By the time Chalmers wrote his book, the Russian war there was long over, the Soviet Union had collapsed, and bin Laden had turned against Washington.
In the 1980s, that rich young Saudi had been part of Washington’s secret war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, forming a group to battle the Russians that he called Al Qaeda (“the Base”) to battle the Red Army. Ominously enough, he added, “All around the world today, it is possible to see the groundwork being laid for future forms of blowback.” On page 10, he brought up-and remember he was writing this as the previous century ended-the name of “a former protege of the United States,” one Osama bin Laden.
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