NATO Terror legitimacy: Fraudulent election in Afghanistan

 -By  Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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The start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and a relative lull in violence has helped calm tensions in Afghanistan. USA is keen to hold and declare some puppet Afghan as president of Afghanistan, because all those who contested the poll are willing to be the boot polishers of the occupying terror forces in Afghanistan, as Iraqis and many Pakistanis are doing now. Arabs are no worse boot-polishers, by the way.

 

Even as millions in Afghanistan voted despite the terrorist NATO forces still occupying their nation killing defenseless Muslims, all Afghans certainly feel gloomy about their future. Election officials have estimated turnout at between 40 and 50% of Afghanistan's 15 million registered voters which, if confirmed, would be well down on the 70% who voted in the first presidential election, in 2004. In total, voter turnout appeared weaker than in the country's first election in 2004. A leading group of election observers say there was widespread voting fraud and intimidation during the presidential election in Afghanistan. Stuffed ballot boxes, illiterate voters being told who to vote for and biased officials were cited by Afghanistan's Free and Fair Election Foundation. There have been rival claims of victory but no winner has been announced. The chief EU observer said it was still early days in assessing the election. The Free and Fair Election Foundation's provisional report also details accounts of multiple voting. 

Pre-election opinion polls suggested Hamid Karzai was leading the field of candidates but might face a run-off with Abdullah. With a view to boosting the chances for Karzai, NATO unleashed terror to terrorize the voters thinking the Taliban are doing it.  Many people stayed away, however, especially in the Taliban's southern heartland. Since voters in the south were expected to back Karzai, poor turnout there increases the chance of a run-off. 

 

In an inconsequential poll, partial, preliminary results are expected today the Aug 25 and final results are due to be released in September. If neither candidate wins an outright majority of 50%, then the vote goes to a second round in October. NATO military forces did host the polls, despite at least 26-additional Muslim deaths resulting from election-linked violence. The incumbent Hamid Karzai and his main rival Abdullah Abdullah say both have won the presidency to support the NATO genocides in the country. The leading contenders have said they will not incite street protests if they lose. With the outcome still unpublished and both sides claiming victory, both gave the assurance to the US special envoy to the region, Richard Holbrooke to respect the result. President Obama has not yet announced the NATO would quit Afghanistan soon after ht poll by placing a regime in Kabul.

 

On Aug 20 after the Afghan fictitious polls, in a radio interview, President Obama praised what he termed "a successful election in Afghanistan despite the Taliban's effort to disrupt it," while vowing that his administration would stay "focused on finishing the job in Afghanistan." Whether Obama knew it or not, his remarks echoed those delivered by one of his predecessors, who heaped similar praise on a vote that had taken place in a country thousands of miles away, while promising that US troops there would soon "finish the job." The year was 1967, the president was Lyndon B. Johnson and the election was in Vietnam.
 
 

One of the other 31 contenders and the deputy speaker of the lower house of parliament, Mirwais Yassini said he believes both main camps practiced widespread electoral fraud. An election result respected by the candidates and their supporters is crucial for the country and resident Barack Obama, who has made stabilizing Afghanistan his top foreign policy priority. Former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, who was given a fighting chance of pushing the election to a second round, said he had evidence of widespread rigging. While both the incumbent President Hamid Karzai, the NATO favorite, and his main challenger, former Foreign Minister Abdullah, are claiming victory, the election officials warned that it was too early to establish who had won. 

   
Two opinion polls ahead of the election predicted Karzai would win, but not by enough to prevent a second round run-off against Abdullah. NATO is conducting the farcical polls for legitimacy purposes. The Election Complaints Commission (ECC) said it received 225 complaints of which 35 had been labeled a priority. "The allegations contained in the complaints we have received so far range from voter intimidation, violence, ballot box tampering (to) interference by some Independent Election Commission officials," Grant Kippen told a news conference. 

  
The response of the US media, and particularly the editorial boards of the two most influential papers in the country, has been far more slavish in response to the Afghan elections. Elections have been carried out under the guns of US-led occupation forces. In both countries, any candidate opposing the US military presence in the country was prevented from running. And in both cases, the leading candidates were a collection of corrupt puppets that carried out wholesale ballot stuffing and electoral fraud.  State press hides the ground reality in the country and only says Karzai praised Afghans for braving "rockers, bombs and intimidation" to cast their votes. There was reportedly less violence in the northern part of the country, where 4,500 German soldiers are deployed as part of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF) in a mission that is deeply unpopular back home. 

   

During election, government officials in Afghanistan asked the media to not report on violence. But it wasn't only the true extent of the violence that remained murky. The fact is that the handling of the votes also demands independent verification. It's hard to see anything positive in the fact that complaints about multiple voting and voter coercion were already piling up on the same day as the election. What is clear is that the enthusiasm sparked by the presidential election five years ago has given way to a climate of insecurity and anxiety". 

 
NATO still finds it hard now to ensure the victory of their puppet Karzai - who is unpopular in the country and hence poll frauds are alarming- in the first round itself. The prospect of an election dispute has led to fears of unrest, especially if it takes on an ethnic or regional character in a country where competing groups have often taken up arms.  The best possible assessment of the electoral exercise in Afghanistan was put succinctly by one of the opposition candidates, former planning minister Ramazan Bashardost: "This is not an election. This is a comedy." In many cases, particularly in the rural areas containing nearly three-quarters of the population, voters were coerced by local warlords or cast their ballots strictly along ethnic lines. Western fascist media neglect to mention several harsh truths about this poll: that millions more"”apparently the majority of the electorate"”abstained from the entire process. That those who voted did so out of a determination to "shape their own future" is hardly self-evident.

