Richard Miniter
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first heard Jan 2026
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dollar for dollar matching, the Reagan administration would spend up to one billion dollars, uh and they did.
Um
funding native Afghans and the Saudis would spend up to one billion dollars funding the Arab
Uh
Holy warriors, you will.
These are separate groups of people.
They speak different languages.
They have different beliefs.
Uh and they have different aims for the future of Afghanistan.
Um
Mm.
The idea that the CIA funded bin Laden is an attempt to conflate a very broad movement with very different groups in it.
as lump it all as one thing and say we funded that one thing, therefore and bin Laden.
That is just not the case.
And in fact So just for
They were funded by the Saudis and by other Gulf Arabs.
And in fact, the whole time of the nineteen eighties, uh bin Laden is openly anti American, um, and says so and uh
There is a mem it's it's in my book losing bin Laden, there was a member of Congress visiting Afghanistan and he was told to stay away from these bin Laden camps that they were hiking around because if bin Laden captures him, he will torture and kill him.
So this is not somebody on the CIA pay role.
there's much more evidence.
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