Mujahideen organization
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Claims (110)
Jimmy Carter funded
Mujahideen documented
“On July 3rd, Carter signed the finding. The American program began with supplies of food and clothing, helping the resistance without greatly committing the U.S. Brzezinski wanted more, but with Carter, due to see Russian leaders in Vienna,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 27:37
CIA recruited
Mujahideen documented
“By September 28th, the CIA station in New Delhi had cabled Langley more than once about recruiting suitable fighters, soon to be known as the Mujahideen. So again, these are the people producing the opium. Authorization for the CIA to engag…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 29:12
Saudi Arabia funded
Mujahideen documented
“Turki al-Fasal, plus the leader of Pakistan, military strongman, General Mohammed Zia. The CIA's project cannot proceed if these men softened their commitment. The Saudis continued matching U.S. contributions to the rebels, and General Zia …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 51:47
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“Russian losses. Written by a Soviet specialist with no Middle East experience, the paper warned that the failure in Afghanistan would result in the Middle East countries all becoming Soviet satellites. The initial shipment of CIA weapons, a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 40:32
Saudi Arabia funded
Mujahideen documented
“For a broader covert action, in Saudi Arabia, the U.S. ambassador learned the Saudis were ready to extend assistance with the Mujahideen. Previously, it had been withheld. The Americans and Saudis agreed that Riyadh would match CIA funds. O…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 33:14
Ronald Reagan funded
Mujahideen documented
“to observe Mujahideen operations. Huh, to observe them. Not long after taking office, the Reagan administration began moving on in Afghanistan. The new CIA director, William Casey, presented a project with covert actions. President Reagan a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 50:41
Ronald Reagan funded
Mujahideen documented
“His presence suggested the agency would remain within legal bounds. Deputy Director McMahon would have further impact on the Afghan covert action. In its first year, the Reagan administration doubled the size of the previous CIA budget for …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 57:19
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“During the Afghan-Russian war, the CIA, in support of the Mujahideen guerrillas, smuggled hundreds, hundreds of Stinger missiles into Afghanistan to counter the Russian MiG and helicopter gunships. The missiles were so effective that they w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 16 @ 40:02
Inter-Services Intelligence trained
Mujahideen documented
“Pakistan doesn't want this to end. They're making bank on it. Milt Burden arrived in July of 86, just as the ISI was beginning to turn out rebels trained to use the Stinger missiles. The CIA had doubts about the effectiveness of the Mujahid…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 47:52
CIA funded
Mujahideen documented
“But it was not in America's interest to permit the Russians to withdraw from their quagmire intact. With victory as the goal, the CIA budgets redoubled close to $300 million in 1984. By 1986, it was up to $700 million. And that funded only …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 58:10
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“insists the method was so effective it was used by the U.S. in the Gulf War. Another issue would be anti-tank weapons. Quite well supplied with armor, the Russians relied on tanks in every battle. Until 87, the Mujahideen only had backwards…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 43:19
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“Pakistan doesn't want this to end. They're making bank on it. Milt Burden arrived in July of 86, just as the ISI was beginning to turn out rebels trained to use the Stinger missiles. The CIA had doubts about the effectiveness of the Mujahid…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 47:52
United States armed
Mujahideen book_quoted
“of the cocaine moving from Colombia to the U.S. That the CIA overrode the DEA's enforcement priority reflected the CIA's involvement in the network. Not to be confused with the fact that, of course, Mexico has lots of oil as well. The clear…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 50:13
Hekmatyar was_member_of
Mujahideen book_quoted
“to arm the Mujahideen guerrillas in Afghanistan, one of whom, Hek Marta, was already known as a drug trafficker and had his own heroin refineries. In the subsequent years, opium production soared in the Afghan-Pakistan Golden Crescent, whic…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 50:45
Jimmy Carter funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“The next major battlegrounds. And again, it all focuses around drugs, supposedly fighting communists, though. So we have the Soviet Afghanistan debacle in 1979, which just coincidentally coincides with the ending of the Vietnam War. And U.S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 17:54
CIA trained
Mujahideen host_asserted
“to stay behind units that Saudi Arabia used. The U.S. financed and trained the Mujahideen in CIA terrorist training camps in Egypt, which is another reason why they had to get rid of Nasser and control Egypt. And then at least one Gulf stat…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 19:58
CIA funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“to stay behind units that Saudi Arabia used. The U.S. financed and trained the Mujahideen in CIA terrorist training camps in Egypt, which is another reason why they had to get rid of Nasser and control Egypt. And then at least one Gulf stat…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 19:58
CIA funded
Mujahideen documented
“of ISI. But by 1983, they were being eclipsed as Wilson got more friendly with Zia. Budget levels on the covert program were affected by the lobbying. Reagan administration permitted itself to be moved even further. Reagan doubled what Cart…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 10:26
Charles E. Wilson funded
Mujahideen documented
“the Afghan resistance. Democrat Congressman Charles Wilson of Texas waged what amounted to his own covert campaign against officials he thought insufficiently committed to the Afghan rebels. He fastened on to his agenda Chuck Cogan and Howa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 9:20
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“But in 1984, the CIA got a hold of Chinese rockets that had greater range and explosive power. The ISI sent along some of its commando teams as rebels staged attacks on the Soviet air base at Bagram. 22 planes were bombed on the ground in o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 18:28
Inter-Services Intelligence supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“But in 1984, the CIA got a hold of Chinese rockets that had greater range and explosive power. The ISI sent along some of its commando teams as rebels staged attacks on the Soviet air base at Bagram. 22 planes were bombed on the ground in o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 18:28
William Casey funded
Mujahideen documented
“General Zia again emphasized giving the rebels Stinger missiles. Finally, the log jam was broken. At a breakfast in early December, McMahon told Fred Eichel that the CIA would ship as many of the missiles as the Pentagon could provide. When…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 33:14
Charles E. Wilson funded
Mujahideen documented
“trying to give them more money. CIA would ask for a couple of million and Congress would give them 25. Charlie Wilson began being a spark plug to this effort. The numbers only grew larger. In 83, 30 million in CIA money ballooned to more th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 10:59
William Casey funded
Mujahideen documented
“We had the opportunity early on to have negotiations, but we don't have control of all of the opium yet. So we're just going to keep going and kill a bunch of Russians. Big money combined with funneling aid through third parties led a numbe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 13:21
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“The ISI protested. It had not requested the weapons and lacked storage for them. The agency merely answered that the shipment would be in advance on supplies that was in the pipeline. Of course, that made ammunition an issue, and the Pakist…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 14:21
William Casey funded
Mujahideen documented
“Nudged by Zia, within a month, Reagan approved an immediate shipment of 100 of them. While the joint staff, Pentagon and State Department opposition melted away. Brigadier Yusuf began to organize and train the rebels to use them. In October…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 32:47
