The following was written some seven months ago.
"The accession in the US of President George W Bush... may shed yet fresh
light on at least two central mysteries of the Taliban ... The first is
the extent to which the administration of Bill Clinton actively encouraged
its former cold war allies, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, to assemble and
finance a tribal military force to end the misrule of the mojahedin in the
post-Soviet years. The second - of greater sensitivity - is to provide a
coherent explanation for the studied incompetence of the FBI, CIA and
other American intelligence agencies in addressing the alleged threats
posed to the US by Osama bin Laden and his network. Bush's links with the
US energy industry, most notably Unocal, are, regrettably, more likely to
restrict the current state of knowledge about US policy in Afghanistan in
the late 1990s, than to enlarge it."
"Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan", Mike Griffin
Unocal BTW want to build a pipeline accross Afghanistan ( and have George
Snr on the board)
Also to be read by anyone interested is:
Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism, By John
Cooley, and ABC journalist.
Martin Owen
Labordy Dysgu- Learning Lab
Prifysgol Cymru Bangor- University of Wales, Bangor
"How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?"
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