How the CIA created Osama bin Laden BY NORM DIXON "Throughout
the world ... its agents, client states and satellites are on
the defensive — on the moral defensive, the intellectual
defensive, and the political and economic defensive. Freedom
movements arise and assert themselves. They're doing so on
almost every continent populated by man — in the hills of
Afghanistan, in Angola, in Kampuchea, in Central America ...
[They are] freedom fighters." Is this a call to jihad (holy war)
taken from one of Islamic fundamentalist Osama bin Laden's
notorious fatwas? Or perhaps a communique issued by the
repressive Taliban regime in Kabul? In fact, this glowing praise
of the murderous exploits of today's supporters of arch-
terrorist bin Laden and his Taliban collaborators, and their
holy war against the "evil empire", was issued by US President
Ronald Reagan on March 8, 1985. The "evil empire" was the Soviet
Union, as well as Third World movements fighting US-backed
colonialism, apartheid and dictatorship. How things cha