阿富汗直升機謠言拒絕死亡

直升機謠言拒絕死亡
Helicopter Rumour Refuses to Die
Many Afghans believe foreign forces providing support for insurgents in the north.
許多阿富汗人相信外國軍隊提供支持給北部武裝分子。
By Ahmad Kawoosh - Afghanistan
ARR Issue 343, 2 Nov 09

Persistent accounts of western forces in Afghanistan using their helicopters to ferry Taleban fighters, strongly denied by the military, is feeding mistrust of the forces that are supposed to be bringing order to the country.
持續的敍述有關在阿富汗的西方勢力，利用它們的直升機去運載塔利班戰士，雖軍方極力否認，但應為該國帶來秩序的部隊越來越不獲信任。
One such tale came from a soldier from the 209th Shahin Corps of the Afghan National Army, fighting against the growing insurgency in Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan. Over several months, he had taken part in several pitched battles against the armed opposition.
一個這樣的故事來自阿富汗國民軍209沙欣兵團的一名士兵 ，他在阿富汗北部昆都士省對抗日益增長的叛亂，歷時數月，他已參加過幾場對武裝反對派的激戰。
“Just when the police and army managed to surround the Taleban in a village of Qala-e-Zaal district, we saw helicopters land with support teams,” he said. “They managed to rescue their friends from our encirclement, and even to inflict defeat on the Afghan National Army.”
“剛在警察和軍隊設法包圍在Qala-Zaal區一條鄉村的塔利班，我們看見直升飛機降落帶來支持隊伍，”他說。 “他們設法從我們的包圍圈營救他們的朋友，和甚至造成阿富汗國民軍的敗仗。”
This story, in one form or another, is being repeated throughout northern Afghanistan. Dozens of people claim to have seen Taleban fighters disembark from foreign helicopters in several provinces. The local talk is of the insurgency being consciously moved north, with international troops ferrying fighters in from the volatile south, to create mayhem in a new location.
這故事，以這或另一種形式，正在整個阿富汗北部重複。數十人聲稱自己看到塔利班武裝分子在幾個省份從外國直升機下機，當地的談話是叛亂有意識地向北移動，而國際部隊從動盪的南部運送戰士入來，去在新位置建立混亂。
Helicopters are almost exclusively the domain of foreign forces in Afghanistan – the international military controls the air space, and has a virtual monopoly on aircraft. So when Afghans see choppers, they think foreign military.
直升機在阿富汗幾乎完全是外國勢力的招牌 - 國際軍方控制了領空，和在飛機上擁有一實質的壟斷。因此當阿富汗人看到直升機，他們會以為是外國軍隊。
“Our fight against the Taleban is nonsense,” said the soldier from Shahin Corps. “Our foreigner ‘friends’ are friendlier to the opposition.”
“我們對塔利班的戰爭是謊謬的，”沙欣兵團的士兵說， “我們的外國人'朋友'是對反對派更友好的。”
For months or even years, rumours have been circulating in Afghanistan that the Taleban are being financed or even directly supported militarily by the foreign forces.
已數月或甚至數年，傳聞已經流傳在阿富汗，即塔利班正被資助，或甚至在軍事上直接由外國勢力支持。
In part it stems from an inability to believe that major foreign armies cannot defeat a ragtag bunch of insurgents; in addition, Afghanistan has been a centre of foreign intrigue for so long that belief in plots comes naturally to many war-weary Afghans.
在一部份它源自於一種無法相信，主要的外國軍隊無法戰勝一群烏合之眾的叛亂分子；此外，阿富汗已成為外國陰謀的中心這麼久，陰謀的信念對許多厭倦戰爭的阿富汗人來得順其自然。
The international troops hotly deny that they are supporting the insurgents.
國際部隊熱烈地否認他們在支持叛軍。
“This entire business with the helicopters is just a rumour,” said Brigadier General Juergen Setzer, recently appointed commander for the International Security Assistance Force, ISAF, in the north. “It has no basis in reality, according to our investigations.”
“這整項與直升機的業務衹是一個謠言，”克林斯曼塞策準將說，他是北部最近任命的國際安全援助部隊(ISAF)指揮官， “在現實中它是沒有基礎的，根據我們的調查。”
The general added that ISAF-North had overall control of the air space in the northern region.
將軍補充北部國際安全援助部隊已全面控制北部地區的領空。
But the persistent rumours that foreign helicopters have been sighted assisting the Taleban in northern Afghanistan were given an unexpected boost in mid-October by Afghan president Hamed Karzai, who told the media that his administration was investigating similar reports that “unknown” helicopters were ferrying the insurgents from Helmand province in the south to Baghlan, Kunduz, and Samangan provinces in the north.

