Operation Cyclone

Ghost_007 · Apr 25, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

Operation Cyclone was the code name for the US CIA program to arm Islamic mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, 1979-1989. The Program relies heavily on using the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) as an intermediary for funds distribution. Along with similar programs from Britain's MI6 and SAS, Saudi Arabia and other nations, the opponents to the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan collectively train over 100,000 insurgents betweem 1978 and 1992. Somewhere between $3–$20 billion in US funds are funneled into the country to train and equip troops with weapons, including Stinger surface-to-air missiles.

The favored leader amongst the Afghan resistance fighters was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. His tactics became increasingly violent and aimed towards civilian populations, including shelling Kabul with American-supplied weapons, causing 2,000 casualties. According to a Newsweek article, in the late 1980s, Pakistani President Benazir Bhutto, concerned of the growing strength of Islamist movement, told President George H. W. Bush, "You are creating a Frankenstein." Hekmatyar was said to be friendly with Osama bin Laden, founder of al-Qaeda, who was running a similar Arab logistical organization concurrent to Operation Cyclone, called Maktab al-Khadamat (MAK). The US asserts all of its funds were used to supply native Afghan rebels, and denies any of its funds were used to supply Osama bin Laden or foreign Arab mujahideen. It is estimated that 35,000 foreign Muslims from 43 Islamic countries also take part in the war.[1][2][3][4] (See: Al-Qaeda: Origins in Maktab al-Khadamat)
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http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=271&mode=&order=0&thold=0

[Zbigniew] Brzezinski not long ago revealed that on July 3, 1979, unknown to the American public and Congress, President Jimmy Carter secretly authorised $500million to create an international terrorist movement that would spread Islamic fundamentalism in Central Asia and "destabilise" the Soviet Union...

The CIA called this Operation Cyclone and in the following years poured $4billion into setting up Islamic training schools in Pakistan (Taliban means "student").

Young zealots were sent to the CIA's spy training camp in Virginia, where future members of al-Qaeda were taught "sabotage skills" - terrorism.

Others were recruited at an Islamic school in Brooklyn, New York, within sight of the fated Twin Towers.

In Pakistan, they were directed by British MI6 officers and trained by the SAS.

The result, quipped Brzezinski, was "a few stirred up Muslims" - meaning the Taliban.

The Wall Street Journal declared: "The Taliban are the players most capable of achieving peace. Moreover, they were crucial to secure the country as a prime trans-shipment route for the export of Central Asia's vast oil, gas and other natural resources."

No American newspaper dares suggest that the prisoners in Camp X-Ray are the product of this policy, nor that it was one of the factors that led to the attacks of September 11.
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http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=433

Until recently, the British were unaware that their government was one of the world’s most consistent abusers of human rights and backers of state terrorism. Few Britons knew that the Muslim Brotherhood, the forerunner of al-Qaeda, was sponsored by British intelligence as a means of systematically destroying secular Arab nationalism, or that MI6 recruited young British Muslims in the 1980s as part of a $4bn Anglo-American-backed jihad against the Soviet Union known as “Operation Cyclone”.
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Nickelodeon · Apr 25, 2007

Tell us something new.

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Ghost_007 · Apr 25, 2007

Nickelodeon said: ↑

Tell us something new.
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I think the US is doing it again, this time to try and destabilise Iran...

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Buffalo Roam · Apr 25, 2007

So how about the Russian? They have their fair share of KGB sponsored destablelization around the world, or is it just the U.S. that is wrong? England, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, all of the countries that I can think of have at one point or another tried to destabilize another country that they believed to be a danger to them, and then we have the religions that have tried to destablelize nations, Islamist today, Crusaders in History, and a dozen others in between. So as Nickelodeon states,

Tell us something new.
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Nickelodeon · Apr 25, 2007

Conclusion, all nations are evil. So now can we stop doing this shit?

Neildo · Apr 25, 2007

We always have a tendency to do something that later bites us in the ass.

- N

Buffalo Roam · Apr 25, 2007

Nickelodeon

Conclusion, all nations are evil. So now can we stop doing this shit?
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Pray tell how, not everybody in the world is interested in you definition of right, and threatening weaker countries, it is the most demonstrable principle of Darwin's law, survival of the fittest, and the strongest.

draqon · Apr 25, 2007

KGB, CIA, FSB exists to stabilize the world.

Respect federal control.

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