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**sam** · 04-05-2011, 07:04 PM

He didn't need U.S. help and denied having received any.

The U.S. supported Afghan mujahideen in their fight against the Soviets during the '80s. The Taliban is a movement that developed under the leadership of a mullah in Kandahar in the '90s as a response to factional fighting among the mujahideen. It's two different things.

I know who OBL was. I also know that he was working with CIA in Afghanistan.

You can call them "mujahideen", "war lords", "talibs", "shoe boxes" it doesn't matter: they were and are those who fought against the Soviets, and who your country trained, financed and armed for the fight. The fact that they were forming and dissolving their "coalitions" and "factions" is irrelevant -- Taliban was not transported to Afghanistan from Mars. Oh, and much of the weapons Afghans use against you are the same you armed them with.

04-05-2011, 07:04 PM	#23
sam Join Date Oct 2005 Age 44 Posts 517 Senior Member	He didn't need U.S. help and denied having received any. The U.S. supported Afghan mujahideen in their fight against the Soviets during the '80s. The Taliban is a movement that developed under the leadership of a mullah in Kandahar in the '90s as a response to factional fighting among the mujahideen. It's two different things. I know who OBL was. I also know that he was working with CIA in Afghanistan. You can call them "mujahideen", "war lords", "talibs", "shoe boxes" it doesn't matter: they were and are those who fought against the Soviets, and who your country trained, financed and armed for the fight. The fact that they were forming and dissolving their "coalitions" and "factions" is irrelevant -- Taliban was not transported to Afghanistan from Mars. Oh, and much of the weapons Afghans use against you are the same you armed them with.
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