Re:virus: Independent???

From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 06:54:10 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?

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