So, by
early 1979, the CIA was helping various bands of
right-wing,
fundamentalist mujahideen in Afghanistan.
Like the US-backed contras -- or counter-revolutionaries
who fought the
Sandinistas in Nicaragua, Afghanistan’s so called “freedom fighters” blew up
schools and clinics, murdered teachers and health care workers and fought to
destroy the government’s social programs.
The
most famous of these U.S. terrorists was this guy…
