Richard Miniter
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1,766 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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This was not a detailed political protest.
They wanted to attract the attention of the great Satan in the United States and go to war with it and hopefully to triumph over it.
This is a battle in their mind.
It wasn't really about something the United States did.
Yes.
The story in their head is we defeated the Soviets.
Now, in reality, the jihadi forces from the Arab countries had very little impact on the Soviets, right?
we can point to one or two battles in which they may have played a incre uh an important role.
Mostly they didn't join the main war effort.
Uh they did random terror attacks.
Um, one fun aspect of this is they didn't just have car bombs, they had camel bombs where they put bombs on camels and had them explode in marketplaces.
Um, most of the war fighting, which actually did drive the Soviets out, was carried out by Afghans themselves.
So an important detail here, which many people miss.
Is while the Saudis and other Gulf Arabs funded the jihadis, the US did not.
The US never funded Al Qaeda.
I talked to every living CIA station chief responsible for Afghanistan and many other officials.
And the record on this is overwhelming.
The US never supported Al Qaeda.
Or bin Laden himself, or for that matter, any Arab jihadis.
They supported pushtons, uh and other groups which later became known as the Northern Alliance.
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