CIA-trained Afghan militants later turned their violent skills against the United States
Evidence
Their training by the CIA and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence and their war experience gave them the knowledge they needed to use violent tactics to advance their goals. This was a rather inconvenient outcome for empire. Inevitably, the United States would face the consequences of its support of militants in Afghanistan in the form of “blowback.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 411
Categorization
- XREF: Concrete causal link supporting the blowback thesis central to the vault’s imperial-policy claims. — connects to: The US trained the mujahideen from which al-Qaeda later emerged — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 396; CIA-trained Afghan militants became the later anti-US threat; CIA-trained Afghan mujahideen produced the terrorist attacks against America — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 269 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- CIA-trained Afghan militants became the later anti-US threat
#corroborates(0.95) - CIA-trained Afghan mujahideen produced the terrorist attacks against America
#corroborates(0.90) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 269 - CIA-trained Afghan militants constituted direct blowback against US empire
#corroborates(0.85) - US-trained Afghan militants produced blowback against America as imperial power
#corroborates(0.85) - The US armed Al-Qaeda as freedom fighters before designating it a terrorist group
#expands(0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 648 - US and Pakistani intelligence funded and trained bin Laden’s mujahideen network
#expands(0.85) - The CIA recruited and toured jihadist figures including bin Laden across the US
#expands(0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 253 - U.S. Cold War arming of extremists enabled the Taliban’s rise
#expands(0.75) - Soviet defeat in Afghanistan legitimized Islamist militancy in the region
#expands(0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 399 - US-backed mujahidin enabled the Taliban power that later justified wars
#expands(0.70) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 543