AMERICA BETRAYED - Brain & Mind

America BetrayedThus, whereas Saladin bin Laden and other Saudis had goneinto business with the Bush family, Osama bin Laden was acting inconcert with the Bush family fingers which not only gripped theCIA, but were playing it like a violin.Osama bin Laden thus became a major player due to hisfamily’s close ties with the Bush family and the Saudi Royal family.Osama brought money and the expertise of his family’s constructionbusiness to Afghanistan, and, again, with CIA assistance,constructed roads and tunnels and provided funds for arms andmunitions (47). However, it was not just money for arms and religioustraining, that bin Laden provided, for in addition to his expertisein construction, bin Laden was also an expert at propaganda.In an interview in the deserts near Kandahar Osama bin Ladenexplained: “My job is to inspire, to organize people. My job is toprovoke people. I’m not doing it myself, but I’m preaching so thatothers will do it” (48).Osama bin Laden was an expert at Hegelian manipulation.Osama used religion to manipulate the Mujahideen so that theywere willing to martyr themselves for a goal that was never revealedto them: oil.*******In February of 1989, the Soviet Union, after having sustainedincredible losses, decided to withdraw from Afghanistan. Afghanistan,with its numerous tribes and ethnic groups, dissolved intocivil war, with different factions of Mujahideen murdering, raping,and destroying one another (46).THE FRACTIOUS MUJAHIDEEN: CIVIL WARBy the end of 1992, although George H.W. Bush was out ofa job, the mission of the Brotherhood remained the same: the topplingof Saddam Hussein, the seizure of the Iraqi oil-fields, theinstallation of cooperative regime in Afghanistan, the grabbing ofthe central Asian oil-prize, and the creation of a New World Order—a New Order that would be governed by the defense and petropharmaceuticalindustries, and the Wall Street elite.In 1992, the likelihood of a New World Order, still seemed aworld away.380