Date: 15 Sep 2001 00:05:59 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror Message-ID: <xzpitelsa0o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <01091417452001.15691@sqltest> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0109140842290.21471-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> <xzp66alubgp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010914152445.H3356@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <01091417452001.15691@sqltest>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> writes: > Apparently this Ladden guy was a top official in the Saudi government not > that long ago. Unfortunately, the Saudi government had to kick him out > because Saudi Arabia (as a whole) was pursuing a more peaceful stance > with the rest of the world, and Ladden just wouldn't play along. Now he's > a refugee training terrorists, whereas he was controlling armies not that > long ago. Bollocks. You need to check your facts more carefully. Firstly, his name is Usama bin Laden, not "this Ladden guy"; secondly, he's never held a government office, and has in fact been stripped of his Saudi citizenship. The only armies he's ever controlled were US-funded, US-equipped and US-trained Afghan guerillas during the occupation of Afghanistan by the USSR: he left Saudi Arabia for Afghanistan shortly after the Soviet invasion and fought with the Mujahedeen, and organized transportation and training for (non-Afghan) Moslems who wished to fight against the USSR in Afghanistan. He returned to Saudi Arabia in the late eighties but fled the country when the Saudi authorities tried to apprehend him for supporting fundamental groups actioning against moderate Islamic governments. He later turned all his energy and his considerable resources against the USA out of (apparently) a sense of outrage at the shameful violation of Saudi soil by US troops during and after the Gulf War. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?xzpitelsa0o.fsf>