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Except the trouble is, there is no credible proof that the CIA ever dealt with Bin Laden. Just rantings and ravings by left and right wing wackos. Bin Laden simply didn't need it. After all, he's incredibly rich.

Most of the ones directly trained by the CIA are the guys in the Northern Alliance. The CIA also paid the ISI in Pakistan to train some.

He's incredibly rich through no doing of his own. He owes his family for that.

As for you charge that only "whackos" believe Bin-ladins association with the CIA, are you forgetting the long history of the Bushes and Bin-Laden's? Or that the CIA and the Bin-Laden family visited Osama in a hospital in Dubai in June of last year?

Its common knowledge that Bin-Laden was involved with the CIA, supposedly to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. Where have you been? What makes you think he would betray both his family and the Company?

Oh, I forgot! He had a religious experience. Yeah, probably getting a lapdance in Beirut!

Except the trouble is, there is no credible proof that the CIA ever dealt with Bin Laden. Just rantings and ravings by left and right wing wackos. Bin Laden simply didn't need it. After all, he's incredibly rich.

You’ll find plenty of evidence in the normal media that in the early 80’s Osama’s organization MAK was funded by the CIA through Pakistani intelligence agencies. He split with MAK in the mid-late 80s, and founded Al Quaida (88?) as he took on an anti-American, anti-West tone. No, the CIA doesn’t come out and say it, but unless you believe the CIA didn’t aid the Afghan rebels, it happened. MAK was a pretty “mainstream” group. Beyond the late 80’s you may well enter the realm of ranting and raving.

Personally, I think it’s a mistake to view our relationship with MAK or Israel’s with Hamas as some sort of fatal flaw. Enemy of my enemy relationships are common, and groups like Hamas or individuals like bin Laden change objectives over the years.