By TCN News,
New Delhi: Now that Osama Bin Laden, leader of the well organized terrorist movement Al-Qaida has been eliminated by the US forces in Pakistan, the Coalition Forces must withdraw from Afghanistan which they had invaded on the excuse that the then Taliban government refused to hand over Osama to America, said Mr. Syed Shahabuddin, President of the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat.
“Osama bin Laden, the founder and ideologue of the Al-Qaida, the well organized terrorist movement, was killed on Sunday, 1 May 2011 by the US forces in his well-protected sanctuary in Abbotabad, Pakistan, thus closing a historic chapter with US avenging the killing of thousands of persons in 9/11. The AIMMM recalls that the USA justified its invasion of Afghanistan on the alleged refusal of the Taliban government to hand over Osama to the American authorities. With his death, there is no justification for the US and allied forces to operate in Afghanistan and add to the misery and the destitution of the Afghan people. The AIMMM, therefore, calls upon all the foreign forces to withdraw from Afghanistan and permit its people freely to decide their future and rebuild their war-ravaged country,” Mr. Shahabuddin said in a statement on 3rd May.
He also demanded the US to relook at its political and economic policies which “generated distrust, hostility and hatred towards the US and the West generally in the Arab & Muslim world,” and gave birth to Al-Qaeda.
“His (Osama’s) basic grievances against the US and the West related to the stationing of foreign forces in the Arabian Peninsula and America’s blind support to Israel against the Palestinian people. The AIMMM feels that it is these two factors which have generated distrust, hostility and hatred towards the US and the West generally in the Arab & Muslim world which extends to the whole of the developing world who reject neo-imperialist occupation and neo-colonial exploitation of their non-renewable natural resources. The AIMMM feels that it is time for the USA to re-write its policy of political & economic hegemony and vacate its military bases on foreign soil and develop a more balanced and co-operative economic relationship,” said AIMMM president.