Word: mujahedin
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...Afghanistan, during the same period, the CIA mounted a successful operation in support of the mujahedin rebels, who chased the Soviets out of that country. The CIA's war was run from Pakistan by veteran clandestine officer Milton Bearden, who had the satisfaction of seeing the last Russian troops walk across the Friendship Bridge into Uzbekistan on Feb. 15, 1989. Bearden believes the CIA operation in Afghanistan helped speed the collapse of the Soviet Union...
...Senate inquiry. "I don't see how you can have a thorough investigation without talking to the people who were in charge throughout the time period prior to 9/11," he told TIME. McCain said the new investigation should go at least as far back as 1989, when U.S.-backed mujahedin drove the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan--and the U.S. pulled back from involvement in the war-scarred region. --By Timothy J. Burger
January 1980 The CIA begins supplying money and weapons to Afghan mujahedin fighting the Soviets, using Pakistani intelligence as a conduit. The U.S. also urges Saudi Arabia to donate money and volunteers...
...faced with the additional threat of a rebel force hiding out in the caves of southern Afghanistan, the U.S. launched Operation Mongoose. Their target: the Adhi Ghar range of mountains, a favorite base of the mujahedin fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Honeycombed with caves, these granite ridges rear up out of the desert and are covered in a jumble of boulders that offer perfect cover for snipers. In recent weeks, this hideout had become the base for a new enemy commander whom the U.S. is now confronting for the first time: Hafiz Abdul Rahim, a rebel chieftain and former...
...Strela that missed only because of equipment malfunction or operator error. Shoulder-launched SAMs are efficient and easy to fire and require little instruction; al-Qaeda trainees were taught how to use them in the Afghan camps. The U.S. supplied hundreds of shoulder-fired Stinger missiles to the mujahedin fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan; Washington was so concerned about their potential for trouble afterward that it offered as much as $100,000 per missile to try to buy them back. But shoulder-fired missiles made in Yugoslavia, Pakistan and China slosh around the weapons black market, where they sell...