Where's the evidence? This important question remains
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 7:03 am
As our nation rallies to condemn our latest made for TV enemy, the “terrorist” Osama bin Laden, do we really know who this guy is? Who cast him in his current starring role? Just ask yourself, who is writing the script? Allegedly, bin Laden is the mastermind and financier behind the “attack on America,” but who is behind bin Laden? Over and over, through suggestive sound bytes and video clips, the mental image of our new enemy has been ingrained in our collective mind. Gullible believers that we are, the urgent press from an all points media erodes any memory we may have of bin Laden's historical alliance with the more clandestine aspects of our own government.
The Pakistanis want proof of bin Laden's connection to the terrorist attacks in the U. S. before they will allow their country to be used as a staging ground for American retaliation. . President Bush's answer was, “I believe that we will be shown to be right.” Is that an answer? We are told that providing the evidence would compromise U. S. security phone number list interests and reveal sources within our security agencies. What would the evidence reveal? Is Osama bin Laden one of our own operatives gone rogue? Worse yet, was he trained in one of our clandestine terrorist training camps and then cut loose, once his value as a CIA asset was diminished? How many more like him have been abandoned? Some answers to these questions are found in excerpts from: “Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia” (Yale University Press) by Ahmed Rashid.
Between 1982 and 1992, some 35,000 Muslim radicals from 43 Islamic countries trained and fought with the Afghan Mujaheddin. The CIA, Britain's MI6 and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) initiated a plan to launch guerrilla attacks into the Soviet Socialist Republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Thousands more came to train in the hundreds of military training camps in Pakistan and along the Afghan border. These camps became virtual universities for future Islamic radicalism. The CIA, under the Direction of William Casey, stepped up the war against the Soviet Union in 1986 by persuading the U.S.
The Pakistanis want proof of bin Laden's connection to the terrorist attacks in the U. S. before they will allow their country to be used as a staging ground for American retaliation. . President Bush's answer was, “I believe that we will be shown to be right.” Is that an answer? We are told that providing the evidence would compromise U. S. security phone number list interests and reveal sources within our security agencies. What would the evidence reveal? Is Osama bin Laden one of our own operatives gone rogue? Worse yet, was he trained in one of our clandestine terrorist training camps and then cut loose, once his value as a CIA asset was diminished? How many more like him have been abandoned? Some answers to these questions are found in excerpts from: “Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia” (Yale University Press) by Ahmed Rashid.
Between 1982 and 1992, some 35,000 Muslim radicals from 43 Islamic countries trained and fought with the Afghan Mujaheddin. The CIA, Britain's MI6 and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) initiated a plan to launch guerrilla attacks into the Soviet Socialist Republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Thousands more came to train in the hundreds of military training camps in Pakistan and along the Afghan border. These camps became virtual universities for future Islamic radicalism. The CIA, under the Direction of William Casey, stepped up the war against the Soviet Union in 1986 by persuading the U.S.