"I've got a lot of confidence in the CIA, and so should America," Bush said. http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/26/gen.america.under.attack/index.html
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Osama Bin Laden: Sponsored by US and Pakistan
"His power is founded on a personal fortune earned by his family's construction business in Saudi Arabia. The Afghan jihad was backed with American dollars and had the blessing of the governments of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. He received security training from the CIA itself, according to Middle Eastern analyst Hazhir Teimourian. "
Source: http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_155000/1... --------
Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S. Helped Midwife a Terrorist (Center for Public Integrity)
"In 1986, CIA chief William Casey had stepped up the war against the Soviet Union by taking three significant, but at that time highly secret, measures. He had persuaded the US Congress to provide the Mujaheddin with American-made Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down Soviet planes and provide US advisers to train the guerrillas. Until then, no US-made weapons or personnel had been used directly in the war effort. (...) Casey committed CIA support to a long-standing ISI initiative to recruit **radical Muslims** from around the world to come to Pakistan and fight with the Afghan Mujaheddin."
Source: http://www.public-i.org/excerpts_01_091301.htm
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