Alterman's latest

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Tue Oct 30 02:28:11 PST 2001


Eric Alterman wrote:


> Does it make sense to blame the destruction of the World Trade Center
> on a $500 million nonlethal aid program that took place more than
> twenty years ago?

Where on earth does he get this figure? According to Ahmed Rashid, the US gave the Mujahedeen between 4 and 5 billion dollars between 1980 and 1992, and organized matching funds by Saudi Arabia and European countries so that the Mujahadeen received a total of over US$10 billion during that period. And most of it was lethal.

Michael

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