U.S. covert support in Central America produced blowback against the United States.
Evidence
The mujahideen are significant not only because they illustrate yet another instance of the United States’ willingness to encourage Islamism when it suited its larger political goals but also because the foundations of al-Qaeda emerged from the mujahideen resistance to the Soviets. A young businessman from Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden, began assisting the mujahideen in the 1980s. Bin Laden became increasingly involved in the war over the course of the decade, raising funds and recruiting additional fighters. His involvement in the war led him, along with an Egyptian physician named Ayman al-Zawahiri, to create the radical Islamist organization al-Qaeda (“the Base” in Arabic) as a means to organize and finance the Afghan resistance. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 257 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: U.S.-funded Central American wars increased drug trafficking and migration to the U.S.; US support for the mujahideen inadvertently seeded the creation of al-Qaeda — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 257; US conducts covert wars and undisclosed operations across Africa and Yemen (+4 more)
Related
- US support for the mujahideen inadvertently seeded the creation of al-Qaeda (similarity 0.89)
- US-trained Afghan militants produced blowback against America as imperial power (similarity 0.86)
- CIA-trained Afghan militants constituted direct blowback against US empire (similarity 0.82)
- The US trained the mujahideen from which al-Qaeda later emerged (similarity 0.81)
- CIA-trained Afghan mujahideen produced the terrorist attacks against America (similarity 0.80)
- US imperial operations generate the very blowback they then label terrorism (similarity 0.79)
- CIA-trained Afghan militants later turned their violent skills against the United States (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- U.S.-funded Central American wars increased drug trafficking and migration to the U.S.
#expands(0.75) - US support for the mujahideen inadvertently seeded the creation of al-Qaeda
#exemplifies(0.70) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 257 - US countertrafficking campaigns in Honduras outsourced operations to private firms.
#exemplifies(0.60) - US conducts covert wars and undisclosed operations across Africa and Yemen
#exemplifies(0.55)