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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Same guy, probably drawn the same pilots from Arabia.
Osama Bin Laden was coming whether or not the Russians had won or lost in Afghanistan.
He probably still would have gone to Pakistan, and into Afghanistan to fight, however he might have been more dangerous if they had lost.
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Maybe, but Bin Laden would be nobody if the CIA hadn't trained and funded him and like groups. It was the US's intervention that strengthened the fundamentalists to the point where they could exert a lot of influence no matter who "won" the war. Proxy wars have a tendency to bite you in the ass down the line.