Iran wants US to apologise for helping Osama in the past
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Iran on Monday hit back at US allegations that it has failed to crack down on fugitive Al-Qaeda members, calling on Washington to apologise to the world for its own past support of the network.
"The Americans should present a full apology to the international community for the support they gave to Al-Qaeda," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.
The official was referring to a period in the 1980s when millions of dollars of covert US aid was channelled through the Pakistani secret service to Islamist groups battling the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Much of the cash went to hardline Mujahideen groups, which included a network of Arab volunteers -- the most prominent of whom was Osama bin Laden (link via Chapel Perilous).
June 3, 2003
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