A new year, a new decade, a new millennium, same old shit...

bin laden and many of his mujahideen associates like haqqani and hekmatyar, were trained, funded, armed, and supplied by the CIA and ISI (among others) in the 1980's to lead and organize guerilla warfare attacks against the russian incursion. After the russian retreat, these associations directly led to the creation of al-qaeda and later, the rise of the taliban.