Bolivia supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“The CIA and Saudi money went into ISI bank accounts. Aid in kind, such as weapons and donors purchased directly, brought into the country until 1985. It remained a firm rule that mostly communist bloc weapons would be given to the Mujahidee…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 1:01:59
Inter-Services Intelligence trained
Mujahideen book_quoted
“During a secret visit by CIA Director Casey to Pakistan, Casey startled his Pakistani host by proposing that they take the Afghan war into enemy territory, including the Soviet Union, which is exactly what they did in Korea. Imagine that. P…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 8:17
Adnan Khashoggi supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen host_asserted
“third party that got the contract, you know, like Khashoggi's, the weapons dealers, they get these contracts and the contracts, let's just say is a hundred million dollars. Well, they took a million dollars and went to some place in Eastern…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins-War Hamster Brady, Ghost of Based Patrick Henry live dig on USAID @ 45:59
Afghanistan trained
Mujahideen host_asserted
“And so in a weird way, Libya and Afghanistan are connected. In a weird way. Yeah. Well, keep in mind that Afghanistan was the incubator for the Mujahideen and Al Qaeda. Afghanistan provided a baby terrorist farm.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya @ 1:18:01
School of the Americas trained
Mujahideen book_quoted
“both at Fort Benning, Georgia, and in Panama called the School of Americas, which our audience obviously is very familiar with that, that taught rape, torture, and a curriculum of terrorism and horror aimed at poor and hungry populations in…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 1 @ 15:09
David Belfield member_of
Mujahideen book_quoted
“Afghanistan as a member of the resistance on December 12, 1986, and except for a period of some two weeks in the January of 87, was there until May of 1988, so about a year and a half. I received no prior military training before crossing t…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 12:47
CIA funded
Mujahideen book_quoted
“from the Afghans far exceeded any contribution I made to their cause. Though war is hell, you learn things when facing death. Ironically, Salahuddin, a fugitive from the U.S., was now fighting against the Soviets with the CIA-supported, quo…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 13:18
Safari Club funded
Mujahideen book_quoted
“T-U-R-K-I, and the Saudis' intelligence area up to speed on what was going on. What many people do not know was that the Safari Club had made a deal with Pakistan at the expense of the Afghan people. The Safari Club was run by the Saudis an…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 17:19
Jimmy Carter funded
Mujahideen book_quoted
“The man who overthrew Boutros was a guy by the name of General Mohammed Zia Haq. He carried on that effort, and in April 1979, when President Zia refused to halt work on the Islamic bomb, Jimmy Carter cut off all economic aid to Pakistan. J…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 25:27
BCCI financed_via
Mujahideen documented
“The same BCCI bank accounts being used to fund the Afghan resistance were also being used to fund the Pakistani nuclear bomb program. And that was identified in a Senate report during the investigation into BCCI. The Reagan-Bush policy viol…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 31:41
Hekmatyar recruited
Mujahideen book_quoted
“CIA-sponsored Afghan Mujahideen was observed recruiting Afghan mercenaries, i.e. Gladio people, to fight in Azerbaijan against the Armenian and its Russian allies. Again, another instigation of destabilization in Armenia at the hands of the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 8:54
Mujahideen carried_out_attack
Armenia book_quoted
“CIA-sponsored Afghan Mujahideen was observed recruiting Afghan mercenaries, i.e. Gladio people, to fight in Azerbaijan against the Armenian and its Russian allies. Again, another instigation of destabilization in Armenia at the hands of the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 8:54
Saudi Arabia funded
Mujahideen documented
“His presence suggested the agency would remain within legal bounds. Deputy Director McMahon would have further impact on the Afghan covert action. In its first year, the Reagan administration doubled the size of the previous CIA budget for …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 57:19
KGB carried_out_attack
Mujahideen documented
“pretended to be Mujahideen bands. The 150 odd soldiers in each such security unit gained the confidence of rebels who revealed themselves only to be eliminated. The Afghan KHAD, K-H-A-D agency, tried to block trails into the country with so…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 59:19
Iran funded
Mujahideen documented
“been eclipsed by the CIA and the Saudis matching contributions. Iran gave significant aid to the Sunni Muslim groups. Iran. Iran. Aren't they Shia? Yeah. Yeah, but they don't care. Especially Hek Martyr. Egypt sold arms and donated some as …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 1:00:52
Egypt supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“been eclipsed by the CIA and the Saudis matching contributions. Iran gave significant aid to the Sunni Muslim groups. Iran. Iran. Aren't they Shia? Yeah. Yeah, but they don't care. Especially Hek Martyr. Egypt sold arms and donated some as …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 1:00:52
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“He was the most, he was part of the Northern Alliance. He was the most effective fighter of all of them. And the CIA and the ISI would not help him at all. The CIA got weapons wherever it could. Most of these from European and Middle Easter…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 1:03:21
China supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“flying their shit. The contingent of three, later five, CIA officers monitored storage and shipment into Pakistan, certain items like rockets from China. Some came to Pakistan directly from their countries of origin. At first, rebel command…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 1:04:22
CIA funded
Mujahideen documented
“The CIA bought and delivered animals to the rebels, but stocks of local ponies soon dried up. Langley sought the advice of mule expert Dr. Melvin Bradley of the University of Missouri and brought mules in his state to ship them to Pakistan.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 1:04:52
Argentina supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“The method proved to be mules from Argentina, where the Andrian Mountains had animals that were fit for the area. The Pakistanis eventually hired traders who provided their own animals for a fee. Of course, the fees rose every season. The I…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 1:05:20
CIA funded
Mujahideen documented
“The method proved to be mules from Argentina, where the Andrian Mountains had animals that were fit for the area. The Pakistanis eventually hired traders who provided their own animals for a fee. Of course, the fees rose every season. The I…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 1:05:20
Soviet Union supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“For instance, there are reports that rebels were given about 400,000 modern Soviet-style assault rifles. Yet, according to Washington lobbyists, for the Mujahideen, one of the main groups received just 4,000 modern rifles by 1983, along wit…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 1:09:10
George H.W. Bush funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“with long-range missiles that we provided. President Bush made Afghanistan a subject of bilateral conversations between Moscow and Washington, and they were a topic of conversations with his meetings with Gorbachev. Over the time, they agre…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 42:18
Zbigniew Brzezinski funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“And the timing is oddly suspicious. This time, President Carter was not taken by surprise. Carter was a strong anti-communist. Isn't everybody? And his national security advisor had been pushing for a tough policy against the Soviets. Brzez…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 41:03
Jimmy Carter funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“said that after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, but in reality, the secretly guarded until like probably the late 90s, was that July 3rd, 1979, President Carter had signed a directive for secret aid to the opponents of the cabal regime…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 42:03
Osama bin Laden funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“The young Osama bin Laden was one of the Mujahideen patrons and fellow funders. He was representing the Saudi intel component inside Afghanistan. Carter's decision was a major victory for Kamal Adom, the chief of Saudi intel, and Prince Tur…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 43:59
