Neither the Taliban nor the Northern Alliance existed as organized forces until after the Soviets had left, so no.
Now members of both groups were financed by the CIA while the Soviets were there. The Northern Alliance got some support from the CIA, but not much. We pretty much gave up on our muj once the Soviets left allowing for the extremists to gain a lot of control. Most of the post Soviet support came from the Pakistani ISI and the Saudis. On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > ah? My bad then. But the CIA did underwrite them though, right? > > On 5/19/12, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The Taliban and the Northern Alliance were enemies in the post soviet > > Afghan civil war. The Taliban wasn't part of the Northern Alliance. > > > > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> er. Those are not all the same jerkoffs. I don't think Ronald Reagan > >> supported bin Laden, for one thing, and the Taliban was the Northern > >> Alliance at the time... > >> > >> /me flees > >> > >> On 5/19/12, PT <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > On 5/19/2012 12:28 PM, Dana wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Justin Amash has been posting about this on Facebook. The people who > >> >> voted > >> >> against his amendment said he was coddling terrorists, according to > >> >> him. > >> > > >> > Well, we can't have that. We need to be tough on terrorist > supporters. > >> > We can start with the jerkoffs who propped up Saddam, bin Laden, the > >> > Taliban, etc. to begin with. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:350920 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
