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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: tekboy who wrote (49962)10/7/2002 11:17:53 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Actually the article says that bin Laden ran Maktab al-Khidamar, and that ISI "nurtured" Maktab al-Khidamar, and that the CIA ran the war, in part, through ISI. It also states that bin Laden was a "reliable partner" of the CIA. You are invited to draw the inference thereby that the CIA trained and funded bin Laden.

It is true that bin Laden ran Maktab al-Khidamar.

For that matter, it's true that the CIA funded and trained groups which had members who were associated with bin Laden.

It's the jumps from there that are problematic.

Bin Laden was definitely the enemy of our enemy, so according to the old saying, that makes him our friend. But it is the claim that he was our creation that I am challenging.
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