Saudi Arabia funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“the policy would evolve into a nuclear version of don't ask, don't tell. As our Saudi allies used BCCI to fund the freedom fighters and the nuclear weapons program. And we disclosed in our BCCI series how even including the trigger igniter …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 46:15
BCCI laundered_money_for
Mujahideen host_asserted
“the policy would evolve into a nuclear version of don't ask, don't tell. As our Saudi allies used BCCI to fund the freedom fighters and the nuclear weapons program. And we disclosed in our BCCI series how even including the trigger igniter …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 46:15
CIA funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“an enemy accelerate its weapons development program. That may have been exactly what happened with Merlin. So, isn't that weird? That's very weird. Not only do we know that we paid for the Pakistani nuclear program during the 80s with the q…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 3 @ 39:23
Jamaat-e-Islami front_for
Mujahideen host_asserted
“But they have like two very main prominent militant wings. One's called Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is one of the first entities designated after 9-11. And the other one's called Hizbul Mujahideen. And according to some reports, i.e. the local p…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 2:09:04
CIA recruited
Mujahideen host_asserted
“of which is that al-Qaeda was effectively created by the CIA through its activities in recruiting and mobilizing radical Islamists to go to Afghanistan in the 1980s to join the Mujahideen guerrillas fighting the Soviets there. Many of the 9…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya @ 51:24
CIA funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“all of the Al Qaeda, the Mujahideen, all of them. There's links back to CIA funding of all of that. And then that whole radical Islamic bullshit got released on the world. And it was, again, used as a justification to create terror to contr…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 21:31
CIA funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“And isn't that what they did in Vietnam and into China and Burma? Yeah, that's what they did every single time. Congressman Charlie Wilson, Ed Wilson's old crony, was the point man in Congress building the positive image of the fierce Islam…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 43:30
NATO funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“My brain is thinking right there. There's a pattern. And I when I say that NATO is the world's largest state sponsor of terror without being a state, they are. They created ISIS. They created Al Qaeda. They created the Mujahideen. Every ter…”
▶ Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner @ 54:40
NATO trained
Mujahideen host_asserted
“If they use the terms Mujahideen, ISIS or Al Qaeda, your brain needs to go into a programming track that translates no matter what the name of the terrorist organization is, your brain needs to read CIA. There is no such thing as ISIS. Ther…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 1:12:02
Operation Gladio recruited
Mujahideen host_asserted
“all of the shenanigans that we have done. The whole Chechnyan was a gladio operation. We imported Mujahideen and Al-Qaeda to basically foment a war and did lots of false flags, killing both Muslim Russians and Christian Russians in that are…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 1:26:38
Saudi Arabia funded
Mujahideen book_quoted
“But after the fall of the peacock throne in Iran, religious divisions surfaced within the royal family, contributing to a divided Saudi foreign policy. On one hand, the Saudis supported a secular Saddam Hussein against Iran. And with the ot…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 30:43
Le Cercle liaisoned_with
Mujahideen host_asserted
“and was heavily sponsored by the South African government in the 1980s. Another, and just exactly what I was explaining to you as far as the destabilization goes. It was the Little Circle liaisoned with the quote-unquote rebels, but they we…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 39:22
Inter-Services Intelligence supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“Huge amounts of weapons. Pakistani sources report that CIA logisticians suddenly produced 100,000 old Lee-Enfield rifles. Apparently, they got this bunch from India. Howard Hart had championed the Lee-Enfield weapons. These guns put somethi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 13:52
Inter-Services Intelligence funded
Mujahideen book_quoted
“The number of Pakistani addicts, meanwhile, had spiraled from nothing in 1979 to between 1.2 and 1.7 million by the end of 1988. Much of the rapid rate would have been impossible without the protection of the ISI and the funding of the CIA,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs Oil and War Part 4 @ 29:07
Inter-Services Intelligence supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen host_asserted
“in Pakistan had been buying old archaic Soviet Union model weapons out of Bulgaria and were giving those to the Mujahideen and telling them to fight Russia with antiquated material.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs Oil and War Part 4 @ 27:52
Inter-Services Intelligence laundered_money_for
Mujahideen book_quoted
“In Afghanistan, his ISI, which is their intelligence guys, were taking what the Afghan figured was a 60% cut on all money that was sent to Pakistan, stayed in Pakistan, never made it to the Afghanistan fighters from the CIA. So the CIA was …”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 28:45
Inter-Services Intelligence laundered_money_for
Mujahideen book_quoted
“a former CIA analyst in the Soviet Union, said they were funding the wrong Islamic groups. And he's also quoted as saying, and had little idea where the money was going or how it was being spent. Sarkis, who profited from providing arms to …”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 33:40
Saudi Arabia funded
Mujahideen documented
“But it was not in America's interest to permit the Russians to withdraw from their quagmire intact. With victory as the goal, the CIA budgets redoubled close to $300 million in 1984. By 1986, it was up to $700 million. And that funded only …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 58:10
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen host_asserted
“That leads to the heart of the matter. Afghanistan had supplanted Laos as the biggest paramilitary affair in CIA history. And supposedly was looking a little better for them because they're going to obviously get the Soviets to pull out. In…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 1:29
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen host_asserted
“As early as 1988, a U.S. force in the Persian Gulf inspecting a motorboat belonging to the IRGC found two Stinger missiles in it. Makes you feel good? During the CIA operation, a thousand went to Afghan guerrillas. About 350 are reported to…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 6:49
Jimmy Carter funded
Mujahideen documented
“announced a doctrine that would bear his name. The U.S. would regard any attempt by outside powers, such as the Soviet Union, to gain control of the Persian Gulf region an assault on our vital interest. Brzezinski wrote later that his main …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 41:02
Zbigniew Brzezinski funded
Mujahideen book_quoted
“announced a doctrine that would bear his name. The U.S. would regard any attempt by outside powers, such as the Soviet Union, to gain control of the Persian Gulf region an assault on our vital interest. Brzezinski wrote later that his main …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 41:02
Charles Koch funded
Mujahideen documented
“With the Jordanian king, much like Ray Kline's, drinking with Taiwanese and Thai rulers helped forge close links between the CIA and the Jordanians. For Afghanistan, Kogan's marching orders was to provide parallel support and coordinate tha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 43:29
CIA funded
Mujahideen documented
“His unit, technically the South Asia Operations Group, gradually expanded. The CIA could not act through the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan because it was small and closely watched and with no possibility of contact with the Mujahideen resista…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 44:24
William Casey funded
Mujahideen documented
“feelings towards the agency. McMahon responded by turning energy to making sure Afghanistan went smoothly. Admiral Turner's successor, William Casey, later called him the father of the Afghanistan secret war. The sleekness of the CIA's comm…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 46:53
CIA funded
Mujahideen documented
“When the CIA studied Afghan ethnic groups in the spring of 80, it found that the Pushtuns made up more than half of the population and the fierce animosity had split clans, including those between Sunni and Shia Muslims. The agency calculat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 48:47
