Osama bin Laden was recruited by Turki Al Faisal, the Saudi intelligence Chief way back in the late 1970s or earty 1980s, and became the ClA's chief organiser of the insurgency against the left wing government of Aighanistan in the 1980s. with the anarchy prevaling in post commo nist" Afghanistan and spiling into Pakistan, the CIA along with ISi (inter Services Intelligence) tarted propping up the Taliban in 1994 Ironically this took place under Benazir Bhutto's so-called progressive regime in Pakistan The 4: financial backing of this operation - apart from Saudi Arabia and the CIA - mainly came from UNOCAL and the big US oil conglomerates. They had their own vested interests ... in getting oil and gas pipelines from Central Asian republics - mainly Turkmenistan - through Afghanistan down to the warm waters of the Arabian Sea. The deal was struck under the suspices of the then US under-secretary of state Ms. Robyn Raphael The ISI also Democratic Party of Aighanis an) military faction led by Shahnawaz Tanal to join the Taliban forces, and used his pilots to fly MIG 23 and Sakol fighters of what was left of the Afghan air force and drive sophisticated Russian tanks. The Talban captured Kabul in 1996. US $30 million was paid by UNICOL alone for the completion of this operation. •The Americans were not at all disturbed by the women by these monsters. persuaded the PDPA (People's pipe lines with them. issued in Texas, USA. ruthless and barbaric acts perpetrated by the Taliban upon the poor Aghan populace. They had no complaints about the repression of In fact, after coming to power the Taliban started playing with various oil multinationals who were trying to strike deals on oil and gas In 1997 the Taliban sent two delegations to the two competing bidders, UNICOL and Bridas (an Afghanistan. Argentinian oil gant) to Texas and Buenos Aires. At the headquarters of Bridas in Buenos Aires, all the female staff were asked not to we swing. but to put on long trousers and cover their more milions. heads with scarves. Similar instructions were home to roost. took the advantages and then ditched the deals. The Pakistani dictatorship benefited enormously from the US sponsored Afghan war durgos to stabilise their regime but also stole large chunks of financis aid and weaponry destined to reach the islamic fundamentalist groups during their counter-revolutionary insurgency in The army and the ISi indulged not only in looting from the war money but also in connivance with CIA in the drug trade. Here they made But for Pakistan the chickens have now come
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