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The War in Afghanistan, which began on October 7, 2001, as the U.S. military's Operation Enduring Freedom and the British military's Operation Herrick, was launched in response to the September 11 attacks.
The stated aim of the invasion was to find Osama bin Laden and other high-ranking Al-Qaeda members and put them on trial, to destroy the whole organization of Al-Qaeda, and to remove the Taliban regime which supported and gave safe harbor to Al-Qaeda. The United States' Bush Doctrine stated that, as policy, it would not distinguish between terrorist organisations and nations or governments that harbor them.
Two military operations in Afghanistan are fighting for control over the country. Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) is a United States combat operation involving some coalition partners and currently operating primarily in the eastern and southern parts of the country along the Pakistan border. Approximately 28,300 U.S. troops are in OEF.
The second operation is the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which was established by the UN Security Council at the end of December 2001 to secure Kabul and the surrounding areas. NATO assumed control of ISAF in 2003. By July 23, 2009, ISAF had around 64,500 troops from 42 countries, with NATO members providing the core of the force. The United States has approximately 29,950 troops in ISAF.
The U.S. and the UK led the aerial bombing campaign, with ground forces supplied primarily by the Afghan Northern Alliance. In 2002, American, British and Canadian infantry were committed, along with special forces from several allied nations including Australia. Later, NATO troops were added.
The initial attack removed the Taliban from power, but Taliban forces have since regained some strength. The war has been less successful in achieving the goal of restricting al-Qaeda's movement than anticipated. Since 2006, Afghanistan has seen threats to its stability from increased Taliban-led insurgent activity, record-high levels of illegal drug production, and a fragile government with limited control outside of Kabul.
The mujahideen were significantly financed and armed (and are alleged to have been trained) by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Carter and Reagan administrations, the government of Saudi Arabia, Zia-ul-Haq's military regime in Pakistan, Iran, the People's Republic of China and several Western European countries. The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was the interagent used in the majority of these activities to disguise the sources of support for the resistance. Under Reagan, US support for the mujahideen evolved into an official U.S. foreign policy, known as the Reagan Doctrine, which included U.S. support for anti-Soviet resistance movements in Afghanistan, Angola, Nicaragua and elsewhere.
The main base station of mujahideen in Pakistan was the town Badaber, 24 km from Peshawar. Afghanistan mujahideen were trained in the Badaber base under supervision by military instructors from the USA, Pakistan, and the Republic of China. The base served as the concentration camp for Soviet and DRA captives as well. In 1985, the uprising of captives destroyed the base, but the incident was concealed by Pakistani and Soviet governments until the dissolution of the USSR.
Ronald Reagan praised mujahideen as "freedom fighters," and four mainstream Western films, the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights, the 1988 action films Rambo III, The Beast and the 2007 biographical movie Charlie Wilson's War, portrayed them as heroic.
The Golden Crescent is the name given to one of Asia's two principal areas of illicit opium production, located at the crossroads of Central, South, and Western Asia. This space overlaps three nations, Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, whose mountainous peripheries define the crescent.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) heroin production estimates for the past 10 years show significant changes in the primary source areas. Heroin production in Southeast Asia declined dramatically, while heroin production in Southwest Asia expanded. In 1991, Afghanistan became the world's primary opium producer, with a yield of 1,782 metric tons (U.S. State Department estimates), surpassing Myanmar, formerly the world leader in opium production. The decrease in heroin production from Myanmar is the result of several years of unfavorable growing conditions and new government policies of forced eradication. Afghan heroin production increased during the same time frame, with a notable decrease in 2001 allegedly as a result of the Taliban's fatwa against heroin production.
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Afghanistan 1984 Scenes from a secret war pt 1/4by rapauli67,167 views
The mujahideen were in the white House with reagan
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born912 5 months ago
What stands out today is the legacy of fraud, corruption & hypocrisy of US political, military & corporate/mafia/fiancial elites that have betrayed fundamental 'American' principles & ideals, waging covert wars & creating pretexts for unjust wars out of ideological fanaticism, political advantage & financial incentives carried along by the sheer momentum of predatory capitalist cronyism in the absence of legitimate citizen-ruled government under rule-of-law & committment to human & civil rights.
starmanskye 5 months ago
ssd
DaKhelwar 1 year ago
Sadly, it is my Afghan nation that is a playground for outsiders powers and in the name of ideologies all have destroyed Afghan lives.... END using Afghanistan as a battlefield for your agendas, ETERNAL VIOLENCE... remind you til you have one Afghan alive, Afghanistan will remain but those powers who bring misery upon us as per history never remain.
Bbubbo 1 year ago
@0ddba11s
Your welcome.
LightningStash 1 year ago
@LightningStash Yes OIL spot on mate, I was looking for someone to say that!
0ddba11s 1 year ago
So this is the enquiry into the Afghanistan War when American Troops got
involved with the Afghans to topple the Soviets?
What was George Bush Sr.'s motivation for taking part in this War, & the Gulf
War? The acquiring of their Oil by supporting the Afghans?
LightningStash 1 year ago
crucial. should be on the news today. funky specs. which ones Mr Stockwell?
wyrda222 1 year ago
@dilbertgeg Yes, I'm aware of the court case in which the government sued Stockwell, after which all proceeds from his book were redirected to the gov. He discusses this in a video available online. But when you write Stockwell "reversed" himself, it sounds to my ear you are claiming Stockwell is taking back everything he's ever said publicly about the CIA. The CIA is still out there doing what they've always done. Look at Honduras last year, Venezuela 2004, the Bolivian embassy, etc.
bapyou 1 year ago
@bapyou the people who did these videos with Stockwell said he contacted them and asked them not to air any of his videos on public access, and "the Cold War is over" or some such. Now these are on Archive dot org. Sad to say, but I don't hold any blame for him. Sounded like "they" got to him. They supposedly seized ALL revenue from his book.
dilbertgeg 1 year ago