Trajan
Veteran
Abroad, complicity between British and American officials and reactionary Islam go back a long way in using it as a weapon against nationalist anti-colonial movements.This included plotting with the Muslim Brotherhood to assassinate Gamal Abdel Nasser: the coup against the democratically elected Iranian leader Mohammed Mussadiq with the help of the ayatollahs, with a young cleric called Ruhollah Khomeini a junior member of the conspiracy: the removal of Ahmed Sukarno in Indonesia in another coup carried out with the help of Darul Islam whose followers went on to massacre socialists and trade unionists.
Then, of course, there is the use of Islamists during the Cold War and its aftermath: the creation of the international jihad against the Russians in Afghanistan, during which the murderous Gulbuddin Heklmatyar was a guest of Margaret Thatcher at No 10 --- the US would put a bounty of $ 5 million on his head later: the sending of Muslim fighters to the Balkans, central Asian Soviet republics, into China: support for the Pakistani secret police, ISI, with its terrorist links.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...on-of-complicity-with-extremists-9690085.html
Is it oochie wally or is it one mic?
The cynical use of Islamists against leaders who just wanted self-determination for their people is just
