Remember those Afghan 'freedom fighters'?

[ck4829]

Yes, you should remember them. They were the people the Christian Coalition, Pat Robertson, and even Ronald Reagan promoted them as Freedom Fighters and Liberators.

Well, here are just some of the 'moral values' of the people that would later create Al Qaeda and the Taliban:

A "favorite tactic" of the Afghan freedom fighters was "to torture victims by first cutting off their noses, ears, and genitals, then removing one slice of skin after another", producing "a slow, very painful death". The Moujahedeen also killed a Canadian tourist and six West Germans, including two children, and a U.S. military attaché was dragged from his car and beaten; all due to the rebels' apparent inability to distinguish Russians from other Europeans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7322.htm

Washington Post, 11 May 1979, p. 23. U.S. intelligence officials confirmed that Islamic rebels killed Soviet male and female civilians and mutilated their bodies, New York Times, 13 April 1979, p. 8.

New York Times, 11 September 1979, p. 12.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. It was never about Afghan "freedom"

The Soviets didn't come into Afghanistan until December 1979, which was months after the U.S. began supporting the "freedom fighters" against the homegrown Marxist government. A lot (not all) of the early "freedom fighters" were conservative Muslims outraged that the new government wanted to institute laws on women's rights and give girls and boys equal educational opportunities. Some allies, huh?

Later on, in the early 1990s, the CIA actively supported the Taliban, because they were deemed to have the best prospects for guaranteeing "stability" in Afghanistan.

[NMDemDist2]

2. stablity for oil and gas pipelines no doubt n/t