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From 9/11 Encyclopedia:
Short for Inter-Service
Intelligence, the Pakistan Secret
Service. According to Abdel Monam Saidali, of the Al-aram Center
for Strategic Studies in Cairo,
bin Laden and the "Afghan Arabs"
had been imparted "with very sophisticated types of training that
was allowed to them by the CIA and ISI". The ISI,
founded after
WW2, was a helpful organisation during the so called
Golden
Crescent drug trade, which was being
used to finance and equip
the
Bosnian Muslim Army (starting in the early 1990s) and the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA).
As John Cooley reports in
Unholy Wars: "By 1981, when CIA
chief
Casey and his Saudi associates, Kamal Adhan and Prince Turki
(->),
were casting around for new sources of secret financing
for the Afghan campaign, the bin Laden enterprises were all on a
short list of
possibly helpful families." In 1986, the CIA
commissioned bin Laden to help build a huge tunnel complex in
Khost, under the mountains near the border with Pakistan.
The CIA's aim was to provide
its Afghan killers with a major
arms storage depot, training facility and medical center.
It was
here that bin Laden decided to set up his own training camp for
"Arab Afghans." He later recounted
that his "volunteers were
trained by Pakistani and American officers.