Joe also left billions in arms and equipment for the Taliban and is supplying the world arms bazars with a never-ending stream of weapons funneled through Ukraine.
On 15 May 1995 Sudan sent a wire to Carney informing the Ambassador that his government was allowing Osama Bin Laden to depart the Sudan. The Saudi and his family left Khartoum on 18 May in a chartered plane flown by a Russian pilot.
It landed at Sharjah (from where the notorious Victor Bout operated a fleet of planes), and the next day Bin Laden continued on to Jalalabad. In Afghanistan, Bin Laden was the honored guest of Yunis Khalis, the Hizb-i-Islami leader, and a mujahideen commander whom he knew quite well. Khalis, the Pakistan ISI’s man in Afghanistan, was reported to have been in Khartoum earlier in the year and offered Bin Laden asylum in Afghanistan, if such he wanted. By then there was no decent alternative for Bin Laden.