Yesterday, a large truck bomb was used against a U.S. military outpost in Saydabad district, Wardak province, south of Kabul. News reports say twelve Afghans were killed, and some sixty people were wounded, including several Americans.
Last September, a large truck bomb struck the same heavily fortified outpost, killing 5 Afghans and wounding 77 Americans.
Large truck bomb attacks are usually attributed to the Haqqani Network. A week ago, a U.S. drone strike killed Badruddin Haqqani, a younger insurgent son.
The Governor of Wardak is affiliated with the Hezb-i Islami political faction, as are many Wardak police chiefs. Hezb-i Islami is also a major anti-U.S. insurgency in Afghanistan. The Hezb-i Islami affiliated governor is a very strong U.S. favorite, and was groomed for power by a term at an especially shadowy U.S. NGO.
In 2009, the U.S. set up a pilot Afghan Public Protection Program in Wardak. This was local militias, under the direction and in close association with U.S. Special Operations, trying to hold off the Taliban and bring local stability.
According to "Just Don't Call It a Militia", a report from Human Rights Watch, a local former mujahideen commander, Ghulam Mohammad, was put in charge of the Wardak program. Ghulam Mohammad had spent two years as a prisoner at Guantanamo. Ghulam Mohammad's brother, a member of Parliament, was delisted from the United Nation's sanctioned-Taliban list so the U.S. could work with him.
The corruption and brutality of the U.S.-installed brothers inflamed tribal tensions. Ghulam Mohammad was officially removed, but continued to hold actual power from behind the scenes. Hot war broke out in Jalrez district, where we had installed them. The recent war in Jalrez has been going since July.
Jalrez is a rural area up to the northwest from the capital of Maidan Shar, nearest Kabul. The multiple Haqqani Network truck bombings of our Saydabad outpost is another dimension to the complex Wardak war, coming up from the south, from the direction of Kandahar.
Regular U.S. forces will withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. Irregular forces, U.S. Special Operations in close association with warlord militias, will remain.
In preparation for the regular forces withdraw, Special Operations have recently been ramping up the warlord militias all over Afghanistan.
The pilot project involved a Hezb-i Islami governor, trained at a shadowy U.S. NGO, and the choice of a former Guantanamo prisoner and his U.N.-sanctioned brother, as the local U.S. Special Operations-directed corrupt warlords.
The pilot project inflamed an unstable district into outright war.
This is our current plan for bringing stability to Afghanistan.