Out From Afghanistan's Ashes, Al Qaeda Rises

Afghanistan 1978, President Mohammed Daoud Khan began talks with the President of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, about bridging together the Parcham and the Khalq which were factions of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan. It was seen as a power play as the the Soviets knew that the roads to Middle East oil, most notably the Caspian Sea was thru Afghanistan. But Khan did not want Western imperisliast nations like the United States and Great Britain involved in regulating Arab oil A coup took place, and Khan along with his family were killed by members of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), a war for the country began as the Soviet Union began trying to implement a communist presence in the country but the native Afghans and Pashtuns,, who were being slaughtered during the uprisings, began to reach out to the Islamic Union. In January 1980, foreign ministers from 34 nations of the Islamic Conference adopted a resolution demanding “the immediate, urgent and unconditional withdrawal of Soviet troops” from Afghanistan. The United States began covertly backing the Afghan Mujahedeen using the CIA as its arms and funding supplier thru "Operation Cyclone". With most of the assistance coming from the Pakistan intelligence services, the ISI, the tide of the war went to the Mujahadeen, After the Soviets surrendered, the foreign Arabs , whom were trained and funded by the CIA and ISI began taking their jihad against a new enemy, the United States. A new antagonist was born out from the 10 year war in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda, led by Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.