On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 01:39:34AM -0700, Ralph Lewis wrote:
> OUCH, takling about dumb policy decision comming back to bite you
> in the ass!
I wonder how much _The Living Daylights_ will be shown on US
television after this. Making the mujahedin heroes might not have
been the smartest thing in the long run, and their british-educated
leader in the film might very well have been modelled on Bin Laden.
> 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.
> >
> >=========
> >
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_155000/155236.stm
> >
> >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.
> >
> >===================
> >
> >Damien Broderick
> >
>
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