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“Turki al-Fasal, plus the leader of Pakistan, military strongman, General Mohammed Zia. The CIA's project cannot proceed if these men softened their commitment. The Saudis continued matching U.S. contributions to the rebels, and General Zia …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 51:47
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen host_asserted
“They take pennies on the dollar, go to Bulgaria, Romania, and they buy old Soviet weaponry. They deliver that to the Mujahideen, the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 22:54
CIA trained
Mujahideen host_asserted
“Mujahideen were paid assassins trained by the CIA that was later trafficked into Albania, Serbia to break up the Yugoslavia country.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 23:48
CIA covered_up
Mujahideen host_asserted
“In a maneuver worthy of CIA history on Central America, the deputy director of operations, Claire George, phoned Bearden to certify that the agency had had no rules or knowledge of the attacks. The station chief probably didn't know that th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 56:12
CIA trained
Mujahideen host_asserted
“So, Benjamin, that's a very interesting observation. And I do want, I think you could read what happened in North Carolina one of two ways. You could read it the way you just read it. And I hope that is what actually happened. Those two ind…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 2 @ 1:31:01
Mujahideen secretly_owned
Osama bin Laden host_asserted
“But they have like two very main prominent militant wings. One's called Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is one of the first entities designated after 9-11. And the other one's called Hizbul Mujahideen. And according to some reports, i.e. the local p…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 2:09:04
Mujahideen trafficked
CIA host_asserted
“But for some reason, the U.S. government decided to leave them in the hands of the CIA-controlled Mujahideen. The missiles were eventually taken to Islamabad, Pakistan, and put on the open market. Most were bought by Israeli arms dealers an…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 16 @ 40:31
Inter-Services Intelligence trained
Mujahideen host_asserted
“And we know the nationalities of all of them. We know that they had ties back to the areas where all of these people that they use over there in the Middle East for that they were trained by the CIA, by the Pakistani ISI. And so.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 1:07:32
CIA funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“the CIA's largest to date operation in Afghanistan via Pakistan by baiting in the Russians into Afghanistan, which set up, as Ron points out, because they already needed a new boogeyman, the creation of funding, if not creation, but funding…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 1:35:36
CIA trained
Mujahideen host_asserted
“the CIA's largest to date operation in Afghanistan via Pakistan by baiting in the Russians into Afghanistan, which set up, as Ron points out, because they already needed a new boogeyman, the creation of funding, if not creation, but funding…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 1:35:36
Operation Gladio trained
Mujahideen host_asserted
“That doesn't mean they all work. That just means that they are trained on these missions. When they ran that mission in Russia at the theater, the crocus, they not only trained for missions, but to prepare for that specific mission, they to…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 1:06:10
North Atlantic Treaty Organization trained
Mujahideen host_asserted
“He was the NATO commander. Keep in mind, NATO runs Operation Gladio. He was the NATO commander when we did the air war in Bosnia and tore that entire place apart using the Mujahideen, Tajikistan, the Kazakhstan Muslims imported in there to …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 45:50
CIA recruited
Mujahideen host_asserted
“They recruited them from Kazakhstan and a lot of the former Soviet countries because they all spoke Russian.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 24:16
CIA trafficked
Mujahideen host_asserted
“Mujahideen were paid assassins trained by the CIA that was later trafficked into Albania, Serbia to break up the Yugoslavia country.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 23:48
CIA trained
Mujahideen host_asserted
“as were vehicles for the quick reaction forces sent in on the ground. Today, it's believed that the early action of, you'll guess it, it was Al-Qaeda terrorists that was responsible for all of this. That would be the CIA trained people from…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 46:18
United Kingdom funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“religion, through funding the Mujahideen that turns into Al-Qaeda and ISIS, the UK setting up the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt so they could control and manipulate Egypt for access to the Suez Canal. This is part of their agenda. There's not…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 1:38:52
CIA funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“And I'm not saying that there's not radical Islamic terrorists. I'm telling you that they were all created by the CIA at CIA training camps, paid for by the CIA in Pakistan and several other countries to include Afghanistan. And they are th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 1:40:16
CIA funded
Mujahideen host_asserted
“on more ways than one since we just recently found out that that money was being diverted to make Pakistan a nuclear power. The covert operations was coming under a big microscope. Meanwhile, in the Middle East, we have this new boogeyman b…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 21:57
Mikhail Gorbachev ordered_assassination_of
Mujahideen documented
“About that time, George appointed Bearden station chief. The Russians began their summer offensive. They concentrated on several provinces, tried to clear Kost again, and fought a new battle for Zawah. The operations were standard. The Russ…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 45:55
Zbigniew Brzezinski recruited
Mujahideen book_quoted
“This timetable raises the same questions as everything that happened in 2001. What forces led the CIA in May 1979, armed with an NSC authorization from Brzezinski, one month earlier to work with the Pakistani ISI and their protege, Hek Mart…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs Oil and War Part 4 @ 32:00
North Atlantic Treaty Organization trained
Mujahideen host_asserted
“And it talks about all of the different countries down there. It was a really amazing book from that perspective. And this is kind of where I came up with the information about them basically training, especially in Colombia, all of the exc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 41:46
Mujahideen funded
Al Qaeda host_asserted
“Funding both sides. We know that a lot of the Mujahideen were the base, bottom floor for ISIS and Al-Qaeda. So yeah, supplying them with equipment and weapons makes perfect sense because they're just another version of the Gladio operations…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 1:15:48
Mujahideen supplied_arms_to
Islamic State host_asserted
“Funding both sides. We know that a lot of the Mujahideen were the base, bottom floor for ISIS and Al-Qaeda. So yeah, supplying them with equipment and weapons makes perfect sense because they're just another version of the Gladio operations…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 1:15:48
Mujahideen supplied_arms_to
Al Qaeda host_asserted
“Funding both sides. We know that a lot of the Mujahideen were the base, bottom floor for ISIS and Al-Qaeda. So yeah, supplying them with equipment and weapons makes perfect sense because they're just another version of the Gladio operations…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 1:15:48
CIA recruited
Mujahideen host_asserted
“domestic terrorists around two operational locations because we know that they were using al-Qaeda and ISIS operatives from the former Mujahideen to conduct terrorist operations in Europe. Now, those are going to look exactly like a renditi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 8 @ 45:52
Mujahideen succeeded
Al Qaeda host_asserted
“the CIA's largest to date operation in Afghanistan via Pakistan by baiting in the Russians into Afghanistan, which set up, as Ron points out, because they already needed a new boogeyman, the creation of funding, if not creation, but funding…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 1:35:36
Mujahideen carried_out_attack
Chechen conflict host_asserted
“And then once they got thrown out and caught doing that, they sought a alternative route, and that was to build a second pipeline around Russia so that Russia wouldn't benefit from it. And in order to disguise that operation, they basically…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 1:28:30
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen host_asserted
