Alliance Mujahideen ARE NOT AL QAEDA. They did NOT magically turn into Al Qaeda. They still fight AGAINST the Taliban and Al Qaeda, what is left of them after we helped decimate their ranks and their country.
From the article above >"...led to the creation of Al Qaeda through the CIA funding of the Afghan Mujaheddin. " < Total horseshit, as if FOX News wrote that line.
Mohammed Omar with the help of Pakistan began to pull together the unemployed and aimless younger men from Afghanistan and Pakistan, people from the villages, not those in the tribes of the old Mujahideen that fought the Soviets.
They then turned and fought with the old Mujahideen, who were then fighting for control of and the creation of a new Afghanistan after so many years of war.
WIth the help of Pakistan the Taliban began to grow, and started taking over the government of local villages, but the veteran Mujahideen from the North continued, and continues, to fight against them.
Hypocritical Americans say "nobody wants war" (I've read it here at least twice in the past couple of days) but that is just pure bullshit. There are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of people here who absolutely adore war, especially if they can get someone else to die for them and profit from it. Actions tell people what one believes, not what comes out of their mouth. And the lumping in of their former allies with the terrorists is just one more indication that this country may say one thing, but does another.
KABUL — One by one, gray-bearded veterans ambled into the powder blue confines of the Uranus wedding hall Sunday to mark a bittersweet anniversary.
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“The main aim of the jihad was to defeat the USSR and bring an independent government and create a free Afghanistan,” former Northern Alliance political emissary Abdul Malik Hamwar said. “Unfortunately because of interference by foreign countries and internal hands, the whole effort was ruined.”
Sunday was Mujahid Day in Afghanistan, a national holiday to celebrate the Afghan Mujahideen’s military victory over the Red Army, the culmination of a 10-year struggle that many believe hastened the demise of the Soviet Union. But Afghanistan’s victory was short lived and the country quickly descended into civil war.
Now, more than 20 years after the Soviets withdrew, the country still is wracked by war and many former anti-Soviet fighters from the north now fight with the government against former comrades from the south and east who joined the Taliban.
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These are people who tried to make their villages better, tried to build schools and bridges, and even convinced long traditional Muslims to send their daughters (and sons) to school. And they are STILL trying to fight against the Taliban, when our drones aren't killing them or their families...
If we can't remember who our friends are, and at least not disrespect them, we deserve what we get.
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