Afghanistan: We Will Never Accept Slavery

To the Honorable John F. Kerry, Secretary of State

RE: President Obama stated he wanted a strong, sovereign and stable Afghanistan. However, there cannot be a strong, stable, sovereign (independent) Afghanistan when the eleven (11) candidates in the Afghanistan presidential election are on the CIA and U.S. government payroll and other countries’ intelligence agencies’ payrolls.

Some of these candidates are war criminals. Most if not all, are war profiteers. Some are drug traffickers.  Some are child molesters.  At least one robbed the Kabul Bank. In the United States, our system does not allow such candidates. Why should it be allowed in Afghanistan? This election is not the solution.   This election is not acceptable to the majority Afghans and unfortunately will lead to more blood shed and a weak, unstable Afghanistan.

The 2014 presidential election will not be acceptable to the majority of Afghans and must be stopped because the majority, Afghan villagers, have not been allowed to register. In addition, the eleven candidates, such as Rashid Dostum, Ashraf Ghani, Zalmai Rassoul, Sayaf, Abdullah Abdullah, Mohammad Muhaqeq, Ahmad Zia Massoud etc are on the CIA payroll and other countries’ intelligence payrolls.

Some are war criminals. Most if not all, are war profiteers. Some are drug traffickers.  Some are child molesters.  At least one robbed the Kabul Bank. One just needs to check any human rights documentation to quickly see which ones are the war criminals. In the United States, our system does not allow such candidates. Why should it be allowed in Afghanistan?

Also, as important, the election must be stopped because the Native Afghans in the Pashtun areas, who are the majority, and Afghan Muslims in the north of Afghanistan, who have lawfully opposed the war and occupation, have not been allowed to register to vote.  Therefore, they will not be able to vote.

During these past thirteen years of war and occupation, Afghanistan has become a narco-state and the most corrupt in the world. A true election cannot be held in such a corrupt environment, while occupied by  foreign countries and their contracted mercenaries, who are the real terrorists,  with so-called presidential candidates on the payrolls of foreign governments. For these reasons, I question the legality of the election?

The election only in Kabul is not the solution. It may be acceptable to you, Mr. Secretary, and the war profiteers, but it will not be acceptable to the Afghan majority.  Fraudulent elections will cause more ethnic cleansing, bloodshed and further chaos. This election is not the answer to Afghanistan’s problems.

For example, I have heard from an influential Afghan, Mr. Haji Sayed Daud, Director of the Afghan Media Resource Center, who is actually working in the field, that many of the provinces will not be able to participate in the election like Nuristan, Paktia, Paktika, Zabul and Nangarhar Provinces and many others. He mentioned that the Karzai government might move these provinces’ election polling places to Kabul, which just does not make sense.  He told me that most Pashtuns are not being allowed to register.

Excluding the majority of Afghans will only escalate the bloodshed and instability. I was also told that in the open market, voter registration cards are selling like hot cakes. There already is so much fraud. There are just too many problems with this process to hold a legitimate election. Our tax dollars will just be wasted. Right now so many areas in Afghanistan are being excluded from the election process it really will not be an election by the majority of Afghans.

During these past 13 years, hundreds of thousands of Afghan villagers  have been killed in this war and occupation. These villagers were not responsible for the tragic events of 9/11. And our government knows that Afghans are not responsible.

Yet  the U.S. government has scape goated them and is using CIA paramilitary agents  and contracted mercenaries to terrorize the Afghan villagers, who are defending their independence and  defending themselves against the Afghan military forces the Northern Alliance is using to ethnically cleanse the Pashtun villagers and Muslim Afghan villagers, who oppose their corruption. And now our government is backing these “bad” candidates and the corrupt election process, which is harming the Afghan majority again.

Besides the proposed 2014 Afghan election, I am bothered to see that communist China is trying to establish a close relationship with the Afghan government. While President Obama chatted with a religious leader, the Dalai Lama, the Chinese sent its foreign minister to Afghanistan to talk about sending its military officials there to help train the Afghan military in the future.

In the 1980s, I fought the Soviets to stop communism. And now, the Afghan communist war criminals, who hold important positions throughout the Afghan puppet government, would like Maoist China to have more influence and control of the Afghan government. The United States instead of  chatting with religious leaders at the White House,  while at the same time using its forces and mercenaries to kill and torture Afghan Muslim villagers, who do not want to be occupied, must focus on peaceful ways to stop China from gaining influence over countries like Afghanistan and stop waging war against the Afghan villagers .

