AMERICA BETRAYED - Brain & Mind

America BetrayedBush’s Saudi friends.The CIA, during the Reagan and the first Bush administration,imported foreigners into this country, where they were trainedto conduct terrorist acts (3,4). These CIA trained terrorists, werethen unleashed on other countries, such as Nicaragua, Afghanistan,East Timor, Salvador, Columbia, and so on.During the Reagan and the first Bush administration, the CIAand the Saudis, via Pakistan, were also funding the education andthe training of “Holy Warriors” the Mujahideen, who would thengo forth and murder women, children, old men, and shoot downand blow up commercial airlines. Although the vast majority ofthe Mujahideen were trained in Pakistan (5), some of the morepromising candidates for terrorist training, those destined to takeleadership roles, were brought to the United States (6).According to Michael Springman, the former head of theAmerican visa bureau in Jeddah: “While in Saudi Arabia I wasrepeatedly ordered by high level State Dept. officials to issue visasto unqualified applicants. These were, essentially, people who hadno ties either to Saudi Arabia or to their own country. I complainedbitterly at the time there. I returned to the US, I complained to theState Dept. here, to the General Accounting Office, to the Bureauof Diplomatic Security and to the Inspector General’s office. I wasmet with silence. What I was protesting was, in reality, an effort tobring recruits, rounded up by Osama Bin Laden, to the US for terroristtraining by the CIA.”Some of them stayed.But, on whose orders and why?*******The Saudis funded hundreds of madrassas (religious schools)many of which were located adjacent to the numerous squalid refugeecamps in Pakistan where the preyed upon the tens of thousandsof impoverished, unskilled young men who were withouthope and without a future. This hopeless youth were lured to themadrassas which provided them a religious education that emphasized“jihad,” “Islamism,” “Wahhabism,” and the harshest interpretationsof Islam (7).“Jihad” these young boys and men learned, meant holy war372