Talk:Blowback (intelligence)

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[edit] bin Laden was funded and supported by the CIA

The article previously stated bin Laden "purportedly also" was supported by the CIA. It's not purported -- it's a documented fact. The CIA built a training facility for bin Laden outside Khost in 1986. This is documented by, amongst other sources, the Chalmers Johnson book referenced in the Wiki article. —207.69.137.15 22:10, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Bullshit. Major POV violations on this page. Had to take it out. Chalmers Johnson is not a reliable source and his documentation is absurdly bad. Every major source on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda directly reject this.

See: the various books by Peter Bergen, especially "Holy War, Inc.", as well as Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" (the most thorough history of Al Qaeda); as well as the standard works on the 80's in Afghanistan: "Charlie Wilson's War" and "Ghost Wars" and Milt Bearden's "The Main Enemy"

And that's just for a start. These are a heck of a more reliable than some Chomskyite who doesn't even source his claims to anything more than IWW articles.

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