What many or most people don't realize is that at that time Osama Bin Laden was a double Agent who worked also for the CIA but had also loyalties elsewhere as well as we saw with 9-11. I think the CIA was embarrassed by this and this is why Osama Bin Laden was eventually executed the way he was.
So, he was given Stinger missiles and blowpipe missiles and he dispersed them to the Mujahideen fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan at that time. So, to radical Islamics this is when Osama Bin Laden became a worldwide hero during this time to Islamic Factions worldwide. This is also why Bin Laden had a following always among the Taliban who he fought alongside with against the Soviet Russians then.
Here is more about the Stinger Missiles and Blowpipe missiles that helped bankrupt the Soviet Union eventually. However, it should also be known that the Stinger and Blowpipe missiles did not arrive in Afghanistan until 1996 and the Soviet Union collapsed in: So, I think the stinger and blowpipe shoulder fired missiles needed to have been sent in by the U.S. and UK during the 1980s because this war ended in 1989 before the Soviet Union fell out of bankruptcy on:
December 26, 1991.
So, at this point this is all different than I was led to believe and I'm still not sure how to think about all of this because:
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The Russian Presidency of Boris Yeltsin, was the executive branch of the federal government of the Russian Federation from June 12, 1991, to December 31, 1999.
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Presidency of Boris Yeltsin.
| Presidency of Boris Yeltsin July 10, 1991 – December 31, 1999 |
| President | Boris Yeltsin |
| Party | Independent |
| Election | 1991 1996 |
| Seat | Moscow Kremlin |
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So, I guess even after the Collapse of the Soviet Union then it means that the war in Afghanistan must have continued still?
Though that doesn't seem logical somehow there is also the war in Chechnya as well in 1994 and after as well.
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Second Chechen War
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The Second Chechen War took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from August 1999 to April 2009.
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