 
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NATO's Afghanistan finance minister claimed victory for President Hamid Karzai in last week's presidential election but, with no official figures released, the claim was rejected by his main rival's camp. He said he was uncertain of precisely who had prepared the figures that he was given, but that he accepted them as valid. They were based on a tally of about 4.5 million votes counted so far, out of a total of about 5 million votes cast, he said. According to Karzai camp, president Karzai had received about 68 percent, or more than 3 million, while his main opponent, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, had received more than 1 million. UN called on all candidates and voters to be patient while authorities investigate allegations of fraud in the poll. The first, partial figures are due to be released any time now. USA and other terror NATO members feel any defeat to Karzai would disqualify the legitimacy claims of the organization and quickly quit Afghanistan for good.

 

The NATO top news item was that the "brave Afghans defied" Taliban threats and voted for offering legitimacy for the illegally occupying NATO rogues. Hamid Karzai the US puppet presided over a government whose systematic corruption has consumed its credibility and the country's limited financial resources. The results of the election would be determined not by the voters but by corrupt deals with warlords and massive fraud promoted by NATO.  The overoptimistic expectation that everything will get better after the election is not going to be fulfilled. The Taliban has shown that it is the main stay and guiding force in Afghanistan politics. Ever since the downfall of the Taliban almost eight years ago, the Afghans have not been less gloomy about the future. NATO controlled media talk about "brave decision" of many Afghans to defy the Taliban's threats and go to the voting stations, it is still hard to find excitement about the arrival of democracy.   

  

Military experts would call what the Taliban has done there a 'show of force.' And it is no accident that it is happening in the north." In response to the beefed-up presence of US troops in the south, the Taliban and al-Qaeda are going to be the rulers in future. The fact that voting took place in Afghanistan alone in a time of terror is in itself a sign of NATO weakness and Taliban success. And that the Taliban has suffered a political setback is to be welcomed. 
 

The Western countries -- that are squandering the Afghan wealth and blood in Afghanistan -- should not expect any loud thanks for their terror actions. May be, the presence of Western security forces there can only be for emergency measures. The only hope for the Taliban and Afghans is once the NATO terror forces have worn out their welcome and fulfilled their self-proclaimed military mandate, the democracy suppliers and their helpers from afar need to pack up and withdraw. 
 

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The NATO terror war began on a circulated lie that the Taliban allowed al-Qaeda to use Afghanistan for a base for US 9/11 attacks unleashed to secure the energy resources and routes.  The western rogues claim the NATO terror had war ended with the Petersburg Conference and the plan for an Afghanistan without terrorism that was internally stabilized and at peace with its neighbors is in place. Civilizing measures, such as improving the general state of education and ending the poppy culture, were -- and continue to be -- only secondary aims. Over time, though, it has become much more about what the Americans call AfPak (Afghanistan-Pakistan) and how NATO terrorism on the Afghan side of the border are contributing to the breakup of the Pakistani state. 
 

Pakistan has replaced Afghanistan as the main source of worry, for, now the NATO switched from Osama and his WMD into the "security" of its nuclear weapons. NATO spread rumors that the Taliban want to take away all Pakistani nukes possibly in a special US carrier into the space and destroy the world.  By making the "the Islamists" as the villains, the NATO terrorists are destabilizing Pakistan with Indian able help, the Taliban never cared for nukes they know these toilets are useless beyond certain point. The Islamists in Afghanistan are not fighting to get their hands on WMDs or their keys, as the US-NATO rogues bluff, but are eager to establish Sharia' rule in Islamic world but denied by the GSTs who try to impose their criminal and fraudulent democracy Muslims.  It is the Americans who are fighting in Pakistan to take away its hard won nukes and technology. In that case, Pakistan would be put into a perpetual siege situation quickly created from Hindu India just as the Palestinians face against the fascist Zionist regime, its close strategic terror partner.   India supports  the NATO genocides  for its own anti-Islamic and energy route reasons. 

As Hindu terror India did in state terror occupied Jammu Kashmir by hosting the military aided polls in the name of democracy revival, elections in Afghanistan also have been manipulated to provide a democratic façade for colonial-style wars of aggression. One does not know what is in the mind of President Barack Obama when spoke to reporters on the White House lawn on 21 Aug, declaring that the August 20 presidential election in US-occupied Afghanistan was "an important step forward in the Afghan people's effort to take control of their future." Does it mean President Obama who as ex-officio commands the NATO combined anti-Islamic forces call the all NATO terror forces to return to their respective countries to spread the message of democracy and regime change?

Karzai is made president again by the NATO or a new puppet is going to be brought to occupy the seat in Kabul should not be an issue now.  Since the any puppet president is going to help the foreign terror occupiers kill Afghans, there would no difference if a monkey or a dog or a cat or a owl becomes president of Afghanistan now. Will a new incumbent make any difference at all? 

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Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Specialist on State Terrorism

Independent Researcher in International Affairs, The only Indian to have gone through entire India, a fraud and terror nation in South Asia.