As former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds subsequently reported, the US maintained ‘intimate relations’ with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, right up to “that day of September 11.” These ‘intimate relations’ included using Bin Laden for ‘operations’ in Central Asia, including Xinjiang, China, and involved using al Qaeda and the Taliban in the same manner “as we did during the Afghan and Soviet conflict,” that is, fighting ‘enemies’ via proxies.
Amazing how Lawrence Wright missed all those intimate relations in The Looming Tower.
It's the usual: PNAC, Operation Northwoods, how long it took to establish the commission, less money than they spent on Monica Lewinsky....
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