{"id":49476,"date":"2015-02-02T18:16:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/02\/what-a-difference-eight-years-made.html"},"modified":"2015-02-02T18:16:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:16:25","slug":"what-a-difference-eight-years-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/02\/what-a-difference-eight-years-made.html","title":{"rendered":"What a difference eight years made"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Independent<\/i> on 6 December 1993, talking about Osama Bin Laden, after the Soviets were out of Afghanistan and he was moving on to construction projects. The article is here: http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/antisoviet-warrior-puts-his-army-on-the-road-to-peace-the-saudi-businessman-who-recruited-mujahedin-now-uses-them-for-largescale-building-projects-in-sudan-robert-fisk-met-him-in-almatig-1465715.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Just an odd juxtaposition that caught my eye.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nHistorical Pics on Twitter<\/a><\/span>
\n“Osama bin Laden, 1993”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Independent on 6 December 1993, talking about Osama Bin Laden, after the Soviets were out of Afghanistan and he was moving on to construction projects. The article is here: http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/antisoviet-warrior-puts-his-army-on-the-road-to-peace-the-saudi-businessman-who-recruited-mujahedin-now-uses-them-for-largescale-building-projects-in-sudan-robert-fisk-met-him-in-almatig-1465715.html Just an odd juxtaposition that caught my eye. Historical Pics on Twitter “Osama bin Laden, 1993” View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8676,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/08\/the_pork_corps.html","url_meta":{"origin":49476,"position":0},"title":"The Pork Corps","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Sep-05 6:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Army Corps of Engineers is a curious beast. 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