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When the Soviets announced that they were about to leave from Afghanistan in 1988, and they actually did so in 1989, Osama bin Laden, a rich Saudi, together with his Arab comrades, were in Afghanistan
After the Soviets left Afghanistan Persian Gulf . Obviously the first aim of Al-Qaeda was to help their Pakistani allies fight Iran and take control of Afghanistan
When the Soviets left Afghanistan they agreed with the Americans that none of them would militarily intervene in Afghanistan
Remember that the Iranians, the Arabs and the Pakistanis were all fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan Pakistan , and Pakistan
Therefore the Americans, the Russians and the Chinese were not supposed to get involved in Afghanistan
The Communist government that was left behind by the Soviets lasted from 1989 until 1992, when it was overturned by Iran’s allies in 1992, who were in turn overturned in 1996 by Pakistan’s allies, the Taliban, who were in turn overturned by the Americans in 2001, after the 9/11 attack and the refusal of the Taliban to allow the pipelines of Central Asia to reach India.
For the negotiations between the Americans and the Taliban for the pipeplines, and the Al-Qaeda attacks see “The Afghan Oil Pipeline and the US Negotiations with the Taliban”.
At the following map you can see the ethnic groups of Afghanistan
Map Ethnic Groups of Afghanistan
With green you can see the Pashtuns, who were mainly supported by the Pakistanis and the Arabs. The Pashtuns are the larger ethnic group of the country. All of the Taliban are Pashtuns, or at least their overwhelming majority. But not all Pashtuns are Taliban.
With somon you can see the Shiite Hazara, a strong Iranian ally, and with brown the Sunni Tajics, who are of Iranian origin though, and normally they are Iranian allies too.
With purple you can see the Uzbeks of Afghanistan. Most Uzbkes have been part of the Northern Alliance, which was supported by Iran , India and Russia
With blue, at the southern part of the country you can see the Baloch people. The Baloch people live in Afghanistan , Pakistan and Iran
From all the above it is evident that the original goal of Al-Qaeda to help the allies of the Arabs in Afghanistan to fight Iran Afghanistan Afghanistan , there was a civil war about who would control the post-Soviet Afghanistan
When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 1996, with the help of Pakistan and the Arabs, there were negotiations between the Americans and the Taliban, because the Americans were offering the Taliban international recognition if they were to allow the pipelines of Central Asia to be constructed.
Note that Turkmenistan is one of the richest countries in the world in terms of natural gas reserves, Kazahstan is one of the richest in terms of oil reserves, and Azerbaijan Uzbekistan
However if the Taliban were to allow the pipelines of Central Asia to reach Pakistan and India, both the Arab and the Iranian exports would be hurt, and therefore Al-Qaeda sabotaged the negotiations with the bombings of the American embassies in 1998, and with the 9/11 attack in 2001. See “The Afghan Oil Pipeline and the US
Therefore one goal of Al-Qaeda was to fight Iran in Afghanistan , and the other was to prevent the oil and natural gas of Central Asia to reach India and the Indian Ocean . Actually that second goal was a common goal for the Iranians and the Arabs, and it gave them plenty of space to cooperate against the Americans, because they both sell oil and gas to India and Pakistan
Another goal of Al-Qaeda was to support the Pakistanis against India in Kashmir . Kashmir is a disputed region on the Pakistani-Indian borders, and If India was to take control of Kashmir the Indians could reach Central Asia bypassing Afghanistan , and they could export their merchandizes to Central Asia, while at the same time they could import oil and natural gas from Central Asia, bypassing Pakistan India at Kashmir . That would also hurt China , because China is now monopolizing central Asia commercially, and she can buy the resources of Central Asia at very low prices, because these countries have nowhere else to sell their products, except Russia and Iran
Map Kashmir
Another goal of Al-Qaeda was to block the oil and natural gas of Africa from reaching Asia through Kenya and Tanzania China is spending billions of dollars in Kenya , trying to make Kenya an export hub, in order to send African raw materials to China Kenya and Tanzania
Map
Al-Qaeda was also targeting the oil of North and Western Africa , through various terrorist groups it supported there. For example Al-Qaeda was supporting Boko Haram in Nigeria in order to attack the oil of Nigeria
With black at the following map you can see the countries that mainly export oil and natural gas. Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia in Latin America, Russia and the countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf and Iran, Indonesia and Malaysia in South East Asia, and Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Chad, Nigeria and Angola in Africa. You can see that the black parts of this map match with the Al-Qaeda map.
Map Exports by Country
Map Al-Qaeda in the World
Initially Osama bin Laden wanted to fight the Crusaders (NATO) and the Indians, and not the Muslim Apostates i.e. the Muslim leaders who were cooperating with the Crusaders, for example the Saudi King and the Egyptian President, who at the time was Hozni Mubarack.
That changed when the Saudi King invited the Americans in the Persian Gulf in 1991, in order to fight Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait Saudi Arabia wanted a closer cooperation with China , which was the new big customer in the Persian Gulf . Or maybe they just found a chance to fight the Saudi King. After all there is a war inside the Royal family of Saudi Arabia
See also “The Assassination of the Saudi King in 1975”.
Osama bin Laden was no longer welcome in Saudi Arabia Sudan Iran and Sudan Sudan , and bin Laden will go to Afghanistan
I used to think that the reason the Sudanese asked bin Laden to leave their country was because they were afraid of the Americans. But I was probably wrong. After all the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
It had probably more to do with the fight between the Taliban and the Iranian proxies in Afghanistan Afghanistan
And indeed with the bombing of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the 9/11 attack, Al-Qaeda sabotaged the US-Taliban negotiations and the construction of the Central Asian pipelines, both under the Clinton and Bush administrations, and did a favor to both the Saudis and the Iranians.
