• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The people who would go on to form al-Qaeda were all veterans of the Soviet-Afghan war who had worked closely with the CIA and received weapons, funding, and support from the CIA. So sorta? The Soviet-Afghan war ended in '89, this was barely a decade later. This isn't really new or shocking.

    • lol_typical [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah but now that the Grayzone says it our day drunk moderator finds this fishy

      Sad to see people who were on the sub end up like this