Foreign Policy In Focus (Washington, DC)
2 October 2001
In 1985 a group of bearded men met with Ronald Reagan in the White House. These turbaned men were, Reagan stated, "the moral equivalent of America's founding fathers." These were the Afghan mujahedin, for whom Osma bin Laden worked and was undoubtedly funded, directly or indirectly, by the CIA. At the same time Nelson Mandela sat in prison in Robben Island. Mandela, according to the official watch ...
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