CIA and ISI together created Taliban : Zardari

CIA and ISI together created taliban : Zardari

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"I think it was part of your past and our past, and the ISI and CIA created them together," Zardari told the NBC news channel in an interview

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[edit on 12-5-2009 by L.HAMILTON]

The CIA trained and supplied weapons to the 'Mujahideen' in Afghanistan , a group of loosely-aligned Afghan opposition groups fighting against the pro Soviet Afghan government in the late 1970's. That same group soon later came to be known as Al-Queda . The Taliban was formed soon after the Soviet withdrawl and the fall of the pro Soviet Afghan government. So our enemies in the war against terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan are the late product of CIA and other intelligence agencies.

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It's nice to see that some media is catching up to ATS:
The Real 9/11 Conspiracy, The Invention of Islamic Terrorism
2007

On July 3, 1979, President Jimmy Carters administration took a step towards ending the stalemate of the Cold War. A then secret directive was issued to funnel support to some anti-soviet "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan. It was all part of the game between the western powers and the old USSR. Just another move where pawns bled and died in proxy wars, as each side sought some advantage or the other.This time the idea was that America could use the growing civil unrest in Afghanistan to draw the Soviets into their own version of Vietnam. A war they couldn't win.