The details are insanely complex, but a good book about this is ‘Ghost Wars’ by Steve Coll (http://www.desijournal.com/book.asp?articleid=130)

Does anyone know when the funding was stopped? (I’d guess it wasn’t). Does this mean that the mujahideen are another branch of the CIA?

it isn’t helped when you have, eg, Laurie Myrlroie convincing and being trotted out as proof that the conservatives weren’t really wrong to assume that Oklahoma City was by Arab Terrorists, because Saddam Hussein was really behind McVeigh – something I heard and thought was kind of daft from a conservatarian relative of mine years before I knew where he got it from

But then, when you start finding out that the same few score people, conservative bigwigs, all worked with each other and for the same thinktanks, that some of them are related by blood or marriage, going back generations, and that the money flow comes from the same handful of tycoons, some of whom are related going back to the Gilded Age when communism was “the spectre haunting Europe” – when all this is there not in whispers in dim bars but on their own organizational mastheads and IRS returns – you start wondering if there might not be something to it all…

Eg … The CIA were using drug money to sponsor a war and effect regime change. Utter crap ‘til … Ollie North. (There were people before him who spilled the beans – McCoy from Madison – but everyone put their heads in the sand).

Gary Webb’s stuff …

Michael Meiring …

How about in Canada … conspiracy theory: the CIA were conducting mind experiments on children (something like 50,000 children abused). Fact, the 3,000 or so, survivors have been offered pitiful compensation after fighting through the courts.

The interesting part is that absurdities are believed in preference to conspiracy theories, eg, arabs in caves bringing the US to its knees. Yeah, right.

Fascinating, yeah?

In ten years Homer Simpson will say, “al CIA Duh!” rather than ‘duh’.

“Britain’s top policeman is being urged to explain why he secretly taped a phone call with the attorney general. Metropolitan police chief Sir Ian Blair [no relation to Tony Blair] recorded the conversation with Lord Goldsmith last September without him knowing, it has emerged. . . ”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4800172.stm

No, no, no. A good conspiracy theory knows that they’re all in it together. The Vatican, the masons, the Jews, the John Birchers, and the phone company. A good conspiracy theory will explain to you the subtle connections that you have missed. It can explain such disparate phenomenon as the Kennedy Assasination, why the Pope is Catholic and the mysterious explosion over lake Baikal in 1908.

I mean, only one villain? And you call that paranoia?

A banker perhaps but no Commies, Islamicists or Neocons in this one and the banker wasn’t the villain, at least not the main one:

“Detectives in London have officially concluded that Italian banker Roberto Calvi was murdered in the city in 1982. Known as ‘God’s banker’ because of ties to the Vatican, Mr Calvi was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge but the death was first treated as suicide. Four people were charged with murder by the Italian authorities last month. . . ”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4566709.stm

Another what?

The effective use of facts and logic is another. The “consequently” in your most recent contribution doesn’t follow either.

Pleeeeease don’t reply to this post, or any other, troll.