AMERICA BETRAYED - Brain & Mind

America BetrayedThe madrasahs would be employed to train young men inthe strict Wahhabism branch of Islam, and to turn out thousands ofholy warriors willing to martyr themselves on the battlefields ofAfghanistan.At the end of their schooling these young men then receivedmilitary training after which they were sent back into Afghanistanto wage war and to help create a unified Mujahideen and a unifiedAfghanistan. However, it was never in the cards for Afghanistan tobecome an independent state. Afghanistan was to be under thecontrol of the royal family of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi-fundedPakistani Intelligence Service.******In addition to providing financial aid to the mujahideen theSaudis and King Faud provided funds “to boost their religious andanticommunist radio broadcasts into Afghanistan and Soviet CentralAsia, the oil-rich underbelly of what had been the Soviet Union(12,13). One of the projects close to Faud’s heart was the effort tosupport Islamic movements in Soviet Central Asia. This was donethrough the Wahhabi clan and was top secret (12).Mujahideen fighters were becoming more deadly and moreeffective thanks to the numerous schools established in 1985 totrain fighters in weapons use. Two-week courses in anti-tank andanti-aircraft guns, mine laying and lifting, demolitions, urban warfareand sabotage were offered for thousands of fighters. Twentythousand mujahideen were being pumped out every year by theseschools dubbed ‘CIA U’ by some wags” (12).Before the end of the first term of the Reagan-Bush administration,the CIA had trained tens of thousands of mujahideen.Central to this effort, was the Saudis and the bin Ladens.Osama bin Laden had been working for the CIA and the SaudiIntelligence service, since 1978 (14)—the same year that GeorgeW. Bush founded Arbusto, an oil drilling company that the Saudis/bin Ladens invested in (15).In 1988, bin Laden was given a new assignment. Osamabecame the main financier for “Maktab al-Khidamat” (“the Officeof Services”), which recruited Muslims from around the world toserve Islam through charitable donations or to come forward to378