Quote: Steve T said: Are we gonna pass any of this blame over to the president in charge when the US paid for Bin Ladens training?
The story that the U.S. trained, or paid to train, Bin Laden is a myth.
...all available evidence suggests that bin Laden (search) was never funded, trained or armed by the CIA.
Bin Laden himself has repeatedly denied that he received any American support. “Personally neither I nor my brothers saw any evidence of American help,” bin Laden told British journalist Robert Fisk (search) in 1993. In 1996, Mr. Fisk interviewed bin Laden again. The arch-terrorist was equally adamant: “We were never, at any time, friends of the Americans. We knew that the Americans supported the Jews in Palestine and that they are our enemies.”
