From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 19:52:25 MST
--- Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com> wrote:
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
> > Here's food for thought to those on the left that would like to
> claim
> > that people like Osama bin Laden and Mohammad Atta were in the
> employ
> > of the CIA and/or were on our most favored muslim whackjobs list in
> the
> > 1980's (though it seems they were on the Democrats preference
> list)..
> >
>
> Sorry but it is a *fact* not a *claim* that Osama was directly
> funded and set up by US when he and other fanatics were gathered
> and trained to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. No one has
> any reason to deny that or pretend about it.
I don't suppose that you noticed the year in that post (1987), which
was right in the middle of the period where we were really arming the
Mujahedeen with Stingers, etc. If Bin Laden was our buddy and our pet
muslim, why then did he threaten the life of the Colonel? The fact is
that our support for the Mujahedeen threatened his influence with them,
which was supported by money from the muslim world, primarily his own
family and the Saudi family, not from us. He saw us as competitors and
threats to his power.
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