>>Not openly, but significant ties to terrorists to do the job does exist.
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>A complex area this one, considering the amount of training given to terrorists by your country & by mine (eg 1980s weapon training of Al-Qaida terrorists in Scotland & Wales by the SAS supervised by the CIA). If you look hard enough into links with terrorists, you could probably justify an attack on the majority of countries in the world.

The significant difference is they were not terrorists at the time of their training or funding. IN the case of Bin Laden, he was leading Afgan fighters against Soviet invasion. Given those times, I would support my Gov't doing that again.