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2001 Sep 14
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[Fwd: Bush's Press Conference: Into the Abyss]
...intelligence
> operatives could readily tell him, would have to identify who has and still
> is supporting the villain of this dangerous melodrama, Osama bin Laden.
>
> Bin Laden worked hand in glove with the US Central Intelligence Agency since
> the early 1980s in establishing his Maktab al-Khidamar network, which raised
> money and recruited jehadis - the so-called Afghan Arabs, estimated to be
> some 10,000 strong - to overthrow the secular Democratic Republic of
> Afghanistan.
>
> He was a joint asset of the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence,
>...