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To: Jack Hydrazine

“And who created Al Qaeda? The CIA as a response to the Soviets invading Afghanistan in 1979.”

No, the CIA funded the Afghans through Pakistan, that is true. Al Qaeda were not Afghans though, and they didn’t receive money or assistance from the CIA. Al Qaeda grew out of a community of foreign fighters that flocked to the fight, and Bin Laden was able to assume prominence with them in part because they needed his money, since the US was only funding the Afghan rebels and not the foreign fighters.


6 posted on 03/18/2015 4:26:47 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Armed by the CIA and funded by the house of Saud.


9 posted on 03/18/2015 5:14:52 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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