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EX500rider

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17. Actually the Shah was our guy...

Reply to drray23 (Reply #4)

Sun Nov 23, 2014, 11:21 AM

Nov 2014

....the CIA helped over throw the guy before him in '53.
And most of the money for arming the Mujaheddin came from Saudi and was done in Pakistan so us keeping out of it wouldn't have changed much there.

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