According to the Times, bin Laden et al were CIA employees, given the best training, arms, facilities, and lots of cash for many years. That's what the Times reported on August 24, 1998.
In other articles during the same period, the Times reported that bin Laden is a deadly enemy of the U.S. The Times skips over this amazing change lightly in a couple of articles, commenting that the relationship changed, without asking too many questions. In other words, once again, the government line is accepted as self evident.
Should we believe that the transformation from employee to enemy has really taken place? Is bin Laden an enemy in fact, or is he, like so much else that comes out of the White House, an enemy in fiction?
Remember that during the 80s our leaders swore bin Laden and friends were good guys: "resistance fighters." Wasn't that a lie? If the government was lying about them then, why couldn't it be lying about them now?
Let's do a little imagining. Let's imagine that bin Laden et al are still CIA employees. Could it be that the missile attack was not intended to destroy bin Laden or his supporters? Could it be the attack was intended to build respect for bin Laden among Muslims who oppose the U.S. government? To lend him credibility as a serious opponent of U.S. domination? Is his new job to siphon Arab anger into regressive Fundamentalist movements and thereby destabilize secular Muslim societies which might resist U.S. control? After all, Islamic Fundamentalists have proven themselves the most effective enemies of independent-minded governments. This is precisely why the U.S. created an Islamic Fundamentalist proxy army in Afghanistan in the first place. And there is evidence the CIA is doing the same thing today in Algeria - covertly supporting a jihad (Islamic holy war) aimed at disrupting a secular Muslim society not under U.S. control.
And/or is bin Laden's new assignment perhaps to be a bogey-man of convenience whom the U.S. government can link to any government it wishes to bomb?
Does this sound crazy? Maybe it does at that, but is it any crazier than the admitted fact that the U.S. gave these vicious terrorists more than $6 billion in the first place? Could it be that the lunatics are indeed in control of the asylum?
Six BILLION dollars in 1980s money. How much is that in today's money? Ten billion? Just think. Instead of turning Afghanistan into a living hell they could have cured cancer.
In the 'Times of India' article reprinted on Emperor's Clothes under the title "CIA worked with Pakistan to create Taliban", analyst Selig Harrison is quoted as follows:
"'The CIA made a historic mistake in encouraging Islamic groups from all over the world to come to Afghanistan.' The US provided $3 billion for building up these Islamic groups, and it accepted Pakistan's demand that they should decide how this money should be spent, Harrison said."
I disagree. The creation of Islamist terrorist organizations by the CIA has been a key part of U.S. policy, first in attacking the Soviet Union, and since then in an on-going war against Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union and against Yugoslavia.
As the following article from the 'Washington Post' shows, Washington was no distant financier of the Afghan terrorists, unaware of how its money was being spent. Rather, it controlled the action. Today, Washington publicly condemns Islamist terrorism but this is two-faced for at the same time Washington and its partners continue to create, support and manage Islamist terrorist and related groups (for instance, the 'Kosovo Liberation Army' terrorists). For Washington, organized terror is a weapon of Empire. - Jared Israel.
Anatomy of a Victory: CIA's Covert Afghan War
By: Steve Coll, 'Washington Post', July 19, 1992
A specially equipped C-141 Starlifter transport carrying William Casey touched down at a military air base south of Islamabad in October 1984 for a secret visit by the CIA director to plan strategy for the war against Soviet forces in Afghanistan. Helicopters lifted Casey to three secret training camps near the Afghan border, where he watched mujaheddin rebels fire heavy weapons and learn to make bombs with CIA-supplied plastic explosives and detonators.
During the visit, Casey startled his Pakistani hosts by proposing that they take the Afghan war into enemy territory -- into the Soviet Union itself. Casey wanted to ship subversive propaganda through Afghanistan to the Soviet Union's predominantly Muslim southern republics. The Pakistanis agreed, and the CIA soon supplied thousands of Korans, as well as books on Soviet atrocities in Uzbekistan and tracts on historical heroes of Uzbek nationalism, according to Pakistani and Western officials.
"We can do a lot of damage to the Soviet Union," Casey said, according to Mohammed Yousaf, a Pakistani general who attended the meeting.
2006-06-27 22:49:16
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answered by D for drunk 3
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Osama Bin Laden is right here in the USA...... I will bet anything on this. When you speed where is the least likely place you will get a ticket? Right in front of a police station. It's true. Bin Laden is here in the United States and he is walking around with not a care in the world... Think about it, how many missing person's do we have here each day.... How many people are found.... Where would you. In America you can blend in so easily it is sad....
2006-06-27 20:14:00
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answered by Sarah R 2
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Only God (and probably Laden's very closed friends) knows where he is. If anyone else did, it should have been made published by the media around the world.
2006-06-27 21:18:43
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answered by techeroflogic 2
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http://www.federalobserver.com/content_images/711%20binLaden.jpg
This is one of the last official photos of Bin Laden. Here is the followup article. It has to be real...afterall it was on the internet.
http://www.brainsnap.com/national/bin_laden_evades_capture_in_new_jersey_convenience_store
2006-06-28 04:16:09
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answered by Chainsawmom 5
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At the White House with Bush
2006-06-28 03:11:28
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answered by witchywomen_53 1
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As far as I'm conserned, Osama Bin Laden is in my toilette and I keep flushing him and flusing him. Let him go to the poop levels where he belongs!!!!!!!!
2006-06-28 07:02:44
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answered by alyssabeth2304 3
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South-Eastern Russia . Near Mongolian border .
2006-06-27 23:24:07
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answered by ROBOCOP 2
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Hiding in the closet with Tom Cruise
2006-06-28 03:22:30
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answered by intristik 2
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2 possiblities. In the mountain at the border of Afganistan and Pakistan or somewhere in Iraq.
2006-06-27 20:09:42
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answered by jeffreysoh 2
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He is now in Washington as President Bush's guest.
2006-06-27 20:10:45
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answered by asok c 5
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I don't know... maybe he's in jail, some says he's dead, and some says he's hiding in a staute in Iraq. It really hasnt crossed my mind because I know the US would WIN! USA rocks!
2006-06-27 20:08:56
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answered by geml0vely888 3
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