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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING--- Black boxes show bomb brought down Russian jet !!! [View all]leveymg
(36,418 posts)For decades, MB served as an all-purpose reliable ally against Nasser and similar secular nationalist regimes across the Sunni Arab world. If there was a Baathist regime, MB was your terrorist anti-communist paramilitary asset. In the north, the Mujahed under the Pakistani ISI (always the Saudis cats paw) was your terrorist and paramilitary pawn of choice in Afghanistan. After the collapse of the USSR, they were the expendables in the the proxy war to strip off the oil-rich strategic southern Russian and Yugoslav regions. In the mid-1990s, the Saudi-allied and Pakistani trained Mujahed became the Taliban, and UBL was dispatched from Sudan to Afghanistan by Prince Turkey as the Saudi liaison. Following al-Qaeda, ISIS is simply the latest mutation of the same covert paramilitary operation groups.
The proverb says know your enemy not by his friends but by his enemies. In the Mideast-South Asia, the enemy is us, and our friends in the region aren't.