Osama trusted the Americans, Americans gave arms & financial support to Osama & team to fight the Russians who invaded Afghanistan. After the Russians left they started attacking Osama. Today they have Karzai who is nothing but a watch dog kept by the Americans.Understand their businees module know the Americans
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by MOHAN PYARE on Sep 06, 2007 03:04 PM Permalink
You are speaking half truth. Osama trusted the Americans as long as he wanted the American support to drive away the Russians. Once the Russians left Afghanistan, he turned against the Americans and they became enemies.
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by george on Sep 06, 2007 03:06 PM Permalink
Following the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 had put the country of Saudi Arabia and its ruling House of Saud at risk as Saudi's most valuable oil fields (Hama) were within easy striking distance of Iraqi forces in Kuwait, and Saddam's call to pan-Arab/Islamism could potentially rally internal dissent. In the face of a seemingly massive Iraqi military presence, Saudi Arabia's own forces were well armed but far outnumbered. Bin Laden offered the services of his mujahedeen to King Fahd to protect Saudi Arabia from the Iraqi army.
The Saudi monarch refused bin Laden's offer, opting instead to allow U.S. and allied forces to deploy on Saudi territory. The deployment angered Bin Laden, as he believed the presence of foreign troops in the "land of the two mosques" (Mecca and Medina) profaned sacred soil. After speaking publicly against the Saudi government for harboring American troops, he was quickly forced into exile to Sudan and on April 9, 1994 his Saudi citizenship was revoked.His family publicly disowned him. There is controversy over whether and to what extent he continued to garner support from members of his family and/or the Saudi government.
Shortly afterwards, the movement that came to be known as al-Qaeda was formed.
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by george on Sep 06, 2007 03:03 PM Permalink
Facts: The United States viewed the conflict in Afghanistan(Soviet war) as an integral part of the Cold War struggle, and the American funds channeled through the Pakistani intelligence services supported native Afghan mujahedeen against Soviet occupation in a CIA program called Operation Cyclone.
At the same time, a growing number of foreign Arab mujahedeen (also called Afghan Arabs) joined the jihad against the Afghan Marxist regime, facilitated by international organizations, particularly the Maktab al-Khidamat, whose funds came from individual Muslims, particularly wealthy Saudis who were approached by Osama bin Laden
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by george on Sep 06, 2007 03:04 PM Permalink
The U.S. government maintains that they supported only the indigenous mujahedeen, and that bin Laden's participation in the conflict was unrelated to CIA programs. Al-Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri says much the same thing in his book Knights Under the Prophet's Banner.[43] The U.S. was actively recruiting internationally for Muslim radicals. Sheik Abul Rahman, one of the conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was allowed to come to the U.S. to recruit Arab-Americans to fight in Afghanistan against the Soviets.
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by raj on Sep 06, 2007 07:51 PM Permalink
What it got to do with Nuclear treaty? This is not some rag nation . We are talking about India with over a billion people and a Democracy. Your cheap propagada sounds so stupid. What you trying to say? By the way Indian is not Afganistan or Stupid Arab nation.
