Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (122056)	9/14/2001 8:58:22 PM
From: robnhood	Respond to of 436258

PK,, I heard on the radio tonight of how bin laden came to be.. Very quickly--- The US wanted the Russians out of Afghanistan - The clever way they did this was to encourage Islamic groups to fight Russia and chase them out. - The CIA worked through the Pakistani SIS to provide the training and equipment for the Muslim factions to fight the Russians - This was financed by the "Golden Crescent" ,, an area between Pakistan and Afghanistan that grows all the poppies for the production of heroin, ( 500 billion a years worth) - Bin Laden apparently was unaware that he was being backed by the CIA, and thought it to be the Pakistani SIS... Apparently this heroin trade has also been used to fund other groups like the KLA, and the Bosnians When the US was asked about this rapidly growing area of poppy growth they answered that they could not cover all the bases.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (122056)	9/14/2001 9:10:02 PM
From: marginmike	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

couldnt agree more, an article I read made the point that israeli attackers are never refered to as terrorist's. They are suicide bombers, or something else. The free press has been less then fair in this regard

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (122056)	9/14/2001 11:03:17 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Our enemies meant what they said By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Staff, 9/13/2001 NOW THAT IT has happened to us, the White House is not calling for ''restraint.'' The State Department is not concerned about ''escalating the cycle of violence.'' There are no editorials imploring the parties to conduct a ''peace process'' and ''sit down at the negotiating table.'' ......................... To be fair, those enemies have not been shy about declaring their enmity. Time and again they have announced that they despise us; time and again they have called for our destruction. They have announced it from the mosques of Gaza, as broadcast live by the Palestinian Authority: ''Wherever you are, kill those Jews and those Americans who are like them - and those who stand by them. They are all in one trench against the Arabs and the Muslims.'' They have proclaimed it a religious duty, as in the fatwa of Osama bin Laden, publicized worldwide in February 1998: ''To kill the Americans and their allies, civilians, and military is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it.'' boston.com