OF COURSE THEY LET BIN LADEN GO. HE IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN A CIA ASSET AND AL-CIADA IS A CIA RUN ORGANIZATION. Read about it:

Al Qaeda, or "the base," is a group led by Osama bin Ladin. The purpose of the organization is to provide orgainization and funding for international Islamic jihad. Among the terrorist activities blamed on Al Qaeda are the bombing of the USS Cole, the US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, and the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11th, 2001.

Although "al-Qaeda" is the name of the organization used in popular culture, the organization does not use the name to formally refer to itself. The name "al-Qaeda" was coined by the American Federal Government based on the name of a computer file of Osama bin Laden's that listed the names of contacts he had made in Afghanistan, which talks about the organization as the al_Qaeda_al_Jihad ("the base of the jihad").

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Al_Queda

Al Qaeda as a CIA / ISI / Saudi operation

According to admissions by Zbigniew Brzezinski and former CIA director Bill Casey, efforts were being made to destabilize the country.

"According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan on 24 Decempber 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3, 1979, that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the President in which I explained to him that in my opinion, this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention."

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html

Six months later the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

Osama bin Laden was selected for the head Al Qaeda by Turki al-Faisal al-Saud, head of Saudi intelligence 1977-2001, currently Saudi ambassador to the UK. Osama bin Laden and al-Faisal have reportedly maintained close ties to this day. The CIA / ISI had requested a Saudi prince, but al-Faisal couldn't find any that was willing.

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Who is Osama Bin Laden

Prime suspect in the New York and Washington terrorists attacks, branded by the FBI as an "international terrorist" for his role in the African US embassy bombings, Saudi born Osama bin Laden was recruited during the Soviet-Afghan war "ironically under the auspices of the CIA, to fight Soviet invaders".

In 1979 "the largest covert operation in the history of the CIA" was launched in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in support of the pro-Communist government of Babrak Kamal.

With the active encouragement of the CIA and Pakistan's ISI, who wanted to turn the Afghan jihad into a global war waged by all Muslim states against the Soviet Union, some 35,000 Muslim radicals from 40 Islamic countries joined Afghanistan's fight between 1982 and 1992. Tens of thousands more came to study in Pakistani madrasahs. Eventually more than 100,000 foreign Muslim radicals were directly influenced by the Afghan jihad.

The Islamic "jihad" was supported by the United States and Saudi Arabia with a significant part of the funding generated from the Golden Crescent drug trade.

Quetta And Surplus Jihadis

By Dr Farrukh Saleem The News International (Pakistan) 15 July , 2003

On 25 December 1979, Leonid Brezhnev sent in troops to invade Afghanistan. Within two days the Red Army had secured Kabul. On 21 January 1980, US President James E. Carter made his State of the Union Address. The Carter Administration had identified Pakistan as a "Front-line state" in America's global struggle against Communism.

At the heart of America's struggle against Communism was the CIA plan to destabilise the Soviet Union through the spread of Islamic fanaticism across Muslim Central Asian Soviet republics. Between 1980 and 1989, CIA poured in some $6 billion (other estimates go as high as $20 billion) in arms, ammunition, recruiting, establishing an extensive madrassa network, training, feeding and arming of recruits. Saudi Arabia matched the US dollar-for-dollar. Wealthy Arabs poured in additional millions. Egypt and China also helped out.

In 1980, Prince Turki al-Faisal, the then head of Istakhbarat, Saudi Arabia's secret service, handpicked Osama bin Laden to provide engineering and organisational help to the fighting Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Osama was provided hundreds of millions with which he bought heavy construction equipment from Saudi Arabia destined for Afghanistan's guerrilla camps.

Ronald Reagan took over the White House on 20 January 1981. The game-plan then revolved around the production of a hundred thousand religious fanatics to fight the 'godless Russians'. In 1979 an estimate on the total number of madrassas stood at around 1,000. Most of these madrassas concentrated on the formal instruction of Islamic theology. Between 1983 and 1988, CIA aid had helped establish an additional 1,891 madrassas. The new ones doubled as guerrilla training camps producing an average of at least fifty battle-ready alumni a year. That's roughly a hundred thousand Mujahideen a year. Osama bin Laden on his own is estimated to have recruited, financed and trained an additional 35,000 non-Afghans.

http://www.countercurrents.org/ipk-saleem150703.htm

Al Qaeda, the CIA and the former Yugoslavia

Political Deception: The Missing Link behind 9-11 by Michel Chossudovsky

(...) The U.S. Congress has documented in detail, the links of Al Qaeda to agencies of the U.S. government during the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as in Kosovo. More recently in Macedonia, barely a few months before September 11, U.S. military advisers were mingling with Mujahideen mercenaries financed by Al Qaeda. Both groups were fighting under the auspices of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), within the same terrorist paramilitary formation. (...)

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Al Qaeda as a CIA / ISI / Saudi operation

http://www.countercurrents.org/ipk-saleem150703.htm

Al Qaeda, the CIA and the former Yugoslavia

Political Deception: The Missing Link behind 9-11 by Michel Chossudovsky

(...) The U.S. Congress has documented in detail, the links of Al Qaeda to agencies of the U.S. government during the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as in Kosovo. More recently in Macedonia, barely a few months before September 11, U.S. military advisers were mingling with Mujahideen mercenaries financed by Al Qaeda. Both groups were fighting under the auspices of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), within the same terrorist paramilitary formation. (...)

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO206A.html

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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Al_Queda

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by Michel Chossudovsky Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montréal Posted at globalresearch.ca 12 September 2001

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