“We basically trained Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan as part of the whole Mujahideen creation to use them as terrorists in Chechnya and several other places. With the knowledge of the former CIA director, which was at one time, of course, Bu…”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 51:42
Mujahideen funded
Islamic State host_asserted
“Funding both sides. We know that a lot of the Mujahideen were the base, bottom floor for ISIS and Al-Qaeda. So yeah, supplying them with equipment and weapons makes perfect sense because they're just another version of the Gladio operations…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 1:15:48
Felix Sater supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen caller_asserted
“The name rings a bell. Yeah, he was working with the government and giving them information about in Afghanistan, there were certain singular rockets that were given to the Mujahideen when, you know, during the Afghanistan war with Russia. …”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 1:19:27
Mujahideen succeeded
Al Qaeda guest_asserted
“Afghan, Pakistani terror training camps that they invaded Chesnia with. And so they were using the former Mujahideen that morphed into Al-Qaeda and ISIS and all them other things, those types of people to insert in, because you have to unde…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 1:03:03
Mujahideen succeeded
ISIS guest_asserted
“Afghan, Pakistani terror training camps that they invaded Chesnia with. And so they were using the former Mujahideen that morphed into Al-Qaeda and ISIS and all them other things, those types of people to insert in, because you have to unde…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 1:03:03
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to get to Afghanistan to buy them weaponry to resist the quote unquote Soviet invasion that they prompted to happen on purpose. So they could start this money trafficking, money laundering operation. And once that happened, all of these bil…
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They take pennies on the dollar, go to Bulgaria, Romania, and they buy old Soviet weaponry. They deliver that to the Mujahideen, the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. And then they take the rest of the money and they use BCCI to launder tha…
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They basically did a really good job of telling the official cover story of what was going on. That's what most of us believed. Yeah. Mujahideen were freedom fighters standing up against communism. Certainly weren't standing up for quote un…
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They were also trafficked into southern Chechnya. So everywhere you have these Muslim unrest, what you start finding is the Mujahideen. And a lot of the Mujahideen was not from Afghanistan. They recruited them from Kazakhstan and a lot of t…
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And they were using them, training them. They labeled them as Mujahideen and they turned them into Al Qaeda. They turn them into ISIS. But it all originates from the same group of CIA trained terrorists. What's really interesting is where d…
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Basically, we've covered this in several of our Operation Gladio exposés that, for example, when we were funding the Mujahideen in Afghanistan via the intelligence service in Pakistan, there were contracts written to purchase weapons. And w…
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you know, pennies on the dollar and gave them to the Mujahideen so that they had basically met the criteria of providing guns to the Mujahideen, which left them, you know, another $99 million in their slush fund to go off and do all of thes…
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So once you get that in your brain that they don't care about communism, that's bullshit. The same thing with terrorism. They created terrorism. They created radical Islamic terrorism. I just finished a research project today about the fund…
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The name rings a bell. Yeah, he was working with the government and giving them information about in Afghanistan, there were certain singular rockets that were given to the Mujahideen when, you know, during the Afghanistan war with Russia. …
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If you do the history on any recognizable terrorist organization, whether it's ISIS, the U.S. created it, out of the Mujahideen, which we created. Yes, I'm sitting here thinking of 9-11 and Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda. Okay, so Al-Qaeda was de…
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despite the fact that we all stood up and said, hell no. Okay, thank you for clarifying because I thought that we had, I don't know, done something to basically get Russia to chill out. And even though we were doing lots of regime change in…
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We basically trained Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan as part of the whole Mujahideen creation to use them as terrorists in Chechnya and several other places. With the knowledge of the former CIA director, which was at one time, of course, Bu…
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I've already done that and we will go through it step by step. The whole agitation, the influx of Chechnya was done to Russia. Chechnya, they imported Mujahideen and al-Qaeda operatives there and basically did the same thing to Russia. And …
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left out was the background. It was a great overview of tying, he never mentions Gladio, by the way, but he ties the Chechnyans to Al-Qaeda, which we know is Operation Gladio, and to the Mujahideen, which we know basically was used for the …
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And then once they got thrown out and caught doing that, they sought a alternative route, and that was to build a second pipeline around Russia so that Russia wouldn't benefit from it. And in order to disguise that operation, they basically…
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The Mujahideen and ISIS, well, they're all the same thing because they're all funded when you go back to their original source connected to the funding of the CIA and other intel communities. And just generically, when I say CIA, I'm not ex…
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all of the shenanigans that we have done. The whole Chechnyan was a gladio operation. We imported Mujahideen and Al-Qaeda to basically foment a war and did lots of false flags, killing both Muslim Russians and Christian Russians in that are…
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China, as a boogeyman in that communist version, hadn't come to fruition fast enough for him. So they had to have a bridge between the two communisms. And that was radical Islam. And so our government went over there and they funded the Muj…
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But I can also tell you there are elements of our military that knows everything about that. And we have also discovered that Chechnya was a Gladio operation against Russia. I did an entire segment of that. They were taking Mujahideen and A…
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So, Benjamin, that's a very interesting observation. And I do want, I think you could read what happened in North Carolina one of two ways. You could read it the way you just read it. And I hope that is what actually happened. Those two ind…
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of which is that al-Qaeda was effectively created by the CIA through its activities in recruiting and mobilizing radical Islamists to go to Afghanistan in the 1980s to join the Mujahideen guerrillas fighting the Soviets there. Many of the 9…
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And so in a weird way, Libya and Afghanistan are connected. In a weird way. Yeah. Well, keep in mind that Afghanistan was the incubator for the Mujahideen and Al Qaeda. Afghanistan provided a baby terrorist farm.…
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all funded with covert funds. Mujahideen, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, all created this way. All of those trace back to Pakistan and the entrapment of the Soviets into Afghanistan as a guise for funneling all of this money, our taxpayer dollars, to P…
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That doesn't mean they all work. That just means that they are trained on these missions. When they ran that mission in Russia at the theater, the crocus, they not only trained for missions, but to prepare for that specific mission, they to…
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Adam's partners in Pakistan had a keen interest in making certain that their government didn't fall, as the Shahs had in 1979. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia would reward the Pakistani government with billions of dollars for providing shelter fo…
