Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S. Helped Midwife a Terrorist “In 1986, CIA chief William Casey had stepped up the war against the Soviet Union by taking three significant, but at that time highly secret, measures.[..]Thirdly, Casey committed CIA support to a long-standing ISI initiative to recruit radical Muslims from around the world to come to Pakistan and fight with the Afghan Mujaheddin.[…]Among these thousands of foreign recruits was a young Saudi student, Osama Bin Laden” Amerika heeft haar eigen vijanden gekweekt…