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To: zonder who wrote (49120)	10/3/2002 12:50:45 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Oh, jeest. I get so tired of this. OK, one more time - everybody (everybody who's been paying attention) knows the following facts: 1) The US supported the mujahideen, who were Afghanis and their Muslim allies, who were fighting to keep the Soviets out of Afghanistan. 2) Bin Laden, a young Saudi man with a lot of money and training in engineering, threw in his cause with the mujahideen. The fact that the US supported the mujahideen does NOT mean that we supported bin Laden. We supported the mujahideen. Bin Laden supported the mujahideen. We did not support bin Laden. Bin Laden did not support the US, either. Was bin Laden in Afghanistan to support US policy? For your logic to work, you would have to say, "bin Laden supported the US" and that's clearly wrong. It's like arguing that the US supported communism because the US and the Soviets both fought against Hitler.