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basically come out against the Zionists in Israel. So the entire Middle East became a balancing act. Adem fighting the fundamentalists through the Iraqi surrogates in the Iran-Iraq war and tying up Moscow in Afghanistan by assisting the Muj…
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French journalist was interviewing Brzezinski, who revealed that the public face of shock and chagrin of the Carter administration to the invasion in reality was quite the opposite in private. The Soviet invasion was exactly the outcome tha…
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that they basically were trying to destabilize Afghanistan. They pretended that they had a pro-communist group there that had been attacked and lured the Soviet Union into this thinking that they were actually protecting fellow communists w…
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And isn't that what they did in Vietnam and into China and Burma? Yeah, that's what they did every single time. Congressman Charlie Wilson, Ed Wilson's old crony, was the point man in Congress building the positive image of the fierce Islam…
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The young Osama bin Laden was one of the Mujahideen patrons and fellow funders. He was representing the Saudi intel component inside Afghanistan. Carter's decision was a major victory for Kamal Adom, the chief of Saudi intel, and Prince Tur…
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the policy would evolve into a nuclear version of don't ask, don't tell. As our Saudi allies used BCCI to fund the freedom fighters and the nuclear weapons program. And we disclosed in our BCCI series how even including the trigger igniter …
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It would have it would have like busted the entire thing. So all of those people were basically playing along, captured whatever you want to say as part of the CIA misinformation op on all of us. There never was any radical Islamic terroris…
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My brain is thinking right there. There's a pattern. And I when I say that NATO is the world's largest state sponsor of terror without being a state, they are. They created ISIS. They created Al Qaeda. They created the Mujahideen. Every ter…
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that the al-Qaeda and Mujahideen that had been funded by the CIA was implanted into Chechnya, much as they were into Bosnia, to create the strategy of tension.…
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Because they were arrested on the battlefield? Yeah. For some reason, all of these militant Uyghurs attended a whole bunch of CIA-funded Al-Qaeda and Mujahideen terrorist training camps. And then you go back and you look at some of these, l…
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He's worth $13 billion. So this paid off really well for him. He's involved in all of the turmoil all over Africa. He's also involved in Tajikistan, which, of course, is a huge supplier of militant Islamics for al-Qaeda, Mujahideen into Che…
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for most of the illicit arms trafficking around the world. And later, Israel kind of one-upped Bulgaria. But Bulgaria was very important because a lot of the weapons trafficking that was going on that I discovered is, for example, in Afghan…
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We see that as a reoccurring pattern. They did it in Afghanistan. They just kept perpetuating these terrorists. And they did it in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and the Mujahideen, ISIS, Al-Qaeda. They become rena radical. And if you need it, it'…
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He was the NATO commander. Keep in mind, NATO runs Operation Gladio. He was the NATO commander when we did the air war in Bosnia and tore that entire place apart using the Mujahideen, Tajikistan, the Kazakhstan Muslims imported in there to …
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Then you have Syria. We went through much of the Middle East, and you understand exactly what's going on because you can immediately see, oh, look, there's a picture. There's a guy from the Mujahideen. There's a guy in there from al-Qaeda. …
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are between the FARC and the Colombian state, and the Colombian state, of course, is backed by the U.S. Many analysts from a variety of disciplines contend that the FARC deserves serious examination as a powerful political and military forc…
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and anti-communist Mujahideen rebels in Afghanistan who were working together with the Pakistani Military Intelligence Service. Because again, I am sure they told Jimmy Carter that it was a communist issue and that the Mujahideen, which bas…
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expert for the Saudi-financed Muqtab al-Qaeda, a terrorist organization believed to be the precursor to al-Qaeda that recruited foreign fighters from all over the world, including the U.S. Actually, the Mujahideen was a precursor to al-Qaed…
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to stay behind units that Saudi Arabia used. The U.S. financed and trained the Mujahideen in CIA terrorist training camps in Egypt, which is another reason why they had to get rid of Nasser and control Egypt. And then at least one Gulf stat…
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Then he would meet with the Saudi, with the House of Saad, the royal family. So that's kind of just to give you an idea of how that dude was. You don't really hear a lot of people talking about him or Jamaat, but Jamaat is actually, just to…
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But they have like two very main prominent militant wings. One's called Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is one of the first entities designated after 9-11. And the other one's called Hizbul Mujahideen. And according to some reports, i.e. the local p…
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Mujahideen, which is, again, Jamaat-e-Islami. And these are the guys who are back in the, you know, they backed Yunus during the coup in 2024, which has been very pro-CCP. And they're basically, you know, they were banned in elections befor…
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They were asked to conduct training exercises for another of the CIA's secret armies, the anti-communist, think Gladio, Afghan resistance movement, the Mujahideen. The Mujahideen was basically the CIA's version of the Gladio operators in Af…
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Grits said. Bode said that that had to be shortened to 30 days, quote, and eliminated some of the classes that he felt were too sensitive for the Mujahideen at the time. It included various secure communication courses that we planned to gi…
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The State Department has provided cover for more CIA operations over the years than any other government entity, except maybe the military. Bode's assistant, Nestor Pino, also denied that he had officially authorized the missions. But he sa…
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are in concert with and complementary of U.S. policy for Afghanistan and that Colonel Gritz and Mr. Weakley saw it that way, too. Unquote. Their activities, Pino declared, were inspired by a strong desire to support the Afghan resistance ag…
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Because he ran both the Vatican and the Israeli desk at the CIA. They work seamlessly together. Finally, in 1992, Sikord and Kimchi were reportedly in Azerbaijan trying to negotiate the sale of arms from Israel. One year later, Hek Martyr, …
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resources abroad has been a major factor in the illicit drug trafficking since World War II. This pattern is further reinforced when we consider two of the major indirect interventions of the same period, which included the Nicaraguan Contr…
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to arm the Mujahideen guerrillas in Afghanistan, one of whom, Hek Marta, was already known as a drug trafficker and had his own heroin refineries. In the subsequent years, opium production soared in the Afghan-Pakistan Golden Crescent, whic…
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emissaries in Pakistan met directly with bin Laden and that it was bin Laden acting on the advice of his friends in Saudi who first suggested the Mujahideen should be given Stinger missiles. French and Italian newspapers alleged a contact b…
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so that we had clear and safe passage of opium. And when you start looking at the timing of all of these operations, it becomes crystal clear what was going on. In the 1980s, Mujahideen heroin was reaching the Sicilian mafia via none other …
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In the words of the Washington Post back in May of 1990, US officials ignored heroin trafficking by the Mujahideen because the US narcotic policy in Afghanistan had been subordinated to aiding the ISI and the Mujahideen in Afghanistan fight…
