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The US gave 3 billion dollars to Osama Bin Laden, and then he created Al-Qaeda.
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri says much the same thing in his book Knights Under the Prophet's Banner.[19] Bin Laden himself has said "the collapse of the Soviet Union ... goes to God and the mujahideen in Afghanistan ... the US had no mentionable role," but "collapse made the US more haughty and arrogant." [20]
was always galling to the Americans, and I can understand their point of view, that although they paid the piper they could not call the tune. The CIA supported the mujahideen by spending the taxpayers' money, billions of dollars of it over the years, on buying arms, ammunition, and equipment. It was their secret arms procurement branch that was kept busy. It was, however, a cardinal rule of Pakistan's policy that no Americans ever become involved with the distribution of funds or arms once they arrived in the country. No Americans ever trained or had direct contact with the mujahideen, and no American official ever went inside Afghanistan
Both flatly denied that any CIA funds ever went to bin Laden. They felt so strongly about this point that they agreed to go on the record, an unusual move by normally reticent intelligence officers. Mr. Peikney added in an e-mail to me: “I don’t even recall UBL [bin Laden] coming across my screen when I was there
Originally posted by Kang69
reply to post by Humanity4Ever
A lot of nerve huh? That's funny. What's funny is that I'm guessing you think questioning Israel has something to do with being anti-Semitic because of the Holocaust.
I'm guessing you've never seen Gaza?
Pulling out of this conversation and saying " i cant have an intellectual conversation with you" is a complete cop out and you know it.
Let me ask you something, do you hold the same judgment over other genocides? Do you think the indigenous people in North America that were slaughtered should own half of the US? How about the millions slaughtered under Lenin? We can go on and on about this, but you see my point.
Let me get this right, you get to excuse a country of it's war crimes because it's had a rough past? Well, that means you would have to excuse, EVERY country, you would have to not question every country in the world because of that logic.
But you know what it really is? People don't give a # about brown people. They don't care about the genocide of North American indigenous people, the only reason why you give a care in the world about Israel, is because you don't see movies depicting the slaughters of Native Americans. There is no Native American propaganda running through this country telling you to feel bad for what happened to there people.
Zionists use the Holocaust as a technique for you to ignore all truth and information, and use it simply for you to not question Israel's actions.
I have to go now, I'll be back later.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by Kang69
reply to post by SLAYER69
The US gave 3 billion dollars to Osama Bin Laden, and then he created Al-Qaeda.
Prove it
BBC news article:
"...Bin Laden left Saudi Arabia in 1979 to fight
against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. 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."
news.bbc.co.uk...
TForbes business information service article:
"...[Osama bin Laden] received military and
financial assistance from the intelligence services
of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United States."
www.forbes.com...
ABC News article:
"In the 1980s, bin Laden left his comfortable
Saudi home for Afghanistan to participate in the
Afghan jihad, or holy war, against the invading
forces of the Soviet Union - a cause that,
ironically, the United States funded, pouring
$3 billion into the Afghan resistance via the CIA."
abcnews.go.com...
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Prove it
The story of the anticommunist rebellion in Afghanistan begins in 1978, when the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan, a pro-Soviet party, took over the country; this was followed by Soviet occupation in 1979. As resistance spread, a series of separate Mujahiddin groups were established, with base camps centered around Peshawar, Pakistan. These received massive external support from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, as well as from a variety of U.S. allies. The CIA tended to favor the most extreme of the Mujahiddin commanders, ensuring that the most fanatical groups were also the best trained and armed
The group that received the most U.S. aid was Hisb-i-Islami, headed by Gulbadin Hekmatyar. In retrospect, there is little doubt that Hekmatyar had an appalling human rights record, every bit as bad as that of the communist forces he opposed. As a young political activist in Kabul, Hekmatyar directed his radical friends to throw acid at the faces of unveiled women. This ruthlessly violent approach characterized Hekmatyar’s later guerrilla operation against the Soviets.
Originally posted by Kang69
Al-Qaeda was created when the CIA gave 3 billion dollars to Osama Bin Laden to fight the Russians.
Bin Laden's war against the U.S. would take the form of a prolonged terrorist campaign. In 1989, the same year that the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, bin Laden founded his international terrorist organization, Al Qaeda (The Base) to train fighters for the global jihad against America.
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by forklift
and what is the basis of this accusation?
Read some of my SIG Quotes.
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by SLAYER69
They really can't grasp that the muhjahideen fought the soviets, and al queda was formed after their withdrawl.
They are truly living in their own reality.