I do not believe that the USA engages in gross and weird conspiracies -----the USA does lots of stupid things, however---
like kissing up to the TALIBAN in the 1980s
Bit of a problem with your timeline there. The Taliban were formed in the early 90's. They were Benazir Bhutto's war child. She gave them financial and military aid.
nope----there were PAKISTANI volunteers in Afghanistan----
FIGHTING the Russian "invaders" ----way back in the 1980s to whom the US gave some funding. ---they were called --way
back then MUJAHADEEN in the US press
Your source----RIAZ HAQ---is a hack. He is seeking a position in life by hating the bhuttos. NOW---there is popular sentiment against the TALIBAN IN PAKISTAN----in the 1980s and 90s-------they were the DARLINGS OF PAKISTANI SOCIETY for their agenda----the ISLAMIZATION OF AFGHANISTAN. BINNY went to Afghanistan-----in order to be
amongst JIHAD FRIENDS-----the Pakistanis who BECAME TALIBAN in the 90s IN AFGHANISTAN ---and the Afghanis who "liked" them and liked Binny
First off I never put up a source. But I'll put up this one for fun.
Bhutto helped create Taliban monster
In 1991, Pakistan's intelligence services stashed a massive cache of assault rifles and ammunition at a secret weapons dump in Spin Boldak, rushing armaments across the border as a (phony) deadline loomed for ending direct supply of their favoured combatants in Afghanistan's civil war.
By
Rosie DiMannoColumnist
Wed., Jan. 2, 2008
"In 1991, Pakistan's intelligence services stashed a massive cache of assault rifles and ammunition at a secret weapons dump in Spin Boldak, rushing armaments across the border as a (phony) deadline loomed for ending direct supply of their favoured combatants in Afghanistan's civil war.
Seventeen tunnels beneath the dump contained enough weaponry to arm thousands of soldiers.
Three years later, the Taliban broke the depot open and handed out rifles – still wrapped in plastic – to volunteers summoned from local madrassas, an incident documented in the authoritative book
Ghost Wars.
Within 24 hours, the Taliban captured Kandahar, Mullah Omar took possession of the governor's headquarters, and the airport was seized – with its six MiG-21 fighter jets, four Mi-17 transport helicopters, fleet of tanks and armed personnel carriers."
AND here's the key irosie. That ***** may she ever rot in hell admitted she gave birth to them.
"For years, during her second tenure as PM, Bhutto lied brazenly to Washington about the extent to which Pakistan, with her approval, was covertly arming and funding the Taliban. As Bhutto admitted in a 2002 interview: "Once I gave the go-ahead that they should get the money, I don't know how much money they were ultimately given ... I know it was a lot. It was just carte blanche."
Bhutto helped create Taliban monster | Toronto Star
The Taliban gutting of Afghanistan was on, nearly all opponents swept aside, Kabul falling with barely a whimper.
As
Ghost Wars author Steve Coll so dryly put it: "Benazir Bhutto was suddenly the matron of a new Afghan faction."
The late – twice – but no longer future prime minister of Pakistan was far, far from a stupid woman. The Taliban was a gamble she took, cunningly if not without considerable trepidation – and certainly at the behest of a powerful intelligence service, the ISI, she feared but had to accommodate, in the doomed hope of retaining office.
