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Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S.
Ahmed Rashid of Pakistan is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a project of the Center for Public Integrity. He is the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and The Daily Telegraph of London. This is an excerpt from his book "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia" (Yale University Press).
Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S.
Helped Midwife a Terrorist
Ahmed Rashid of Pakistan is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a project of the Center for Public Integrity. He is the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and The Daily Telegraph of London. This is an excerpt from his book \"Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia\" (Yale University Press).
By Ahmed Rashid
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.
The CIA, Britain\'s MI6 and the ISI [Pakistan
Helped Midwife a Terrorist
Ahmed Rashid of Pakistan is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a project of the Center for Public Integrity. He is the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and The Daily Telegraph of London. This is an excerpt from his book \"Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia\" (Yale University Press).
By Ahmed Rashid
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.
The CIA, Britain\'s MI6 and the ISI [Pakistan
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CIA has been involved in fucking up the entire world and the hypocricy with which American Media has been playing to the tune of the American Government and hypnotising the Ignorant common Amercian public is laughable.
What happened on Sept 11 is sad and is not to be forgiven, having said that Americans should ask few candid questions to BUSH.
1. Why did the CIA chief not resign.
2. Why did CIA create TALIBAN with American taxpayers money
3. Follow the money trail, who is going to benefit from the US 40 billion
4. Why is CNN not showing OSAMA pre-1990.
there are 100 other rhetorical questions
THINK AMERICA....THINK
i am an atrocity away from joining the jihad myself