MB Civic

Greenwald has an important post up today …

As proof of this pervasive myth-making in Pakistan, the NYT article cites the fact that one Pakistani lawyer with a talk show “argues that Al Qaeda is an American invention.” While that’s not precisely true, it is a matter of undisputed fact that the mujahedeen who were the precursors to Al Qeada — as well as Osama bin Laden himself — were supported and funded by the U.S. throughout the 1980s, all the way up to the formal founding of “Al Qaeda” itself … As the BBC said in 2004: “Bin Laden and his fighters received American and Saudi funding” in the 1980s and “[s]ome analysts believe Bin Laden himself had security training from the CIA.” In 2007, Der Spiegel called bin Laden “one of the best customers for the CIA” during that decade.

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