MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY : The caliphate project as an instrument of
propaganda has been on the drawing board of US intelligence for more
than ten years. In December 2004, under the Bush Administration, the
National Intelligence Council (NIC) predicted that in the year 2020 a
New Caliphate extending from the Western Mediterranean to Central Asia
and South East Asia would emerge, threatening Western democracy and
Western values.
Ronald Reagan meets Afghan Mujahideen Commanders at the White House in 1985 (Reagan Archives)
Front
row, from left: Major Gen. Hamid Gul, director general of Pakistan’s
Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Director of Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) Willian Webster; Deputy Director for
Operations Clair George; an ISI colonel; and senior CIA official, Milt
Bearden at a Mujahideen training camp in North-West Frontier Province of
Pakistan in 1987. (source RAWA)
