7.20.2005

London mayor says West fueled Islamic radicalism - Yahoo! News

London mayor says West fueled Islamic radicalism - Yahoo! News: "'You've just had 80 years of Western intervention into predominantly Arab lands because of a Western need for oil. We've propped up unsavory governments, we've overthrown ones that we didn't consider sympathetic,' Livingstone said.

'I think the particular problem we have at the moment is that in the 1980s ... the Americans recruited and trained Osama bin Laden, taught him how to kill, to make bombs, and set him off to kill the Russians to drive them out of
Afghanistan.

'They didn't give any thought to the fact that once he'd done that, he might turn on his creators,' he told BBC radio."

2 comments:

  1. I wasn't really aware in the 80's - I was barely alive. Osama was sent off to kill the Russians?! Hey! I'm Russian!

    Oh yeah, I used to live in Orlando Florida too. Right off Semoran. :)

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  2. I'm sure you were'nt born during the 30's, but you've heard of the little man with the little mustache right?

    None of us were around 2000yrs ago, but some of us swear we know what happened with great detail, and "PASSION".

    Most cute people don't have to be informed do they?

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