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I'd replace 'an ally' with 'our henchman' for reasons of historical accuracy. The whole BCCI story - a CIA front, a global drug-money-laundering center, and a

I'd replace 'an ally' with 'our henchman' for reasons of historical accuracy. The whole BCCI story - a CIA front, a global drug-money-laundering center, and a financier of Osama Bin Laden (back when he was also 'an ally' in Afghanistan) is a good example: > "the story of this bank—the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, or BCCI—takes place decades ago, from the late 1970s to the early 1990s." https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/07/the-dictator-run-bank-that-tells-the-story-of-americas-foreign-corruption/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/07/the-dictator-run-bank-t... https://www.newsweek.com/cia-and-bcci-202850 https://www.newsweek.com/cia-and-bcci-202850

dmix 4y ago
The CIA knew about Bin-Laden but the reason why he wasn't 'caught' before 9/11 isn't because of some money'd conspiracy? There's plenty of evidence there were two highly motivated groups trailing the participants of 9/11 but the FBI failed because of information held back by them by compartmentalization between agencies. Which was (allegedly) solved via the DHS. I haven't seen anyone suggest that has any correlation to why Osama was allowed to survive for so long? Intel agencies make dangerous and extremely cynical decisions to dabble in black markets, which need more daylight. 100x. But lets be reasonable here
- photochemsyn 4y ago
  I don't think OBL became an 'official enemy' of the USA until the mid-1990s, by which time he'd moved to Sudan, and apparently what set him off was infidel US soldiers on holy Saudi land during the Gulf War II (I being the Iraq-Iran war of the 1980s). BCCI had mostly been dissolved by then, although some remnants and associates then went on to become 'Al Qaeda's Bank'.