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http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,28%257E261718,00.html
book review
Eye of the storm
U.S. gets blame for Muslim deaths
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HOLY WAR, INC.
Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
By Peter L. Bergen
Free Press, 283 pages, $26
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By Steve Weinberg
Special to the Denver Post
Sunday, December 09, 2001
�... While bin Laden is always the villain at center stage, Bergen sometimes
places U.S. military and civilian officials in the wings. Even the most
attentive media consumers probably will be surprised at the misguided
decisions made year after year on behalf of the U.S. government.
How many readers of Bergen's book, for example, already understood the
disastrous consequences of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
disseminating $3 billion of taxpayer money to Pakistani sources, who in turn
used at least $600 million of the total to support Gulbiddin Hekmatyar, an
Islamic zealot controlling one of Afghanistan's seven political parties?
Instead of fighting Soviet invaders effectively, Bergen reports, Hekmatyar
used the new-found wealth to kill his Afghan opponents, while simultaneously
training anti-American terrorists who would later assist bin Laden....�
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