"Neither I nor my brothers saw evidence of American help." A very interesting statement - just where did Osama bin Laden think all those
Stinger missiles came from?
It is highly doubtful that Osama bin Laden attended the School of the Americas, which has since changed its name to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. It is, afterall, a school for training Latin and Central American soldiers; i.e., the Americas.
But whether Osama bin Laden wants to admit it or not, the American government, through the CIA, played an integral role in building and training the mujahideen. The USA, along with Pakistan, supplied funding for the building of training bases, for weapons, and even the madrassas that schooled the fanatical freedom fighters we now call terrorists.
Everyone that has looked at the mujahideen training regimen recognizes immediately the similarities with the training given at the School of the Americas. Few believe this is a coincidence.
William Casey wasn't about to try and bring thousands of Arab fanatics into the US for training at the SOA; instead, he brought the SOA to them. You might say it was the School of the Americas - Afghanistan campus.