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I know who OBL was.

Then why did you say he was an Afghan warlord? Were you deliberately trying to mislead people?

I also know that he was working with CIA in Afghanistan. You do, huh? Kind of like how my brother knew that Laurence Fishburne starred in Star Wars Episode I, I suppose.

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.

They would have had no reason to fight were they not invaded by the USSR. Amusing that you blame the U.S. for providing Afghans the means to defend themselves.

Mullah Omar was a veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War. He learned to fight because the Soviets invaded his country, but given that a decade had passed, it's unclear if/how many of his students (who formed the Taliban) were also veterans like him; nor is it even clear that Mullah Omar or any of his students ever received U.S. financing/training ... not that it has any relevance to the discussion. This is just an old boring anti-American canard.