According to Australian journalist John Pilger, in this year, “CIA
Director William Casey [gives] his backing to a plan put forward by
Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the ISI, to recruit people from
around the world to join the Afghan jihad. More than 100,000 Islamic
militants [are] trained in Pakistan between 1986 and 1992, in camps
overseen by the CIA and [the British intelligence agency] MI6, with
the [British special forces unit] SAS training future al-Qaeda and
Taliban fighters in bomb-making and other black arts. Their leaders
[are] trained at a CIA camp in Virginia.” [GUARDIAN, 9/20/2003]
Eventually, around 35,000 Muslim radicals from 43 Islamic countries
will fight with the Afghan mujaheddin. Tens of thousands more will
study in the hundreds of new madrassas (Islamic schools) funded by
the ISI and CIA in Pakistan. Their main logistical base is in the
Pakistani city of Peshawar. [WASHINGTON POST, 7/19/1992; PITTSBURGH
POST-GAZETTE, 9/23/2001]
Ironically, although many are trained, it seems only a small
percentage actually take part fight in serious fighting in
Afghanistan, so their impact on the war is small. [NEW YORKER, 9/9/2002]
Richard Murphy, assistant secretary of state for Near East and South
Asian relations during the Reagan administration, will later say, “We
did spawn a monster in Afghanistan. Once the Soviets were gone [the
people trained and/or funded by the US] were looking around for other
targets, and Osama bin Laden has settled on the United States as the
source of all evil. Irony? Irony is all over the place.” [ASSOCIATED
PRESS, 8/23/1998]
In the late 1980s, Pakistani President Benazir Bhutto, feeling the
mujaheddin network has grown too strong, tells President George H. W.
Bush, “You are creating a Frankenstein.” However, the warning goes
unheeded. [NEWSWEEK, 10/1/2001]
On Dec 27, 2007, at 1:50 PM, justifiedright wrote:
Scary stuff in Pakistan. Musharef seems to be the old enemy of my
enemy is my friend.
Whose guarding the nukes today?
We had decided to not chase Bin Laden into the Tribal areas
uncontrolled by Musharef because it was alleged that if we did the
delacate balance of power could be upset.
Seems pretty upset now. Perhaps its time to go in and destroy that
area. Nothing good can come from those Islamo-fascists housing UBL.
Will need an army massed along the border to hold back India though.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Tommy, you in?
>
> ....
>
> His appearance came as U.S. officials here struggled to cope with
the
> immense policy implications of the assassination on relations with a
> nuclear-armed country that has received billions of dollars in
American
> financial assistance and is an ally in the war on terrorism. White
> House spokesman Scott Stanzel said Bush planned to speak with
Musharraf
> as soon as it could be arranged Thursday.
>
> ....
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