Here’s an excerpt from a 1996 piece from The Atlantic, entitled Blowback. It describes how the U.S. intelligence community created a network of terrorists in the 1980s through our support for fundalmist Islamic resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

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p> The CIA … had been obsessed with driving out the Soviets. As a result the CIA helped to train and fund what eventually became an international network of highly disciplined and effective Islamic militants