it’s the height of the Cold War and the
Soviet Union wages of brutal campaign in
Afghanistan between 1980 and 1981 a
newcomer from Saudi Arabia arrives to
join the rebels trying to oust the
Soviets Osama bin Laden the Afghan
resistance now receives support from the
United States Pakistan Saudi Arabia and
scores of Islamic volunteers
bin Laden brings money and an expertise
in construction according to two men who
worked alongside the future al-qaeda
leader he started building mountainside
caves for storage of ammunition started
building roads and then he was very
generous with money with the people’s
popular one Oliver I did when he was
with us helping us helping the poor
widows orphans organizing funds for some
needy people’s we had no problem with
him at all at the time little about bin
Laden suggests the terrorist leader he
will become during the Afghan Soviet War
the CIA was aware of them but had no
reason to view bin Laden as a threat
says former spy Michael shorter the
first time we heard about Osama bin
Laden he was involved first in refugee
care in the camps in Pakistan and then
we heard that he moved into Afghanistan
and began to have a unit of Arabs that
he commanded but he was on the side of
the Angels then he was killing Russians
and so we didn’t pay much attention to
him today US intelligence officers deny
they had any direct contact with bin
Laden they say the US aid went only to
the Afghans not to foreign Islamic
volunteers there are those in the media
who just loved to to make the point that
CIA trained Afghan Arabs and bin Laden
it’s a popular theory but it’s not one
that has much traction people like bin
Laden came with their own money a
built-in hatred for America and access
to weaponry either from their own
sources or from the Pakistanis they
wanted nothing to do with us Pakistani
journalist rahimullah yousafzai is one
of the few reporters to interview bin
Laden more than once he says that
foreign Arab fighters like bin Laden had
little use for the CIA
was so much of Arab money coming here
that didn’t need to get money from the
CIA or is a charitable contributions
from Saudi Arabia are rich enough to
support not only the Mujahideen but also
the many Afghan civilians made refugees
by the ongoing fighting over four
million Afghans are forced to flee their
homes for Pakistan one third of the
population was made homeless for a very
long period of time here along the
border between Afghanistan and Pakistan
money from Saudi Arabia sets up hundreds
of Islamic schools or madrasas to offer
a free education for the Afghan refugee
children these madrasah students are
known as Talib’s or Taliban their
teachers are local mullahs like Mohammad
Omar
even today Afghan children memorize and
recite verses from the Koran
but during the desperate time of the
Soviet war many of these Islamic schools
were used for a different purpose in
certain areas these mattresses were used
to train the people and to send out the
jihadis into Afghanistan mullahs like
Mohammad Omar send the Taliban to fight
the Soviets with America’s blessing
according to current Pakistani President
Pervez Musharraf Taliban were the heroes
in those days people from Madras all
were given military training armed and
sent across by US by United States by
every
Soviet Union wages of brutal campaign in
Afghanistan between 1980 and 1981 a
newcomer from Saudi Arabia arrives to
join the rebels trying to oust the
Soviets Osama bin Laden the Afghan
resistance now receives support from the
United States Pakistan Saudi Arabia and
scores of Islamic volunteers
bin Laden brings money and an expertise
in construction according to two men who
worked alongside the future al-qaeda
leader he started building mountainside
caves for storage of ammunition started
building roads and then he was very
generous with money with the people’s
popular one Oliver I did when he was
with us helping us helping the poor
widows orphans organizing funds for some
needy people’s we had no problem with
him at all at the time little about bin
Laden suggests the terrorist leader he
will become during the Afghan Soviet War
the CIA was aware of them but had no
reason to view bin Laden as a threat
says former spy Michael shorter the
first time we heard about Osama bin
Laden he was involved first in refugee
care in the camps in Pakistan and then
we heard that he moved into Afghanistan
and began to have a unit of Arabs that
he commanded but he was on the side of
the Angels then he was killing Russians
and so we didn’t pay much attention to
him today US intelligence officers deny
they had any direct contact with bin
Laden they say the US aid went only to
the Afghans not to foreign Islamic
volunteers there are those in the media
who just loved to to make the point that
CIA trained Afghan Arabs and bin Laden
it’s a popular theory but it’s not one
that has much traction people like bin
Laden came with their own money a
built-in hatred for America and access
to weaponry either from their own
sources or from the Pakistanis they
wanted nothing to do with us Pakistani
journalist rahimullah yousafzai is one
of the few reporters to interview bin
Laden more than once he says that
foreign Arab fighters like bin Laden had
little use for the CIA
was so much of Arab money coming here
that didn’t need to get money from the
CIA or is a charitable contributions
from Saudi Arabia are rich enough to
support not only the Mujahideen but also
the many Afghan civilians made refugees
by the ongoing fighting over four
million Afghans are forced to flee their
homes for Pakistan one third of the
population was made homeless for a very
long period of time here along the
border between Afghanistan and Pakistan
money from Saudi Arabia sets up hundreds
of Islamic schools or madrasas to offer
a free education for the Afghan refugee
children these madrasah students are
known as Talib’s or Taliban their
teachers are local mullahs like Mohammad
Omar
even today Afghan children memorize and
recite verses from the Koran
but during the desperate time of the
Soviet war many of these Islamic schools
were used for a different purpose in
certain areas these mattresses were used
to train the people and to send out the
jihadis into Afghanistan mullahs like
Mohammad Omar send the Taliban to fight
the Soviets with America’s blessing
according to current Pakistani President
Pervez Musharraf Taliban were the heroes
in those days people from Madras all
were given military training armed and
sent across by US by United States by
every
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