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To: Win Smith who wrote (38708)	8/19/2002 7:33:50 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

. At the time the jihad was getting under way there was no significant Islamist opposition movement in Saudi Arabia, and it apparently never occurred to the Saudi rulers, who feared the Soviets as much as Washington did, that the volunteers it sent might be converted by the jihad's ideology gee, could that be because there is no discernable difference between the jihad's ideology and Saudi ideology, except perhaps in deciding on the identity of 'impure Muslims'? and the Saudis pay many millions to Al Qaeda to stay off that list. On this one Mubarak is right -- the chief fault was Pakistan's for not cleaning up Afghanistan and establishing some order, the second fault was ours for leaving Pakistan alone once the Russians pulled out. Aside from that, reasoning that because the CIA funded the mujahadeen 20 years ago therefore Al Qaeda -- which was funded by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia -- is purely the US's fault is both simple-minded and condescending. It is the reasoning of those who are not interested in real causes or solutions, but only in playing a blame game where everything is the fault of America.

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