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    Operation Cyclone

    1979 to 1989 CIA programme

    Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR in support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The mujahideen were also supported by Britain's MI6, who conducted their own separate covert actions. The program leaned heavily towards supporting militant Islamic groups, including groups with jihadist ties, that were favored by the regime of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in neighboring Pakistan, rather than other, less ideological Afghan resistance groups that had also been fighting the Soviet-oriented Democratic Republic of Afghanistan administration since before the Soviet intervention. Operation Cyclone was one of the longest and most expensive covert CIA operations ever undertaken. Wikipedia

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    Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR in support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.The mujahideen were also supported by Britain's MI6, who conducted their own separate covert actions.
    • History of al-Qaeda

      CIA-funded and ISI-trained Afghan mujahideen fighters crossing the Durand Line border to fight Soviet forces and the Soviet-backed Afghan government in 1985. The origins of al-Qaeda can be traced to the Soviet War in Afghanistan (December 1979 - February 1989). [2] The United States viewed the conflict in Afghanistan in terms of the Cold War, with Marxists on one side and the native Afghan ...

  3. en.wikipedia.org

    In a 2004 article entitled "Al-Qaeda's origins and links", the BBC wrote that "[d]uring the anti-Soviet war Bin Laden and his fighters received American and Saudi funding. Some analysts believe Bin Laden himself had security training from the CIA. [2]In an article in The Guardian, Robin Cook, the British Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001, would state that:
  4. en.wikipedia.org

    CIA-funded and ISI-trained Afghan mujahideen fighters crossing the Durand Line border to fight Soviet forces and the Soviet-backed Afghan government in 1985. The origins of al-Qaeda can be traced to the Soviet War in Afghanistan (December 1979 - February 1989). [2] The United States viewed the conflict in Afghanistan in terms of the Cold War, with Marxists on one side and the native Afghan ...
  5. wilsoncenter.org

    On March 11, 2024, the annual US intelligence assessment reported that the regional affiliates of ISIS and al Qaeda are likely to expand in the future, despite leadership losses. The rival Islamist groups, which are both Sunni, are also likely to continue targeting US citizens and Western interests more broadly even as the Sunni global jihad shifts to Africa.
  6. Mar 15, 2015"God blessed us with a good amount of money this month," Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, the group's general manager, wrote in a letter to Osama bin Laden in June 2010, noting that the cash would be ...
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