< For more than 20 years, the Pakistani government has used Islamic radicals as an instrument of both domestic and foreign policy. >
Who was the backer, for who Pakistan was bidding?
Let us define who should be believed? You made two posts making exactly opposite points as what is being claimed!!
CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA,, wrote a damning article that you posted last week, the same author who wanted to make Arafat of Mush consider this 'genie' a product of history, a mistake of CIA, HOWARD W. FRENCH of New York Times rather oversimplifies it....even Rajghatta had this to say...in 1998..
<Even at that time, Bin Laden & his holy warriors had made it clear that the US was as much anathema to them as the communists. "bin Laden learnt a lot of tricks from the CIA, which is glad to help him fight the Russians. We all helped him. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and U.S. were united in the view that the Russians must be defeated. He was the point man,'' an unnamed Saudi intelligence official was quoted as saying in the U.S. media. Washington conceived a plan to make Moscow pay the maximum price for its occupation of Afghanistan while turning Islamic radicalism against the communists and, as a spin-off, against the Iranian Shia.
8.15.98 Chidanand Rajghatta "U.S. Frankenstein monster behind Kenya blasts?" Indian Express> |
