peoples’ lives in Britain,” Mr Brown said. “We are there because action in Afghanistan is not an alternative to action in Pakistan, but an inseparable support to it.”
The doublespeak is merely one more aspect to the long trail of lies and deceit spit out by the Labour Party over British military involvement in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Conservative Party has merely parroted all these lies as well, so doubtless we shall also be hearing shortly from that party about “how dangerous the Taliban is” and why British lives should continue to be shed in that pointless and unwinnable conflict.
The British National Party was the very first political party to oppose the illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and has maintained this position ever since.
Contrary to what Messrs Brown and Cameron say, the cause of terrorism in Britain is not the collective peasantry in Afghanistan.
The cause of terrorism in Britain is unrestricted Third World immigration which has created a pool of recruits from which Islamists can draw; and Britain’s anti-British foreign policy which incites the Muslim world against us by attacking nations such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
Until both of these issues are addressed, terrorism will remain a problem in Britain — and only the BNP has the understanding and political will to bring it to an end.
