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Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace: The Saudi
businessman who recruited mujahedin now uses them for large-scale building
projects in Sudan. Robert Fisk met him in Almatig
ROBERT FISK
Monday 06 December 1993
OSAMA Bin Laden sat in his gold- fringed robe, guarded by the loyal Arab
mujahedin who fought alongside him in Afghanistan. Bearded, taciturn figures
- unarmed, but never more than a few yards from the man who recruited them,
trained them and then dispatched them to destroy the Soviet army - they
watched unsmiling as the Sudanese villagers of Almatig lined up to thank the
Saudi businessman who is about to complete the highway linking their homes
to Khartoum for the first time in history.
With his high cheekbones, narrow eyes and long brown robe, Mr Bin Laden
looks every inch the mountain warrior of mujahedin legend. Chadored children
danced in front of him, preachers acknowledged his wisdom. 'We have been
waiting for this road through all the revolutions in Sudan,' a sheikh said.
'We waited until we had given up on everybody - and then Osama Bin Laden
came along.'
Outside Sudan, Mr Bin Laden is not regarded with quite such high esteem. The
Egyptian press claims he brought hundreds of former Arab fighters back to
Sudan from Afghanistan, while the Western embassy circuit in Khartoum has
suggested that some of the 'Afghans' whom this Saudi entrepreneur flew to
Sudan are now busy training for further jihad wars in Algeria, Tunisia and
Egypt. Mr Bin Laden is well aware of this. 'The rubbish of the media and the
embassies,' he calls it. 'I am a construction engineer and an
agriculturalist. If I had training camps here in Sudan, I couldn't possibly
do this job.'
And 'this job' is certainly an ambitious one: a brand-new highway stretching
all the way from Khartoum to Port Sudan, a distance of 1,200km (745 miles)
on the old road, now shortened to 800km by the new Bin Laden route that will
turn the coastal run from the capital into a mere day's journey. Into a
country that is despised by Saudi Arabia for its support of Saddam Hussein
in the Gulf war almost as much as it is condemned by the United States, Mr
Bin Laden has brought the very construction equipment that he used only five
years ago to build the guerrilla trails of Afghanistan.
He is a shy man. Maintaining a home in Khartoum and only a small apartment
in his home city of Jeddah, he is married - with four wives - but wary of
the press. His interview with the Independent was the first he has ever
given to a Western journalist, and he initially refused to talk about
Afghanistan, sitting silently on a chair at the back of a makeshift tent,
brushing his teeth in the Arab fashion with a stick of miswak wood. But talk
he eventually did about a war which he helped to win for the Afghan
mujahedin: 'What I lived in two years there, I could not have lived in a
hundred years elsewhere,' he said.
When the history of the Afghan resistance movement is written, Mr Bin Laden'
s own contribution to the mujahedin - and the indirect result of his
training and assistance - may turn out to be a turning- point in the recent
history of militant fundamentalism; even if, today, he tries to minimise his
role. 'When the invasion of Afghanistan started, I was enraged and went
there at once - I arrived within days, before the end of 1979,' he said. '
Yes, I fought there, but my fellow Muslims did much more than I. Many of
them died and I am still alive.'
Within months, however, Mr Bin Laden was sending Arab fighters - Egyptians,
Algerians, Lebanese, Kuwaitis, Turks and Tunisians - into Afghanistan; 'not
hundreds but thousands,' he said. He supported them with weapons and his own
construction equipment. Along with his Iraqi engineer, Mohamed Saad - who
is now building the Port Sudan road - Mr Bin Laden blasted massive tunnels
into the Zazi mountains of Bakhtiar province for guerrilla hospitals and
arms dumps, then cut a mujahedin trail across the country to within 15 miles
of Kabul.
'No, I was never afraid of death. As Muslims, we believe that when we die,
we go to heaven. Before a battle, God sends us seqina, tranquillity.
'Once I was only 30 metres from the Russians and they were trying to capture
me. I was under bombardment but I was so peaceful in my heart that I fell
asleep. This experience has been written about in our earliest books. I saw
a 120mm mortar shell land in front of me, but it did not blow up. Four more
bombs were dropped from a Russian plane on our headquarters but they did not
explode. We beat the Soviet Union. The Russians fled.'
But what of the Arab mujahedin whom he took to Afghanistan - members of a
guerrilla army who were also encouraged and armed by the United States - and
who were forgotten when that war was over? 'Personally neither I nor my
brothers saw evidence of American help. When my mujahedin were victorious
and the Russians were driven out, differences started (between the guerrilla
movements) so I returned to road construction in Taif and Abha. I brought
back the equipment I had used to build tunnels and roads for the mujahedin
in Afghanistan. Yes, I helped some of my comrades to come here to Sudan
after the war.'
How many? Osama Bin Laden shakes his head. 'I don't want to say. But they
are here now with me, they are working right here, building this road to
Port Sudan.' I told him that Bosnian Muslim fighters in the Bosnian town of
Travnik had mentioned his name to me. 'I feel the same about Bosnia,' he
said. 'But the situation there does not provide the same opportunities as
Afghanistan. A small number of mujahedin have gone to fight in Bosnia-
Herzegovina but the Croats won't allow the mujahedin in through Croatia as
the Pakistanis did with Afghanistan.'
Thus did Mr Bin Laden reflect upon jihad while his former fellow combatants
looked on. Was it not a little bit anti-climactic for them, I asked, to
fight the Russians and end up road-building in Sudan? 'They like this work
and so do I. This is a great plan which we are achieving for the people here
, it helps the Muslims and improves their lives.'
His Bin Laden company - not to be confused with the larger construction
business run by his cousins - is paid in Sudanese currency which is then
used to purchase sesame and other products for export; profits are clearly
not Mr Bin Laden's top priority.
How did he feel about Algeria, I asked? But a man in a green suit calling
himself Mohamed Moussa - he claimed to be Nigerian although he was a
Sudanese security officer - tapped me on the arm. 'You have asked more than
enough questions,' he said. At which Mr Bin Laden went off to inspect his
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: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/antisoviet-warrior-puts
: Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace: The Saudi
: businessman who recruited mujahedin now uses them for large-scale building
: projects in Sudan. Robert Fisk met him in Almatig
: ROBERT FISK
: Monday 06 December 1993
: OSAMA Bin Laden sat in his gold- fringed robe, guarded by the loyal Arab
: mujahedin who fought alongside him in Afghanistan. Bearded, taciturn figures
: - unarmed, but never more than a few yards from the man who recruited them,
: trained them and then dispatched them to destroy the Soviet army - they
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【在 g*q 的大作中提到】
: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/antisoviet-warrior-puts
: Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace: The Saudi
: businessman who recruited mujahedin now uses them for large-scale building
: projects in Sudan. Robert Fisk met him in Almatig
: ROBERT FISK
: Monday 06 December 1993
: OSAMA Bin Laden sat in his gold- fringed robe, guarded by the loyal Arab
: mujahedin who fought alongside him in Afghanistan. Bearded, taciturn figures
: - unarmed, but never more than a few yards from the man who recruited them,
: trained them and then dispatched them to destroy the Soviet army - they
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