These thirteen years of war, occupation, holding puppet elections, and putting into power corrupt Afghan puppet governments, only has created,  all over the world, Muslims’ and the Afghan majority’s hatred of the United States and weakened the United States. It has not made Americans more secure. Quite the opposite. It has made China stronger and potentially a greater superpower. I did not expect much from the war mongering, war criminals – Bush/Cheney administration.  But I did expect that the Obama administration would follow the rule of law and stop the war and occupation of Afghanistan.  But the Obama administration is following in their footsteps.

Afghans do not want its country to be the battlefield for superpowers. All foreign military forces and the contracted mercenaries need to leave Afghanistan. It is not beneficial to Afghanistan to have foreign troops and these criminal mercenaries on its soil. It only causes war and division.   As the heart of Central Asia, Afghanistan needs to be neutral like it was in the past before the Soviet invasion.

The permanent presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan on nine (9) permanent military bases is all  about the control of Afghanistan’s vast untapped rare earth elements (REEs) -worth trillions. It is not about “democratic” elections, stopping terrorism or freeing women. That is just the U.S. propaganda that the U.S. government and war profiteers think the American public wants to hear in order to keep the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan with permanent military bases with a bilateral security and immunity agreements in place.  The superpowers need to quit playing their “games” in Afghanistan at the expense of the Afghan people. It is all about the superpowers battling to control Afghanistan’s vast untapped Rare Earth Elements (the REEs), which are worth trillions and vital to the manufacture of defense systems and technology. The United States, Russia and China all want to control these REEs.  It all comes down to who will control and profit from the Afghans’ REEs, which the superpowers believe is tied to national security. It is about the U.S. control of any future Afghan government, which means the ultimate signing of the bilateral agreements and ultimately the control of the REEs with the help of its war profiteering Afghan partners and puppets. It is all about REEs, REEs, REEs !!! Is it not strange that the U.S. Pentagon is in control of the geological services in Afghanistan? Forcing another presidential election with eleven (11) U.S. puppet candidates, who will sign bilateral security and immunity agreements, will allow the United States and the war profiteering candidates to control the REEs and ultimately the region.

I think the Afghan villagers, the majority, should control and benefit from their REEs just like Alaskan natives.  The  U.S. and war profiteers are already profiting from the mining of the REEs, while the Afghan villagers are bleeding. The poor Afghan native villagers, who have suffered  through four decades of war, occupation, corruption and superpower “games”, should be the ones to profit from their REEs. In America, in the state of Alaska,  the Alaskans get  dividend checks for their oil,  where are the Afghan natives’ checks?  So far they are only receiving bombs.

Peacefully and without deception, the United States and the world can benefit from Afghanistan’s strategic location in the heart of Central Asia, which is near the oil rich Caspian Sea region and the oil rich gulf. It can also benefit from Afghanistan’s vast untapped natural resources such as its Rare Earth Elements (REEs) worth trillions, without backing puppet candidates, robbing, killing and displacing the Afghan villagers in those areas with REEs, propping up communist war criminals, war lords, drug traffickers, and overall corrupt Afghans, which only causes more division, more blood shed at the expense of the majority Afghan villagers. Secretary Kerry and President Obama, the current military, neoconservative approach to foreign policy is not working in Afghanistan. Bush is gone and his neoconservative, criminal cowboy approach needs to go too.  Both of you need to have the courage to change the policy and approach. The war strategy needs to change to a true peace strategy.

You know my background. That I fought the communists and Soviets in the 1980s to free Afghanistan and stop the spread of communism. I know what war is. I have seen Afghan children’s  mangled, dead bodies in the villages, who were the  victims of the Soviet and Afghan communists war criminals. I hate war, corruption, communists and war profiteers, who profit from the blood of innocent civilians and destruction. I want this war to end.

To end this war, well-respected American and Afghan scholars, who are not war profiteers and not from the military think tanks, need to meet with good Department of State officials to discuss the path to true peace, which starts with genuine negotiations with the Afghan Resistance and then all Afghans. I believe this step has to be done before any elections if there is to be true peace. Otherwise, I am sad to say that it is likely that the bloodshed and instability will continue for the long term in Afghanistan, which is not beneficial to anyone except the war profiteers, China and Russia.

