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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
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Your right, infowars is complete crap. Sorry but it is.
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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
From the article....
"Before “everything changed” on September 11, 2001, the corporate media published truthful stories about Osama bin Laden and his relationship with the CIA. “As his unclassified CIA biography states, bin Laden left Saudi Arabia to fight the Soviet army in Afghanistan after Moscow’s invasion in 1979. By 1984, he was running a front organization known as Maktab al-Khidamar — the MAK — which funneled money, arms and fighters from the outside world into the Afghan war,” Michael Moran wrote for MSNBC on August 24, 1998. “What the CIA bio conveniently fails to specify (in its unclassified form, at least) is that the MAK was nurtured by Pakistan’s state security services, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, the CIA’s primary conduit for conducting the covert war against Moscow’s occupation.” |
Again, when dealing with the foreign mujahadeen, the ISI followed its own policy. they went as far as limiting involvement of the CIA on the Pakistani side of the Afghan Russian conflict.
And Michael Moran's line is speculation as soon as he sats that the CIA bio didn't have information about the relationship between MAK and ISI. He's basically saying The information isn't there. I believe they're hiding it in classified documents so even though I can't see it, I believe its a fact.
This is saying something completely opposite of what you posted from your book....it goes on to say.....
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"The CIA’s intimate relationship with Osama bin Laden came to light during a the trial of Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-’Owhali and Khalfan Khamis Mohamed for the 1998 bombings of two American Embassies in Africa. Giles Foden wrote about the “deep and insidious connection” between Osama bin Laden and the CIA on September 13, 2001, for the Guardian.
“FBI investigators examining the embassy bombing sites in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam discovered that evidence led to military explosives from the US Army, and that these explosives had been delivered three years earlier to Afghan Arabs, the infamous international volunteer brigades involved side by side with bin Laden during the Afghan war against the Red Army,” Alexandra Richard wrote for Le Figaro on October 11, 2001." |
The CIA supplied weapons and funding to the Afghan local Mujahadeen. I've said that a bunch of times here. Wow surprise that it ended up in the hands of the foreign fighters. Thats not a suprise. That doesn't directly link the CIA to the foreign fighters, their charity movements or to Osama Bin Laden, who interestingly enough the CIA didn't even have a file on until 1996 under the Clinton administration.
You're reaching.
Read Bergen and Margolis book. Those two have both been involved intimatly with the members of Al Queda including Peter Bergen having at least two confirmed interviews with Bin Laden, who himself has said several times that he didn't receive funding or training from the Americans at all. He didn't need them, he had plenty of support and money and recruits from the Arab World. If Osama Bin Laden had indeed been trained by the CIA and supplied and supported by the CIA he would have been bragging about how he had fooled the Great Crusader.