Mujahideen
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Oct 27, 2026
Richard McLean-SmithNARRATOR
In time, helped with funding from the United States government, those same militia groups would eventually defeat the Soviet Union and the PDPA.
Richard McLean-SmithNARRATOR
By then, those same groups had coalesced into a fragile coalition, often lumped together under the term Mujahideen.
Richard McLean-SmithNARRATOR
And it was from this group of people, in one way or another, that Osama Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, and ultimately the Taliban, would emerge in the years to follow, and, well, you know the rest.
Richard McLean-SmithNARRATOR
In the Soviet-Afghan war of 1979 to 1989, it is estimated that around 15,000 Soviet soldiers and anywhere between half a million to two million Afghans are thought to have been killed.
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Oct 27 · 10 Mentions
Ben EslingerHOST
It wasn't until the very end that they suddenly, like, the alarm came on just as they were jumping over the fence from the ladder thing.
Ben EslingerHOST
And they land on the other side and suddenly the Mujahideen is there and they spring up and ready to kill him because they're wearing Russian jackets.
Ben EslingerHOST
But at this point, Cameron Shaw says something in...
Ben EslingerHOST
Chill, bros. They're with me.
Ben EslingerHOST
Don't worry.
Ben EslingerHOST
I'll save you for the harem.
Ben EslingerHOST
So we then see them traveling on horseback to the hideaway of the Mujahideen.
Ben EslingerHOST
And at this point, we get the official introduction to Cameron Shaw.
John KirbyGUEST
Well, al-Qaeda is a pure creation of the Central Intelligence Agency.
John KirbyGUEST
I mean, they create the Mujahideen to go after the Russians, you know, at the time.
John KirbyGUEST
But we know the British, you know, in the 20s, they create the Muslim Brotherhood.
John KirbyGUEST
Islamic fundamentalism is their new best friend, right, since the end of the Cold War in particular.
John KirbyGUEST
They need an enemy and they need the world to be an unstable and unsafe place so that we'll believe, oh yeah, absolutely we need a defense budget.
John KirbyGUEST
And the funny thing is their whole storyline is blowback.
John KirbyGUEST
We created the Mujahideen to go after the Russians, to bleed the bear, and then we turned around and walked away and left them with all this training and military supplies.
John KirbyGUEST
I mean, back in the day, in the 70s and 80s.
Sami SadatGUEST
For some reason, the communist government survived in Helmand two years more than Kabul.
Sami SadatGUEST
Kabul filtered the Mujahideen, but Helmand still held on.
Sami SadatGUEST
I think it was 1994. when Helmand was overtaken by the Mujahideen and shortly after by the Taliban.
Sami SadatGUEST
Then we moved to Kabul because the schools were destroyed and we stayed in Kabul up until 2001 when the new Government came in and then we were introduced to the world and I got the opportunity to go study abroad, military academy in Germany.
Sami SadatGUEST
It's a NATO school.
Alex SteinHOST
I mean, there's just so many unanswered questions, and the official story is such nonsense.
Alex SteinHOST
A guy on dialysis, Osama bin Laden, who used to be a CIA asset, that was part of the Mujahideen, which we created and funded in order to fight a proxy war with Russia and Afghanistan in the 70s and 80s.
Alex SteinHOST
All I'm saying is you need to look into 9-11.
Alex SteinHOST
If they'll lie about that, they'll lie about the Gulf of Tonkin.
Philip CunliffeGUEST
And it allows us to, I think, avoid or overlook just how innocuous and more importantly, how connected to the American counterinsurgency effort, sorry, the American insurgency effort in Afghanistan, it was.
Philip CunliffeGUEST
So it means the base in Arabic, and the origin of it was that it grew out of the Mujahideen networks, so the Mujahideen holy warrior in Arabic, these jihadi networks that grew up in the 1980s and were cultivated by the CIA in Saudi Arabia.
Philip CunliffeGUEST
to funnel various Islamic radicals and dissidents from the Middle East to channel them into Afghanistan in order to fight the Soviet occupation of that country in the 1980s as part of Cold War geopolitics.
Philip CunliffeGUEST
There was a very conscious effort to bog down the Soviets in Afghanistan and defeat them in revenge for Vietnam.
Brian GrayHOST
And that is where most of the world's heroin comes from.
Brian GrayHOST
And U.S. assets like Al-Qaeda, you know, or a lot of those, the Mujahideen in general, you know, they were the ones who controlled those areas.
Brian GrayHOST
And so I think that they kind of shifted from cocaine to heroin because of just circumstance.
Brian GrayHOST
And so I was relating that to something you had said, and now I forgot what I was relating it to.
MarkGUEST
I don't understand how our government was ever trusted again, post Vietnam.
MarkGUEST
I don't understand how our government or how we're still able to manipulate people into thinking like, you know, oh, the Mujahideen and the Afghanistan people were all evil and they attacked 9-11.
MarkGUEST
Like we funded that entire thing as a proxy and that it was a retaliation for Right? So, like, there is so much meddling and background to what we did during, like, Soviet Cold Wars to cause all these things.
MarkGUEST
But then you have these politicians that are able to just be like, that guy has, you know, that guy's Muslim, so he's evil.
speaker_1GUEST
We should make a road to Al-Aqsa through our bodies, through our skulls.
speaker_1GUEST
And Mujahideen had to walk over it to reach and to free Al-Aqsa from kuffar.
speaker_1GUEST
That's really the atmosphere and again at that time was also this process in the beginning and if you go back to the media at that time in the end of the 90s, like 97, 98, the beginning of 2000, Hamas was doing a lot of suicide bombers inside Israel and it was like big thing at that time.
Joel RichardsonHOST
So along the way, even in those early years, you came to see through the lies of the propaganda, the Islamic propaganda, and turned away from the radicalism.
Radhika DesaiHOST
he do? What was the trick?
David GibbsGUEST
Oh, you know, just a little bit of background was that there was a civil war going on between an Afghan communist government and the Mujahideen guerrillas, who were Islamic fighters fighting against the communist government, the Soviets.
Radhika DesaiHOST
Which the Americans were financing.
David GibbsGUEST
Well, that's the thing.
David GibbsGUEST
Initially, officially, we were not financing them.
David GibbsGUEST
Unofficially, Brzezinski said sometime in July, six months before the Soviets invaded, Brzezinski encouraged President Carter, and President Carter did this, had the CIA deliver support to the Mujahideen guerrillas in secret, but it was only secret from the public because the Soviets were going to find out about it, and of course they did.
David GibbsGUEST
And Brzezinski said, basically, I don't have the document in front of me, but he basically said in an interview in 1998, this was done knowing it would provoke an invasion.
David GibbsGUEST
He basically made it clear he was delighted about the invasion.
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