Captain Tim Dark, of Britain’s Task Force Helmand, was vehement in his reaction.

“The thought that British soldiers could be aiding and abetting the enemy is just rubbish,” he said. “We have had 85 casualties so far this year.”

Engineer Mohammad Omar, governor of Kunduz, refused to comment on the issue, but Enayatullah Enayat, governor of Samangan, also denied that the helicopters were moving the opposition around in Samangan.

“I am in contact with both national and foreign forces in Samangan,” he said. “I have not seen any suspicious helicopters bringing in the Taleban.”

The north has recently witnessed a spike in insurgent activity, particularly in Kunduz and Baghlan. Provinces that were relatively calm even six months ago are experiencing armed attacks, suicide bombings, even outright Taleban control over several districts.

In a district of Baghlan province, Baghlan-e-Markazi, residents witnessed a battle last month in which they insisted that two foreign helicopters had delivered the Taleban fighters who then attacked their district centre.

“I saw the helicopters with my own eyes,” said Sayed Rafiq from Baghlan-e-Markazi.

“They landed near the foothills and offloaded dozens of Taleban with turbans, and wrapped in patus (a blanket-type shawl).”

According to numerous media reports, the Taleban attacked the district centre, and the district police chief along with the head of counter-narcotics and a number of soldiers were killed.

Commander Amir Gul district governor of Baghlan-e-Markazi insisted that the Taleban fighters had been delivered by helicopter.

“I do not know to which country the helicopters belonged,” he told IWPR. “But these are the same helicopters that are taking the Taleban from Helmand to Kandahar and from there to the north, especially to Baghlan.”

According to Amir Gul, the district department of the National Security Directorate had identified the choppers, but it refused to comment.

Baghlan police chief Mohammad Kabir Andarabi said that his department had reported to the central government that foreign helicopters were transporting the Taleban into Baghlan.

The Baghlan provincial governor, Mohammad Akbar Barikzai, told a news conference on October 21 that his intelligence and security services had discovered that unidentified helicopters were landing at night in some parts of the province.

“We are investigating,” he said.

Rumours have reached the point where US ambassador Karl Eikenberry felt compelled to address them last week at a ceremony honouring the more than 5,500 Afghan police and soldiers who have died during the present war.

The reports were “outrageous and baseless”, said Eikenberry, as reported by McClatchy newspapers. “We would never aid the terrorists that attacked us on September 11, that are killing our soldiers, your soldiers, and innocent Afghan civilians every day.”

Afghan political analysts have woven elaborate theories as to why the foreign forces would be helping the Taleban.

According to Rahim Rahimi, a professor at Balkh University, America and the United Kingdom are trying to keep all of Afghanistan insecure, so that people feel the need for the foreign forces.

“They will try and destabilise the north any way they can,” Rahimi said. “It is a good excuse to expand their presence in the area, to get a grip on the gas and oil in central Asia.”

Fighting Islamic extremists was one way to insert themselves into the area without provoking a fierce reaction from Russia and the Central Asian governments, he added.

Numerous websites have devoted blogs, columns and “investigative reports” to the helicopter rumours; literally everyone has heard the whispers, and many, if not most, believe them. It provides an added reason to suspect and fear the foreign forces, as well as an explanation for the rapid spread of the insurgency throughout the country.

In the end, it may not really matter whether the rumours are ever substantiated. The firm belief that Afghans have in them can determine attitudes and behaviour, further fueling mistrust of the westerners in their midst.

Ahmad Kawoosh is an IWPR journalist based in Mazar-e-Sharif.

http://iwpr.net/report-news/helicopter-rumour-refuses-die

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