Tuesday September 12, 2017
Kabul (BNA) 16 years has passed since September 11 incident in America which has considered as an unprecedented terrorist attacks in modern history of the world, but still terrorism takes the lives of many innocent people across the world.
The terrorist attacks targeting the twin towers of International Trade Center and the headquarters of US defense ministry killed more than three thousand people and injured thousands people of various nationalities, faith and religions.
The attacks are considered the unprecedented terrorist attacks, the world history has seen. What has happened in September 11, 2001 was not only a terrorist attack, but terrorists and extremists exercised their power to the world big military and economic countries of the world. US called the attacks declaring war against humanity and urgently try to establish an international coalition aiming to eradicate terrorism this notorious phenomenon.
Al- Qaeda under the leadership of Osama bin Laden whose hideout was in Afghanistan claimed the responsibility of those catastrophic attacks. The consequences of the attacks force US to send its troops to Afghanistan to fight terrorism. It is the longest and the most expensive war, US are experiencing, but still is no signs of its ending. The presence of thousands troops from various countries of world in Afghanistan after September 11 indicates that the international community is resolute to rid the humanity from the evil of terrorism and extremism forever. Unfortunately, after 16 years, the countries involved in war against terrorism and extremism have not succeeded to end those evil and satanic phenomenon, but other terrorist and extremist groups emerged. Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al- Shabab in Somalia, IS in Iraq and Syria and Lashkar-i-Janwee in Pakistan are the new terrorist groups have emerged after September 11.
In addition, after September 11, 2001 London, Tokyo, Delhi, Madrid, Russia, Italy, Paris and Egypt were the scenes of terrorist incidents which prove that terrorism knows no boundary and aiming to destroy both the spiritual and physical properties of mankind. Likewise, Taliban in Afghanistan who were the main target of international coalition in war against terrorism not only defeated, but become more powerful that potentially remained as serious threat in Afghanistan and other countries in the region. There are terrorist challenges in the world that the civilized and powerful countries of the world so far have failed to eliminate them.
The reason of the failure is, from the beginning there was no single definition from terrorism and the countries dealt with it according to their interests. Sponsor countries of terrorism in disguise of friends carrying dual games kept the international coalition busy and carried out their evil activities in hidden to achieve their heinous objectives in the region.
Lack of a precise strategy and program in war against terrorism could be another reason that US and its western allies failed to overcome and defeat terrorism. Terrorists and extremists are the enemies of the humanity, there should make no distinction among them. As after September 11, many cities across the world were the targets of terrorist attacks. The facts indicate that terrorists as the enemies of humanity act in unity but the countries in war against terrorism follow their own interests that make the war against that notorious phenomenon harder and longer. Therefore, it would an urgent need of world community to consider terrorism as a grave enemy of mankind and resolutely fight against it in order to sate the humanity from the evil of terrorism that threats the world as a whole.
