Operation Cyclone: Democratic (socialist/fascist) President Carter authorizes the Central Intelligence Agency to covertly fund the Islamist Mujahedeen (Arabic for “those who struggle”) guerillas in Afghanistan.
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Subsequent Events:
Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface
References:
James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power, (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 371.
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