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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
USA didn't see anything wrong helping mujahedin in 1982. They had a common enemy in USSR. Then those same mujahedin started Al-Qaeda.
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That's not hyper acurate. AL Qaeda came from the Mujahadeen foreign fighters, the imports from Pakistan and the other gulf states including Bin Laden. the foreign fighters were the roots of Al Qaeda.
They didn't accept money or arms from America they thought it would sully the purity of their cause.
the American's armed and funded the local Mujahadeen that later morphed into the Taliban, they looked at the foreign fighters during the war with the Russians with a great deal of disdain.