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Originally Posted by onwebcam
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He did not as it was never "Bin Laden?s Mujahideen". The Muhahideen were the various loosely aligned Afghan opposition groups, which initially rebelled against the incumbent pro-Soviet Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) government during the late 1970s. At the DRA's request, the Soviet Union intervened. The mujahideen then fought against Soviet and DRA troops during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. After the Soviet Union pulled out of the conflict in the late 1980s the mujahideen fought each other in the subsequent Afghan Civil War.
Osama Bin Laden was but one of players in the Muhahideen and was never the leader of the Muhahideen...and was never a CIA asset on the payroll of the CIA.