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German and Italian intelligence agents established clandestine contacts with faqir of ipi in south waziristan. The Afghan governament warned the Germans about the misfortune by all those who tried to manipulate frontier tribes. German ignorance about frontier tribal dynamics, the afghans pointed out gauaranted that their covert activities would fail.
Afghan bluntness did not deter the Germans. In 1941, an italian intelligence agent traveled to south waziristan and opened contacts with faqiur of ipi with a view to furnish arms, ammunition, and communication equipments equipments for raids against British troops. The Italians provided the faqir with a substancial amount of Afghan cuurency and 12,000 pounds. The faqir agreed to recieve radio operator to train his men in operating a German shortwave radio transmitter, he returned the british pound notes , stating his preference for american dollars or gold.
The abwehr took over the faqir of Ipi's portfolio from the Italians. German intelligence gave the Faqir of Ipi the code name Feuerfresser (Fire-eater). when two abwehr agents with waziri escorts left kabul for south waziristan , dressed as afghans, they were carrying money, maps, weapons,and radio equipments. On july 19, 1941, a fifty-man afghan army unit surrounded the german encampment. during the ensueing firefight , the waziris ran away. One of the German was killed, the other captured. Back in kabul, german minister told Afghan officials the mission was merely exploratory and a "tragic mistake"
.Afghans believed that the operation had probably been penetrated by the British from begining. Afghan premeir insisted that, given the vast british spy network and German ignorance of the region , similar ventures to be avoided in future.
Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence By Jefferson Adams
The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the ... By Peter Tomsen
German operatives of the Abwehr continued supplying Kabul with finances and
arms, and even contacted Mirza Ali Khan, the faqir of Ipi, who waged continuous
skirmishes against the British in Waziristan, providing him payments and materiel.
The Daily Herald claimed on its front page of April 16, 1937, that Mussolini was behind the revolt in North waziristan. The Sunday Chronicle on February 26 1939 implied that a radio link between the faqir of ipi and the italians had been established. The article added meanwhile Hitler is active in Kabul.....
Subhas chandra bose viewed the Afghan tribal territory as an important staging territory in his plan to harass british india, bose discussed these plans perosnally on his vist to Berlin. The axis however proved incapable of establishing strong propaganda operation on the north west frontier and never attained any capability to airlift commando units to support an insurgency in afghanistan. The axis legations in kabul recieved the following monetary requests from the faqir :, 25,000 pounds to be paid bimonthly , according the hauner's research, and doublke the sum if tribal unrest should be extended to other areas. In the event of general uprising on the frontier the sum would be increased three times the orignal amount, not including supplies of weapons and ammunition that the faqir also required urgently to sutain insurgency .
The Germans also wanted to establish their own links with faqir, but unlike the italian improvisation, their leads had to be on truly grandiose scale. Oberleutnant Dietrich witzel-kim, chief of the Abwehr branch in kabul, was ordered with his Afghan and indian agents to take charge of contact arrangement with the faqir and to seek out a landing strip in the operating area of faqir of ipi. A full scale uprising among the frontier tribes was the scheme dreamt by axis, to occur on september 1941 Barbrossa ( German invasion of soviet union) was expected to be completed.
Had the axis managed the faqir of ipi and shami pir affair differently and fought a long term war on the periphery instead of direct attacks on France and Soveit union, the conflict would have evolved differently.
While Germans agitated in afghanistan anti-british sentiments, george cunningahm, the governor of NWFP worked through his political agent kuli khan to get more mullahs in tribal areas to speak out against bolshevism , and then the axis countries as enemies of islam . Among the descriptions used against the japanese was but-parasti(idol worshipper)
The Secret War for the Middle East: The Influence of Axis and Allied ...By Youssef H. Aboul-Enein, Basil H. Aboul-Enein
Germans and Faqir of ipi in WW2 | History of Pashtuns
Afghan bluntness did not deter the Germans. In 1941, an italian intelligence agent traveled to south waziristan and opened contacts with faqiur of ipi with a view to furnish arms, ammunition, and communication equipments equipments for raids against British troops. The Italians provided the faqir with a substancial amount of Afghan cuurency and 12,000 pounds. The faqir agreed to recieve radio operator to train his men in operating a German shortwave radio transmitter, he returned the british pound notes , stating his preference for american dollars or gold.
The abwehr took over the faqir of Ipi's portfolio from the Italians. German intelligence gave the Faqir of Ipi the code name Feuerfresser (Fire-eater). when two abwehr agents with waziri escorts left kabul for south waziristan , dressed as afghans, they were carrying money, maps, weapons,and radio equipments. On july 19, 1941, a fifty-man afghan army unit surrounded the german encampment. during the ensueing firefight , the waziris ran away. One of the German was killed, the other captured. Back in kabul, german minister told Afghan officials the mission was merely exploratory and a "tragic mistake"
.Afghans believed that the operation had probably been penetrated by the British from begining. Afghan premeir insisted that, given the vast british spy network and German ignorance of the region , similar ventures to be avoided in future.
Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence By Jefferson Adams
The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the ... By Peter Tomsen
German operatives of the Abwehr continued supplying Kabul with finances and
arms, and even contacted Mirza Ali Khan, the faqir of Ipi, who waged continuous
skirmishes against the British in Waziristan, providing him payments and materiel.
The Daily Herald claimed on its front page of April 16, 1937, that Mussolini was behind the revolt in North waziristan. The Sunday Chronicle on February 26 1939 implied that a radio link between the faqir of ipi and the italians had been established. The article added meanwhile Hitler is active in Kabul.....
Subhas chandra bose viewed the Afghan tribal territory as an important staging territory in his plan to harass british india, bose discussed these plans perosnally on his vist to Berlin. The axis however proved incapable of establishing strong propaganda operation on the north west frontier and never attained any capability to airlift commando units to support an insurgency in afghanistan. The axis legations in kabul recieved the following monetary requests from the faqir :, 25,000 pounds to be paid bimonthly , according the hauner's research, and doublke the sum if tribal unrest should be extended to other areas. In the event of general uprising on the frontier the sum would be increased three times the orignal amount, not including supplies of weapons and ammunition that the faqir also required urgently to sutain insurgency .
The Germans also wanted to establish their own links with faqir, but unlike the italian improvisation, their leads had to be on truly grandiose scale. Oberleutnant Dietrich witzel-kim, chief of the Abwehr branch in kabul, was ordered with his Afghan and indian agents to take charge of contact arrangement with the faqir and to seek out a landing strip in the operating area of faqir of ipi. A full scale uprising among the frontier tribes was the scheme dreamt by axis, to occur on september 1941 Barbrossa ( German invasion of soviet union) was expected to be completed.
Had the axis managed the faqir of ipi and shami pir affair differently and fought a long term war on the periphery instead of direct attacks on France and Soveit union, the conflict would have evolved differently.
While Germans agitated in afghanistan anti-british sentiments, george cunningahm, the governor of NWFP worked through his political agent kuli khan to get more mullahs in tribal areas to speak out against bolshevism , and then the axis countries as enemies of islam . Among the descriptions used against the japanese was but-parasti(idol worshipper)
The Secret War for the Middle East: The Influence of Axis and Allied ...By Youssef H. Aboul-Enein, Basil H. Aboul-Enein
Germans and Faqir of ipi in WW2 | History of Pashtuns
