Posted on 06/12/2016 11:43:19 AM PDT by mandaladon
Biden said the Taliban are not our enemies.
The Afghanis who were on our side then included Shah Ahmed Masood... he was the Afghan leader that al Qaeda assassinated two days before 9/11... in order to deny us a solid ally in the event we would invade.
The Taliban were founded in 1996 with Pakistani support...in the middle of the Clinton administration, probably around the time Clinton was sucking up to the Pakistanis in the hope they would not test the Islamic Bomb... or just before.
Recall that al Qaeda’s safehouse in Peshawar was the home of a Paki scientist associated with the Qadeer Khan proliferation network...
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