Did the USA help Osama Bin Laden back in 1979?

Question

Make sure you look at your history. Go back to that year when the Soviet Union was trying to invade Afghanistan and look at what the USA did. You will be amazed.

Answer 1

Yes, and guess who once headed the CIA and who had those Afghani rebels trained to fight the Russians... Up-and-Comer Poppa Doc Bush! Guess what they were trained in: Armed warfare, sabotage and torture techniques, mostly, and some WMD training. The sabotage training was both large and small scale and consisted mostly of general demolitions and charge-shaped structural bombs.
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This info was easily found thanks to the Freedom of Information Act way back when the 1993 WTC attack occurred and the later Al-Qaida attacks. Guess what Clinton's most dire warning was to Bush when they were having their standard turning-over-of-power pow-wow?
Keep an eye on Al-Qaida. First the WTC, then the marine barracks and the East African Embassies and now this US Cole thing-- they're up to no good. Lotsa intercepted phone and radio traffic. It's gonna be real big and it's gonna be real soon.

Bush pooh-poohed the warning because he was so busy with his buddy Ken Lay. Fellow Houstonian and Lodge Brother Lay had loaned Bush and Cheney his Enron jets for the entire 2000 presidential campaign.
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Guess whose family still has very close ties to all of the Saudi bin Ladens except for black-sheep Isama?
The Bush family!
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Does anybody care?

Bush doesn't care if anybody cares, and, in almost six years, I've yet to see even the smallest tidbit of evidence to the contrary.

BTW, the Freedom of Info Act was pretty much squashed, along with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by something as obscenely misguided and mislabeled as "The Patriot Act."

You're a patriot only if you kill the Consitution, p!ss on the Bill of Rights, and p!ss in the face of every dead soldier in this Country by murdering those two pieces of paper they all died for.

Right. I get it now. Totally Right. Right totally.

Answer 2

The US was sending arms and support equipment to Afghanistan specifically the mujahedeen (later named Al Qeada). Osama was a member of the mujahedeen. He became the chief financier of the organization due to his family fortune and beliefs. So you can say we helped him, but it was mainly helping the fight against the Russians. If the support would not have come from us the Soviet Union probably would not have collapsed. Due to the great cost of the 9 years Russia fought that war the Soviet union became so strapped that the fundamental need for freedom rang out amongst the people. So you can say we helped Osama and at the same time took down the USSR in the process. Now we need to take them down. It's all a "very" large game of Risk with a very human toll.

Answer 3

yes as an opposition the the Soviets in Afghanistan. The US has often found itself supporting a country that we would otherwise not, if it is for a regional security interest of the US. Same reason we support Iraq against Iran.

We have, and others have, fought wars by proxy for many decades. It allows the fight without world wide destruction as the case would have been with the US fighting the Soviets.

Answer 4

Bin Laden, son of a billionaire Saudi businessman, became involved in the fight against the Soviet Union’s invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, which lasted from 1979 to 1988 and ended with a Soviet defeat at the hands of international militias of Muslim fighters backed by the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Together with Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood leader, Abdullah Azzam, bin Laden ran one of seven main militias involved in the fighting. They established military training bases in Afghanistan and founded Maktab Al Khidamat, or Services Office, a support network that provided recruits and money through worldwide centers, including in the U.S............................................................

Answer 5

Oh yes, he was a number 1 Ally, and like so many in the Mid East including the former Shah of Iran, DC kicked him to the street after they got Oil Contacts and Business they wanted.

Answer 6

Yes , but it was in 1985 that he decided to fight against the Soviets .. We gave him weapons and taught him how to fight the Russian's in Afghanistan ( look up :www.arizonamonthly.com/m/Archive/issue010/10cover.php )
for the story . We also helped Saddam and gave him weapons . There is a picture of Rumsfeld and Saddam shaking hands to seal the deal .

Answer 7

I know back in the late 70's early 80's our president now wanted to go into business (oil) and he needed some partners. One of his partners happened to be Bin Laden. As far as I know their oil business is around today.

Answer 8

That's easy , yes every one knows that.
The US also supported the Military coup in Chile of the Democratically elected government a few years earlier.
I could go on and on, about who the US supports and has
in the past supported...

Answer 9

Yes we did. We also helped Noriega in Panama, Hussein against Iran. The Russians were our allies in WWII. Sometimes things backfire and bite you in the A$$.

Answer 10

Those of us who have read OBL's biography know what he was doing in 1979.

And are laughing at you because your post demonstrates that (again) you have no clue.