How Ronald Reagan let the fuse to the London bombs

[fedsron2us]

Once upon a time, a dangerous radical gained control of the US Republican Party.

Reagan increased the budget for support of the radical Muslim Mujahidin conducting terrorism against the Afghanistan government to half a billion dollars a year.

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In 1998, al-Qaeda and al-Jihad al-Islami, two small terrorist groups established in Afghanistan as a result of the Reagan jihad, declared war on the United States and Israel (the "Zionists and Crusaders"). After attacks by al-Qaeda cells on US embassies in East Africa and on the USS Cole, nineteen of them ultimately used jet planes to attack the Twin Towers and the Pentagon

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The American Right, having created the Mujahideen and having mightily contributed to the creation of al-Qaeda, abruptly announced that there was something deeply wrong with Islam, that it kept producing terrorists.

http://www.juancole.com/

Great piece in todays Informed Comment by Juan Cole which sets out just how the west organised, funded and built the Islamic terror network that now threatens it. We are certainly reaping what we sowed.

[DELUSIONAL]

1. This is a very good historical review WITH photos of

the main players and events.

Well done Professor Cole!

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Cole has been a voice of truth for a long time....

[elehhhhna]

3. Rec'd. Freepers/lurkers need to see this.

[applegrove]

4. Yup - neocon policy in the 1980s was to support strongmen & elites

because "democracy was not possible in the ME". So that means you have to then support tribal & religious sects. Or people talk amongst themselves and demand democracy. Saudi Arabia ran around for 30 years encouraging Islamism so that the poor would be kept busy.

That worked really well!