[Deel 908]Met een ponskaart naar internet

quote:

Turn towards extremism

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan resulted in a call to arms by religious leaders all over the Muslim world to liberate the country from pro-Soviet rule. Bin Laden eagerly sent money, supplies, and weapons to the mujahideen in Afghanistan. Furthermore, under CIA supervision Bin Laden was trained by American special forces in guerilla warfare to counter the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan.

When Iraq under Saddam Hussein ordered a military invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, Bin Laden called for jihad against Saddam and asked the Saudi government for permission to send jihadists to protect the country and help liberate Kuwait. Instead the government invited a coalition made up of forces from the United States and other non-Muslim nations to establish a base in Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden, who had hated the United States even before the Gulf War, was outraged; he considered the presence of non-Muslim forces on Saudi soil as an affront to himself and to Muslims in general. Disagreements and squabbling between Bin Laden and the Saudi royal family soon exploded into full-blown hostility, especially after US forces remained in Saudi Arabia upon liberating Kuwait.

Bin Laden left Saudi Arabia in 1991, moving to Sudan at the behest of its Islamist government. There he began to build al-Qaeda and much of its current militant and governmental structure. He also helped build a motorway and several dental surgeries. According to The History Channel program History's Hotspots- Osama's Hideouts In exchange for helping fund the Sudanese government for a while and opening a pharmaceutical factory, he received a luxury villa in Khartoum and was allowed to set up an early al-Qaeda training camp in the desert.

quote:

Op vrijdag 24 maart 2006 17:25 schreef Raymond_de_Zwart het volgende:

[..]

Dat was voor de grote stap terug in de tijd?

quote:

Op vrijdag 24 maart 2006 17:33 schreef du_ke het volgende:
Wie is Masashi Tashiro? De japanse premier ofzo?