Secrets of the Lost Harappan Code—Questions About the Real Reasons for America’s Ongoing Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq
Report Topics:
- Does the ancient Indus script give us clues for finding a lost treasure which American forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan have been secretly searching for over the past eight years?
- Update—The Basis for the “Secret Treasure” Has Been Found
Full Report:
Events are never quite what they seem to be, especially when they deal with what we are being told is supposedly the truth.
Question—What are American troops, accompanied by international forces, doing in Afghanistan?
Official Answer—We are in Afghanistan to prevent Al Qeda and the Taliban using that country as a base for global terrorism, plus America is there to capture the mastermind terrorist of the 9/11 attacks, Osama ben Laden.
Reality Check—American and allied forces have been in Afghanistan for over eight years now. When we first went in, we squelched the repressive Taliban government and drove them from power within a matter of weeks. Why did we not leave then? We have become bogged down in an endless war, and now the Taliban are regaining their strength, re-occupying large parts of the Afghan countryside—and their massive resistance is directly as a result of our still being there.
Instead of getting out, President Obama has recently committed still more American troops and supplies in a major “surge” attempt within a certain timetable, in the hopes of finally leaving in either 2011 or 2012 (depending on the government source you listen to).
Why?
Another Reality Check—Osama ben Laden is not in Afghanistan. He is hiding out in the northern mountains of neighboring Pakistan. After nearly a decade after 9/11, how has a single terrorist managed to elude such an intense ongoing international effort to located him and either kill him or bring him to justice?
And again, in terms of being a potential menace, Afghanistan is not the real threat. If anything, Pakistan is at the heart of the danger because it has a nuclear arsenal. If its weapons were to be seized and fall into the hands of Al Qeda—who are in control of several northern territories in Pakistan, and within striking distance of the capital, Islamabad—then the rest of the world, including America, will be in serious trouble.
Still Another Reality Check—In the larger historical picture, why was Afghanistan of such importance in the past, invaded by everyone from the Persians and Alexander the Great, to the nineteenth century British Empire and the twentieth century Soviet Union?
Its mountainous terrain is treacherous, its culture and economy are minimal at best, and its people have always been warlike but badly ill-equippled militarily.
Yet Afghanistan is known as the “graveyard of empires,” always in the end becoming a quagmire for every invader, and defeating any would-be occupation force by sheer attrition.
And now American armies are there in greater numbers, following the same downhill path, and like so many others before them, accomplishing nothing.
Why?
The key may be found not far away but certainly long ago, among the remains of the ancient civilization of Harappa, which once flourished along the Indus river in what is now southern Pakistan, beginning more than five thousand years ago.
Among its buried forgotten cities such as Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro and others, excavated during the past two centuries, archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of tablets with curious picture-like symbol-glyphs covering their surfaces. It is undoubtedly some form of writing, but so far most modern attempts to decipher its hidden meanings have yielded little.
More recently, a computer statistical analysis of the distribution and interassociations among all the Harappan script signs confirm that the writing is indeed a form of intelligent communications, but its true meanings are not yet certain.
There are a number of other scholars who are beginning to suspect that, apart from being letters having phonetic values, the separate Harappan pictographs have another hidden level of interpretation.
Placed in certain sequential pattern orders, the signs appear to tell a single story and give directions to an unknown location.
This may be the reason why some of the symbols curiously relate more to a mountainous origin and subject matter rather than that of the flat river plain of the Indus.
In effect, the Harappan signs constitute a hidden “code,” offering a map that points far west and north, to a secret place among mountains where something tremendous valuable, a great treasure of lost wisdom, was deliberately left for someone who could understand the clues and follow them to their goal.
So far, the recognized glyph indicators suggest that somewhere in north-central Afghanistan something of utmost importance was buried that awaits discovery.
Whatever that “something” was, it was considered so fabulous that it sent none other than Alexander the Great himself off on a quest to find it, sacrificing most of his armies in defeat as a result.
Both before and after Alexander, many of the great powers of the world over the last three millennia have sent their own expeditionary forces to search in vain, finally retreating one by one with the prize never attained.
