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Bin Laden Said to 'Own' The Taliban
Washington Post ^ | 11 October 2001, page A01 | Bob Woodward

Posted on 10/10/2001 11:32:03 PM PDT by Grampa Dave

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:25 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Osama bin Laden has provided an estimated $100 million in cash and military assistance to the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan over the last five years, making bin Laden the single greatest supporter of the Afghan regime, according to intelligence information presented recently to President Bush and his senior national security advisers.


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What a great group of freedom loving mass murderering Arabs, these bin Laden owned and controlled Taliban guys!

Sure they would give old Binny a fair trial and other lies they have about him! Remove all of them. They are wasting precious oxygen!

1 posted on 10/10/2001 11:32:03 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: Grampa Dave
If he owns the Taliban, he'd better short sell pretty quick.
2 posted on 10/10/2001 11:33:46 PM PDT by jammer
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To: JohnHuang2
John would you please put your magic bump and touch wand on this very interesting story! Thank You!
3 posted on 10/10/2001 11:34:05 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: Grampa Dave
Hate to poop the party but, already posted here:

Bin Laden Said to 'Own' The Taliban

4 posted on 10/10/2001 11:35:44 PM PDT by Texaggie79
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To: jammer
You posted, "If he owns the Taliban, he'd better short sell pretty quick."

The only thing he sells short is insurance stock, airline stock and financial stock before he orders the mass murder of innocents on 9/11!

I had heard that he owned and controls most of Sudan and Somalia! The way he and the Taliban get along with each other, this should have been a given. We knew that he was giving them money. We didn't know that he was the only share holder, CEO, CFO and in charge of training mass murdering Arab misfits!

It is time that all of these Taliban supporters of mass murder stop wasting Oxygen!

5 posted on 10/10/2001 11:39:47 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: jammer
If he owns the Taliban, he'd better short sell pretty quick.

We are about to liquidate his investment.

6 posted on 10/10/2001 11:40:28 PM PDT by teletech
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To: Texaggie79
Thanks I ran the search and nothing came up!
7 posted on 10/10/2001 11:40:36 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: Grampa Dave
We are sending all this aid to the Afghans--and have been. I don't resent it, but, if this guy loves his people so much, why hasn't HE fed some of them.
8 posted on 10/10/2001 11:44:45 PM PDT by jammer
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To: jammer
Benny Laden with the itsy bitsy you know what, is like all of his super rich Arabic cousins who finance terrorism and let their people starve.

Saddam is worth over 7 billion $'s. He lets his poor people starve and uses them as guinea pigs to test his weapons of mass destruction.

Arafatty, KrazyKhaki, and the other pyscho Arabs who rule regimes which produce mass murderers are among the richest people living in this world. They don't want to use their riches to help their poor. Those poor neighborhoods produce the ultimate suicide terrorists for them to send out as the ultimate mass murder weapon like on 9/11!

The super rich pyscho Arabs live in luxury far away from the horrible reality when one of their home grown terrorists kills himself and others!

The super rich psycho Arabs who organize, finance and control human suicide bombers and other terrorists are among the most evil people who have ever lived! They have amassed fortunes which are used to train mass murderers and for them and family members to live a very rich life!

9 posted on 10/10/2001 11:59:48 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: Grampa Dave
Woodward left out the main source of Osama's income: Opium.
10 posted on 10/11/2001 12:09:18 AM PDT by The Kitten
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To: Grampa Dave
Excerpt of President Bush's radio address to the nation September 15, 2001 after the WTC/Pentagon Terrorists Attacks of September 11, 2001:

This is a conflict without battlefields or beachheads, a conflict with opponents who believe they are invisible. Yet, they are mistaken. They will be exposed, and they will discover what others in the past have learned: Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.





For a great laugh, check THIS out!:

Osama bin Laden Phones President Bush!

11 posted on 10/11/2001 12:53:15 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: MeeknMing

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12 posted on 10/11/2001 1:55:22 AM PDT by JameRetief
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To: Grampa Dave
Bin Laden found a bunch of savage inbred and illiterate Taliban goat humpers to manipulate.
13 posted on 10/11/2001 3:56:02 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: jammer
The way I look at it, if they are destroying the supplies we are sending its time to stop sending them. I know the US is notorious for wasting billions of dollars but there are other countries out there (including our own) where there are plenty of people that would love to have that food.
14 posted on 10/11/2001 4:47:18 AM PDT by EuroFrog
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To: Grampa Dave
If Bin Laden wasn't the "hand that feeds them", the Taliban would have disposed of him in a minute. The Taliban has only two choices at this time: 1) get rid of Bin Laden, end up penniless and be destroyed by the U.S. and its coalition or 2) stick with Bin Laden and his $$$ and somehow hope militant Islam everywhere will rise up and force a break in the coalition the U.S. has put together.

Clearly, the Taliban has placed its bets on 2) for the present. That could change very quickly if Bin Laden's money supply is cut off somehow. If Bin Laden has no $$$ to offer them, he is a detriment to their cause.

We've got to ferret out his sources of $$$ and cut them off somehow. Rendering the poppy fields in Afghanistan useless would be a good start.

15 posted on 10/11/2001 5:59:36 AM PDT by randita
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To: Grampa Dave
Worst investments of 2001:
1) The Taliban
2) Mountain Chateau in Afghanistan
3) "I love Osama" Bumper Stickers
16 posted on 10/11/2001 6:53:51 AM PDT by BlueNgold
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To: JameRetief
Thanks for sharing your great talent with us!

The talent and the conservative sense of humor on Free Republic beats any left wing fish wrap posing as a newspaper!

17 posted on 10/11/2001 7:26:06 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: randita
You are correct with your #1 and #2.

Spraying the opium fields and then finding out the infra structure of how it gets to the USA and Europe will stop a lot of their $$$'s. Anyone dealing in Taliban dope after 9/11 should be charged with treason! Another prime example that drugs are not the innocent lark the pro druggies would try to have us believe!

I will post a link in another reply of how the super rich Saudis have been supporting bin Laden, the Taliban, and other terrorist organizations with their $$$'s. They are apparently refusing to freeze bin Laden's, the Taliban's and other terrorist organization's assets in Saudi Arabia!

18 posted on 10/11/2001 7:34:27 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
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(You should see Rivero's take on the opium issue.)

Bin Laden's military units also provide the Taliban with some of its most committed and effective assault forces.

I said this a week or so ago that bin Laden owns the Taleban. It is because he is the most trained and organized and ruthless faction in Afghanistan (and elsewhere) that he can easily extort anything he wants from the weak govts. Just think what it means to be the meanest thug on the block composed of thugs. It's obvious. He can follow through on any threat he wants to give there. Even the Saudis are caving in to them obviously.

Gotta kill al Qaeda thoroughly.

19 posted on 10/11/2001 9:00:56 AM PDT by flamefront
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ff posted, "I said this a week or so ago that bin Laden owns the Taleban. It is because he is the most trained and organized and ruthless faction in Afghanistan (and elsewhere) that he can easily extort anything he wants from the weak govts. Just think what it means to be the meanest thug on the block composed of thugs. It's obvious. He can follow through on any threat he wants to give there. Even the Saudis are caving in to them obviously."

Gotta kill al Qaeda thoroughly.

This article documents your warning of a week or so ago!

I knew that he was a heavy contributor to the Taliban, but I did not realize the extent. Apparently he owns Somalia and most of the Sudan's mass murdering Arabs who have killed over 2 million Christians with his guidance and $'s!

20 posted on 10/11/2001 9:19:49 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
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