WildBillKelsoe
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Exactly, so why did your friends make the claim that these guys were the Taliban? They are Mujahedeen who were fighting the Islamists and were able to repel the Soviets from Afghanistan with the help of the Reagan administration. Shah Massoud was the Mujaheddin leader, regardless of whether he was in this picture or not.Hah? What are you blabbering now? I already posted where that picture is from. They aren't "Haqqani" you moron. They are Mujahedeen like Shah Massoud, the same people that were fighting with Islamists and Taliban. Didn't anybody teach you guys, when in hole stop digging.
Reagan Doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
President Reagan's Covert Action program has been given credit for assisting in ending the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
President Reagan meeting with Afghan Mujahideen leaders in the Oval Office in 1983
Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam,[6] returned to armed opposition until he eventually fled to Kulob, Tajikistan, destroying theSalang Tunnel on his way north. He was assassinated, probably at the instigation of al-Qaeda, in a suicide bombing on September 9, 2001, just two days before the September 11 attacks in the United States which led to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation invading Afghanistan, allying with Massoud's forces.
From the start of the war, Massoud's mujahideen attacked the occupying Soviet forces, ambushing Soviet and Afghan communist convoys travelling through the Salang Pass, and causing fuel shortages in Kabul.[24] The Soviets mounted a series of offensives against the Panjshir. Between 1980 and 1985, these offensives were conducted twice a year. Despite engaging more men and hardware on each occasion, the Soviets were unable to defeat Massoud's forces. In 1982, the Soviets began deploying major combat units in the Panjshir, numbering up to 30,000 men. Massoud pulled his troops back into subsidiary valleys, where they occupied fortified positions. When the Soviet columns advanced onto these positions, they fell into ambushes. When the Soviets withdrew, Afghan army garrisons took over their positions. Massoud and his mujahideen forces attacked and recaptured them one by one.
Is that SHAH MASOOD in the photo OR NOT????
Answer this question and all your sufferings will come to an end....
Was that "The Taliban" or not? You first.
There was no Taliban back then moron. These are the founders of Taliban, thanks to the US foreign policies....
"That's Shah Massoud in the brown jacket on the right, dumbass:"
These are your own words, now time to eat them.... or optionally, you can shove it up your arse...
Because this is not Shah Masood(as you claimed), this is not the Mujaheddin that the US should be supporting in this picture, but the religious extremist Haqqani people (Haqqani himself later joining in, his photos with Reagan is also available), who later found Taliban and started a war against US.
Why don't you just accept you did a mistake?
We are not gonna act like some kids in school and circle around you and point fingers at you till you cry...
Just be honest about it, accept your mistake and fix it like an adult...
What's next? Are you going to blame France for the South secedeing?
The Taliban didn't exist prior to 1994. Not did we support the Taliban and damn sure didn't create the Taliban. They never represented the mainstream political community in Afghanistan. I can't believe you people are still clinging to this stupidity.
You want to bitch about someone supporting the Taliban? Complain about Clinton giving them millions of dollars in the late 90's.