Now America has gotten itself involved in this very same region. Was the 9/11 attack only used as a veiled excuse for launching an invasion into Afghanistan?
Is the reason we are still there today because we have so far failed to find what we are really looking for?
Obviously, the capture of ben Laden was never the real purpose for going into Afghanistan, or he would have been caught or killed long before now. The fact that he is still alive may strongly suggest that he is an important player in the search for the lost treasure.
Questions—Why did America invade Iraq, and why are we still there, though we are finally preparing to pull out?
Official Answers—We went into Iraq to defeat Saddam Hussein, because he possessed weapons of mass destruction, and was aiding Al Qeda.
Reality Checks—Saddam had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11 and Al Qeda. These fictitious connections were simply an excuse to invade Iraq for another hidden agenda. Neither were there any weapons of mass destruction, which the American government knew from day one.
So why did we insist on sending wave after wave of inspection teams to Iraq? What were they really looking for? The object of their searches were Saddam’s many palaces scattered across the country—which also housed an important collection of Iraq’s most important antiquities.
Only when the inspectors failed to find their real target objects did we resort to outright invasion, leading to a very costly and prolonged occupation.
Why?
A series of revealing events about what was actually occurring took place the day that Baghdad fell. Supposedly, American troops were assigned to quickly reach and guard over the ancient treasures housed in the Baghdad Museum. Instead, our soldiers mostly stood by and let looters ransack the building from top to bottom.
In the meantime, as American soldiers took over Saddam’s palaces and used them as barracks, their many treasures preserved within also conveniently vanshed.
Most of the stolen artifacts have since been regathered and restored, but many others—especially those dating back to the earliest Sumerian period of five millennia ago—are still missing.
Was this well-orchestrated looting done on purpose? Were there additional clues to the lost wisdom hidden in Afghanistan found on the absconded Sumerian cuneiform tablets, that had been written contemporary to the Harappan scripts?
Since the raids on the Baghdand Museum and palaces, who has studied and deciphered these disappeared works? Did they supply the necessary pieces to the age-old puzzle for finding the long sought-after secret Afghan location of lost wisdom?
Is the present “surge” now going on in the remote regions of that country the final step in the quest to recover this important treasure from the uniknown past?
[Copyright 2010. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.]
Update—The Basis for the “Secret Treasure” Has Been Found
The age-old suspicion that Afghanistan holds secret wealth was verified recently when the present-day central government in Kabul announced that—according to an initial assessment made by the U.S. Geological Survey—certain mountainous regions have at least $1 trillion worth of mineral wealth.
The resources include iron, copper, cobalt, gold and more modern industrial vital minerals used in electronics, such as lithium.
These locations have been known for decades, but it took the American “presence” in the country to make the findings official. The New York Times, quoting “senior American officials,” claims the “untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan are far beyond any previously known reserves.”
In the meantime, Afghan government geologists have emphasized that the USGS survey was only preliminary and very conservative in their estimates. “This is not an overall survey of all the minerals in Afghanistan. Whatever has been initially found in this survey in just one area is worth $1 trillion.”
Since this first announcement, the Afghan Ministry of Mines has made their own detailed surveys, and they estimate that the potential wealth of valuable deposits is closer to $3 trillion—which the Kabul government is regarding as a windfall for their war-torn nation. At Hajigak in Bamiyan Province alone, is an estimated 2 billion tons of iron ore waiting to be extracted. Copper deposits are likewise in tremendous abundance, as is gold.
While the Ministry is still conducting surveys and is readying reports to be presented to potential American and European investors, what has not been officially recognized is the undisclosed historical and archaeological evidence that—long before the ancient Persians and Greeks occupied the land—someone once already exploited some of these resources using sophisticated technology, and secretly amassed their own treasure trove that still remains hidden among the Afghan mountain heights.
Utilizing clues found in Harappan script excavated along the banks of the Indus river in modern Pakistan—as well as from Sumerian cuneiform records stolen from the Baghdad Museum that had been originally unearthed along the Tigris-Euphrates in what is now modern Iraq—American investigators, backed by U.S. military authorities, are still seeking this greater treasure from the unknown past.
[Copyright 2010. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.]