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off of the drug operation that was going on in Afghanistan. And not only were they profiting off of the drug operation, they were skimming money off of the money that was being sent to Pakistan. And they were skimming weapons off of the wea…
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in Pakistan had been buying old archaic Soviet Union model weapons out of Bulgaria and were giving those to the Mujahideen and telling them to fight Russia with antiquated material.…
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The number of Pakistani addicts, meanwhile, had spiraled from nothing in 1979 to between 1.2 and 1.7 million by the end of 1988. Much of the rapid rate would have been impossible without the protection of the ISI and the funding of the CIA,…
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This timetable raises the same questions as everything that happened in 2001. What forces led the CIA in May 1979, armed with an NSC authorization from Brzezinski, one month earlier to work with the Pakistani ISI and their protege, Hek Mart…
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All going on under the guise of supposedly supporting a war effort of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. And it actually has nothing to do with that at all. It has everything to do with drugs and generating weapons so that we can launder them t…
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was extremely close to the General Mohammed Zia al-Haq, who seized power in 1977. Abadi and Zia also met frequently with Faisal Haq, the man whom Zia appointed as military governor of the Northwest Frontier Province, which was basically whe…
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use drug money to meet the Soviet challenge. So basically it goes on and it makes very clear that the Soviet Union prior to the invasion, the ISI had been put in contact with the CIA and heck martyr and that the ISI protégés were part of th…
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or the war, so one of them. Maureen Oath heard from a guy by the name of Falco, who was head of the International Narcotics Control for the State Department under Jimmy Carter, that CIA and ISI together encouraged the Mujahideen to addict S…
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The war, which over the next three years culminated in numerous cross-border raids and sabotage missions into the Soviet Union. So according to Ahmed Rashid, in 1986, the Secret Services of the U.S., meaning special forces type Great Britai…
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If he's been in all of these places, he knows al-Qaeda was created by the CIA. He knows that it was birthed out of the Mujahideen. Nowhere in any of this conversation does he share any of this. So he's just the mop-up guy. He goes around wh…
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So we got to mop up Afghanistan, kick out all of the Taliban that just eradicated all of the drugs out of there and reinstate the Mujahideen, whoever we're going to pick next. He even says that there was another guy that thought he ought to…
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If they use the terms Mujahideen, ISIS or Al Qaeda, your brain needs to go into a programming track that translates no matter what the name of the terrorist organization is, your brain needs to read CIA. There is no such thing as ISIS. Ther…
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Weird that. And from Uzbekistan. Wow. Go figure. Where a bunch of the Mujahideen that fought in Afghanistan was trained in Afghanistan and then later trained in Turkey. Right. Yeah. Right. Well, you know, and we could get into the Uyghurs a…
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And he also was recruiting Muslim fighters to go to Afghanistan and fight with bin Laden and the Mujahideen that the CIA had set up. Ramadan told Salahuddin that he should join them as well. He warned Salahuddin that the Pakistani, Saudi, a…
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from the Afghans far exceeded any contribution I made to their cause. Though war is hell, you learn things when facing death. Ironically, Salahuddin, a fugitive from the U.S., was now fighting against the Soviets with the CIA-supported, quo…
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bargain in order to win Zia's approval for using Pakistan as a base of operations for the Mujahideen. So it's almost as if when Carter cut them off, did they stage the Afghan false flag for the Soviet Union as a reason to turn back on the f…
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research and creation. Wilson went so far as to tell Zia, Mr. President, as far as I'm concerned, you can make all the bombs you want, unquote. Zia privately assured the congressman that Pakistan's nuclear weapon program was for peaceful re…
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And I'm not saying that there's not radical Islamic terrorists. I'm telling you that they were all created by the CIA at CIA training camps, paid for by the CIA in Pakistan and several other countries to include Afghanistan. And they are th…
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assumed the title of president after the coup, but the Soviet Union and Afghan parties regarded him as pro-Western. There's a lot of story behind this whole coup, by the way. As early as June 1975, tribal rebel forces attempted to overthrow…
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and through them, access to many Afghan tribesmen. Other U.S. agencies were filling around too. As early as January 79, an officer in the DEA met with Afghan resistant figures at Lahore. Subsequent encounters took place in other Pakistani c…
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the Soviet Union, their Vietnam. The initial take of just half a million dollars lasted barely six weeks. They wanted more money. Agency officers picked up the DEA channels to the resistance and were, DEA channels to the resistance are DEA …
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By September 28th, the CIA station in New Delhi had cabled Langley more than once about recruiting suitable fighters, soon to be known as the Mujahideen. So again, these are the people producing the opium. Authorization for the CIA to engag…
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in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Moscow had sent the DRA government armed helicopters and transport models, but resisted appeals for troops. In May, Mujahideen mounted armed uprisings in several provinces, with government troops hard-pressed to m…
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near Kabul. Washington learned of this from cables. They wanted to know how many military advisors, how many troops were at Bagram and recording that the Russians either sported civilian clothes or Afghan uniforms. On July 20th, despite aid…
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under house arrest, and later moved him to a prison, where he would be strangled to death a few weeks later. Mr. CIA just orchestrated a coup. At the time, there were further coup attempts by Afghan army. According to some Russian accounts,…
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The coup attempt, the October counter coup and the Mujahideen talks was evidence of Amin's lack of responsiveness viewed by many. The Soviet general staff anticipating a Politburo decision began preparing for intervention. Those senior gene…
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For a broader covert action, in Saudi Arabia, the U.S. ambassador learned the Saudis were ready to extend assistance with the Mujahideen. Previously, it had been withheld. The Americans and Saudis agreed that Riyadh would match CIA funds. O…
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His unit, technically the South Asia Operations Group, gradually expanded. The CIA could not act through the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan because it was small and closely watched and with no possibility of contact with the Mujahideen resista…
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With the ISI, which had an Afghan branch in detachments along the border in Pakistan, the CIA did business with the Mujahideen through a base in Peshawar near the Khyber Pass, 40 miles from the Afghan border. The CIA base at Peshawar.…
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Rather, it would be the Pakistani ISI that provided the muscle. Its Afghan bureau consisted of officers posted throughout the Pakistani military. The bureau did much of the resistance. The ISI funneled the military aid allocating percentage…
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the Mujahideen intelligence to use inside of Afghanistan. The data came partly from the ISI and from the CIA and from the British intelligence. Under its most active director, Brigadier General Mohammed Yusuf, who served from 83 to 87, the …
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These are the terrorist training camps. Yusuf also sent ISI commando teams on special missions with the Mujahideen and tried to coordinate forces from different rebel groups inside of Afghanistan against the Russian troops. Rebel bands typi…
