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Originally Posted by vader9900
Read what I wrote - I said Reagan praised them for being Freedom Fighters. The CIA as well a Pakistani Intelligence armed, funded & trained them in the 80's - this is something the US Governments has not denied. Do a little more homework, the freedom fighters of the 80's are the SAME people as the Taliban of the 90s. I guess the next thing you will say is that the US did not support Saddam Hussein & Iraq in the Iran - Iraq War!
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Ok, You are wrong. Most of them are not the same. Abdul Hak never joined the Taliban. Massoud never joined the Taliban. Gulbidden Hekmetyer never joined the Taliban. The Taliban was created in Pakistani Madrassas about 6 years after the Soviets left. Most of the people we supported wound up fighting the Taliban in the Northern Alliance, before 9/11 and our ops there.
I guess you forgot about the Iran Contra scandal where we happened to sell weapons to Iran.