From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 11:04:54 MDT
[Joe Dees]
This unabashed puff piece says more than I ever could concerning the purported 'objectivity' of The Independent or of Robert Fisk...
The Independent December 6, 1993, Monday
HEADLINE: Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace; The Saudi businessman who recruited mujahedin now uses them for large-scale building projects in Sudan. Robert Fisk met him in Almatig
By ROBERT FISK
OSAMA Bin Laden sat in his gold- fringed robe, guarded by the loyal Arab mujahedin who fought alongside him in Afghanistan. Bearded, taciturn figures - unarmed, but never more than a few yards from the man who recruited them, trained them and then dispatched them to destroy the Soviet army - they watched unsmiling as the Sudanese villagers of Almatig lined up to thank the Saudi businessman who
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[rhinoceros]
Could you please explain how do you think your comment on this 1993 article makes sense?
[Joe Dees]
America's Case For War Is Built On Blindness, Hypocrisy
And Lies
Source: ZNet (from The Independent)
Author: Robert Fisk
Dated: 2002-09-15
An article you posted on the News: Iraq section of the BBS was by the same Robert Fisk, and from the same Independent. We now know that Bin Laden was already redirecting Al Quaeda towards attacking the US at the time of the interview.
[rhinoceros]
So? What is your point? Do you mean that Fisk failed to discover that the USA government had been blind at that time as well, therefore he is incapable?
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