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Originally Posted by Bodyhammer86
will, do you have any proof whatsoever to prove that the CIA trained Bin Laden or Al-Zarqawi? I mean, seriously, you've been peddling this myth that the CIA has trained these guys all these times and you've offered no proof at all to show that this is true. While it is true that we funded and armed the Mujahudeen during the Soviet Invasion, most of the factions we gave aid to became fighters for the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance (hell, they even fought under the same name).
To put this bullshit to rest once and for all: http://www2.gol.com/users/coynerhm/osama_bin_laden.htm and there have also been many declassified government documents pertaining to this incident that have debunked this myth as well. |
It's common knowledge that Osama Bin Laden and many members of the current al-Qaeda were trained by the CIA when he was a member of the Afghan jihad fighting against Communist Russia.
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Originally Posted by BBC News
[Osama Bin Laden] received security training from the CIA itself
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/155236.stm
While the official story of the US government so far is that they have not trained Bin Laden...it is general knowledge to the rest of us.
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Originally Posted by The New Yorker
That Pan-Islamic effort, whose fighters were funded, armed, and trained by the C.I.A., eventually brought some twenty-five thousand Islamic militants, from more than fifty countries, to combat the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The United States, intentionally or not, had launched Pan-Islam's first jihad, or holy war, in eight centuries.
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http://www.newyorker.com/archive/con...24fr_archive03