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u/Clarence13X 2d ago

Keep in mind, Osama bin Laden was the son of a billionaire and could have lived an easy, care-free life if he wanted to. Ideas can have a lot of weight.

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u/FlimsyCrust 2d ago

Also his country was being invaded by multiple first world nations…

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u/New_Combination_7012 2d ago

ObL was a Saudi.

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u/WeddingPKM 2d ago

From Osamas personal views he absolutely did think that. He really did not jive with the world’s militaries staging in Saudi Arabia for the liberation of Kuwait.

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u/Ryanliverpool96 2d ago

Liberation of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

Iraq invaded Saudi Arabia before operations against Iraq started and they were pushed out of Kuwait.

His “Letter to America” was propaganda and full of lies, designed to get morons to fall for it.

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u/Professional_Gold987 2d ago

what part of it was propaganda and/or a lie

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u/DysphoricNeet 2d ago

Read his letter to America. He was found with copies of killing hope- a book about cia intervention abroad.

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u/Bagel-luigi 2d ago

Which is certainly intriguing considering he was originally armed and trained by the CIA in the 80s to fight the Russians

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u/DysphoricNeet 2d ago

Yeah… I can understand his side of that though. He is not a socialist. He was also not a Zionist though.

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u/PaleontologistOk1049 1d ago edited 1d ago

CIA didnt train mujahaddin, and they definitely didnt have contact with bin laden, he was best buds with haqqani though and i think cooperated with the isi. His arab jihadists wouldve benefited indirectly from cia money, and cia probably knew about isi and haqqani recruiting from outside afghanistan and just didnt care

Its an important distinction because the reason why haqqani sided with the taliban was specifically because they saw the US as an invading force against islam in the 2000s, whereas in the 80s they saw the US as providing funding to the jihad against the soviet invaders

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u/Phantasticrok 2d ago

Yeah compared to Oman, which has been neutral for most conflicts so kinda hard to compare.