How Many US Stinger Missiles Does Bin Laden Have?
We May Rue the Day We Fell For the Slogan “It’s the Economy, Stupid!” By Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources In the suspicion following President Clinton’s announcement of US missile attacks on a building in Khartoum, Sudan and on a target or targets in Afghanistan said to be the “terrorist camp” of Osama Bin Laden. We were told by the president that there was “convincing evidence” that there was a connection between the bombers of the US Embassies in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam and Bin Laden. The attacks were by missile, not by aircraft, “for the safety of our pilots” it was announced. Whatever people’s view of the US strikes, making sure we sent missiles, not our airplanes was wise. The people that we have now labeled “terrorists” were our clients in the Russia-Afghanistan war a few years ago that is credited by some as wrecking the finances of the old USSR. Osama Bin Laden went to Afghanistan in 1979 to fight against the Russians and was credited with recruiting 15,000 dedicated f
