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topic: CIA: links to Taliban.... sorted by: most recent to past
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| 1 | The Creation Called Osama | ref 23 |
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| The Hindu September 27, 2001 |
It did not take long for the U.S. establishment to identify the culprits who masterminded these terrorist acts. These were the `evil' forces of `Islamic terrorism' led by Osama bin Laden. The mainstream U.S. media went on to explain these terrorist attacks in the context of the `clash of civilisations' thesis of Samuel Huntington. There were urgent calls for ``forming a global alliance that will use all tools - diplomatic, political, economic, educational, investigative, and where appropriate, force - to pursue and root out the terrorist criminals and their supporters...'' | |||||
| 2 | How A Holy War Against The Soviets Turned On U.S. | archived: ref 22 |
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| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette September 23, 2001 |
In 1986, Director of Central Intelligence William Casey ... persuaded the U.S. Congress to provide the Afghan fighters known as Mujaheddin, "holy warriors" in Arabic, with American-made Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down Soviet planes and to send U.S. advisers to train the guerrillas. | |||||
| 3 | CIA worked in tandem with Pak to create Taliban | archived: ref 154 |
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| Times of India online March 7, 2001 |
LONDON: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) worked in tandem with Pakistan to create the "monster" that is today Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, a leading US expert on South Asia said here. "I warned them that we were creating a monster," Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at the conference here last week on "Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia." |
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| 4 | The Real bin Laden | ref 59 |
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| New Yorker January 24, 2000 |
In August of 1998, the mysterious Saudi multimillionaire Osama bin Laden was declared Washington's most-wanted fugitive. The previous February, he had called on his followers to kill Americans around the world, and now he was being accused of the bombings of two United States Embassies, in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam | |||||
| 5 | Blowback | archived: ref 12 |
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| Atlantic Monthly May 0, 1996 |
The CIA poured billions into a jihad against Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, creating a militant Islamist Abraham Lincoln Brigade believed to have been involved in bombings from Islamabad to New York. Is Bosnia next? | |||||
| 6 | Anatomy of a Victory: CIA's Covert Afghan War | archived: ref 21 |
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| Washington Post July 19, 1992 |
Already under pressure from Congress and conservative activists to expand its support to the mujaheddin, the Reagan administration moved in response to this intelligence to open up its high-technology arsenal to aid the Afghan rebels. | |||||