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Danny Way...just bow down.� This killing a guy cause he was gay shit is ridiculous.� Worse than dumb.� It's as bad as 9/11 conspiracy theories, it's worse than thinking the CIA trained Bin Laden. It's just as dumb as Obama birthers, and Mayan 2012.� Leave it alone. He can't win with you people.
Now, i don't believe in conspiracy theories, but i remember that the USA did give weapons to al-qaeda to fight the soviets in the late 1980s when the USSR invaded Afghanistan. It isn't training per se, but close enough.
No, they did train Bin Laden, its not a conspiracy theory at all. There is film footage of him checking out weapons the CIA is giving him that is pretty widely available. The inside job thing is a conspiracy theory, the fact that we trained Bin Laden was something we were proud of until the Kuwait war when he turned against us. They even dedicated one of the Rambo movies to the Mujaheddin (who would later become Al Qaeda).
And I'm pretty sure a while back somebody posted an article that made it clear that at the very least, that gay dude died for hitting on Danny Way. Whether Way struck a blow or not may be up in the air though.
I stand corrected, thank your for the information.
You both need to read more things that are not on the internet.
Read Charlie Wilson's War. Like Gipper said, it's not a conspiracy theory at all. It is fact. At least to the extent that the Mujaheddin had direct contact with CIA agents and received weapons and money from them. The very same people who would form Al Qaeda with Usama at the helm.
You're right it's not a conspiracy theory. It's a full blown myth, which more than anything shows how these things proliferate on the internet.�
Charlie Wilson's War...why not just tell me to read Twilight.
Harry Crews, you are an idiot. Just because you're too lazy to look for sources to verify it, doesn't make it a myth. The only thing "dumb" about this argument is people like yourself who discount a (factual) claim because it doesn't appeal to their narrow worldview.
Chomp on this bitch!
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri says in his book Knights Under the Prophet's Banner.
Bin Laden himself has said "the collapse of the Soviet Union ... goes to God and the mujahideen in Afghanistan ... the US had no mentionable role," but "collapse made the US more haughty and arrogant."
Marc Sageman, a Foreign Service Officer who was based in Islamabad from 1987-1989, and worked closely with Afghanistan's Mujahideen, argues that no American money went to the foreign volunteers.
Sageman also says:
Contemporaneous accounts of the war do not even mention Afghan Arabs. Many were not serious about the war. ... Very few were involved in actual fighting. For most of the war, they were scattered among the Afghan groups associated with the four Afghan fundamentalist parties.
No U.S. official ever came in contact with the foreign volunteers. They simply traveled in different circles and never crossed U.S. radar screens. They had their own sources of money and their own contacts with the Pakistanis, official Saudis, and other Muslim supporters, and they made their own deals with the various Afghan resistance leaders.
Vincent Cannistraro, who led the Reagan administration's Afghan Working Group from 1985 to 1987, puts it,
The CIA was very reluctant to be involved at all. They thought it would end up with them being blamed, like in Guatemala." So the Agency tried to avoid direct involvement in the war, ... the skittish CIA, Cannistraro estimates, had less than ten operatives acting as America's eyes and ears in the region. Milton Bearden, the Agency's chief field operative in the war effort, has insisted that "The CIA had nothing to do with" bin Laden. Cannistraro says that when he coordinated Afghan policy from Washington, he never once heard bin Laden's name.
Fox News reporter Richard Miniter wrote that in interviews with the two men who "oversaw the disbursement for all American funds to the anti-Soviet resistance, Bill Peikney - CIA station chief in Islamabad from 1984 to 1986 - and Milt Bearden - CIA station chief from 1986 to 1989 - he found,
Both flatly denied that any CIA funds ever went to bin Laden. They felt so strongly about this point that they agreed to go on the record, an unusual move by normally reticent intelligence officers. Mr. Peikney added in an e-mail to me: I don't even recall UBL [bin Laden] coming across my screen when I was there.
I think that's enough for now. You can go back to watching Colbert...slut.