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FarCenter

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5. Sunni Islamists in the Caucasus and Central Asia were started in the '80s by the CIA, MI6

Reply to AverageJoe90 (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 27, 2012, 10:39 AM

Feb 2012

It was all part of the rolling back of the USSR, just like the mujahadin in Afghanistan.

The money was funneled through Saudi Arabia and other "friendly" Muslim countries. Of course, they also had their own agendas of spreading and reestablishing Islam in Central Asia.

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