OUCH, takling about dumb policy decision comming back to bite you in the ass!
Ralph
At 01:49 PM 9/12/2001 +1000, you wrote:
>At 03:38 PM 9/11/01 -0700, Ralph wrote:
>
>>Perhaps I am thinking first world and I should be thinking third world. But
>>I have no idea how someone puts together an operation like this and pulls it
>>off with the level of intelligence in place today.
>
>Helps to have been trained by the Company.
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_155000/155236.stm
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>Born in Saudi Arabia to a Yemeni family, Mr Bin Laden left Saudi Arabia in
>1979 to fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
>
> The Afghan jihad was backed with American dollars and had the
>blessing of the governments of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
>
> He received security training from the CIA itself, according to
>Middle Eastern analyst Hazhir Teimourian.
>
> While in Afghanistan, he founded the Maktab al-Khidimat (MAK),
>which recruited fighters from around the world and imported equipment to
>aid the Afghan resistance against the Soviet army.
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>Damien Broderick
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