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Originally Posted by raymor
Only as much as Obama trained Napoleon. In other words, not at all. Obama went to France. Napoleon was in France. Neither has anything to do with the other.
The US trained some Afghans. bin Laden was in Afghanistan. That does not mean we trained bin Laden. Not any more than Obama trained Napoleon.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_%E2...en_controversy
"n mid-1979, about the same time as the Soviet Union deployed troops into Afghanistan,
the United States began giving several hundred million dollars a year in aid to the Afghan Mujahideen insurgents fighting the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army in Operation Cyclone. Along with native Afghan mujahideen were Muslim volunteers from other countries, popularly known as Afghan Arabs. The most famous of the Afghan Arabs was Osama bin Laden, known at the time as a wealthy and pious Saudi who provided his own money and helped raise millions from other wealthy Gulf Arabs.
As the war neared its end, bin Laden organized the al-Qaeda organization to carry
on armed jihad in other venues, primarily against the United States —
the country that had helped fund the mujahideen against the Soviets."
"The BBC, in an article published shortly after the 9/11 attacks, stated that bin Laden "
received security training from the CIA itself, according to Middle Eastern analyst Hazhir Teimourian
In a 2003 article, Michael Powelson of the Russian journal Demokratizatsiya wrote:
It is difficult to believe that the United States played no role in the operations of the son of one of the wealthiest men in Saudi Arabia. Indeed, it is much more likely that the United States knew full-well of bin Laden's operation and gave it all the support they could.[2]"
The CIA denies directly training Bin Laden (because they don't know if they did or didn't, indirectly or not).... then again, they don't deny the money, arms, and the training the DID fund, they just deny doing it directly.... duh.