In a section of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) website called “Terrorism FAQ’s”, the CIA asks and then answers the question: “Has the CIA ever provided funding, training, or other support to Osama Bin Laden?”
“Answer: No. Numerous comments in the media recently have reiterated a widely circulated but incorrect notion that the CIA once had a relationship with Osama Bin Laden. For the record, you should know that the CIA never employed, paid, or maintained any relationship whatsoever with Bin Laden”, the CIA said (source: CIAhttps://www.cia.gov/news-information/cia-the-war-on-terrorism/terrorism-faqs.html ).
As many of you may know, it has been previously alleged by numerous individuals that the CIA had “ties” with Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda and its “Afghan Arab” fighters when it armed Jihadist groups against the Soviet Union during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
These allegations were raised as early as September 11, 2001, the very day that al-Qaeda attack America (see video: LIVE-BBC News -Osama Bin Laden funded by the CIA prior to 9-11http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj-sArLijxY ).
Robin Cook, Foreign Secretary in the UK from 1997–2001, and Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from 2001–2003, believed the CIA had provided arms to the Arab Mujahideen, including Osama bin Laden, writing, “Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda, literally “the database”, was originally the computer file of the thousands of Mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians” (source: The struggle against terrorism cannot be won bymilitary means http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/jul/08/july7.development ).
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton basically admitted as much in an Television interview.
Clinton, however never mentions CIA by name, but insists that the U.S. government funded the entire operation to train the Mujahideen in Pakistan and arm the with Stinger missiles and everything else (see video: Hillary Clinton Admits the U.S. Government Created al-Qaeda http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifZK6SVlQ1Y ).