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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The American's saw the foreign fighters as far too radical and dangerous. Direct monetary and weapons support went to the local Afghan resistance fighters not to the foreign fighters.
The ISI has always played games especially in dealing with the extremists. I have no doubt that the ISI probably did support the foreign Mujahadeen just like they supported the Taliban until that bit them in the ass.
The ISI has worked counter to American interests in the region far more then they've worked in harmony.
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Okay...so perhaps Bin Ladens' foreign fighters didn't recieve
direct support, but I think they did indirectly through the ISI. It is hard to know where the money trail goes for sure. It just makes more sense to me that you would want everyone armed to the teeth to defeat the Russians.....
I don't think that America cared about how radical these people were back then. The idea was to sucker the Russians in.......job well done.
And I agree with you about the ISI. I believe there were claims that the ISI wired money to the 9/11 hijackers in advance of the attack.