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Oct 7, 2026
David AdamsNARRATOR
Zaryan was ravaged by heavy fighting in the 1980s when Russian forces were in control of Afghanistan.
David AdamsNARRATOR
This place became a stronghold of Afghan Mujahideen resistance.
David AdamsNARRATOR
But as you can see, it's, it's an incredible fortress, and amazing that only a few years ago it was used by the Afghans as a fortress to fight the Russians.
David AdamsNARRATOR
Let's go down.
David AdamsHOST
The Coochie population has been decimated by landmines.
David AdamsHOST
They were planted over 30 years ago during the war between Soviet invaders and the Afghan Mujahideen resistance.
David AdamsHOST
We've arranged to stop for the night at a Halo Trust landmine clearance camp.
David AdamsHOST
It's a UK charity that's systematically removing the millions of landmines in Afghanistan.
AJ ManuzziHOST
There's also a couple other big pieces of Carter's legacy that very much still live with us today in U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East in particular.
AJ ManuzziHOST
I think one of the obvious ones is his support for the Afghan Mujahideen after the invasion by the Soviets of Afghanistan, as well as the creation of the rapid deployment force, the RDF, that would ultimately serve as a sort of precursor to U.S. CENTCOM.
AJ ManuzziHOST
which today is the backbone of
John Allen GayHOST
U.S. military forces in the Middle
Lyse DoucetGUEST
And some of the Mujahideen, because they believed all the propaganda that once Soviet troops leave, that the government in Kabul, President Najibullah's government was going to fall.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
So some of the Afghan Mujahideen said, oh, we'll see you soon in Kabul.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
We're, you know, we're right at the gates of Kabul.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
We'll be there any day now.
Michael EveryGUEST
But if you then say, well, maybe we've got the Americans as an actual enemy of south of our border, and or they might invade.
Michael EveryGUEST
And I stress, the Canadian army, when they did that exercise, came to the conclusion the best response was to run to the hills and fight like the Afghanistan Mujahideen, as in running into town and shooting things and then running back up to the hills again.
Michael EveryGUEST
Is that really an upside downside? Here's where we could be in the best of scenarios.
Michael EveryGUEST
Here we could be in the worst of scenarios.
Elliot DaigneaultHOST
How about you just disclose what we're going to do if the aliens invade? I want to know.
Elliot DaigneaultHOST
What about a zombie apocalypse? What's our plan for that? Is Carney going to jet off to the US and give another interview with the New York Times instead of talking to Canadians? What about China? Oh, what about Chinese infiltration? Do we have a plan for that? Or do we just let CSIS mention it time and time and time again and then our government just shoves it under the carpet? I don't know, I don't know, but hey, we're preparing for a US-led invasion, which led to the Globe and Mail even putting out this article stating, Canada does not have the military personnel to fend off a US attack, so it envisions small groups of irregular military or armed civilians with ambushes, sabotage, drones, or hit-and-run tactics, tactics used by the Afghan Mujahideen and the Taliban.
Elliot DaigneaultHOST
Ha ha.
Elliot DaigneaultHOST
So congratulations, your government sees you and I as Mujahideens.
Namir ShabibiHOST
Similar things happened in Bolivia, Laos and Somalia, to name a few.
Namir ShabibiHOST
Probably the best known CIA paramilitary operation was its support to Afghan Mujahideen against the Soviet invasion.
Namir ShabibiHOST
But in 1986, the CIA was again caught going too far with the Iran-Contra affair, in which the US sold weapons to its official enemy, Iran, to fund its continued support for the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
Namir ShabibiHOST
As a result, CIA paramilitary budgets were cut, and there were even calls to abolish the agency.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
And I'll tell it very quickly.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
In 1991, when the Afghan Mujahideen backed by the West scored a major military victory, they called up the BBC office in Islamabad, which I was.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
Do you remember that? Landlines stuck into the wall.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
Don't take them with you.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
Of course, what gets left out of this story of the swift and successful campaign in Afghanistan that ultimately lasted 20 years, even skipping past the foreign policy history of the past decades, especially the 1990s, and the known connection between foreign occupation and radical suicide terrorism is that the policy focus of hiring warlords to fight the Taliban The brewing distraction of other regime-chained wars with countries that had nothing to do with perpetrating 9-11 and failure to provide requested support narrowly allowed bin Laden to escape, with the help of certain U.S.-paid warlords, into Pakistan in late 2001.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
The analysis also neglects to mention that it was bin Laden's longstanding desire to provoke the U.S. to fight a long, costly, pointless war against Mujahideen in Afghanistan, inspired by the fall of the Soviet Union after the Soviet-Afghan War.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
that several Afghans questioned knew nothing about 9-11 when shown pictures, though any Muslim statements often get summarily dismissed as subterfuge without evidence.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
that a significant aspect of the strategy in fighting the taliban involves supporting criminals warlords and child rapists who often use the support against their enemies to benefit themselves consolidate power and terrorize others That more anti-American terrorists, including al-Qaeda and similar groups, increased from approximately 400 in 2001 to about 20,000 in Syria alone in 2019.