“Osamagate”. The History of America’s “War on Terrorism” | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

“Osamagate”. The History of America’s “War on Terrorism” | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

“Osamagate”. The History of America’s “War on Terrorism”

 

This article was first published on October 9, 2001, two days after
the onslaught of the US-NATO war on Afghanistan (October 7, 2001).




“Now the Taliban will pay a price” vowed President George W.
Bush, as American and British fighter planes unleashed missile attacks
against major cities in Afghanistan. The US Administration claims that
Osama bin Laden is behind the tragic events of the 11th of September.

A major war supposedly
“against international terrorism” has been launched, yet the evidence
amply confirms that agencies of the US government have since the Cold
War harbored the “Islamic Militant Network” as part of Washington’s
foreign policy agenda. In a bitter irony, the US Air Force is targeting
the training camps in Afghanistan established in the 1980s by the CIA.

The
main justification for waging this war on Afghanistan has been totally
fabricated. The American people have been deliberately and consciously
misled by their government into supporting a major military adventure
which affects our collective future.


Confronted with mounting evidence, the US Administration can no
longer deny its links to Osama. While the CIA admits that Osama bin
Laden was an “intelligence asset” during the Cold War, the relationship
is said to “go way back”. Most news reports consider that these
Osama-CIA links belong to the “bygone era” of the Soviet-Afghan war.
They are invariably viewed as “irrelevant” to an understanding of
present events. Lost in the barrage of recent history, the role of the
CIA in supporting and developing international terrorist organisations
during the Cold war and its aftermath is casually ignored or downplayed
by the Western