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to observe Mujahideen operations. Huh, to observe them. Not long after taking office, the Reagan administration began moving on in Afghanistan. The new CIA director, William Casey, presented a project with covert actions. President Reagan a…
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Turki al-Fasal, plus the leader of Pakistan, military strongman, General Mohammed Zia. The CIA's project cannot proceed if these men softened their commitment. The Saudis continued matching U.S. contributions to the rebels, and General Zia …
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like a Soviet invasion. They expected that the Russians, the Afghan government, or both, might make small raids against the insurgent camps where they were training the Mujahideen to go into Afghanistan. Yes, yes, they might. To pursue the …
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His presence suggested the agency would remain within legal bounds. Deputy Director McMahon would have further impact on the Afghan covert action. In its first year, the Reagan administration doubled the size of the previous CIA budget for …
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In August of 81, five of the largest rebel groups formed an alliance whose center of gravity resided in the Peshawar area. That was beyond the reach of the Russian enemy. Fearful of a unified command would impede its ability to manipulate t…
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No synergy of forces allowed. It's crazy. By that summer, there were roughly 45,000 Mujahideen fighters. Through the year, the rebel groups averaged about 500 attacks a month. According to Soviet figures, more than 500 vehicles were destroy…
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been eclipsed by the CIA and the Saudis matching contributions. Iran gave significant aid to the Sunni Muslim groups. Iran. Iran. Aren't they Shia? Yeah. Yeah, but they don't care. Especially Hek Martyr. Egypt sold arms and donated some as …
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The most fundamentalist groups, like Hek Martyrs, also had success in making direct approaches to Muslim countries for added support. Pakistan sustained its role with Peshawar and nearby cities. The ISI Afghan Bureau made allocations among …
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The CIA and Saudi money went into ISI bank accounts. Aid in kind, such as weapons and donors purchased directly, brought into the country until 1985. It remained a firm rule that mostly communist bloc weapons would be given to the Mujahidee…
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The amounts of cash and weapons given to each group varied depending on performance, but only two of the seven key groups in the rebel alliance were not fundamentalists. The ISI played favorites. One major rebel leader, Masad, Ahmed Shah Ma…
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was not in the alliance. The net effect was that roughly two thirds of the aid went to the most radical religious groups. And the Mossad guy that wasn't part of this alliance was the one guy that wasn't keen on having opium as their main pr…
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in the administration over the numbers and kinds of weapons to furnish the Mujahideen, perhaps making the solicitation important. Doesn't really matter because they're all going to be filtered through the ISI in Pakistan and they're going t…
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Beef that part up. Thus, in April 1983, analysis by the intelligence Near East and South Asia office that found the Mujahideen incapable of expelling or defeating the Russians made Gates furious. Again, not independent intelligence analyst.…
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the Afghan resistance. Democrat Congressman Charles Wilson of Texas waged what amounted to his own covert campaign against officials he thought insufficiently committed to the Afghan rebels. He fastened on to his agenda Chuck Cogan and Howa…
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Wilson forged his own links to top Pakistani leaders, including General Zia. He used these to encourage the Pakistanis to demand more than the CIA had authorized them as far as money goes and to demand more weapons and better ones. You get …
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of ISI. But by 1983, they were being eclipsed as Wilson got more friendly with Zia. Budget levels on the covert program were affected by the lobbying. Reagan administration permitted itself to be moved even further. Reagan doubled what Cart…
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McMahon saw the CIA paramilitary effort as the fulcrum to open a door to an agreement. The more we spend, the more likely the Soviet Union is to buckle. The UN mediation effort under Diego Cordova's begun early. In 1983, it came to a near b…
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The Russians suggesting that they were amenable to a conditional withdrawal and the Reagan White House preoccupied with Lebanon permitting events to take their course. Instead, the Pakistani and Afghan rebels all objected because they're ge…
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Huge amounts of weapons. Pakistani sources report that CIA logisticians suddenly produced 100,000 old Lee-Enfield rifles. Apparently, they got this bunch from India. Howard Hart had championed the Lee-Enfield weapons. These guns put somethi…
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The CIA project had nearly ended before the last bullet was ready. The Mujahideen had long since switched to automatic weapons instead of these ancient bolt-action rifles. In 1984, William Casey needed a new team. Beset by problems from cov…
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to lead his Central American Task Force. COTOS then had ties to Charlie Wilson, so they got along great. During George Shultz's 1983 Pakistani visit, Zia had Akhtar of the ISI brief the visiting party on the status of operation. Akhtar repo…
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And that it dominated the Afghan-Soviet border, inflicting heavy losses on Russians. The reporting cable must have pleased the people at CIA. There was no proof that that was true because, again, the CIA is running this from Pakistan. In sp…
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In 1984, no part of Afghanistan was safe from the Mujahideen. Even Kabul, where KHAD headquarters was subjected to rocket attacks, the defense ministry had been bombed. The DRA officers kidnapped right off the street. The constant menace of…
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But in 1984, the CIA got a hold of Chinese rockets that had greater range and explosive power. The ISI sent along some of its commando teams as rebels staged attacks on the Soviet air base at Bagram. 22 planes were bombed on the ground in o…
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a major ammunition dump containing more than 30,000 tons of munitions exploded. Enterprising ISI commanders videotaped the explosion. William Casey was delighted and showed the film before Congress. In 1984, the ISI presence with the rebels…
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At later part of the year, rebels began to form units from their shifting bands, joining and creating regiments, several of which were united as fronts. Another mission was to attempt to block a road tunnel through which moved three quarter…
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anti-aircraft guns, Soviet shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile SAMs, a similar British SAM, or two different American SAMs. Charlie Wilson and congressional supporters of the Mujahideen, drawing from a secret paper John McMahon had sent t…
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The Afghan task force put $44 million of Soviet money into blowpipe because it could be spent without referencing any congressional oversee. But the investment ended there. So the American SAMs called stingers. The CIA rule had been no US w…
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The victory camp scored major points in late 84 when the Senate passed a resolution in favor of greatly improving the equipment of the Mujahideen. In March 85, President Reagan approved a national security directive that made it official po…
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Fred Eichel, at one meeting, advocated cutting out the ISI middleman by flying arms directly to the Mujahideen. Inevitably, someone raised the danger of a Soviet-American confrontation. Bertie Dunn's deputy, Thomas Twinton, attended this re…
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Nudged by Zia, within a month, Reagan approved an immediate shipment of 100 of them. While the joint staff, Pentagon and State Department opposition melted away. Brigadier Yusuf began to organize and train the rebels to use them. In October…