09-18-2007, 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by timhaughton
I do get the feeling that I could send you a picture of Bin Laden showing off a blank CIA cheque, and you still wouldn't see it.
Between 1978 and 1992, the US government poured in at least US $6 billion (some estimates range as high as $20 billion) worth of arms, training and funds to prop up the mujaheddin [in Afghanistan]. Other western governments, as well as oil-rich Saudi Arabia, kicked in as much again. Wealthy Arab fanatics, like Osama bin Laden, provided millions more. ... |
Maybe you could explain why OBL would need any money when your own post states he provided MILLIONS!!
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Washington's favoured mujaheddin faction was one of the most extreme, led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. ... Osama bin Laden was a close associate of Hekmatyar and his faction.
[Norm Dixon, "How the CIA created Osama bin Laden" (autumn 2001)]
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As I said before OBL was 'working' for/with Azzam. OBL had money and had no need for the CIA.
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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 ["Services Office"] — the MAK — which funneled money, arms and fighters from the outside world into the Afghan war.
What the CIA bio[graphy] 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. ...
[Michael Moran, "Bin Laden comes home to roost", MSNBC, 24 Aug. 1998]
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ISI supplied hundreds of Arabs and Afghans. The CIA sent the funds to the ISI, and the ISI sent the weapons/money to whomever. I know who the CIA did contact and it wasn't OBL. |
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