Dean Henderson: Afghan History Suppressed:

Islamists, Heroin and the CIA: The Wall Street Journal reported a while back, that the Syrian government had reversed a ban on women teachers, wearing Islamic face coverings in the classroom. The concession to Western backed Islamic face coverings in the classroom. The concession to Western backed Islamist protestors was instructive, since the secular socialist Assad government is clearly in the cross hairs of City of London bankers, attempting to redraw the political map of the Middle East. As in Libya and Afghanistan, the bankers are counting on fundamentalists to carry out their counter revolutionary agenda. Though Western intelligence had earlier cavorted with Islamists in attacking nationalist movements in Iraq, Indonesia and Iran, it was in Afghanistan where they unleashed the full force of their young Franken-steins. Afghanistan was founded in 1747, and ruled by a bloodline monarchy, with rumored ties to the legendary Roshaniya, the all seeing ones. In 1933, King Mohammed Zaher Shah took the throne, ruling the country in feudalistic fashion, until deposed by his cousin, Mohammed Daoud, in 1973.  In April 1978, Daoud was killed in a popular revolution, led by socialist leader Nor Mohammed Taraki, who became President, and embarked on an ambitious land reform program to help poor Afghan sharecroppers, who were traditionally forced to work land owned by the king and his cronies. Taraki built schools for women, who were banned from education under the monarchy. He opened Afghan universities to the poor, and introduced free health care. When counter revolutionary bandits began to burn down universities and girl's schools, many Afghan's saw the hand of the CIA. As the campaign of sabotage intensified, Kabul revolutionaries called on Soviet leader Leonid Brezynev to send troops to repel the bandits. Brezynev refused. Taraki appointed Tabizullah Amin as Cabinet Minister in charge of land reform. Amin, who Soviet KGB Chief Yuri Andropov came to believe was a CIA deep cover agent provocateur, launched a brutal campaign of terror against political opponents. This turned world opinion against the Tariki government. In 1979, pro Taraki militants, convinced of a CIA destabilization plot, assassinated CIA Kabul Chief of Station Spike Dubbs. Indeed, in April 1979, a full seven months before the much ballyhooed Soviet "invasion" of Afghanistan occurred, US officials met with Afghan warlords bent on overthrowing Taraki.