F. Cassia quotes:
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...
Comment: If Bin Laden received security training from the CIA isn't that good evidence he is likely dead by now? The link doesn't work.
Cheers, k hanly
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--- On Tue, 1/5/10, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Chris Floyd on the CIA, Obama, and the attack on CIA Afghan base.
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Cc: "pen-l" <pen-l at lists.csuchico.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 1:26 PM
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:40 PM, ken
> hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > The CIA's decades-long record of sickening crime,
> outright atrocity, constitutional subversion, bungling,
> near-unbelievable incompetence, and unrelenting exacerbation
> of hatred for and violence toward the United States is
> indisputable.
>
> "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
>
> ------
> Osama Bin Laden - CIA Alumni - Class of '85
> http://www.bud.com/98/08/tkles/21.wb.binladen/
> ---------
>
> 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
>
> FC
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