MSNBC: Bin Laden CIA ties are only the beginning of a woeful story

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Bin Laden comes home to roost
His CIA ties are only the beginning of a woeful story

Michael Moran
Senior correspondent
BRAVE NEW WORLD
By Michael Moran
MSNBC

NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 1998 – At the CIA, it happens often enough to have a code name: Blowback. Simply defined, this is the term describing an agent, an operative or an operation that has turned on its creators. Osama bin Laden, our new public enemy Number 1, is the personification of blowback. And the fact that he is viewed as a hero by millions in the Islamic world proves again the old adage: Reap what you sow.

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