[LINK] The US backed and trained al-Qaeda (was: OT: bin Laden is dead)

[Birch, Jim]

Martin Barry wrote:

> I haven't checked out your source but my understanding was that the
USA has never backed nor trained al-Qaeda nor OBL, the whole CIA thing
is a myth.

According to Wikipedia OBL entry:

After leaving college in 1979, bin Laden arrived to Pakistan and joined
Abdullah Azzam to take part in the Soviet war in Afghanistan. During
Operation Cyclone from 1979 to 1989, the United States provided
financial aid and weapons to the mujahideen leaders[66] through
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Bin Laden met and built
relations with Hamid Gul, who was a three star general in the Pakistani
army and head of the ISI agency. Although the United States provided the
money and weapons, the training of militant groups was entirely done by
the Pakistani Armed Forces and the ISI.

And the AQ entry:

Al-Qaeda ... is a global militant Islamist group founded by Osama bin
Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a
network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical
Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad.

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So, according to this timeline, CIA didn't fund or train AQ because it
didn't exist, but it presumably would have funded and supported the
training of some people who subsequently became aligned with AQ.

Thanks, Marty
 
- Jim



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