[John_11_25]

And not to forget that the US was the chief backer of UBL in Afghanistan, with billions of dollars, so in fact they inadvertantly paid for terroist operations, or at least the training of operatives to carry out such operations.

There was also a case last year where a UK Intelligence man tried to write a book on the facts behind the British Intel service and the Government put a gag order on the press and they took legal action against the man.

However one of the facts he laid bare was that the MI6 (British Intelligence) paid Al-Q US100,000 to assasinate Gaddafi only a few years earlier.

So these groups are used to do the dirty work of the allies and can be easily denied in the event of a leak, if better suited blamed for other peoples dirty work.

[OldFriend]

There was no OBL when the Soviets were in Afghanistan. The taliban arrived during the vacuum created when the soviets left and we pulled out.

Reagan took quite good care of Kadaffi when he dropped those bombs on his desert home. Kept the ba$tard quiet and out of the terror business for a long long time!

We are not going to make the same mistake in Iraq. We will stay to be sure that the country is stabilized.

Those same America haters that criticized us for pulling out of Afghanistan are now demanding we pull out of Iraq. Time for someone to stand up and point out the utter hypocracy.

[Valin]

And not to forget that the US was the chief backer of UBL in Afghanistan, with billions of dollars,

From everything I've read no money went to OBL. Most of the money he got came from our good friends the Saudis.