blowback ...

" A former investigative counsel for the Senate Foreign Relatiosn [sic] Committee, now [03/17/95] a private attorney in Washington, Jack Blum speaks bitterly but fatalistically. ‘After every covert war there is an unintended disposal problem,’ he says, as if he were talking about unexpected land mines and not potential Islamic terrorists living in Brooklyn. ‘We steered and encouraged these people. Then we dropped them. Now we’ve got a disposal problem. When you motivate people to fight for a cause – jihad – the problem is, how do you shut them off?’

The answer for the CIA was, you don’t. And then when the fanatical fervour you’ve whipped up leads to unintended consequences – the assassination of a Jewish militant leader in Manhattan, the bombing of the World Trade Centre, a terror conspiracy to blow up the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels and other Manhattan landmarks – you try to discourage local law enforcement agencies and the FBI from looking into the matter too deeply.

Negative fallout from CIA operations is nothing new; there’s even spook jargon for it: blowback. But the CIA’s secret support and training of Afghan rebels during the past decade has created a blowback of monumental proportions and lasting impact. The CIA has inadvertently managed to do something that America’s enemies have been unable to: give terrorism a foothold in the United States. "

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