http://www.msnbc.com/news/190144.asp
(...) 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-Khidamat - the MAK - which funneled money, arms and fighters from the
outside world into the Afghan war.
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. (...) Indeed, to this day, those involved in the decision to give the
Afghan rebels access to a fortune in covert funding and top-level combat
weaponry continue to defend that move in the context of the Cold War. Sen.
Orrin Hatch, a senior Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee
making those decisions, told my colleague Robert Windrem that he would
make the same call again today even knowing what bin Laden would do
subsequently. “It was worth it,” he said.
“Those were very important, pivotal matters that played an
important role in the downfall of the Soviet Union,” he said.
HINDSIGHT OR TUNNEL VISION
It should be pointed out that the evidence of bin Laden’s
connection to these activities is mostly classified, though its hard to
imagine the CIA rushing to take credit for a Frankenstein’s monster like
this. (...)
What the writer Michael Moran fails to mention is that there was a MAK office in NY. Was the ISI running that one too or had the CIA dispensed with its proxy in this case?
Hakki Alacakaptan
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|| <NEBBLFAOEKFDFJCKOHILKEBCCJAA.nucleus at superonline.com>, Hakki
|| Alacakaptan <nucleus at superonline.com> writes
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|| >
|| >That ObL was a CIA operative is a fact. That he is not one now
|| remains to be
|| >proven.
||
|| Osama bin Laden was not a 'CIA operative'. He was part of a
|| militia that
|| was in part funded by the CIA, through the Pakistan Secret Services.
|| There policy was opportunistic - disastrously so - but it was not
|| intended to subsidise a war on US embassies or the twin towers.
||
|| The fact that any of us is not now a CIA operative remains to be
|| proven...
||
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|| James Heartfield