-Caveat Lector-
"Fund raiser" and "financier" seem to me to be euphemisms for drug money
launderer. When the news says bin Laden was trained in covert operations,
that means he learned how to reinvest drug profits into "legitimate"
enterprises like real estate, construction, and communications
infrastructure. That's why he's protected in his homeland; he helps create
jobs, roads, bridges, factories--all the things our government promises to
deliver to the American people. The battle is over who owns the poppy
fields and how to split up the profits. It's reminiscent of the turf wars
in Chicago at the peak of prohibition of alcohol.
-----Original Message-----
From: Samantha L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 2:27 AM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] bin laden trained at ft benning?
>-Caveat Lector-
>
>In a message dated 9/18/01 10:55:07 PM Central Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> anyone have any info on this?
>
>(from a message board: http://www.unknowncountry.com/board/):
>
>In the text of Linda Moulton Howe's recent report, "Who is Osama bin Laden
>and What Does He Want?" there is no mention of the US CIA's role in helping
>create the Osama bin Laden we are faced with today. There is no mention of
>this in Whitley's most recent journal article either.
>
>This CIA funding, arming and training has not been a secret, so why is it
>being overlooked?
>
>Linda's report says:
>
>"During the 1980s, Osama bin Laden was an aggressive fund raiser to provide
>the mujahedeen freedom fighters whatever aid and military equipment he
could.
>By 1988, he established his now-famous organization, Al Qaeda, to provide
>more military muscle and financing to the Afghan resistance. "
>-----
>An aggressive fundraiser? Is that what Saddam Hussein was when we were
>funding him in his struggle against Iran? That's certainly funny way of
>putting it.
>
>Does anyone see a pattern here? The US builds up vicious leaders who oppose
>our "Enemies Du Jour" and these same leaders turn around and become our
worst
>enemies. We conveniently forget that the US has backed (if not outright
>created) some of the most despicable regimes in history.
>---
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4257158,00.html
>
>Blowback chronicles
>Giles Foden
>Saturday September 15, 2001
>
>"During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, US officials passed billions
in
>funding and training to the mojahedin. The CIA, in particular while under
the
>direction of William Casey - head of the agency during the Reagan
>administration - was the main manager of these operations. With the Russian
>withdrawal in 1989, the CIA "celebrated its victory with champagne". So
says
>Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism (Pluto Press,
>�12.99), the definitive account by ABC journalist John Cooley."
>
>and:
>
>Cooley points out that while the State Department released a fact sheet on
>bin Laden in 1997 (the year prior to the bombing of the East African
>embassies), the document "omits the background facts which help to explain
>how early and close were his connections in the United States - making it
>easier for the Reagan-Casey jihad team to enlist his talents and his
>fortune".
>
>and:
>
>Everyone was getting along famously, according to Cooley. "Delighted by his
>impeccable Saudi credentials, the CIA gave Osama free rein in Afghanistan,
as
>did Pakistan's intelligence generals."
>-----
>
>>From an MSNBC article:
>
>http://www.msnbc.com/local/pencilnews/158716.asp
>
>"But in 1979, bin Laden left Saudi Arabia to fight in Afghanistan. He
fought
>on the side of the mujaheddin, which were right-wing Islamic troops who
>fought against the Soviet invasion and puppet government.
>
>The mujaheddin was backed by a number of countries, including the United
>States. In fact, some experts believe that bin Laden received some training
>from the CIA."
>-----
>and
>
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/627355.asp
>
>"Osama bin Laden, one-time ally of the CIA in the war against the Soviet
army
>in Afghanistan, is now the primary suspect in the attacks on the World
Trade
>Center and the Pentagon, the most deadly terrorist assaults in U.S.
history."
>-----
>http://www.indiaabroaddaily.com/2001/03/06/06taliban.html
>
>'CIA worked with Pak to create Taliban'
>Sanjay Suri, London
>March 06, 2001 11:40 Hrs (IST)
>
>THE CENTRAL Intelligence Agency (CIA) worked in tandem with Pakistan to
>create the "monster" that is today Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, a leading
US
>expert on South Asia said here.
>
>"I warned them that we were creating a monster," Selig Harrison from the
>Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars said at the conference
here
>last week on "Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in
>Asia."
>
>Harrison said: "The CIA made a historic mistake in encouraging Islamic
groups
>from all over the world to come to Afghanistan." The US provided $3 billion
>for building up these Islamic groups, and it accepted Pakistan's demand
that
>they should decide how this money should be spent, Harrison said.
>-----
>No genuine assessment of the enemy that Osama bin Laden may be today can be
>made without taking into consideration the US government's own covert ops'
>involvement in his financing, training and arms acquisition. To ingore this
>aspect does not help anyone, except maybe the US government, who is
>apparently lusting for war. I am disappointed that both Linda and Whitley
>have glossed over these facts.
>
>I have a few questions:
>
>1) Is there money to be made in war?
>
>2) Is the arms industry going to donate their profits to charity because
this
>is such a "moral" cause?
>
>3) Did Ike or did he not warn us about the Military/Industrial complex?
>
>Suspicious Minds Want to Know.
>
>sailor
>----------
>Samantha
>
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