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Why did Dub-Ya give the Taliban 43 Million dollars in aid just before 9/11?
The Taliban visited the White House and walked away with 43 million dollars in aid. We knew how evil these people were, we knew that there were terror training camps that they let operate. Why would we aid them??
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3556
Even if the Bush administration had not been dissuaded by moral considerations, it should have been by purely pragmatic concerns. There was already ample evidence in the spring of 2001 that the Taliban was giving sanctuary to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network that had bombed two U.S. embassies in East Africa.
We knew that Bin-Laden was a serious threat and the President was warned on August 6th 2001.
Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate bin Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Laden implied in U.S. television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and "bring the fighting to America."
After U.S. missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, bin Laden told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a -- -- service.
An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told - - service at the same time that bin Laden was planning to exploit the operative's access to the U.S. to mount a terrorist strike.
The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of bin Laden's first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the U.S.
Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles Internat
4 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
He didn't. Don't be fooled by this liberal trash. It's all flat out lies, just like everything that comes out of Obama's mouth. But I'm sure you've drank enough kool-aid and it's too late. So sad...
- 4 years ago
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- ?Lv 41 decade ago
As of 9/10 we knew nothing of the evil ways the middle east would treat us. The terror of 9/11 could not yet be fathomed.
Don't you remember that day and how shocked you were? So was Bush.
- PaladinLv 71 decade ago
if the article is correct, it seems to have been because the Taliban was trying to do something about reducing the drug trade
