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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: RMF who wrote (36155)8/3/2009 1:51:31 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
We trained the Jihadists and supplied them with weapons and money.

We didn't train arm or train Al Qaeda (it didn't exist directly as such at the time, but we didn't arm or train Maktab al-Khidamat either), or the Taliban.

Not that there was zero overlap between the people who later became the Taliban and the people we armed and/or trained, but many of those we did arm and train where later the enemies of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
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