Supporting Al Qaeda “Freedom Fighters” Combating Al Qaeda Terrorists
This video production focusses on the historical transition from Al Qaeda “Freedom Fighters” (1979-1980) to Al Qaeda “Terrorists” (September 11, 2001).
Phase I. 1979-1980: Supporting Al Qaeda “Freedom Fighters”
Le Nouvel Observateur (LNO): The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated … that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Zbigniew Brzezinski (ZB): Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen [Al Qaeda Freedom Fighters] began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Sov
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