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11 september Wie is Osama bin Laden? 30okt01 In een artikel met veel voetnoten met de titel 'Who Is Osama Bin Laden? [schrijft] Professor of Economics [aan de] University of Ottawa Michel Chossudovsky': 'Saudi born Osama bin Laden was recruited during the Soviet-Afghan war "ironically under the auspices of the CIA, to fight Soviet invaders'. 'In 1979 "the largest covert operation in the history of the CIA" was launched in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan'. Onder de smoes en vlag van de Jihad trainden de CIA in samenwerking met de Pakistaanse geheime dienst ISI de strijders en voorzagen hen in ruime mate van wapens. Daarbij zorgde de CIA dat ze uit beeld bleven omdat de Mujahideen-strijders, waaronder bin Laden, zich anders natuurlijk terecht belazerd zouden voelen. '[...] backed by Pakistan's military intelligence (ISI) which in turn was controlled by the CIA, the Taliban Islamic State was largely serving American geopolitical interests. The Golden Crescent [de 'Gouden Driehoek' van het nabije Oosten] drug trade was also being used to finance and equip the Bosnian Muslim Army (starting in the early 1990s) and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) [UCK]. In last few months there is evidence that Mujahideen mercenaries are fighting in the ranks of KLA-NLA terrorists in their assaults into Macedonia'. 'The history of the drug trade in Central Asia is intimately related to the CIA's covert operations. Prior to the Soviet-Afghan war, opium production in Afghanistan and Pakistan was directed to small regional markets. There was no local production of heroin. 11 In this regard, Alfred McCoy's study confirms that within two years of the onslaught of the CIA operation in Afghanistan, "the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world's top heroin producer, supplying 60 percent of U.S. demand. In Pakistan, the heroin-addict population went from near zero in 1979... to 1.2 million by 1985 -- a much steeper rise than in any other nation"'. In dezelfde kampen werden ook de
leiders van de Tjetjeense rebellen getrained: 'With regard to Chechnya,
the main rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Al Khattab were trained and
indoctrinated in CIA sponsored camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan'. Maar
waarom? 'Russia's main pipeline route transits through Chechnya and Dagestan.
Despite Washington's perfunctory condemnation of Islamic terrorism, the
indirect beneficiaries of the Chechen war are the Anglo-American oil conglomerates
which are vying for control over oil resources and pipeline corridors
out of the Caspian Sea basin'. |