The CIA-Bin Laden Myth

[Nie Trink Wasser]

lets have an in depth discussion of the actual story so that we have a heads up on Michael Moore's propaganda-for-the-election reel.

Everyone from Washington Post reporters to Michael Moore seems to buy some version of this.

It is time to lay to rest the nagging doubt held by many Americans that our government was somehow responsible for fostering bin Laden. It's not true and it leaves the false impression that we brought the Sept. 11 attacks down on ourselves. While it is impossible to prove a negative, all available evidence suggests that bin Laden was never funded, trained or armed by the CIA.

Bin Laden himself has repeatedly denied that he received any American support. “Personally neither I nor my brothers saw any evidence of American help,” bin Laden told British journalist Robert Fisk in 1993. In 1996, Mr. Fisk interviewed bin Laden again. The arch-terrorist was equally adamant: “We were never, at any time, friends of the Americans. We knew that the Americans supported the Jews in Palestine and that they are our enemies.”


richard miniter

 

[Dancing David]

That is it, a quote from OBL, not a credible source. I believe that the story is that he was trained at a muhajadin camp in Afghan cool war against the soviets. And viewing us as the great satan, he is of course going to deny US involve ment, it would have been suprising if they told anyone in the training that part of the funds came from the USA.

The CIA was involved with all sorts of people who later turned against our nation's intrests.

Where is the usual spark in this one NTW?

 

[Mr Manifesto]

Sinister W!

 

[Nie Trink Wasser]

Sinister W!

*claps with 3 second spacings*

 

[corplinx]

Actually, the "we created bin laden" myth is part urban legend and partially due to a speculative article from msnbc which offered no evidence of the "blowback" it purported.

In other words, the american skeptic should be asking "what evidence is there we really create bin laden?" and not "prove we did not create bin laden".

 

[Upchurch]

Actually, the "we created bin laden" myth is part urban legend and partially due to a speculative article from msnbc which offered no evidence of the "blowback" it purported.

In other words, the american skeptic should be asking "what evidence is there we really create bin laden?" and not "prove we did not create bin laden".

Inside Osama Bin Laden

Trained by the U.S. war experts to fight the Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s, bin Laden now trains and finances terrorist groups, an accusation he denies but refuses to surrender himself for a trial.

Osama Bin Laden

The 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan galvanized bin Laden. He supported the Afghan resistance, which became a jihad, or holy war. Ironically, the U.S. became a major supporter of the Afghan resistance, or mujahideen, working with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to set up Islamic schools in Pakistan for Afghan refugees. These schools later evolved into virtual training centers for Islamic radicals

Who is Osama Bin Laden

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.