Back in the day when the mujahedeen were America’s sweethearts, they were engaged in acts of terror.
I was myself in Afghanistan in 1980, when bin Laden arrived there. I still have my reporting notes from those days. They record Afghan mujahedeen fighters burning down schools and cutting the throats of Afghan Communist schoolteachers because the government had ordered boys and girls to sit together in mixed classes. In those days, The London Times was calling them “freedom fighters.” Later, when Afghan mujahedeen shot down an Afghan civilian airliner carrying forty-nine passengers and five crew members (with a British-made Blowpipe missile), the same paper called them “rebels.” Oddly enough, the word “terrorists” was never used-except by the Russians.
We must renounce “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”.
I realize that there is still no definitive evidence linking him to the attacks.
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