Putting true peace negotiations with the Afghan Resistance on the back burner is a big mistake, because Afghanistan can only have a legitimate government supported by the majority of Afghans if first there is true peace and reconciliation.   I believe our foreign policy and military approach to Afghanistan are wrong and need to be changed. Otherwise, our government will be responsible for this chaos and bloodshed that we have created and continue to create.

In the past, negotiations with the Afghan Resistance have failed because of the war profiteers’ and foreign countries’ interference (i.e. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran). These war profiteers and countries are looking out for their own interests and not those of the Afghan majority nor the interests of the United States. Also, in these past negotiations, there were structural and communications problems, which caused them to fail from the start. The United States government needs to stop the Pakistani, Saudi Arabian, and Turkish negotiations and other talks led by war profiteers, which will not go anywhere.  These countries profit from the war and have no incentive to achieve true peace.

After traveling to Afghanistan in 2012 and meeting with all groups, other respected, lawful Afghans and I are able to negotiate with all sides. We are capable of being the bridge. When I met with State Department officials, Mr. David Rank on November 8, 2012, I informed him that I along with other Afghan Americans from our group are willing and able to participate in any negotiations with the Afghan Resistance. As you know, the first step to peace is the exchange of prisoners. Again, I along with many other well-respected, law abiding educated Afghans think the United States needs to have direct negotiations with the Afghan resistance including the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan without the participation of war profiteers or other foreign countries. We along with other Afghan Americans are willing and able to help with these negotiations and be the bridge during all phases.

In addition, please do not forget about the American woman prisoner. The one I learned about on my trip and immediately reported it to Mr. Rank and my U.S. Senator Carl Levin. I believe any prisoner exchange should involve her also. The United States invaded Afghanistan and during its occupation has stated that it wants to free women. What about the American woman prisoner? What about her rights? As an American citizen, I care about her well-being. Does the State Department? I have begun to wonder.

Please let us, the private Afghan Americans in our group, be the bridge between the United States and the Afghan Resistance to help in direct negotiations to stop this ugly and bloody war.  I do not like war crimes, torture and other crimes against humanity, which have been and are being committed against Afghan villagers. I do not like women and children being harmed in war and taken prisoner. I am from the old school. I have seen first hand what effects war has on women, children and the elderly. Stop this war. Stop this election, which I believe will only lead to more blood shed in Afghanistan. Do not use Afghanistan as a superpower battlefield.  Use us Afghan Americans, who are not war profiteers, as the bridge in true peace negotiations

Sincerely,

Kadir A. Mohmand

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Kadir A. Mohmand

Abdul Kadir Mohmand was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. He currently resides at Kalamazoo, Michigan. He graduated from Kabul High School. On an UNESCO scholarship, Mr. Mohmand studied at Sofia University, Bulgaria from 1976 until 1978 when his studies were interrupted by the Communist seizure of power in Afghanistan. The new Afghan Communist government ordered the Bulgarian government to return him to Afghanistan because he was anti-communist. Mr. Mohmand requested political asylum. With the help of the United Nations and the U.S. Embassy, he arrived to Italy and then the United States in 1979.

Mr. Mohmand returned to his studies and earned his B.S. in 1983 from Western Michigan University. He found employment in various positions in the engineering business. For many years, he worked for BFI and was country operations manager for BFI Italia. Currently, Mr. Mohmand owns a shopping center and develops commercial properties.

During the 1980s, Mr. Mohmand was the Representative of the Afghan Mujahideen for North America. During the 1980s, Mr. Mohmand returned to Afghanistan to fight as a freedom fighter against the Soviets and Afghan communists. Through an arrangement with Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Mr. Mohmand would bring back wounded Afghan children and Mujahideen for medical treatment at Borgess and recuperation in his home in Kalamazoo. He formed and was president of a nonprofit, Aid for Afghanistan.

In the 1980s, Mr. Mohmand also worked with the Committee for a Free Afghanistan in Washington D.C to bring wounded Afghans to the United States for medical treatment.

For the past four decades Mr. Mohmand has dedicated his life to working to achieve true peace and stability in Afghanistan.

A few years ago, Mr. Mohmand organized educated Afghans intellectuals across the world who drafted a comprehensive plan for peace. Presently, he has united many different Afghan peace organizations under one umbrella. The goal of this network is to unite Afghans to bring true peace in and the independence of Afghanistan. This network wants to be the bridge between the Afghan freedom fighters and the silent Afghan majority, and the Western World in any peace negotiations.

Mr. Mohmand wants true peace and stability in Afghanistan. As a veteran of war, Mr. Mohmand hates war.