Dispelling the CIA-Bin Laden Myth (snicker snicker)

[donotpassgo]

by Richard Miniter
Faux News

Two years after the Sept. 11 attacks, no memorial service, cable-news talkfest or university seminar seemed to have been complete without someone emerging from the woodwork to wonder darkly why the CIA ever financed Usama bin Laden "in the first place."

Everyone from Washington Post reporters to Michael Moore (search) seems to buy some version of this.

It is time to lay to rest the nagging doubt held by many Americans that our government was somehow responsible for fostering bin Laden. It's not true and it leaves the false impression that we brought the Sept. 11 attacks down on ourselves. While it is impossible to prove a negative, all available evidence suggests that bin Laden (search) was never funded, trained or armed by the CIA.

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a CIA officer tried to give money to bin Laden, he probably would not have lived through the experience. The arch-terrorist was known for his violent anti-Americanism. Dana Rohrabacher, now a Republican congressman from California, told me about a trip he took with the mujahideen (search) in 1987. On that trek, his guide told him not to speak English for the next few hours because they were passing by bin Laden’s camp. “If he hears an American, he will kill you.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98115,00.html

[rooboy]

1. Thank God we've got that settled.

I never believe anything until I read it on Fox.

[FlemingsGhost]

2. "All available evidence" suggested there were WMD in Iraq.

And that just wasn't true, was it Mr. Miniter?

[Sterling]

3. This is an opinion piece.

I cant see where he even tries to back up this claim where these is lots of evidence to support the opposite position.