Saturday, January 31, 2015

Bin Ladin gained actual combat exp. in the Afghan resistance..........



Turning against the United States[edit]

General Gul worked closely with the CIA during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when he was the ISI chief. But, he became passionately anti-American after the United States turned its back on Afghanistan following the 1989 Soviet withdrawal, as the United States had promised to help build a prosperous Afghanistan.[10] He was further disconcerted when the USA began punishing Pakistan with economic and military sanctions for its secret nuclear PROGRAM. General Gul then went on to declare that "the Muslim world must stand united to confront the U.S. in its so-called War on Terrorism, which is in reality a war against Muslims. Let's destroy America wherever its troops are trapped."[12]
General Gul personally met Osama Bin Laden in 1993 and refused to label him a terrorist unless and until irrefutable evidence was provided linking him to alleged acts of terrorism.[13]

Accusation of US and Israel behind 9/11[edit]

Only days after the September 11 attacks he stated that they were "clearly an inside job". [14]

Post-Army career[edit]

Solidarity with Osama bin Laden[edit]

According to Zahid Hussain, in his book Frontline Pakistan, Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul and former Army chief General Mirza Aslam Beg were part of the 9 January 2001 Darul Uloom Haqqania Islamic conference held near Peshawar, which was also attended by 300 leaders representing various Islamic groups. The meeting declared it a religious duty of Muslims all over the world to protect the Taliban government, and the Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden it was hosting, whom they considered as a 'great Muslim warrior.'[15] He has since gone on to praise Pakistan for hiding Bin Laden for nine years, in a television interview with Times Now.[

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