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Sorry, they were not moderates.
Mujahideen (Arabic: مجاهد muǧāhid, nominative plural مجاهدون muǧāhidūn, oblique plural مجاهدين muǧāhidīn "strugglers" or "people doing jihad") is a term that Muslims use to describe those they see as Muslims who struggle in the path of Allah.[1][2] The word is from the same Arabic triliteral root as jihad ("struggle"). In recent years, Mujahideen has been most closely associated by the west with radical Islam, encompassing several militant groups and struggles.
Mujahideen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Do you get all your insights from the NYTimes op eds? But in any case, as I said, Pakistan is no one's friend.
I have to wonder if you read what you posted there. Mujahideen is a word, like jihad, that has a lot of different meanings. All those who joined in the rebellion in Afghanistan were considered "Mujahideen", but they were not a close knit group.
The one radical mentioned here who joined the mujahideen ended up exiled from Afghanistan years before the war with the US, so blaming the US for him is a stretch. That is like blaming the Oklahoma City bombing on Operation Desert Storm because Timothy McVeigh participated in both.
And Libertarians don't want to impede anyone's freedom...coming or going.
Why don't you rag on Libertarians for a while?
Absolutely. And if there's a problem w/certain classes of individuals, we'll bring up the issue w/the Native Americans.
You want to deport us, too? Good luck :lamo
Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen prior to and during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, 1979 to 1989. The program leaned heavily towards supporting militant Islamic groups that were favored by neighboring Pakistan, rather than other, less ideological Afghan resistance groups......
Operation Cyclone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They helped the Afghan people fight the invading Russians. Americans have helped protect weaker nations from stronger invaders in the past, and have been thanked for it.
Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen prior to and during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, 1979 to 1989. The program leaned heavily towards supporting militant Islamic groups that were favored by neighboring Pakistan, rather than other, less ideological Afghan resistance groups......
Operation Cyclone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A senior Homeland Security (DHS) official confirmed to Congress on Wednesday that militants associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) are planning to enter the United States via the porous southern border.
Francis Taylor, under secretary for intelligence and analysis at DHS, told senators during a hearing that ISIL supporters are known to be plotting ways to infiltrate the United States through the border.
“There have been Twitter, social media exchanges among ISIL adherents across the globe speaking about that as a possibility,” Taylor told Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) in response to a question about “recent reports on Twitter and Facebook of messages that would urge infiltration into the U.S. across our southwestern border.”
Read more: U.S. confirms Islamic State planning infiltration of border with Mexico - Washington Times
BUT we've been assured that the border is protected more than ever and there is absolutely no foreseeable threat from IS here in the homeland.
The threat warnings will continue to increase until there is sufficient support from congress and the American people for round three in Iraq.
There were multiple sources of funding of various groups in the "mujahideen". And as I pointed out already, the one who is so often pointed out as the guy we created, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, was sitting on his ass in Iran when AQ and the Taliban were working up the 9/11 attacks.
Yes, and as I pointed out, as a matter of policy, support of the extremists was favored over support of moderates as has been the claim both about A-Stan and more recently Syria.
The program leaned heavily towards supporting militant Islamic groups that were favored by neighboring Pakistan, rather than other, less ideological Afghan resistance groups
Operation Cyclone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Well, he was exiled by the Taliban in 1996, and even Pakistan dumped him in 1994, so it seems rather silly to blame the US.
So it is safe to say that the US supplied him through ISI during the war in Afghanistan, but the claim that the war in Afghanistan made Hekmatyar is a stretch.
The same ISI that gave its backing to the Taliban.
We should have been supporting Ahmed Shah mossud of the northern alliance.
I agree, and we were backing him. I said earlier that the biggest sin of the US involvement in Afghanistan was in pulling up stakes and leaving the moderate factions to twist in the wind after the Soviets withdrew.
I can play the Wikipedia game too!
The early foundations of al-Qaida were allegedly built in part on relationships and weaponry that came from the billions of dollars in U.S. support for the Afghan mujahadin during the war to expel Soviet forces from that country.[10] However, scholars such as Jason Burke, Steve Coll, Peter Bergen, Christopher Andrew, and Vasily Mitrokhin have argued that Bin Laden was "outside of CIA eyesight" and that there is "no support" in any "reliable source" for "the claim that the CIA funded bin Laden or any of the other Arab volunteers who came to support the mujahideen."[11][12][13][14]
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I didn't speak to OBL or al Qaeda in this. I was refereeing first to Carter and then to Reagan's policy of support for MILITANT ISLAMIC GROUPS, a policy that has carried through to the present, and is responsible for the chaos we have in the Middle East today. Lets keep on topic.
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