Osama bin Laden and President Obama: Are the
West and the Islamists nearing a nuclear battle?
As
Safir, Lebanon
Obama and bin
Laden Confront 'Day of Reckoning'
"The
battle will pit the armies of the superpower and its allies against the most
violent and radical of Islamist groups, in the vicinity of storage sites of the
only nuclear weapons in the world not subject to the control of a strong
central government or tight international supervision … at any moment they
could turn into true battlefield weapons and force open the road to heaven,
sought so long by both the Americans and Islamists."
By Sateh Noureddine
Translated By Fadil
Aziz Farrag
April 24, 2009
Lebanon- As Safir - Original Article (Arabic)
The day of reckoning is fast
approaching. At this moment, there is no doubt that this idea is what dominates
the minds of the world's most powerful and influential men: U.S. President
Barack Obama and al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The two are preparing for a
new and grinding war, using the most lethal and destructive types of weapons,
which is likely to escalate beyond the present theater of operations centering
on that tough mountainous region along the Afghan-Pakistan border to include a
number of other parts of the world.
Afghanistan is
collapsing, Pakistan is disintegrating and the United States is deploying a
huge number of troops to the region, which could soon become one of the
toughest arenas of war in all of recorded history. The battle will pit the
armies of the superpower and its allies against the most violent and radical of
Islamist groups, in the vicinity of storage sites of the only nuclear weapons
in the world not subject to the control of a strong central government or tight
international supervision.
This non-war, which escalated
about two years ago and continues to rage across an ever-expanding area from
Afghan territory into nearby provinces of Pakistan, has not been about taking
immediate control of these storage sites, but both U.S. forces and their
Islamist adversaries have taken this into account: the Islamists of the
possibility of gaining control of a bomb, and the U.S. of preventing them from
doing so and using it.
The Islamist forces have
largely succeeded in winning the battle in Afghanistan, and have recently moved
into Pakistan, sometimes by force and sometimes with politics, either through
attacks on the Pakistani Army or colluding with Pakistan military leaders and
officials in the central government, which recently handed over to the Taliban,
both legally and constitutionally, sovereignty over the SWAT [part of the North West
Frontier Province] in order to appease them. The Islamists have left some
of their units behind Afghan lines to preoccupy American and NATO troops and
distract them from the central objective of the new war: control of the
Pakistani state.
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Now the Americans have
recognized their failure - or at least their incapacity to liquidate the
Islamist forces inside Afghanistan and prevent them from spreading deep into
Pakistan. Therefore, they have decided to send U.S. and NATO reinforcements
into the battlefield and nearby areas - which means that by the end of this
year, troops levels will reach about a quarter million. They will confront an
Islamic army of undetermined size, as no one seems to know the number of
fighters nor the amount of reinforcements that will stream in from the rest of
the Islamic world, after a general recall was issued for Islamic fighters to
leave Iraq and the Gulf and head to the main battleground in Afghanistan - in
preparation for the ultimate battle.
The deadline is approaching:
The Afghan state is drowning in chaos and anarchy. The provinces of Pakistan
are falling before the Taliban advance one after the other. It almost seems
obvious to say that neither side can settle this vicious war without having to
resort to nuclear weapons, which are unlikely to remain a mere deterrent, as at
any moment they could turn into true battlefield weapons and force open the
road to heaven sought so long by both the Americans and Islamists.
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