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REGISTER TO VOTE 30-Jul-2007 At 2:12:12 PM Snowball

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On 30/07/2007 gordoste wrote:
>Left-wing strategy #1: Quote a bunch of loosely-linked, unsupported factoids
>and pretend it is a logical, factual argument.
>
Sorry, would you like me to reference my sources? They would include pentigon reports, ex CIA operatives, ex British High Commissioners, documents released under FOIA, Colin Powell etc etc. But you summed it up nicely.

>slander those who disagree

Pull your head out of your own arse and stop believing everthing Little Johnny, Downer and Murdoch tell you.

On 30/07/2007 billk wrote:
>It was just the case that Afghanistan under the Taliban and Sudan prior to that were >both sufficiently unstable to allow bin Laden to set up camp there.

Wrong. The CIA through the ISI (Pakistan intelligence/secret police) funnelled $5.6 Billion into the Taliban and Al Qaeda to fight to Soviet occupation. Al Qaeda was set up and named by the good old USofA.

According to Ahmed Rashid, a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, in 1986 CIA chief William Casey committed CIA support to a long-standing ISI proposal to recruit from around the world to join the Afghan jihad. At least 100,000 Islamic militants flocked to Pakistan between 1982 and 1992 (some 60,000 attended fundamentalist schools in Pakistan without necessarily taking part in the fighting).