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To: Thomas M. who wrote (12126)	11/30/2001 2:24:59 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 281500

<<< MAK was a front for Pakistan's CIA, the Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate. The ISI was the first recipient of the vast bulk of CIA and Saudi Arabian covert assistance for the Afghan contras. Bin Laden was one of three people who ran MAK. In 1989, he took overall charge of MAK. >>> OBL used his daddies money to help out the mujahadeen against the Russians. He may have had some coordination with the ISI. That hardly points to us creating him, even if you are not using the term in such a literal way as to have it apply only to his parents. The training camps where largely camps to train fighters against the Soviets in the 80s. In the 90s esp. after the Taliban took over many of them were controlled by Al-Qaida and where used for terrorist training, but if they didn't have these camps they could have easily built new ones or trained elsewhere. Tim