The truth about Bin Laden, a Brief History

I posted this as a response a a post from one of the blogs I follow. To date there's been no response. I can't say I'm surprised since this writes a bunch of entries in one day. He probably doesn't go back and check to see if any comments have been posted. Anyway I thought I'd post my response in full:

Why does everyone insist on spreading the lie that Bin Laden is some sort of CIA creation.

A brief history:

Bin Laden went to Afghanistan in late 79 early 80 in order to assess the situation with the new Soviet-Afghan war. There he met a man by the name of Dr. Abdullah Azzam. Azzam had connections with the Jordanian based Muslim Brotherhood. Azzam became a mentor of sorts for Bin Laden and together they begin a group based in Pakistan which would facilitate muslim fighters who were coming in from all over the world in order to take part in the war in Afghanistan. The name of that group at the time was Maktab al Khidmat lil Mujahidin al-Arab (MAK)

In two books by Peter Bergen, "Holy War Inc." and "The Osama Bin Laden I Know" as well as the book "Inside Al Qaeda" by Rohan Gunaratna both authors say there is absolutely no evidence, I say again ZERO evidence, Bin Laden ever met with CIA officials the whole time he was in Afghanistan or Pakistan, and that the group MAK he and Azzam started, which was eventually re-named Al Qaeda ("The Base") ever received funds from the CIA. The fact is Bin Laden's hatred of American goes alot further back then just the past 10 or 20 years.

Just to finish the story, once the Soviets had been defeated, Azzam was interested in keeping Al Qaeda as a quick response force for other oppressed Muslims worldwide. Bin Laden was more interested in using Al Qaeda as more of a terrorist organization targeting the west. Eventually in 1989 Azzam was killed by a car bomb along with some of his sons. It is widely suspected Bin Laden played a hand in killed his former mentor. With Azzam out of the way Bin Laden was able to take full control of Al Qaeda and steer it in the direction you know it as today.

I hope this was helpful to you in shedding some light on the history of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.