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To: tekboy who wrote (49962)	10/7/2002 11:12:54 AM
From: zonder	Respond to of 281500

It quotes a US Senator accepting US support of Bin Laden at the time (see below). That is enough proof for me for now, and I really would like to move on to other topics, if CB et al agree are satiated for now :) Sen. Orrin Hatch, a senior Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee making those decisions, told my colleague Robert Windrem that he would make the same call again today even knowing what bin Laden would do subsequently. “It was worth it,” he said. “Those were very important, pivotal matters that played an important role in the downfall of the Soviet Union,” he said.

To: tekboy who wrote (49962)	10/7/2002 11:17:53 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.