Afghanistan’s “Color Revolution”: Who Is Ali Ahmad Jalali?
Global Research, August 18, 2021
What is abundantly clear is that the U.S. has not been thrown out of Afghanistan. Quite the opposite. A so-called interim Afghan government is to be headed by Prof. Ali Ahmad Jalali, who just so happens to be a US citizen. “Regime Change” in Afghanistan? Troop withdrawals coupled with a US sponsored color revolution? Born in Afghanistan, Ali Ahmad Jalali is currently a distinguished professor at the National Defense University’s Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA). Based at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington DC, The National Defense University is a partner institution of the US Department of Defense.
The motto of the National Defense University (NDU) is “All About Peace”. This what they teach at the NDU: NDU educates joint Warfighters in critical thinking and the creative application of military power to inform national strategy and globally integrated operations, under conditions of disruptive change, in order to conduct war”
Appointed by the Pentagon, “Professor Jalali is Our Man”. He has an expertise in Counter-Insurgency and Counter-Terrorism Ops as well as in so-called “Post-Conflict Stabilization and Reconstruction”. He has also lectured at U.S. Army War College, the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas as well as at the British Army Staff College, Camberley, UK.
Negotiations with the Taliban
The formation of a US sponsored interim regime should come as no surprise. US withdrawal from Afghanistan has been the object of extensive negotiations between Washington and the Taliban. An earlier deal was signed in Doha in late February 2020 during the Trump administration.
The transition timeline including the appointment of Prof. Ali Ahmad Jalali (a former Minister of the Interior, 2003-2005) had been agreed upon well in advance. On August 09, 2021, US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad arrived in Doha with a US team of negotiators for 3 days of top level discussions with representatives of both the Taliban and the defunct government of Ashraf Ghani.
In the wake of the Doha meeting on August 13,the “Green Light” was given to Taliban Forces to capture Kabul as well as most of the provincial capitals. (See Southfront, August 18)
The evacuation of the US embassy described by the media is a smokescreen. The entry of the Taliban into Kabul which prompted the U.S to evacuate its embassy, had been carefully planned and agreed upon.
Similarities to the evacuation of US troops from Vietnam in April 1975, are nonsensical.
The presidential palace was taken without a fight.
The Taliban have not won the war. A US appointee is to lead an interim administration.
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The Hamid Karzai Government
On December 22, 2001, less than three months following the US-NATO October led invasion, Hamid Karzai, a Consultant to UNOCAL (Union Oil Company of California), was called upon by US-NATO to lead an Afghanistan interim government.
Ali Ahmad Jalali was appointed by Karzai (approved by Washington) to the position of Minister of the Interior. During his mandate (2003-2005) Jalali was put in charge of the training of some 75,000 Afghan National Police (ANP) and Border Police (ABP). Officially these police forces had a counter-terrorism mandate. Unofficially they turned a blind eye to the (multibillion dollar) opium trade which was protected by the US military.
And now Professor Jalali of the National Defense University will be leading an interim Afghan government, with selected appointees.
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