Google| Subject | Re: Clobberin' Time... |
| From | Drew Stile |
| Date | 09/18/2001 12:22 (09/18/2001 05:22) |
| Message-ID | <PdFp7.935$c4.25371376@ounews.ou.edu> |
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| Follows | Jill Marie |
"jill marie" <rassm@NOSPAMatt.net>wrote in message news:bJAp7.24728$Uf1.2217558@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
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James W. King <cineviews@aol.comNoSpam>wrote in message news:20010918004811.07890.00000464@mb-mb.aol.com...James W. King
James Trory (<A HREF="mailto:j_trory@yahoo.com">j_trory@yahoo.com</A>):
Jill MarieBin
Would someone please answer the question of did the US actually *train*
Laden and/or the Taliban? If so, it certainly is coming back to bite uson
the arse.Yes, we trained him and others in "the Base." In camps here in the U.S. or over there, I don't think anyone quite knows for sure. There's a couple articles I read earlier today at the end of this post. This one's a link to a biography from PBS's show Frontline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/bio.html
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Articles follow:
from http://www.guardian.co.uk/yemen/Story/0,2763,209260,00.html "Frankenstein the CIA created" Mujahideen trained and funded by the US are among its deadliest foes, reports Jason Burke in Peshawar Sunday January 17, 1999
When Clement Rodney Hampton-el, a hospital technician from Brooklyn, New Jersey, returned home from the war in Afghanistan in 1989, he told friends his only desire was to return. Though he had been wounded in the arm and leg by a Russian shell, he said he had failed. He had not achieved martyrdom in the name of Islam. So he found a different theatre for his holy war and achieved a different sort of martyrdom. Three years ago, he was convicted of planning a series of massive explosions in Manhattan and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Hampton-el was described by prosecutors as a skilled bomb-maker. It was hardly surprising. In Afghanistan he fought with the Hezb-i-Islami group of mujahideen, whose training and weaponry were mainly supplied by the CIA.
He was not alone. American officials estimate that, from 1985 to 1992, 12,500 foreigners were trained in bomb-making, sabotage and urban guerrilla warfare in Afghan camps the CIA helped to set up.
Since the fall of the Soviet puppet government in 1992, another 2,500 are believed to have passed through the camps. They are now run by an assortment of Islamic extremists, including Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted terrorist.
Bin Laden arrived in Afghanistan from Saudi Arabia in 1979, aged 22. Though he saw a considerable amount of combat - around the eastern city of Jalalabad in March 1989 and, earlier, around the border town of Khost - his speciality was logistics.
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