Friday, September 04, 2009

[taliban] supplied indirectly by the u.s.?

Now here's a more than interesting one:

In support of the official United States assertion that Iran is arming its sworn enemy, the Taliban, the head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Dennis Blair, has cited a statement by a Taliban commander last year attributing military success against North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces to Iranian military assistance.

But the Taliban commander's claim is contradicted by evidence from the US Defense Department, Canadian forces in Afghanistan and the Taliban themselves that the increased damage to NATO tanks by Taliban forces has come from anti-tank mines provided by the United States to the jihadi movement against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

Anyone have anything on this?

4 comments:

  1. I would stronly doubt that the US armed the Taliban but them using weapons supplied to Muhajeddin to fight teh Soviets does not surprise at all.

    I;m sure the USA was generous to a fault vis a vis ordnance and I'm sure some Muhajjedin grew up to be Taliban

    Then again the US indirectly supported the Khmer Rouge after they were deposed by teh Vietnamese

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