enhanced_deficit
09-29-2016, 11:26 PM
If BL were alive today and below report is factual, would he be used by same lobbies to fight against Russians in Syria?
U. S. - Jihadists Relation, Part II: Waging Jihad to Defeat the Soviet Union
Updated Sep 01, 2014
Up until 1989, when the Soviet Union left Afghanistan, the CIA still had a positive view of bin Laden, viewing him as a wealthy Saudi Arabian who had fought with the Soviets in Afghanistan and had defeated them, and who must be greeted as a hero upon his return to Saudi Arabia. Sen. Orrin Hatch, a senior Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee that made those decisions, was reported saying (http://www.globalissues.org/article/474/bin-laden-comes-home-to-roost) that he would make the same call again today, even knowing what bin Laden would do subsequently. “It was worth it,” he said, adding, “Those were very important, pivotal matters that played an important role in the downfall of the Soviet Union.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akbar-...b_5553529.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akbar-ganji/u-s-jihadists-relation-pa_b_5553529.html)
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U. S. - Jihadists Relation, Part II: Waging Jihad to Defeat the Soviet Union
Updated Sep 01, 2014
Up until 1989, when the Soviet Union left Afghanistan, the CIA still had a positive view of bin Laden, viewing him as a wealthy Saudi Arabian who had fought with the Soviets in Afghanistan and had defeated them, and who must be greeted as a hero upon his return to Saudi Arabia. Sen. Orrin Hatch, a senior Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee that made those decisions, was reported saying (http://www.globalissues.org/article/474/bin-laden-comes-home-to-roost) that he would make the same call again today, even knowing what bin Laden would do subsequently. “It was worth it,” he said, adding, “Those were very important, pivotal matters that played an important role in the downfall of the Soviet Union.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akbar-...b_5553529.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akbar-ganji/u-s-jihadists-relation-pa_b_5553529.html)
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