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...hijacked airliners had been staffed with covert, armed police posing as ordinary travelers, I would be willing to bet that the tragedies would not have occurred, and they would have been only attempted hijackings. JAMES EGAN Tucson, Ariz...
...find out, 10 years from now, that CIA agents initiated massive covert operations to prop up U.S.-friendly but highly corrupt governments that massacred their own people, as we now know occurred in Latin America during the 1980s, I will be able to say self-righteously, “You never told me you were going to do that.” And even if our actions eventually destabilize entire regions of the world, foster global anti-Americanism and bomb a country back into the Stone Age, I might (probably not) argue that it was worth it in order...
...This whole problem shows how difficult it is to trace and cut off the covert money flows that help support the global terrorist organizations,” he said...
...have learned to live alongside an array of the Taliban's so-called foreign guests, including Arabs, Chechens, Kurds, Uzbeks and Pakistanis--all believed to be in Afghanistan for secret military training. In the 1980s, Washington fueled Afghan resistance to the Soviet invasion by passing billions of dollars of covert aid to mujahedin fighters. Once the Soviets pulled out, the mujahedin turned on one another, and the country descended into civil war. When the Taliban--a band of warrior students--swept into Kabul five years ago, it imposed a ruthless Islamic rule. It brought peace to the city...
...impossible to replace Massoud, Afghanistan's strongest champion of moderate Islam and a passionate nationalist who led the resistance against Soviet occupation, earning the title "Lion of Panjshir" for doggedly defending the valley. For years he complained about Washington's reluctance to rein in Pakistan's covert military support for the Taliban. "We have told Western countries again and again of the dangers of Taliban extremism, of bin Laden and his terrorists," he recently told TIME at his headquarters. In recent years, however, he came to be seen in some Western circles as a leader who could challenge not only...