President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski visiting ‘his boy’, Osama Bin Laden, in training with the Pakistan Army, 1981.Photo originally scanned from the New York Village Voice. Photo credited to the Sygma/Corbis Agency, Paris.
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About Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Classes began this week for the spring semester at Columbia University, and about 300 students crammed into Room A of the Law School to hear Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski. Professor Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, teaches political science at Columbia.
January 23, 1985
NY City was an interesting place to be for young men “searching for themselves” in the early eighties...at this time Obama said he was fasting on Sundays; I don’t think fasting was too common at the time even among old hippies so why was he doing this? Muslims would be fasting on Fridays during Ramadan but I can’t vouch for heretical sects like the Nation of Islam.
Brooklyn-based organization, Al Kifah Refugee Center...recruited mujahideen (“holy warriors”) for Osama bin Laden to fight the Soviet army in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
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the Al-Kifah Refugee Center, based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Known by various spellings, the center was a recruitment office for Mektab al Khidmat, or MAK [office of services], which bin Laden co-founded in the 1980s to recruit mujahideen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, according to the 9-11 Commission.The U.S. government has called MAK the “precursor organization to al-Qaida.” Some people involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing were connected to the Brooklyn center. President Bush designated MAK/Al-Kifah a global terrorist organization soon after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.-
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According to the [2005] indictment[of Muntasser & Mubayyid], Care was operating as a branch of a Brooklyn-based organization, Al Kifah Refugee Center, which recruited mujahideen (“holy warriors”) for Osama bin Laden to fight the Soviet army in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Care also published Al Kifah’s militant newsletter Al Hussam (“The Sword”). Care is not affiliated with the international humanitarian organization CARE International. —— “Charity Officers Indicted in Boston,” ????, Posted: June 7, 2005 , 20 posted on 10/11/2006 2:08:55 PM PDT by kcvl | To 2