That doesn't change the fact that president Clinton if the first president that failed to get OBL.
If anyone "created" OBL it was Carter when he OK'd arming the mujahideen.
Those aren't the Taliban! That's Shah Massoud the people that were fighting the Taliban, and later killed by Al Queda. How many times are you guys going to post that fake photo?
I never said they were Taliban. They are Mujahideen, which is what SaasyIrishAss was talking about.
These people are affiliated with Taliban. They are called "Haqqani network" and have nothing to do with Masood...
Haqqani network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bzzzz wrong. And now the truth:
Ahmad Shah Massoud (
Dari Persian: اØÙ…د شاه مسعود;
[1] September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001) was an Afghan political and military leader, who was a powerful military commander during the resistance against the
Soviet occupation between 1979 and 1989 and in the following years of civil war. He was assassinated on September 9, 2001.
Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, returned to armed opposition until he eventually fled to
Kulob,
Tajikistan, destroying the
Salang Tunnel on his way north. He became the military and political leader of the
United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (also known in the West as the
Northern Alliance). He was assassinated, probably at the instigation of
al-Qaeda, in a
suicide bombing on September 9, 2001, just two days before the
September 11 attacks in the United States which led to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation invading Afghanistan, allying with Massoud's forces.
U.S. policy regarding Massoud, the Taliban and Afghanistan remains ambiguous and differed between the various U.S. government agencies.
In 1997, U.S. State Department's
Robin Raphel suggested to Massoud he should surrender to the Taliban. He soundly rejected the proposal.
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At one point in the war, in 1997, two top foreign policy officials in the Clinton administration flew to northern Afghanistan in an attempt to convince Massoud not to take advantage of a strategic opportunity to make crucial gains against the Taliban.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources
In 1998, a U.S.
Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, Julie Sirrs, visited Massoud's territories privately, having previously been denied official permission to do so by her agency. She reported that Massoud had conveyed warnings about strengthened ties between the Taliban and foreign Islamist terrorists. Returning home, she was sacked from her agency for insubordination, because at that time the U.S. administration had no trust in Massoud