From the archives: How the CIA created Osama bin Laden | Links
 
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 08:15:32 -0500 (CDT)


*Throughout the world ... its agents, client states and satellites are 
on the defensive  on the moral defensive, the intellectual defensive, 
and the political and economic defensive. Freedom movements arise and 
assert themselves. They're doing so on almost every continent populated 
by man  in the hills of Afghanistan, in Angola, in Kampuchea, in 
Central America ... [They are] freedom fighters.*

Is this a call to /jihad/ (holy war) taken from one of Islamic 
fundamentalist Osama bin Laden's notorious /fatwas/? Or perhaps a 
communique issued by the repressive Taliban regime in Kabul?

In fact, this glowing praise of the murderous exploits of today's 
supporters of arch-terrorist bin Laden and his Taliban collaborators, 
and their holy war against the evil empire, was issued by US President 
Ronald Reagan on March 8, 1985. The evil empire was the Soviet Union, 
as well as Third World movements fighting US-backed colonialism, 
apartheid and dictatorship.

How things change. In the aftermath of a series of terrorist atrocities 
 the most despicable being the mass murder of more than 6000 working 
people in New York and Washington on September 11  bin Laden the 
freedom fighter is now lambasted by US leaders and the Western mass 
media as a terrorist mastermind and an evil-doer.

Yet the US government refuses to admit its central role in creating the 
vicious movement that spawned bin Laden, the Taliban and Islamic 
fundamentalist terrorists that plague Algeria and Egypt  and perhaps 
the disaster that befell New York.

Full: http://links.org.au/node/401

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