Therefore if you want to understand Al-Qaeda you should not try to see it as a Saudi or as an Iranian terrorist organization. Al-Qaeda received huge amounts from Saudi donors, but it was trained by the Iranians. Obviously the reason was that Al-Qaeda was fighting the Saudi King, and therefore the Saudi government would not provide Al-Qaeda with assistance, at least not in Saudi Arabia
Al-Qaeda was also fighting the Americans, and therefore Pakistan would not be able to help Al-Qaeda because the Americans would be very angry with Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan could not support Al-Qaeda attacks against the United States Pakistan Between Al-Qaeda and USA
Therefore against the Saudi King and the Americans, Iran and its close allies Sudan and Hezbollah were the ideal partners for Al-Qaeda, even though in Afghanistan Al-Qaeda was probably supported by the Saudi King against the Iranians. Remember that terrorism is the Islamic and socialist way of doing business. That’s how socialists and Islamists close their deals.
You should see Al-Qaeda as a sum of gangs, who are loosely connected. These groups are guns for hire, and they are used by the Islamic oil cartel.
The cooperation between Al-Qaeda, a Saudi terror group, and Iran , seems strange, but remember that their interests overlap in Africa, in South Eastern Asia, and in Central Asia . They have opposite interests in Syria and Afghanistan
Therefore you should see Al-Qaeda as a terror group that protects the Islamic oil cartel from the “Crusaders”, but which is also very active in the internal wars of the Islamic oil cartel.
Now the Islamic oil cartel is threatened by the huge increases in the American oil and natural gas production, and it cooperates with the Communist oil cartel of Latin American too (Venezuela , Bolivia Cuba , another Communist country, and therefore Cuba Spain , Alexis Tsipras in Greece
Remember that a large part of Al-Qaeda’s financing comes from the Saudis, and Saudis are not interested in natural gas, because they are not as rich as the Russians, the Iranians and the Qataris in natural gas. The Saudis consume domestically their gas production. For the Saudis it is oil that makes the difference. And Israel
Since the 1980’s the oil pipelines started losing their geopolitical importance, wherever there was easy access to the sea, because tankers became much larger, and as a result the transport of oil became much cheaper. Therefore the Saudis did not have to take suffer the terrorist attacks of the Egyptians, the Iraqis and the Syrians against their Trans-Arabian pipeline, which carried their oil to the Mediterranean Sea through Jordan and Lebanon
Map Trans-Arabian Pipeline
Actually when the Israelis gained control of the Golan Heights during the 1967 War, a small part of the pipeline was under Israeli control. But of course the Israelis did not create any problems to Saudi Arabia
In 1976 Saudi Arabia Jordan , to have influence in Jordan Egypt was now an American ally, and Saudi Arabia could count on the Suez Canal . Probably the Saudis wanted to support the Egyptians too, in order to have them as allies after many years of rivalry between the two countries. Gamal Nasser was fighting Saudi Arabia
Moreover in 1982 Saudi Arabia finished its East-West Pipeline (Petroline) which sent Saudi oil to the Red Sea .
Map East West Petroline
Contrary to what happens with oil, it is very expensive to carry natural gas with ships, because you need special ships, and also because the process of liquefaction and regazification are very expensive. And that’s why from the wars for the railroads we went to the wars for the oil pipelines in the 20th century, and in the 21st century we see the wars for the natural gas pipelines. But note that when there is no easy access to sea oil pipelines are very important too. Or when there are competing oil pipelines. What happens in Syria has to do with natural gas, and what happens in Iraq
The presence of Hamas in Gaza and of Hezbollah in Lebanon make things even worse for Al-Qaeda, because neither Turkey and Qatar , nor Iran
Therefore Israel is not financially important for Al-Qaeda, and Al-Qaeda prefers to attack cheap targets outside Israel Gaza and South Lebanon .
But for Turkey , Qatar and Iran Israel is very important, and therefore Hamas and Hezbollah spend a significant part of their day thinking about Israel , and Israel
“The Afghan Oil Pipeline and the US
“Al-Shabaab the Strongest Terrorist Organization of East Africa and its Funding”
“What is Al-Shabaab, and what does it want?”, July 2015
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And Al-Shabaab has links to other organizations. In February 2012, the group's leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, and al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahirireleased a video announcing the alliance of the two organizations.
“Boko Haram's Bin Laden Connection”, May 2014
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In 2002, Osama bin Laden dispatched an aide to Nigeria to hand out $3 million in local currency to a wide array of Salafist political organizations there that shared al Qaeda’s goal of imposing Islamic rule.
According to an overlooked report from a well-respected international watchdog, one of those organizations was Boko Haram, the terrorist outfit that’s become globally infamous for its threat to sell girls into slavery. In other words, bin Laden helped provide Boko Haram’s seed money, this report maintains.
Officially, the U.S.
“There were channels between bin laden and Boko Haram leadership,” one senior U.S.
At issue are still secret documents captured from Osama bin Laden’s lair in Pakistan U.S. U.S.
“How al-Qaeda and Islamic State are competing for al-Shabaab in Somalia
“The Terrorist Groups Lashkar e Taiba and Haqqani Network”
“The Life of Osama bin Laden in Iran
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