Remember the plane loads of Arabs leaving Afghanistan
I don't remember this because it didn't happen.
There are extremely few Arabs in Afghanistan, mostly AQ personnel. In total, some hundreds of them at most (maybe this has changed now due to the recent developments). Out of about 40 million.
Unless you talk of the Pakistani airlift back in 2001, when they evacuated thousands of Pakistani advisors and volunteers and also many Arab terrorists (but Osama himself went to Pakistan later).
They're not Arabs. They're either Pashtuns, Tajiks (Persians), Uzbeks (Turkics), or Hazaras (literally Mongols).
It's like calling Indonesians (the largest Muslim nation) "Arabs". Most Muslims in the world aren't Arabs. Which is also why most of the Islamic State activity today isn't in Arab countries (but in the Black Africa).
I don't remember this because it didn't happen.
There are extremely few Arabs in Afghanistan, mostly AQ personnel. In total, some hundreds of them at most (maybe this has changed now due to the recent developments). Out of about 40 million.
Unless you talk of the Pakistani airlift back in 2001, when they evacuated thousands of Pakistani advisors and volunteers and also many Arab terrorists (but Osama himself went to Pakistan later).
Tell that to the person I train with who had to deal with them all when they showed up stateside.
They're not Arabs. They're either Pashtuns, Tajiks (Persians), Uzbeks (Turkics), or Hazaras (literally Mongols).
It's like calling Indonesians (the largest Muslim nation) "Arabs". Most Muslims in the world aren't Arabs. Which is also why most of the Islamic State activity today isn't in Arab countries (but in the Black Africa).