Behind The Web Of Terror

"...one who knows the higher criminal world ... for years ...I have ...been conscious of some power behind the malefactor, some deep organizing power which ... stands in the way of the law, and throws its shield over the wrong-doer. Again and again ...I have felt the presence of this force, ...when I seized my thread and followed it, ...it led me, ...to ...." Arthur Conan Doyle - The Final Solution
In today's world, behind all terror you will similarly see another baleful influence. No, it is not Osama bin Laden. Osama is either a minor reactionary (in Marxist terms) or a diluted repetition of the Hashishi influence. Hashishis were major source of terrorism in the Dark Ages in Europe and Middle East. Their influence was finally extirpated by Genghis Khan army - which systematically went after this band. The English word assassin is derived from Hashishis.
The source is the USA.
The formation of Israel
USA's baleful story started immediately after WW2 - the US cat's paw in the Middle East, Israel. Less than 1,00,000 Jews were considered more important than the 5,00,000 Palestinian's. This was American solution to the Jewish persecution in Europe. Just why, did the Palestinians have to pay the price, for European Christian persecution of Jews in Europe.
The Jews promptly forgot all about persecution - and started a new chapter in persecution. Palestinians became homeless - no passports. They could not go anywhere. Israel did not want them as Israeli citizens - but as a source of cheap labour, without rights. Jordan accepted a few. Syria was persuaded to accept some. They became stateless citizens - property of the UNHCR. And Palestinians started a new chapter in terrorism!

Next was Iran.
They foisted a corrupt Reza Shah Pahlavi in Iran. A king no one wanted. The Shah of Iran wrote new chapters in state repression.
In 1974, I was introduced to a visitor from Iran in Hyderabad, India - someone my father picked up an acquaintance with. He was afraid of speaking anything in our house in India - 2500 miles away. He was afraid as if the Savak (Shah's secret police) was in the room next door. He was from an Iranian minority that spoke Aramaic - and the first time I came to know that Aramaic was one of the language in which the Bible was originally written (but that is another story).
The Shah of Iran replaced worked against the nationalist Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq - to protect Western Oil interests. Finally, in 1979, the Shah was replaced by the regressive regime of Ayatollah Khomeini, which has taken Iran out of the USA orbit - but kept Iran from progress for the last 30 years. Iran has become a source of de-stabilisation various parts of the world (Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc) - in its anti USA crusade.

Pakistan is an old story.
Pakistan was a part of the USA troika with Iran and Turkey in the CENTO alliance against USSR. Pakistan's next ruler will be selected by the USA. During the Kargil war, India was talking to the USA. USA called the shots - and decided to replace Nawaz Sharif with Musharraf. Pakistan was the training ground for New York sub-way bombing, 9/11 terrorists, for the Mujahiddin in Afghanistan and for the rogue trade in nuclear material with AQS Khan. India's Kashmir and Khalistan problems are a direct result of USA foreign policy.

Iraq
Iraq started a war with Iran in 1980 (prodded by USA) against Iran. As a reward. Saddam wanted Kuwait. Before the Kuwaiti invasion, Saddam took USA "permission". By the time USA realized what was happening, Kuwait was over. USA did a volte-face - and Saddam became a demon. Today, Iraq has become a quagmire of a civil war amongst Iraqis. The cost of an alliance with the USA. The war on terror has become another foray for the America-Australia-Britain-Canada (ABC) Axis - at a cost to the rest of the world.

Osama was operating from Afghanistan.
What did the USA have to do there!! It started with USSR. The King Of Afghanistan - Zahir Shah was replaced by a USSR backed group. A despotic, directionless regime replaced Zahir Shah. The secular voice of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, an avowed Gandhian, in Afghanistan was silenced by Pakistan - an USA ally.
Afghanistan decayed into a regressive nation - which the USSR decided to change! The civil war between the mujahideen (armed by the USA) and the Russians pushed back the character of the Afghans by 1500 years. Latest arms and armaments (a result) of USA supply agreement flood Afghanistan and Peshawar. Waziristan in Pakistan, NWFP has practically been conquered by the Mujahideen. The touch that kills.

Who's next?
Saudi Arabia? One of the Central Asian Republics! Anglo Saxon propaganda tells us that Islam is to be blamed. Hardly!

Three causes for this US policy.
Oil - Cheap oil. Never mind the cost to others.

Oil - All it can get. And then some more.

Oil - For no one else. Uncle Sam wants it all

PS - Amazingly, one of the US presidential hopefuls, John McCain, even blames a Muslim for killing Gandhiji. This was demonisation of Muslims by the American political establishment at its best.