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To: LindyBill who wrote (9362)	9/25/2003 9:34:24 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793677

Miniter's entire account ignores the fact that almost all the CIA money was given to Pakistan's ISI which, in turn, allocated the money to their preferred Afghans. Milt Bearden should read his own account of these years. He would see that it's, of course, impossible to find evidence that bin Laden got any of the money because the ISI would be seen as the recipient. If this is the character of Miniter's debate, then I don't expect to see his book get very far. Perhaps there is a demented soul or two out there who claims some CIA agent handed bin Laden money and that there is documentation of such. But not likely. Taking that as the straw folk against which the argument that the US helped fund the Afghan war against the Russians and thus fostered the subsequent rise of the Taliban and Al Q can be made is the classic strategy: ridicule some ridiculous version of the argument without ever addressing the argument. Anyway. Who cares?