CHARLIE WILSON

After the Soviet deployment, Pakistan's military ruler General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq started accepting financial aid from the Western powers to aid the Mujahideen.[43]. In 1981, following the election of United States President Ronald Reagan, aid for the Mujahideen through Zia's Pakistan significantly increased, mostly due to the efforts of Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson and CIA officer Gust Avrakotos. This was the best kept secret since Rumpelstiltskin. It was C.I.A. The weapons supplied by the USA had to be Russian weapons bought on the black market. No American weapons were to be found by the Russians. That would tell the Russians that America was helping Afghanistan and that would be almost be a declaration of war. So Charlie and Gust Avrakotos got the job done. Charlie spoke of 50 per cent of those returning to Afghanistan after the war were under 14teen years of age and one of those young men influencing those angry returning youths and the war lords was a young man named Osama Ben Laden. He convinced the young Afghans and war lords that it was Allah who beat the Russians, not the USA, and that the USA was occupying Arabia only because the USA wanted the Arab oil. And the rest is history.

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